Ian R -> RE: Reserve aircrafts (6/11/2020 4:52:11 AM)
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert There must be a die roll in there but yes, when the number of active planes (including in maintenance and in repair) is less than the total allotment, a reserve plane should be activated. It sometimes seems to not happen efficiently. Usually you see them become active when other planes are in repair, but not always. One thing that's important to remember is that when you transfer a squadron you can count on the reserve planes accompanying the active planes in the squadron, rather than be left behind with the in maintenance and repair planes awaiting activation. Also with transfers, it makes not one whit of difference whether there are any active crews with the squadron. Presumably the engineers fly them wherever. I should note that when all the active planes are in maintenance or repair the squadron will not xfr, not even the reserve planes by themselves. But if only one active plane is available to xfr, it will carry the squadron lead and all the reserves will follow with it, and anything left behind will be a fragment. Another aspect of this is that when you transfer a whole, say, bomb wing from base X to base Y, and you combine all the fragments left behind at X in one group so you only have to shift one fragment a turn afterwards, instead of 6, that group oversizes at Y, including having too many reserves. The code detects this, and you will see a message in your operations report: "Air groups transferring aircraft at Aparri" ... or something to that effect, and it equalises the numbers.
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