Moss Orleni
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ORIGINAL: Moss Orleni To my knowledge (correct me if I' m wrong), all patrol planes are also seaplanes in game terms (not sure bout the ZPK and the Ka-1). The original question however is related to patrol planes. To put it more concretely: will a PBY unit flying patrol missions from an airbase size 0 without Air HQ (the presence of aviation suport/tenders doesn't seem to be relevant for overstacking) suffer from administrative (or physical) overstacking? If so, setting up a forward patrol/float plane base will always be hampered by the overstacking penalties. Cheers, Moss IIRC, this was the main reason for treating float-equipped planes slightly differently. Seaplanes in a coastal base hex don't count towards the physical stack (assumed floating on the surrounding water) and count as 1 administratively regardless of how many groups present (assumption is that the command/operational support is coming from outside the base e.g. AV/AVD/etc). quote:
ORIGINAL: Moss Orleni Michael, Thanks for the feedback! I'm probably a bit slow , but do I understand correctly that a seaplane-tagged float plane squadron will be administratively overstacked if no seaplane tender is available, and not overstacked if there is one available? And if one is available, is the administrative overstacking dependent on the amount of aviation support offered by that tender? Moss Since I feel this is important (due to the nature of search missions), I sort of bump this back into the Air thread , hoping to get a definitive answer... To put the question as simple as possible: consider a float plane squadron (fi PBY Catalina) operating from a level 0 airfield with no HQ available to reduce/avoid overstacking and no seaplane tender present: 1) will the unit suffer from overstacking penalties (ie fewer planes taking off on a mission, more casualties from attack, slower aircraft repair)? This is particularly important for search missions, since if less planes than planned perform a search mission, certain search arcs will not be covered. 2) if 1) is true, will the presence of a seaplane tender have any effect on the administrative/physical overstacking and is this effect related to the amount of seaplane support? 3) if 2) is true, how will the presence of a seaplane tender affect airfield overstacking on level 1-10 airfields? Thanks, Moss
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