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[londo16]

one of the more fustrating things in the game is trying to set convoys and task force ships in a nice formation and get them to stick together. getting in formation is easy enough just place the waypoints were you want their spot in the convoy to be, the hard part is getting them to stick together. the long way would be to change the speed at every waypoint to that of your slowest ship in the convoy but i usually miss one at watch the entire convoy fall apart. A quicker way is to set the entire convoy as one ship in the begining e.g. setting the entire convoy as dry cargo ships. Then you go back and change the ones you want to be the escorts into destroyers or escort carriers, look at their waypoints and they should still have the speed of the cargo ships that they were set as before. This is kinda a nice trick to use and i dont know how widely know it is so i firgued i post it here. Let me know what you think

[RomanWolf]

Hi londo

i believe many others will agree with me that it is a clever idea

after few days of trying of making convois is FMB i realized that not all ships holding their written speed
I will tell whats happend:

I made a convoi of mulitple types of surface ships:
HMS Formidable, HMS Indomitable, HMS Ameer, HMS Duke of York, HMS King George V, 3 light cruisers Kirov, 3 heavy cruisers of Fiji class, 3 Tribal class destroyers  and 10 "O" Class destroyers.
All ships had 2 waypoints, both of them with written speed 35km/h. I controlled all waypoints twice

When i loaded the mission and looked at the convoi .................all ships except of those 10 "O" Class destroyers  were exatly at the same speed.
"O"Class destroyers were like speeders, they ran with speed over 35 km/h after 60 minutes of sailing were those destroyers almost 10 km ahead of the rest of all ships.
The rest of convoi sailed exatly with 35 km/h and no one ship was behind .

I don´t know if it is a bug of the game or of the mods but the russian destroyers doing it too and the repaint of them as german Z class as well.
Both going  with much higher speed . After getting back into FMB  those destroyers showed in the speed  window 35km/h as the other ships.

well that´s my experiences with doing convois on Il-2

RomanWolf

[fabianfred]

Probably quicker and easier to set the speeds in the .mis file with notepad...

[SAS~Malone]

Probably quicker and easier to set the speeds in the .mis file with notepad...

yep, that's the way i do it...a tip i learnt from fabianfred himself... 

[Slikk]

Probably quicker and easier to set the speeds in the .mis file with notepad...

Thats how I do it too.

[londo16]

would try to do it that way but i cant always find the mis files for all my missions so that way isnt always an option