[1.13] Airbases got emptied with planes to reserve pool

[brygun]

Just discovered that all my land planes got moved out of their air bases into the general reserve pool.

The squadrons still exist and are stocked with planes of various types.

Now spending a few minutes putting them all back in.

Not sure how this happened.

Query: Would a reserve all function set the airbase to reserve with the planes staying at the airbase?

Query: If you obsolete planes from the aircraft types could that affect the squadrons being at airbases?

[sittingduck]

Whoo! I thought it was just me. It has happened twice in the same game since downloading 1.13. Aircraft moved to Reserve and I didn't notice until a war started and my bases were empty. I drop landbased squadrons to a level of four planes each (peacetime budgets!) and after a war starts I go to increase squadron size and find they've all moved to Reserve. After the first time it occured I was extra careful to make sure I hadn't "fat fingered" anything and moved them myself. It seems they moved on their own.

[brygun]

Thanks for adding a confirming report

Based on my the land base strategy I posted on the forums I keep a core 40 planes at an airbase (16 flying boats, 8 fighters, 16 medium bombers) and then vary additional 20 mdm bombers based on whom am at war with and strategies.

So for myself I should never have an empty airbase save those that are just built.

I didnt setup a good save when I noticed as I started putting the squadrons back. Still it would only show that it did happen not really reproduce how it happens.

[brygun]

Happened again.

Attached game files x 2.

One has the no air definitely happenging again with 3 of my airbases having had their airgroups pushed by the computer into the reserves. They airbases affected are:
Point Noire
Djibouti
Fort Bayard

The other game file is from my recent grimsby bug support. I haven't checked it yet to see if the air group move had or had not happened yet. I provided it as a recent save in case it can help track down why this happening.

In terms of my activity...

I know that after recently reporting this bug all airbases were stocked with planes.

You can see by the size of squadrons in reserve the planes are setup for my recommended airbase40 organization of 16 flying boats, 8 fighter and 16 medium bombers as a core group. In my management the core group is never removed from airbase. The airbase is put on reserve or active as needed.

Also when these airbases got to 40 I "built" the squadrons in their 16/8/16 sizes inside the airbase not in the reserve pool.

The game is fairly early into a war

Prior to this war all land airbases were on reserve with the core groups still at their airbases.

At the start of this war I put all airbases on active.

I had recently bought a second dive bomber model from my ally the UK and obsoleted the earlier dive bomber (which was also a UK purchase)

Dive bombers aren't in my core airgroups.

I did obsolete a flying boat WBT-7 as I recently got a "its a lemon" message. The slightly earlier WBT-6 was brought back from being "obsolete" (its stats werent much different but did have average not poor reliability). The overall plane counts showed aibases had a 50/50 mix of WBT-6 and WBT-7.

The core squadrons moved did have flying boats.

The core groups also had fighters and medium bombers which I dont recall any recent changes in models.

I can not confirm on which term the squadrons were swapped into reserve. I can confirm I did not take these core groups off their airbases. I would toggle the airbase reserve/active status not moving the core group.

Query: is this related to the negative plane counts with the game shifting squadrons to resolve the negative numbers?

Attachments:

Game5 bug grimsby.7z (281.27 KB)

[Fredrik W]

This could happen in 1.13, but should not occur in 1.14 and onwards.

[brygun]

Thanks I have now updated to 1.14