Dinglir
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With regards to air strategy:
What you need to do strategically is keeping the Luftwaffe as a fighting force that can support your attacks. If I remember your current situation correctly, you have suffered some heavy losses in the air, while the Soviets have built a rather huge airforce. The Soviets also vastly outproduce you at this point. Consequently, you can not afford to get involved in a war of attrition against the Soviets. The good news are that you don't have to, as you'll be doing the attacking for a while to come.
I would advice the following:
1) All airforces are set to a Group Range of 30 at the end of your turn. This will mean they will fly to protect their own airfields but nothing else. You need to make sure you do not have airfields with bombers stacked alone. You can place the airfields adjacent and set range to 60.
2) German aircraft has a decent range, so I would place the airfields some distance from the front (say 8-12 hexes), and preferably in cities or forest. Use staging bases out in front to get the fighters flying against their target. Remember to move the staging bases around to limit your aircraft from Soviet AA fire. Level bomber airfields can go even further back than this.
3) Stop any attempts to attack Soviet airfields. The Soviets have a vast number of arcraft and can easily sustain losses. If you get it wrong, you'll lose aircraft you can ill afford to lose.
4) Use your strategic recon to find out if and where the Soviets are flying interception. If they are flying heavy interception, use those strategic recon to tire the Soviets by flying a lot of recon missions against targets that will see the Soviets fly a good distance.
5) Decide if you wish to tire out the Soviet fighters further with ground bombing attacks drawing long range Soviet responses. If you do, use Ju-88's for this, possibly with a screen of fighters. Be careful not to fatigue your own fighters any more than they will be back at fatigue 5 or so come next turn. Beware that you need to keep fighters available for ground support later on in the turn.
6) For pre attack ground bombing preparations, use your He-111's. Assist them with fighters you do not need for ground support.
7) For ground attacks, consider doing a few non-critical attacks first with nothing but fighter coverage in order to tire out the Soviet fighters. I would use relatively small groups of aircraft for this (one Gruppe or so pr attack). Be carefull not to fly 120 fighters as cover in a mission that will see no Soviets flying. The purpose of all this is to tire the Soviet fighters, not to shoot them down.
8) For your critical ground attacks, you need to keep those soviets away from your own dive bombers. It seems the Soviets are keen on using large numbers of fighters and few bombers during your turn, so you may not need to pay much attention to their bombers. Again, you aim is not to shoot down Soviets but to keep your bombers safe for minimal fighter losses of your own.
9) With airfields in the rear protected by your fighters, send most AA units forward to the Corps that will be hit by the Soviet Bombers during the Soviet turn.
10) ALWAYS manually select each unit to fly in any mission (except possibly recon, where I usually just enable the type I wish to fly and disable the other).
11) Be VERY carefull to maintain the integrity of your airforce. It will bleed away, but you need to delay that for as long as possible, while also getting some use of it while you have it.
Adjust all of the above as you go along, making sure to adapt to HardLuck's strategy.
I'll be rooting for you. I believe it is time HardLuck takes a loss....
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