Defect Name: Launch Limbo [2006]

Build: HCE 2007.000

Repeatable: Y

Operating System: XP

DB used: HCDB-070524

Scenario used: Launch Limbo.SCo

Long Description: When aircraft are either launching or landing, if the aircraft in the group are destroyed before the group is fully launched/landed, the aircraft that have not yet launched to / already landed from the group are stranded in limbo either as launching or landing.

 

Sequence to reproduce:

1. Play as Blue

2. Order all 61 Cock transports to ferry to the other base.

3. Watch Red destroy the first few aircraft in the group and the remainder are stranded.

 

Expected behaviour: Aircraft should not be stranded in limbo.

Observed behaviour: Aircraft should are stranded in limbo either as launching or landing.

Launch_Limbo__2006_.zip

Moved to Mantis #2432.

I've been trying to duplicate this bug with 2008.002 but I can't.

However, I can see that the group is actually moving to the other base before it is entirely formed up and as units are killed off, new units are added to the group count en route. That shouldn't be.