Changing the squadron

[jpanside]

Question regarding changing the squadron's planes aka equipment change. I am playing moscow 1941 (earliest date) on the German side. I switched all my planes from the bf109 to the 190 A3. But for some reason it keeps switching back to the Bf 109 F4. This also prohibits me from changing my skin because it says my squad is still flying the 109. How can I fix this? Thank you!

Edited May 12 by jpanside

[jpanside]

can anyone please help me?

[ST_Catchov]

Fortunately for you, computer says no. You will have, and retain, the greatest most magnificentest warbird ever invented, she says. In numerology, 109 is a magic number ... 1+0+9=10 and following on 1+0=1. Meaning Number One. Numero Uno. The Best.

 

Whereas 190 is an anti-pythagorean perverted abomination resulting in a negative connotation of -1. A bad sign.

 

Consider yourself lucky.

[jpanside]

3 hours ago, ST_Catchov said:

Fortunately for you, computer says no. You will have, and retain, the greatest most magnificentest warbird ever invented, she says. In numerology, 109 is a magic number ... 1+0+9=10 and following on 1+0=1. Meaning Number One. Numero Uno. The Best.

 

Whereas 190 is an anti-pythagorean perverted abomination resulting in a negative connotation of -1. A bad sign.

 

Consider yourself lucky.

hahaha. 109 is my main plane but I am learning the 190. Really? I have to constantly switch the equipment every time? I also can't change the skin? =(

[Stonehouse]

On 5/12/2025 at 12:56 PM, jpanside said:

Question regarding changing the squadron's planes aka equipment change. I am playing moscow 1941 (earliest date) on the German side. I switched all my planes from the bf109 to the 190 A3. But for some reason it keeps switching back to the Bf 109 F4. This also prohibits me from changing my skin because it says my squad is still flying the 109. How can I fix this? Thank you!

 

The service start date for the 190A3 is 1 June 1941. If you are prior to that then that could be the reason. 

 You could try editing FW190A3.json before creating your next mission and see if changing the service introduction date helps. Looking at the Luftwaffe units available in PWCG it seems like the earliest FW190 was I./JG2 in Feb 1942. 

 

[jpanside]

38 minutes ago, Stonehouse said:

 

The service start date for the 190A3 is 1 June 1941. If you are prior to that then that could be the reason. 

 You could try editing FW190A3.json before creating your next mission and see if changing the service introduction date helps. Looking at the Luftwaffe units available in PWCG it seems like the earliest FW190 was I./JG2 in Feb 1942. 

 

Thank you Mr. Stonehouse!

 

Where can I find this FW190A3.json? I will try editing the files there. But recently I ran into an even bigger issue. Can you help me out? I posted here: 

 

[Stonehouse]

2 hours ago, jpanside said:

Where can I find this FW190A3.json?

So that lives in the aircraft folder as marked below

 

As to your other question, that's more difficult to definitely answer. There is probabilities/weighting involved so you could just be getting a run of "snake eyes" being rolled so to speak. As well as the configuration values for mission types you can fiddle with the weighting for your squadron by editing the relevant squadron json. This is found in the Squadron folder as marked below. When you open your squadron's json you will see somewhere around the middle of the file a section for squadron roles. These can be for multiple periods to reflect the changing role of the squadron as the war progresses. Within each period you will see roles with their weighting. The role controls a set of mission types from which one is chosen for the mission being generated. For most fighter squadrons the ROLE_FIGHTER is the most heavily weighted.

 

Unfortunately for you I am guessing based on your post that you are flying for a Jagdgeschwader and so the ROLE_FIGHTER will already be the most heavily weighted and therefore will be the most likely set of mission types being used for your missions already. CAP and patrols and intercepts are all within that set so I don't think changing the weighting will help unless you wanted particularly to do ground attack or something. I could be wrong, but I believe the list of mission types for each role is within the code and so I don't think you can change those.  PWCG also includes historical battles at the appropriate point in the timeline (eg Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in 1944) and specific missions are created so possibly your squadron may simply be meant to be doing CAPs as the most appropriate choice for the time. Pat is really the only person who could give you are clear reason for what you are seeing.

 

One thing to make clear though is that Pat doesn't support PWCG with edits for quite understandable reasons so make backups of anything you are going to edit so you can revert to stock PWCG. 

 

[jpanside]

@Stonehouse  

Thank you so much. That makes COMPLETE sense. So I bet once the war progresses, the missions will start to change. I don't want to do any ground attack missions. I want high altitude intercept and long-distance escort missions. but right now I am only getting low altitude cap missions, so that's why I asked. I guess I just gotta go through with this and hope that it will change later.