Combining Troop Transports and CV Fleets

VorlonFCW wrote:

I thought it worked with ground troops, but planes in convoy will not combine with ships. Neither will rockets. And plane and rocket convoys won't combine with each other.

Or are you just getting the message "only carrier based aircraft can land here?" In that case zoom in so when giving the move order to troops you get the usual arrow not the green airbase/carrier arrow

Thanks, that sorted it out. Still, should be made so it works without having to zoom in, new players will not know what to do.

Quasi-duck wrote:

Title says it all, why is this not a thing? Very annoying.

The intermittent inability to combine aircraft carriers (CVs) with ANY other type of unit is a well-known bug that has occurred since the aircraft carrier unit was added to the game. I have even encountered the problem when I cannot combine two aircraft carriers into the same stack, but the problem can also include other types of naval units, as well as ground units in an ocean-going convoy. The work-around that usually works for me is to simultaneously send the aircraft carrier unit (or mixed stack that includes the aircraft carrier) to the same sea lane intersection point as the other units with which you want to combine it, and -- presto! -- the two stacks will usually easily combine like magic when they arrive at the intersection point.

VorlonFCW wrote:

I thought it worked with ground troops, but planes in convoy will not combine with ships. Neither will rockets. And plane and rocket convoys won't combine with each other.

No ocean-going convoy of aircraft-class units will combine with naval units or an ocean-going convoy of ground units in the same stack. The aircraft armor class includes all types of aircraft and rocket units. This problem is a programming feature and not a "bug." This problem has been raised multiple times in the past, including by me on several occasions here in the forum, and the developers are aware of the problem, but apparently it presents multiple programming issues to be resolved. The same issue is also true on land, where truck convoys of aircraft-class units will not combine with ground units in the same stack, but this presents far fewer problems for players than the problems associated with ocean-going convoys of aircraft-class units.

This is a completely different and unrelated issue from aircraft carriers sometimes being balky at combining with other units.

WayneBo wrote:

Does the same error still occur when trying to link submarines to escort CV?

Yes, as I said above, the intermittent problem of combining aircraft carriers in the same stack occurs with ALL other units, and ths applies equally to submarine units, and the work-around is same as I mentioned above when the problem is encountered.

Quasi-duck wrote:

should be made so it works without having to zoom in, new players will not know what to do.

But changing it would make it harder to get planes to land on the carrier. There are enough new players that try to get their planes to swim to the carrier as it is. I think the convenience of making it easier to use for planes outweighs the annoyance of having to fuss with it to make a naval group. Your opinion may vary .