Changing airfields

[graham-and-dani]

I can't seem to change airfields? I click on aircraft unit but when I try to select the 'change airfield' option nothing seems to happen unless I left click when the plane flies in the direction of the tool tip! I am playing Sedan. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[Path]

Rebasing aircraft should just require you to select a plane and pick the rebase option, then pick the new airfield. Note that dirt airfields can't support strategic bombers (or jet fighters, but those are endgame units) and that there's a cap on the # of aircraft you can station at a single field.

[danconnors]

How many aircraft units can you house at a dirt airstrip?

[Hjalfnar_HGV]

Originally posted by danconnors:

How many aircraft units can you house at a dirt airstrip?

As many as six, but only "light" aircraft, aka single engine. So fighters and stukas, no heavy fighters or strategic bombers.

[Hjalfnar_HGV]

Originally posted by graham-and-dani:

I can't seem to change airfields? I click on aircraft unit but when I try to select the 'change airfield' option nothing seems to happen unless I left click when the plane flies in the direction of the tool tip! I am playing Sedan. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

When you click on the button for rebasing, your plane is not allowed to have already done anything. Also, after you clicked on the button, you need to click on the airfield you want to rebase it to.

[oddball]

Originally posted by Hjalfnar_HGV:

Originally posted by danconnors:

How many aircraft units can you house at a dirt airstrip?

As many as six, but only "light" aircraft, aka single engine. So fighters and stukas, no heavy fighters or strategic bombers.

This is incorrect. Only strategic bombers cannot base out of dirt strips, heavy fighters absolutely can. I'm a big fan of heavy fighters and base them out of dirt strips routinely.

[Twelvefield]

The Embark and Rebase buttons don't work at all for me. I use the hotkeys, at least until the bugs are fixed and/or a right-click context menu gets added. E for Embark, N for Rebase.

EDIT: I played out Sedan, and sure enough the aircraft refused to rebase even though the weather was clear and the aircraft were small and had done nothing so far that turn. There may really be a bug! I discovered that by pressing N multiple times, the game finally recognized the command and allowed me to rebase. So rag on the button, it might help. After the initial revbase problem after that the aircraft rebased as advertised throughout the rest of the mission.

[danconnors]

Rebasing aircraft seems to be needlessly complicated to me. Why are we not allowed to simply fly the planes to its new location. The game is brand new, and changes are going to be made. This is one area where it seems logical to make them.

[Zapp]

You are probably accidentally clicking a unit at the airfield hex (either a ground unit or an existing air unit above the hex), in which case the 'rebase' action is cancelled and the unit you clicked on is selected instead.

I've made this mistake many times. You need to carefully click an "empty" part of the lit-up destination airfield hex. This is normally straight-forward, but when all nine hexes at and around the airfield is occupied by both ground and air units (friend or foe), you might need to zoom in to find a bunch of pixels that doesn't select one of the units...


PS. Airfields don't light up for rebasing if they're already full so it's probably not helpful to discuss the limit on number of aircraft - it's immediately obvious if the airfield won't accept more aircraft.

[Green Knight]

Holy necromancer lord...

[Gogopher]

if u are trying to rebase a heavy bomber to a dirt airfield it wont happen........HB needs a paved airfield...most likely ur issue...other issue could be u overloaded the airbase with too many planes...

[Boredflak]

What is the weather? If planes cannot fly because of the weather they cannot rebase, Also I do not think it is revelent but jets cannot base on dirt fields. So the people saying only heavy bombers are wrong.