Problem with paratroops in pacific?

[duff]

In the first battle I couldn't plot para-drops in the deployment stage due to the "scenario type". Plotting them on turn one had most of them arrive in turn 10 of a 12 turn scenario. Any idea what I'm doing wrong.

[Griefbringer]

The problem seems to be that the scenario type has been set as meeting engagement, rather than advance/delay encounter. With the changes in the latest version of the game, meeting engagements no longer allow for plotting preliminary bombardments (including spotter planes and air drops).

As a temporary workaround, you could try setting a priority target hex on the intended drop zone, and then aim all your paradrops around that. This would introduce only a couple of rounds delay until you get boots in the ground.

[DRG]

I've made a note to look into this

Don

[duff]

Works well enough to at least make it playable. Probably would be more elegant to change the battle type in the longer term.

[DRG]

Here are the corrected campaign files. Just extract this to the winspww2/campaigns folder. You will now be able to drop the paras at the end of turn one as designed

Don