Ships won't leave ports

[Grahost]

I'm fighting Japan as USA and need to use naval invasion, but often my ships won't leave port. They are one sea area away from the target area, or sometimes even in the needed area and they still will only be interested in staring at port- Does anyone know why this is and how to make them go out and do their jobs? Can you manually move them or tell them what to do?
Any help is appreciated.

[uncleflagzz]

1. They might be in repair, after repairing, they'll get back to their mission
2. If you want to naval invade, be sure to have at least 75% naval or air superiority

[Grahost]

Originally posted by unclejackz:

1. They might be in repair, after repairing, they'll get back to their mission
2. If you want to naval invade, be sure to have at least 75% naval or air superiority

They do not say that they are reparing just "docked". I have also tried using the "never repair" command but it doesn't appear to eb working.
I've used naval invasions with only the minumum (50%) so far, and it is working. If I needed to wait for 75% I would need to put an in sanely large navy and airforce in the area, which in the pacific is with its many sea areas needed even for single island is not possible.

The navy are only on naval invasion task.

[Rajiin Terra]

Two things I can think of, one make sure they can actually REACH their assigned areas otherwise they'll just sit in port until a route opens up. Basically you can find this out by selecting the navy and seeing if there's any red lines between them and their assigned area. You can also select a fleet and click on a port closer to the assigned area to hopefully fix it.

They might also be set to a 'high' chance of success, there's another little button which says what the navy is willing to engage, so you could drop that down to be willing to take more fights and hope that's a fix if the first option doesn't work.

[adcdysart5]

maybe some ships can't operate in deep seas

[Ryan]

Ships assigned to Naval Invade will sit in their ports until the amphibious invasion is launched. This is by design. Once the amphibious invasion is started, then the ships will leave port and travel with the troops.

If you want your ships to patrol the sea zones, then use Convoy Escort. This can accomplish the same thing, but your ships won't assist with naval bombardment, but you can always set your ships to Hold next to the LZ.

If you are not able to launch the amphibious invasion, then you need to provide more information. Where is the start/end of the invasion? What is your fleet size? Screenshots help.

[Grahost]

Originally posted by Ryan:

Ships assigned to Naval Invade will sit in their ports until the amphibious invasion is launched. This is by design. Once the amphibious invasion is started, then the ships will leave port and travel with the troops.

If you want your ships to patrol the sea zones, then use Convoy Escort. This can accomplish the same thing, but your ships won't assist with naval bombardment, but you can always set your ships to Hold next to the LZ.

If you are not able to launch the amphibious invasion, then you need to provide more information. Where is the start/end of the invasion? What is your fleet size? Screenshots help.

I was trying to invade Iwo Jima and launch my invasion from the other island in the same sea area.
I don't understand what you mean. For a naval invasion to be possible you have to set your ships to "naval invasion" so that they prepare the area between launch and target.

[Ryan]

So did you tell your Army to begin the naval invasion? If your ships are set to Naval Invasion that part is fine.

[Grahost]

Originally posted by Ryan:

So did you tell your Army to begin the naval invasion? If your ships are set to Naval Invasion that part is fine.

I think i figured it out.
Ships set on naval invasion only escort troops that are set to naval invade. I thought that ships on naval invasion mission prepared the sea for a naval invasion. And the ships won't leave port because there are no troops to escort on the seas,