OTR match, anyone?
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I think it was somewhere around turn 40 or 50 before I had a daylight bombing raid that hit the target and managed to get back mostly intact (night bombing got changed to the current flee into the night system after the early game). I believe that was simply because I threw so much stuff at the Rhur that the German fighters took reaction damage and couldn't come out again to fight the next wave. The scenario was changed in a few ways that might push the turning point a bit further into the future. The first half of the scenario does involve the Allies taking a beating in the air, the second half has the Germans being bombed to rubble.
Do your best, and try to trade your cheaper aircraft for the more expensive German models (watch out, 109s are half price when the Regensburg Critical Industry is active). P38s aren't great escorts, but have medium guns and can fly for 4 turns, so they can attack the German fighters that fly up to chew your bombers. I tried operating Spitfires from a carrier near the Netherlands, but I'm not sure how effective that was; I probably should have had more aircraft.
Right you are - A case of me not fully digesting the readme again; I had assumed these units were convoy escorts / sub-hunters rather than invasion fleets. There are no destroyer flotilla or other sub-hunting surface fleets I take it?
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No, but the convoys can attack. This scenario mostly represents the air war, so the Sunderlands are going to be your main weapon. Note, they "react" to subs (so if a sub calls up ammo near a Sunderland, it runs the risk of damage).
Unlike all other aircraft types, you should have a decent number of veteran daytime bomber crews. Any B17 that is "damaged" (i.e. destroyed and replaced by the damaged aircraft) automatically gains veteran status. I typically put them in B24s, once I had those available, to take advantage of veteran status on the more powerful bombs. Of course, this depends on the ability of damaged planes to survive return trip. You're probably still a little far away from B24s, so I'd advise putting your crews into fresh B17s (they'll have to be full health and full movement to make the switch), and putting the veteran bombers in the centre of the formation, in order to use their more effective veteran bombs.
My advice for trying to get a few hurricanes to vet status is also partly because the fighter bombers can't get to high altitude, where most planes usually stay, so they have a hard time becoming veteran.
That's right. In the first iteration of the game I tested, I spent large parts of my turn blindly moving around destroyers hoping to run into a submarine. Once you manage to clear the Atlantic, searching for submarines becomes extremely annoying. They could be there, and it costs nothing to search, so you should search, but deep down you know the German player has probably given up contesting convoy passage. With this system, a stray sub is unlikely to sink your convoy outright, so you can send it across, and simply counterattack with Sunderlands once the wolf pack reveals its location. Of course, in the early part of the game, you'll find it useful to take a more active role in anti submarine activities.
Right thanks for the info prof, I'll be transferring my aces to new B-17Fs when they're ready.
He-111s shot down over the Swansea. Those Nazis must really like the scenery of the Gower Peninsula.
Question for JP: Why is there a river going from Birmingham to the Wash on the East coast? Britain's rail network is centred around very strong connections between north and south on both the eastern and western sides of the country, and these are both interrupted by this river. Also, you don't have the River Severn (Britain's longest river).
He-111s shot down over the Swansea. Those Nazis must really like the scenery of the Gower Peninsula.
Question for JP: Why is there a river going from Birmingham to the Wash on the East coast? Britain's rail network is centred around very strong connections between north and south on both the eastern and western sides of the country, and these are both interrupted by this river. Also, you don't have the River Severn (Britain's longest river).
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