How do I use air units with carriers?

[Hal]

Yep, this must sound pretty dumb, but I have no clue as to how to get those loaded aircraft to launch missions from my carriers. It makes for a pretty limited naval strategy in the late game not being able to take the fight to the enemy with anything better than battleships. I loaded aircraft on a carrier, the aircraft icon displays next to the carrier icon in the transported unit box, and no air mission icons show up. This may be coincidence, but I have seen none of my vicious AI opponents deploy any carriers as yet despite their constant warmaking and possession of the advances necessary to do so. Why?

This is the bug-laden v1.17f and it's being used on an iMac DV+ 450 w/OS 9. I've perused the forums and have noted a lot of similarities between my complaints (lost saves, sound bugs, crashes, etc.) and other Mac people, regardless of specific platform and OS. I think MacSoft shipped a lemon.

 

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by Hal
This is the bug-laden v1.17f and it's being used on an iMac DV+ 450 w/OS 9.

Update to 1.17g and get back to us. As for crashes, be specific. Telling us that you have them with no other information doesn't help at all. In fact, it almost guarantees I won't be able to fix it.

Brad

 

[Mavfin]

I have no trouble with air missions off carriers with 1.17g. However, anytime you *move* the carrier, the aircraft go to sleep, so if you move it you have to right(ctrl) click and wake each aircraft on the carrier so you can use them.

I think air superiority missions off carriers do not go to sleep in the 1.21 patch, which should come out sometime soon. (three weeks or less, allowing for a large margin of error)