Cannot build air units?

[Grinder]

I've just spent about 40 years battling Monty but cannot build air units for some reason. I have maxed almost all my cities and have reached Future Tech but for some peculiar reason can only build Mechs & Artillery which is extremely frustrating as Monty is strafing everything in sight and most of my units are either being reduced to scrap or are unfit to fight.

Moreover there is some weird extreme bias, as one of Monties city Mechs managed to hold out against some 40+ of mine despite only having +1 Med.

I've now given up on the campaign after several hour of fighting trying to take just one city even though I'm producing at least 10 times the units Monty is, and my score is about double.

I'm on Chieftain

 

[GoodSarmatian]

No planes...
No tanks...
Are you sure you have oil ?

 

[Grinder]

No planes...
No tanks...
Are you sure you have oil ?

GoodSarmatian, how appropriately named you are. Many thanks for pointing out what the problem actualy is.

I checked the manual, then reloaded the last of the autosaves then went over the map to check for a source of oil. Despite having 25.16% of the map there was only one oil square which had its well destroyed.

It's only fair to point out now the issue has been identified I've just started to use Smartmap v8.7 so would this be unusual for a singular mass of a quarter of the Earths surface to only have one oil square on normal rescources & goodies? Or is this the risk one has to take and be aware of?

Again, many thanks for your prompt and accurate help GoodSarmatian.

 

[smjjames]

I haven't used smartmap, but yes that would be unusual.

 

[Grinder]

I haven't used smartmap, but yes that would be unusual.

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad (or was it by blind coincidence or circumstance that the oil square is close to the war and was hit) that the AI managed to quickly cripple the weakest link in my campaign.