Escort paralysis

[alpha wolf 64]

I've been playing the WW2 scenario and I've noticed that frequently AI CV or transport fleets just sit turn after turn until they get picked off. I started a debug game and noticed this situation over and over. It seems to me that ships flagged as requiring escort, needs at least 2 escorting ships. If it only has 1 escort, those ships will not move and I have yet to notice the AI send additional escorts to the immobile fleet. I think the programmers tried a lazy workaround by usually giving 3 escorts. I watched an AI US fleet of 3 CA and a transport make it to within 2 tiles of China when the Japanese sub fleet took out 2 CAs. The remaining CA and transport did not turn move at all and both were sunk the next turn.

 

[Gen]

I've observed same behaviour in PTW two times, except that transport was escorted by single battleship and after I sank it, transport was sitting in the same place for two turns - until I found some excess ships to take care of it. So it's not exactly a new issue - but in such scenarios as Pacific WWII it is really, really bad.

 

[sgrig]

Hopefully in a patch Breakaway will add a few extra lines of code specifying that if a "requires escort" unit is left without an escort in the sea it heads straight to the nearest friendly port.

 

[Fanny Brice]

This has been a problem since the very beginning.

 

[alpha wolf 64]

I would have expected some changes because the requires escort flag is new. What good is a new flag if the old code isnt changed?

 

[statusperfect]

This is sad