How do you get rid of captured equipment?

[Girthquake]

I don't want any of the stuff I've captured because mine is better and when I try to fill up air wings there's all these either inferior or out of date planes that just take up space, how do I get rid of stuff like that?

[Ваня]

Can you lend lease it away? Or maybe you can only lend lease stuff that you have produced.

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

WTB DELETE BUTTON -> Scrap for mats.

[Aldodrem]

You trade it away but idk why you'd want to do that. Old equpiment will only be used if you are not producing enough to keep your units resupplied (Ships are stuck outdated 4ever and airwings will upgrade if newer tech is avaible in your stockpile and they are based w/o a mission).

But it sounds to me you are not producing enough to supply all your forces so if you got rid of your old stock your units would fall in strenght since they'd not have any equipment. It is better to have a pop gun than no gun at all!

[Ваня]

Originally posted by Aldodrem:

You trade it away but idk why you'd want to do that. Old equpiment will only be used if you are not producing enough to keep your units resupplied (Ships are stuck outdated 4ever and airwings will upgrade if newer tech is avaible in your stockpile and they are based w/o a mission).

But it sounds to me you are not producing enough to supply all your forces so if you got rid of your old stock your units would fall in strenght since they'd not have any equipment. It is better to have a pop gun than no gun at all!

I don't think that's quite what OP was looking for. I think the situation he has is one I've had before. After capitulating a lot of enemies in mid-late game you end up with a lof of their very outdated planes. So when going to make a new air wing you have to do a lot of scrolling past those old planes. Get's to be pretty inconvenient. Even with the bigger air deployment mod. Forget about being short of equipment, the usual situation is you end up sitting on one million or more of your own up to date infantry equipment, not to mention your own outdated equipment let alone captured outdated equipment and around five to ten thousand of your own up to date fighters. At that point captured equipment is only a burden and a hastle.

[Coolmint]

Well your equipment may be better but lets say you only have 100 of your superior planes and you make a air wing with mm lets say 500 planes whats happening is its putting in your 100 planes along with 400 inferior ones until you have 500 of your superior equipment.

[IrationalFear]

Why do people consistently fail to grasp this problem?

IT IS NOT "OUTDATED" EQUIPMENT THAT IS A PROBLEM.
IT IS NOT HAVING TOO LITTLE EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE THINGS.

IT IS THE FACT THAT "CAPTURED" EQUIPMENT CANNOT BE LEND LEASED AWAY AND CONSTANTLY FILL THE UI WHEN TRYING TO MAKE NEW AIR WINGS.

There. Just read for once, people.

Now, for the OP, Paradox has posted on their official forums that they have heard of this problem and are considering a "delete" button. In the mean time, there's no way around it. You could choose to build heavy fighters and TAC instead of normal fighters and CAS, so that you can dump all captured equipment into huge wings in the middle of nowhere to clean your stockpile. Also of note is that you can build a wing of crappy captured planes and the game will automatically replace them with your modern versions as soon as deployment is complete.

[Girthquake]

Originally posted by IrationalFear:

Why do people consistently fail to grasp this problem?

IT IS NOT "OUTDATED" EQUIPMENT THAT IS A PROBLEM.
IT IS NOT HAVING TOO LITTLE EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE THINGS.

IT IS THE FACT THAT "CAPTURED" EQUIPMENT CANNOT BE LEND LEASED AWAY AND CONSTANTLY FILL THE UI WHEN TRYING TO MAKE NEW AIR WINGS.

There. Just read for once, people.

Now, for the OP, Paradox has posted on their official forums that they have heard of this problem and are considering a "delete" button. In the mean time, there's no way around it. You could choose to build heavy fighters and TAC instead of normal fighters and CAS, so that you can dump all captured equipment into huge wings in the middle of nowhere to clean your stockpile. Also of note is that you can build a wing of crappy captured planes and the game will automatically replace them with your modern versions as soon as deployment is complete.

This is what I was looking for, thank you.

[glythe]

This has to be the most annoying and time consuming thing about HOI when you play a country like Germany.

You end up with random fighters/cas/bombers from UK, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Nederlands. France, Greece and sometimes many more.

It already takes a while to click 100 planes and put them in an airwing. When you have to scroll through all those captured assets it really gets annoying.


How can paradox fix this? Allow you to scrap equipment and have a production surplus for half of the materials that went into making it. In addition maybe give a 25% boost to the production for each unit destroyed. As an example you destroy 100 captured 1936 planes; you can scrap them and have a 25% bonus on the production of 100 1936 planes or 50 of the 1940 plane.

Alternatively let the player try to reverse engineer something if he doesn't have a tech. Say you steal some 1940 strategic bombers. Maybe you can try to get % toward the research after you destroy many of those units.

Then you can scrap them for a production bonus.

[Kinote]

Originally posted by IrationalFear:

Why do people consistently fail to grasp this problem?

Because reading past the title is too hard and takes up too much time.