Ammo loads in existing scenarios??

[DesertSailor]

How do you use the scenario editor to give ships full ammo loads in existing scenarios? I'm running Jutland46 (and I'm sure it's not the only one) when I discovered that the German BCs & cruisers only have a 25% ammo load. No, no, no, sez I, but I can't figure out how to change it?

Many thanks!

charley
aka Desert Sailor

[William Miller]

Hello,

The editor does allow you to edit ammo loadouts for individual ships; I don't offhand recall the specific window that allows you to do that, but it is somewhere in the edit ship section of the editor.

[asnrobert]

When you are in the scenario editor, click on the "Edit Ship" tab (next to the edit division tab), then click on the ship you wish to edit. A window will open up. You will see tabs for the main and secondary batteries. Click on those, and you can edit the loadouts there.

[DesertSailor]

Thanks guys- I should have thought of editing the individual ships..

charley
aka Desert Sailor:rolleyes:

[DesertSailor]

I found the ship editor- the ammo loads all indicate 100%. I changed things a bit, then went back to 100% just to make sure it was working. Saved it off, reopened the scenario, and the cruisers are still carrying 50% ammo loads on the main guns (132AP vs 264.)

It just occurred to me that I may have mixed up .scn files on my hard drive. I'll spend some time poking around just to make sure..

charley
aka Desert Sailor

[asnrobert]

I found the ship editor- the ammo loads all indicate 100%. I changed things a bit, then went back to 100% just to make sure it was working. Saved it off, reopened the scenario, and the cruisers are still carrying 50% ammo loads on the main guns (132AP vs 264.)

It just occurred to me that I may have mixed up .scn files on my hard drive. I'll spend some time poking around just to make sure..

charley
aka Desert Sailor

That could be. I noticed that when I installed certain FSP updates, some of the earlier scenarios would need to be tweaked or I would have weird ammo loadout numbers, etc.

[DesertSailor]

I only have one Jutland46.scn. So much for my theory that there might be two floating around. I can't think of anything else to try. Well, I could just recreate the whole scenario with full ammo loads unless somebody comes up with a brilliant suggestion...

charley
aka Desert Sailor

[txflood]

After you changed the values so that the ships all had 100% of the correct ammunition type and you hit Save on each Ship Data dialog, did you do a File | Save on the main window of the editor? I don't think your changes actually get written to the scenario file until you do that and I don't think the editor warns you if changes have been made and you exit without saving. This editor is not a very good tool and it very fragile in my opinion.

[DesertSailor]

Ah, well... not sure. I'll try that and get back to ya.

Charley
aka Desert Sailor

[asnrobert]

Ah, well... not sure. I'll try that and get back to ya.

Charley
aka Desert Sailor

yes, if you didn't save the scenario after editing the ammo changes, they go back to what they were.