Airbase not Listed in Comms ATC List when enemy units are on base

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

Not sure if this is a bug.

Caucasus map. I am on blue side with Kutaisi as airbase (set to blue). I placed some red units just outside of Kutaisi runway end for target practice. When I am at Kutaisi airbase (preparing to take off), if I use radio comms (easy comms off) to contact Kutaisi, the ATC list of airbases does not show Kutaisi. So I go back to the ME and move the red units farther out. Back to the mission and now my ATC comms shows Kutaisi.

 

[rob10]

If there is an enemy unit close/on the base it will turn it NEUTRAL or RED and that prevents you from rearming etc (because it's no longer a "friendly" airbase).  In this case I'm guessing it's making it a RED airbase so you're not "allowed" to land there.  Working as designed.  That's why when you move the units farther out you get the airbase (because it's still considered a "blue" airbase).

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

If there is an enemy unit close/on the base it will turn it NEUTRAL or RED and that prevents you from rearming etc (because it's no longer a "friendly" airbase).  In this case I'm guessing it's making it a RED airbase so you're not "allowed" to land there.  Working as designed.  That's why when you move the units farther out you get the airbase (because it's still considered a "blue" airbase).

Yeah seems that way but it’s rather premature and still shown as blue in the ME. It was just 4 trucks and I still had some blue units on the base. (Most persistence missions for example require you to destroy all opposing units first before you can take over the base.)

[rob10]

The logic is somewhat "interesting".  This post has some detailed testing.

 

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

5 hours ago, rob10 said:

The logic is somewhat "interesting".  This post has some detailed testing.

 

Thanks that's good to know info.

Update: Didn't quite work for me though. I placed 10 blue Abrams tanks in blue airbase with varying numbers of less capable red units such as technicals, APCs and unarmed LUV Tigrs and buses. ATC comms still would not show the airbase name as long as there were red units present (or not destroyed), even if it were just one LUV Tigr. The airbase name showed up only if the red units were all buses. Or, if I simply reverted to moving all the red units out of the airbase's black line circle.

Edited August 13, 2024 by GrEaSeLiTeNiN