jubjub
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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings Weren't German total losses in the first week 150 or so? While I agree we may have op losses too high, total losses if anything may be too low. Can we please start including the number of sorties flown when we discuss air losses?? There's no basis to any claim about how losses are too high or too low without knowing how many sorties are flown. Would it not change your assessment if he only flew 500 sorties and lost 90 planes? Also, it's not clear if this is after the entire turn or just the air phase. In my game vs. Beethoven, I think turn 1 casualties were around 150, but only about 100 were in the air phase. Since I flew about 3400 sorties, the loss rate was 2.9% for the air phase. It's currently impossible to track the amount of sorties flown during GS without digging into the excel export - which I don't have. By comparison, in "Barbarossa - the Air Battle", the author claims that Luftflotte 2 flew around 2,000 sorties on June 22nd, 1,072 on June 26th, 862 on June 27th, 458 on Jun 28th, and 260 on June 29th. The total loss rates he cites are .5% per sortie on June 26th, .9% on the 28th, and 1.9% on the 29th. Reading more, most of these losses seem to be from air combat and damage from air combat. Another source listed non-combat losses as .3% per sortie during the battle of Britain.
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