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ORIGINAL: Trugrit


I picked up some tips over the years.
I don’t remember exactly where I got them from.

Airfield Size:
Size 0: Seaplanes only - if coastal
Size 1: Fighters / Recon
Size 2: Fighters (full ability), Dive and Torpedo bombers
Size 4: Level Bombers
Size 5: B-17s
Size 7: B-29s

The B-29:
History Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDLnjh9Y0M
A very good one. Warning…..You may see a some pin-up art.

The B-29 was designed for high altitude and suffered from extreme engine fatigue
At high altitudes. This is one of the reasons it changed to lower altitudes.

In the game the B-29's have a service level 5 air frame. That needs constant attention.
Provide bulk Aviation Support (1 per engine, not 1 per plane).
Your Aviation Support LCUs should be free of fatigue & disruption if possible.
Repair and maintenance can be very slow in the game.

If you fly at 0% rest, you'll need at least 2-3 days of stand-down after each raid.
If you fly continuous ops, use 60% or more of rest.
Night bombing and range works the same for B-29’s as far as fatigue
build-up for the other bomber types.

Give each group 4 reserve planes if possible.

The Outlaw…..(His Point number 4)
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=3371795
Read the whole thing.

Staff B-29’s with the best pilots available (75+ Experience, 80+ skill in Ground Bombing).
Assign Commanders with high ratings in leadership and Inspiration.
Fly only from level 8/9 airfields.

Pilot Skill:
Pilot experience affects operational losses.

Level Bombers must pass three tests before flying an offensive mission.
Each test failed reduces the number of aircraft flying by 25%:

Experience test.
Test against the leader’s Air Skill.
Morale test.
Pilot experience affects the chances to find the target in a strike mission.
Pilot experience affects air-to-air combat results.
Leader’s air skill affects results in air-to-air combat.

Inspiration – Influences the number of strike aircraft that will fly.
Influences air group morale recovery.

• Air Skill – Influences the number of strike aircraft that will fly.
• Leadership – Influences the air group’s experience gain.
• No other skills or qualities have any influence.

Watch the fatigue level of pilots and rest them or rotate them.

Altitude:
Fly low. 7000' or 8,000' at night.
Longer range, more fatigue.

For Night operations fly when the moonlight is 50% or greater.
Mix up your strikes. Sometimes attack Manpower, but mix in other types.
Sometimes go deep, sometimes go very deep, sometimes go close.

The B-29's range gives you the ability to spread out enemy CAP.

Fires can cause a lot of damage to industry.
Michaelm in posts #23 and #25:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=2583075

From the manual:
"When a city is attacked, there is a chance that a fire can be started.
A fire level shows up when the mouse cursor is rolled over a base, just above the list of enemy industry.
City attacks on Manpower have a chance of creating high fire levels that will cause damage to any and all
industry. The fire level can get as high as 40 million, and is divided by 10 each 12 hours as the fire
is put out. Very high levels will continue to cause damage. The greater the target manpower, the easier
it is to get a fire storm going."

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Excellent post TG.

Only one query: What of the group leader admin rating? Does it have any effect?

I rather thought it gave a positive DRM on repairs/maintenance rolls.

Edit: if it's over 50, that is.

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ORIGINAL: Zovs

Thanks TrueGrit that is pure gold.

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Or How do you keep a B-29 flying.

Any ideas on how to keep B-29s flying? They seem to take forever to repair or maintain.

I am keeping them at Level 9 fields {Formosa}. I have above the minimum air support. Does having more than the required air support help? I know that HQ can increase the chances of flying, but does that increase the repair times? Does the HQ attachment of the squadron help with this at all?

I've never gotten this far before. The B-29 seems like an early 80s Jaguar....if you want to drive one every day, you have to own three of them!

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ORIGINAL: Trugrit

For information:
When I signed up for the forum I did not misspell “True Grit”

At the time I of course knew that True Grit was a book and movie and I had
Watched the movie many times. I thought the name might be copyrighted.

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ORIGINAL: Trugrit



Alfred Size:
Size 0: Seaplanes only - if coastal
Size 1: Fighters / Recon
Size 2: Fighters (full ability), Dive and Torpedo bombers
Size 4: Level Bombers
Size 5: B-17s
Size 7: B-29s

quote:

ORIGINAL: Trugrit


I picked up some tips over the years.
I don’t remember exactly where I got them from.

Airfield Size:
Size 0: Seaplanes only - if coastal
Size 1: Fighters / Recon
Size 2: Fighters (full ability), Dive and Torpedo bombers
Size 4: Level Bombers
Size 5: B-17s
Size 7: B-29s

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

I'm struggling to isolate what positive effect a good air group leader admin rating might provide, if it's not airframe availability.

That's the marvelous thing about this game.

After 13 years, back to the drawing board

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ORIGINAL: KenchiSulla

Tolsdorff, why don't you take that to one of the dedicated threads and let's keep this one on topic.

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ORIGINAL: Trugrit

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Excellent post TG.

Only one query: What of the group leader admin rating? Does it have any effect?

I rather thought it gave a positive DRM on repairs/maintenance rolls.

Edit: if it's over 50, that is.

As far as I know it does not.
But I could be wrong. Seems there is something about this that I remember.
I'll look back through my notes and come back if I see something.

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Or How do you keep a B-29 flying.

Any ideas on how to keep B-29s flying? They seem to take forever to repair or maintain.

I am keeping them at Level 9 fields {Formosa}. I have above the minimum air support. Does having more than the required air support help? I know that HQ can increase the chances of flying, but does that increase the repair times? Does the HQ attachment of the squadron help with this at all?

I've never gotten this far before. The B-29 seems like an early 80s Jaguar....if you want to drive one every day, you have to own three of them!

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Trugrit

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Excellent post TG.

Only one query: What of the group leader admin rating? Does it have any effect?

I rather thought it gave a positive DRM on repairs/maintenance rolls.

Edit: if it's over 50, that is.

As far as I know it does not.
But I could be wrong. Seems there is something about this that I remember.
I'll look back through my notes and come back if I see something.

My understanding is that Admin skill factors into training gains, and might help a bit with recovery of pilot fatigue.

The problem with ignoring plane fatigue (as one poster said he does) is that ops losses begin to get higher with higher plane fatigue. That could be from additional damage pushing the aircraft into the loss column rather than damaged, or just a greater random chance of loss on the mission because of failed systems (like an oil seal perhaps).

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


I ignore plane fatigue on SR1 planes unless it starts getting really bad. I've seen CV groups sometimes with fatigue in the mid-100s. Why that never triggered any maintenance, I don't know.

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ORIGINAL: KenchiSulla

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


I ignore plane fatigue on SR1 planes unless it starts getting really bad. I've seen CV groups sometimes with fatigue in the mid-100s. Why that never triggered any maintenance, I don't know.

I've always suspected that carrier groups are treated slightly differently but that is based on feeling, not data. For sure, if you stand them down then they will go in maintenance but I've never tried standing down groups while @ sea. Doing that gives me the shivers....