What happens to planes during a patrol mission when a carrier, which they are operating from gets destroyed? (And there are no airfields nearby)
If there is a friendly Airfield in range of planes which launched from that carrier and are in flight or patrolling at the time the carrier is sunk, they will redirect to the nearest airfield (same as if they were on land).
If there are no friendly airfields in range, the planes are destroyed immediately.
On land, they would fly back to the Airfield they started from and turn into caravans, and begin combat with the unit/stack which captured the province,
Unless those units are just passing through the province, in which a wild goose chase of your convoy's usually startsOneNutSquirrel wrote:
If there is a friendly Airfield in range of planes which launched from that carrier and are in flight or patrolling at the time the carrier is sunk, they will redirect to the nearest airfield (same as if they were on land).If there are no friendly airfields in range, the planes are destroyed immediately.
On land, they would fly back to the Airfield they started from and turn into caravans, and begin combat with the unit/stack which captured the province,
There should be an "Emergency Landing" feature which lets you convert an airborne plane into a grounded convoy with a small HP penalty (if there are no airfields/carriers in range)
No such chase would happen... any unit which captures a territory and destroys an airfield from which planes are returning to that airfield, it stops moving and has to wait for the planes to return, land, turn into convoys and then it engages in melee combat. Once the fight is resolved, and the capturing unit survives, then it can continue on it's original path if it had one.Fox-Company wrote:
Unless those units are just passing through the province, in which a wild goose chase of your convoy's usually starts
If the capturing unit is destroyed by the convoys, only then can the convoys be moved.
It's possible that the aircraft were in a new airfield in a recently captured province, and the province rebelled? Then you could just move them as soon as they landed and turned into pumpkins... I mean convoys.
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