Plane could not refuel next to airfield.

Xerkis · Post by **Xerkis** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:17 am

My plane could not refuel even though it was in one of the adjacent hexes to an airfield that I controlled. There was an enemy ground unit in that same hex as my plane – so I suppose that enemy unit was preventing my refueling.

This sort of makes sense that it would work like this – but I just wanted to check to see if it was by design or not.

adrianoku · Post by **adrianoku** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:54 am

If the tank of the airplane was red it could be refueled only if directly over the airfield! check if this was the case!

Fritz · Post by **Fritz** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:14 am

Enemy units next to the airfield prevent own planes from resupply.

Horseman · Post by **Horseman** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:24 am

Fritz wrote:Enemy units next to the airfield prevent own planes from resupply.

Ive not noticed that..I think it reduces supply but not prevent

Xerkis · Post by **Xerkis** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:11 am

Fritz wrote:Enemy units next to the airfield prevent own planes from resupply.

Do you mean just from the hex that the enemy is in - or - any of the hexes around the airfield?

Fritz · Post by **Fritz** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:48 pm

Around the airfield. But the enemy unit must be next to your airplane.

Xerkis · Post by **Xerkis** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:39 pm

Like I said above – this makes sense; just never came across it or thought about it before.

Thanks

piotrekxg · Post by **piotrekxg** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:28 pm

gatto wrote:If the tank of the airplane was red it could be refueled only if directly over the airfield! check if this was the case!

if the tank is red doesn't it mean that fuel is zero and the plane cannot move anymore - how then it can move even one hex to be over the airfield?

On another note - what are the rules for refuelling on an aircraf carrier? does a plane needs to be directly over it or adjacent hex would work as well?

goose_2 · Post by **goose_2** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:31 pm

airplanes can only be refueled directly over aircraft carrier
unless they are strat bombers those can only be refueled at airports

captainjack · Post by **captainjack** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:28 am

You get less resupply if there are enemy units in contact - reduced by 1/3 less for each unit in contact which means that you can't resupply at all if there are three enemy in contact. Weather (rain, snow, sandstorm) also affects ground unit resupply, but I don't know if these affect aircraft resupply.

Also, these three weather conditions and cloud mean that ground units can't see aircraft so don't count aircraft in contact (ie 2 tanks + 1 plane in cloud counts as two units in contact). I'd guess that as the aircraft refuel on the ground they would know about the ground units, but might not spot any aerial ones.

Plane could not refuel next to airfield.

Plane could not refuel next to airfield.

Re:

Re: Plane could not refuel next to airfield.

Re: Plane could not refuel next to airfield.