diff --git a/cli/app/rollback.go b/cli/app/rollback.go
index 5b986cbf..756d4729 100644
--- a/cli/app/rollback.go
+++ b/cli/app/rollback.go
@@ -124,17 +124,15 @@ recipes.
 			}
 		}
 
-		availableDowngrades = internal.ReverseStringList(availableDowngrades)
-
 		var chosenDowngrade string
-		if !internal.Chaos {
+		if len(availableDowngrades) > 0 && !internal.Chaos {
 			if internal.Force || internal.NoInput {
-				chosenDowngrade = availableDowngrades[0]
+				chosenDowngrade = availableDowngrades[len(availableDowngrades)-1]
 				logrus.Debugf("choosing %s as version to downgrade to (--force)", chosenDowngrade)
 			} else {
 				prompt := &survey.Select{
 					Message: fmt.Sprintf("Please select a downgrade (current version: %s):", deployedVersion),
-					Options: availableDowngrades,
+					Options: internal.ReverseStringList(availableDowngrades),
 				}
 				if err := survey.AskOne(prompt, &chosenDowngrade); err != nil {
 					return err
@@ -186,10 +184,8 @@ recipes.
 		config.SetChaosVersionLabel(compose, stackName, chosenDowngrade)
 		config.SetUpdateLabel(compose, stackName, app.Env)
 
-		if !internal.Force {
-			if err := internal.NewVersionOverview(app, deployedVersion, chosenDowngrade, ""); err != nil {
-				logrus.Fatal(err)
-			}
+		if err := internal.NewVersionOverview(app, deployedVersion, chosenDowngrade, ""); err != nil {
+			logrus.Fatal(err)
 		}
 
 		if err := stack.RunDeploy(cl, deployOpts, compose, stackName, internal.DontWaitConverge); err != nil {
diff --git a/cli/app/upgrade.go b/cli/app/upgrade.go
index 197a9ab6..3c39baf7 100644
--- a/cli/app/upgrade.go
+++ b/cli/app/upgrade.go
@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ recipes.
 			}
 		}
 
-		availableUpgrades = internal.ReverseStringList(availableUpgrades)
-
 		var chosenUpgrade string
 		if len(availableUpgrades) > 0 && !internal.Chaos {
 			if internal.Force || internal.NoInput {
@@ -137,7 +135,7 @@ recipes.
 			} else {
 				prompt := &survey.Select{
 					Message: fmt.Sprintf("Please select an upgrade (current version: %s):", deployedVersion),
-					Options: availableUpgrades,
+					Options: internal.ReverseStringList(availableUpgrades),
 				}
 				if err := survey.AskOne(prompt, &chosenUpgrade); err != nil {
 					return err
@@ -145,6 +143,11 @@ recipes.
 			}
 		}
 
+		if internal.Force && chosenUpgrade == "" {
+			logrus.Warnf("%s is already upgraded to latest but continuing (--force/--chaos)", app.Name)
+			chosenUpgrade = deployedVersion
+		}
+
 		// if release notes written after git tag published, read them before we
 		// check out the tag and then they'll appear to be missing. this covers
 		// when we obviously will forget to write release notes before publishing
diff --git a/pkg/recipe/recipe.go b/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
index 0c63725c..14661215 100644
--- a/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
+++ b/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ func EnsureVersion(recipeName, version string) error {
 	logrus.Debugf("read %s as tags for recipe %s", strings.Join(parsedTags, ", "), recipeName)
 
 	if tagRef.String() == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("no published release discovered for %s", recipeName)
+		return fmt.Errorf("the local copy of %s doesn't seem to have version %s available?", recipeName, version)
 	}
 
 	worktree, err := repo.Worktree()