late war battle generator problems

[sneer]

early 40ties my Japan vs Usa war in southeast asia
I am far below equal to USA in terms of firepower however I am a bit stronger in carriers ( 2 88ac CV and 3 older cvl ) some battleships 3 ca 15 cl 40+dd
I have not been given any chance to use cv !!! (16 moths war which I'm slowly loosing)
battleship engagements yes 
light combat in support of land battles yes - plenty
I had twice carrier battle - but in 1st I only got cruisers to play ( enemy had carriers ) sic!
in 2nd far longer into war where I still had operational 2bb 1 ca and 20 dd ( plus carriers) I got comment that carrier battle not started as I had not enough ships 

sorry for me this is broken and need some reworking 
putting most budget in CVs in late 30 and no opportunity to use them ( enemy regularly has cv in engagements ) 



 

[garrisonchisholm]

Good morning sneer , & welcome to the forums. - I regret that that was your experience, however that is an issue which we assuredly did not run into in testing.

Are you playing the latest version release, 1.18? Carrier battles should always create carrier confrontations if the zone in question (in your case South East Asia) has active carriers on both sides.

[Fredrik W]

Just checking, are your carriers active and have an air group assigned? Also, carriers want some support to deploy, the chance for carriers to deploy in battle will increase if there are at least CA present in the area.