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MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:29 pm
by Panzer73
I did not encounter any Soviet aircraft when I played the Assault on Stalingrad scenario. Instead of staying at the airfields or making a beeline for Chir Station, I decided to counter-attack based on Tassadar and George_Parr's experiences (see the General Tassadar and His Little Tanks AAR).
I fought my way around the map, recaptured Chir station and had only a few Soviet units left on the map, in the NW corner. There are no Soviet aircraft on the map when I do my after-scenario map review. I never encountered a single Soviet unit during the scenario.
Here is the weird thing - there were 15 Soviet air units on the map during deployment, as I discovered when I did my post-campaign inspection of the maps with the iseeyou command. Did anyone encounter these aircraft during the scenario? Was I insanely lucky? Or was there a bug in the Soviet aircraft deployment?
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:36 pm
by BaronVonKrieg
Panzer73 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:29 pm
I did not encounter any Soviet aircraft when I played the Assault on Stalingrad scenario. Instead of staying at the airfields or making a beeline for Chir Station, I decided to counter-attack based on Tassadar and George_Parr's experiences (see the General Tassadar and His Little Tanks AAR).
I fought my way around the map, recaptured Chir station and had only a few Soviet units left on the map, in the NW corner. There are no Soviet aircraft on the map when I do my after-scenario map review. I never encountered a single Soviet unit during the scenario.
Here is the weird thing - there were 15 Soviet air units on the map during deployment, as I discovered when I did my post-campaign inspection of the maps with the iseeyou command. Did anyone encounter these aircraft during the scenario? Was I insanely lucky? Or was there a bug in the Soviet aircraft deployment?
i noticed that so played it once with fog of war turned off, for some reason planes self destruct on turn 1 in my case
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:37 pm
by VirgilInTheSKY
No Soviet aircraft for me also, I noticed those forward airfields at the starting area of soviet forces, but had never seen any aircraft in this scenario.
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:41 pm
by VirgilInTheSKY
BaronVonKrieg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:36 pm
i noticed that so played it once with fog of war turned off, for some reason planes self destruct on turn 1 in my case
Sounds like the Forward Airfield used in this scenario (it is a different thing from the Deployed Airefield used by the player) was not registed as "Airfield" to hold aircraft, so all of them crashed at their turn because Soviet forces does not have any normal airfield in the start of this scenario.
Edit:
possible fix: Add "ForwardAirfieldDeployed,5" to a new line in Airfields.csv might fix the issue.
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:04 pm
by nexusno2000
All Soviet planes crash round 1.
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:28 pm
by Tassadar
It reminds me of this old joke that Soviet products either never break, or break immediately.
This aside, I strongly believe this should (and hopefully will be) patched. As it stands the scenario seems too easy compared to what it should be, especially without aircraft.
Re: MIA Soviet Airforce in AO42 Assault on Stalingrad Scenario
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:32 pm
by dalfrede
Went into editor, changed 'Forward Airfield's to 'Deployed Airfield's and there are plenty of Soviet aircraft attacking on Turn One.