Fighter Interceptions

[Guderian1940]

You cannot use aircraft in poor weather conditions. However interception is allowed from fighter in poor weather conditions, Desert Storms, Rain, Snow, etc. Is this something intended?

[Hubert Cater]

Hi Guderian,

I've just double checked the code and it shouldn't be intercepting from a bad weather tile, do you happen to have a save handy that I can take a look at?

Hubert

[Guderian1940]

Unfortunately in multi play I don;t even know how to do that save a turn.

I noticed it from Snow and desert as the Allies in different games I think.

[Yeremenko]

Same with escort, I remember I was able to escort my carriers strikes with fighters in snow [&:]

[Birdw]

I've seen this several times. It has been going on for awhile. I don't remember it happening in the initial releases but I can't say exactly when I started seeing it happening.

[Hubert Cater]

I've run a quick test against the AI and in Hotseat mode and there were no interceptions from fighters in bad weather hexes, so the only thing I can think of is perhaps a corrupted and false replay where the incorrect weather was shown during the replay. This is an outlier case and possible if the DAT file for the PBEM++ game had to be rebuilt prior to the replay.

Escorts should be possible from bad weather hexes as we made a rule change for allowing fighters to attack from bad weather hexes but at a limited range, so Escorts would fall under this category.