HB
Jumped on and played a lot this morning trying out the different ships and getting use to the missions again. I'd buy a ship play a couple of missions, sell it, buy another, etc ... Fun.
Had one problem though. I was flying a rom SKB which is listed as a carrier and comes w/ 8 fighters. When I go to "buy" my fighters my selection includes the HVY (thought that was a drougue). No matter, I launch a Patrol (type 6) mission and launch my 2 squadrons of fighters. Everything sounds sounds right (the little 'launching' noise is made) ... but they don't appear on the screen.
They do appear on the control screen as being deployed, and I can issue them commands and I get the proper response ("Begining attack run" etc). Finally I give up and order them to return to base. Wait a while at speed 1 nothing happens, forget about it and go off to blow-up some gorn AI.
Mission finishes, I check the supplies, and there are my 2 little squads (drogue?) of fighters looking up at me from the screen as if to say "What? We were with you all along."
Anyway, don't know if that is a problem with a script, the ship, or something to do with your drogue code.