Disappearing Convoy BUG

[leemarsh]

Way back in Nov. 2016 Spirit posted the same concern about Disappearing Convoys. And now here they are again. I decided to play the latest DLC Stella Polaris V. 1.13.4 as the U.S. in Ironman. Jump to Aug. '41 yesterday and Japan attacks the Philippines (and therefore the U.S.) and I have built up my convoys to ca. 1400. When I come back this afternoon I have zero -- as in 0 -- convoys. WTF?!? With zero convoys you can't trade, you can't invade. Nada.
I haven't had this problem before, but suddenly here it is. Any other admirals and generals out there having this problem? BTW, this is not my first campaign; I have over 3000 hrs with HoI.

[mk11]

Playing Black Ice. I send 70 convoys to Spanish Republic at out break of civil war. September I switch to Spain and they now have 0 convoys and none showing as sunk. Looks like they have just disappeared.

[Scyobi_Empire]

Its visual only for me, when a convoy is added or removed they all come back

[leemarsh]

Thanks you two. I have started this campaign over and we'll see if it re-occurs. I will keep you posted. If it does happen again, I will probably put my frustration in a new comment post.

[leemarsh]

Here's an update to this post: it would seem that the latest patch(es) have fixed this problem... for the most part. Once you sign off after Japan has declared war, when you return you will briefly have no transport vessels, and consequently no trade, and therefore no armaments production due to lack of raw materials. Hang tough, after a few days all the ships reappear. It's a bit annoying, but they do come back.
So Paradox programmers, you still have work to do to fix this completely.

[Puma]

I'm playing as Japan ironman vanilla. Absolutely no mods. I have a Guangxi puppet. I'm trying to send them old tanks and other crap to lower their autonomy. But since there is no land connection from Tokyo, I need to send them convoy ships first. They receive convoys and then I proceed to lend-lease them the other stuff. Lend leasing works for one month, and then stops due to no convoys. I check the intel ledger and it shows that they have total of zero convoys. History shows no lost convoys. They are not at war with anyone. Where did the convoys go?

Are the little bastards on to my shenaniguns? They scuttling the cargo ships in the dead of night to prevent me from lowering their autonomy?

I did some googling, and I found reports on disappearing convoys going back years. I don't think this one is getting fixed guys.

[mk11]

There may be more than one disappearing convoy bug.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/convoys-set-to-0-reloading-saved-game-in-ironman-mode.1603363/

Marks as confirmed, so chance it might be fixed. That problem is if you have a lend-lease using convoys then when you save/reload the convoys disappear. They reappear if you get more convoys (built or lend-lease). It completely wrecks sending lend-lease to the SCW so I hope it gets fixed.

[Bored Peon]

Also keep in mind that there is like a negative convoy buffer. Meaning convoys in used are deducted from your current total. So while it may say 0 you do own convpys they are on trades. Your convoys are also in use exporting goods as well.

As MK11 pointed out lend leasing, if you accidentally sent say 50 a day rather than 50 at one time it would eat up your convoys. You can fix this by editing the lease.