walter_solito Posted October 18, 2024 Report Posted October 18, 2024 Hi! As said in the title I have to undestand how to stop a fighter unit from escort a bomber unit.... There is a way to interrupt a SetEscort comand like SetEscort K_880 = none....from other posts seem not.... If there isn't a specific command , someone have elaborate a shortcut to have the same condition? Thanks in advance for your help! Quote
Fhechene Posted October 28, 2024 Report Posted October 28, 2024 On 10/18/2024 at 5:03 PM, walter_solito said: Hi! As said in the title I have to undestand how to stop a fighter unit from escort a bomber unit.... There is a way to interrupt a SetEscort comand like SetEscort K_880 = none....from other posts seem not.... If there isn't a specific command , someone have elaborate a shortcut to have the same condition? Thanks in advance for your help! AFAIK, you can't. I had a custom campaign with Gloster Meteors and they always got escorted, leaving everyone behind. What I haven't tried is setting an escort to an squadron, and while making a custom Take-off for the escort squadron, setting a delayed time. Quote
Lowengrin Posted February 8, 2025 Report Posted February 8, 2025 This is an extremely late answer, but could you not set the Meteors cruise speed slower so escorts could keep up? Quote
walter_solito Posted May 24 Author Report Posted May 24 On 10/18/2024 at 10:03 PM, walter_solito said: Hi! As said in the title I have to undestand how to stop a fighter unit from escort a bomber unit.... There is a way to interrupt a SetEscort comand like SetEscort K_880 = none....from other posts seem not.... If there isn't a specific command , someone have elaborate a shortcut to have the same condition? Thanks in advance for your help! Hi Lowengrin! I renew this question as I have to work a bit about escorts editing a campaign and I haven't yet figured out how to interrupt an escort command previously issued in timetable.... Your reply was about Fhechene reply and about a different issue.... Thanks in advance for your help! Quote
Lowengrin Posted May 30 Report Posted May 30 Before I do, you could try setting the command to "none". For example: 19420101 SetEscort IV_StG20 = none Quote
walter_solito Posted Wednesday at 07:43 PM Author Report Posted Wednesday at 07:43 PM Hi! Thanks for your reply and aplogize for my delay but I was out from home these days. I have to do a better test with more missions because atm I have compressed all the escort changes in few days and seem that the engine is not dealing well with the hurry and quick escort exchange.... I have used Shakaali Sahnghai campaign and set the timeteble to specific escort for my unit (IJN_C_Ryujo_FS0): 19370820 SetEscort IJN_C_Kaga_FS_VT0 = IJN_C_Ryujo_FS0 19370821 SetEscort IJN_C_Hosho_FS_VT0 = IJN_C_Ryujo_FS0 19370822 SetEscort IJN_C_Kaga_FS_VB0 = IJN_C_Ryujo_FS0 19370823 SetEscort IJN_C_Ryujo_FS_VB0 = IJN_C_Ryujo_FS0 19370824 SetEscort IJN_C_Ryujo_FS_VB0 = none On these days only the Kaga 19370820 escort was set , in the other days the missions was not timetable indicated escorts but other attack or carrier CAP.... Maybe I have set the change to near each other....I test again giving 4 days before change the unit I have to escort and also after the none command is issued.... Here the missions of these days , the log and the settings....maybe you could find something more useful or suggest to increase log level.... https://www.mediafire.com/file/a2vajel7h0vamj1/Shanghai.7z/file Quote
Lowengrin Posted Thursday at 04:46 AM Report Posted Thursday at 04:46 AM Changing the delay between changing escorts shouldn't have any effect. The changes should be immediate. I do know the escort command is not the most reliable. Other circumstances can cause the escort to ignore the command - the most obvious one being the escorted flight isn't active. But other events (like anticipating an attack) can change the escort into a CAP (for example). Quote
walter_solito Posted Thursday at 03:46 PM Author Report Posted Thursday at 03:46 PM Yes that's what I was thinking about....this is why I thought that adding some delay could give an interval where the DCG engine could work.... So I try another thing: I'll restart the campaign (I have anyway in mind to do some changes at the timetable) and add the SetEscort command from the first day towards my carrier attack squadron....if I see that the escorted unit 'll remain the same for a fortnight missions (to give the DCG engine time to work on the escort conditions routine) , I'll try to change the escorted unit to another carrier attack unit to test if DCG engine 'll use the new unit or 'll keep again the older (in another fortnight of missions). If all went right and I got escort for the first only and second only unit I'll try to set the SetEscort = none and see what happen in the third fortnight: random unit escorts is good....while escort set only to last SetEscort unit is no good and mean that a interrupt escort command is needed.... Could be right this way? I'll also set the log level to the higher one to better understand what the engine is doing.... BTW as I like this campaign and I'll try to fine tune her , I'll play the most interesting missions so if all is going right with these test conditions I could take a little longer to report...but this also mean that all is going correctly with the SetEscort routine.... Quote
Lowengrin Posted Thursday at 07:54 PM Report Posted Thursday at 07:54 PM It could be the right way.... I could force a "none" to make it impossible for the fighters to do an escort mission. (But in a carrier battle, it's pretty much CAP or escort so I'm not sure how valuable that would be to your campaign.) Quote
walter_solito Posted Friday at 07:48 PM Author Report Posted Friday at 07:48 PM 23 hours ago, Lowengrin said: It could be the right way.... I could force a "none" to make it impossible for the fighters to do an escort mission. (But in a carrier battle, it's pretty much CAP or escort so I'm not sure how valuable that would be to your campaign.) For a carrier battle you are right! For the specific campaign the carriers act against land base targets and squadrons so they have plenty of mission opportunities other than only escort or CAP....but I was also thinking about another campaign I have developed (on hold because of the work on new WAW is still in progress) about a Malta campaign from 41 to 43 where you have times to escort specific units (german Ju87/88 or italian BR.20/CANT1007 for example) and other a normal panorama of missions.... Quote
Lowengrin Posted Friday at 08:31 PM Report Posted Friday at 08:31 PM Good point. I will give some thought to how to make the set escort command be more flexible. Quote
onyx1993 Posted Saturday at 08:17 AM Report Posted Saturday at 08:17 AM 11 hours ago, Lowengrin said: Good point. I will give some thought to how to make the set escort command be more flexible. Great to see you active and well Lowengrin! Lowengrin 1 Quote
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