Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Yes, when I'm playing with the full AI Air Assist, I typically do the following:

1. Look at my AOGs and decide if I'm happy with the ground HQs they are set to follow. If playing as the Axis, this can be as simply as (for example) setting Luftflotte 1 to follow Army Group North, Luftflotte 2 to follow Army Group Center, etc. Or you can get a bit further down and assign your Fliegerkorps to your Panzer Groups and your various Kolufts to the Armies you want them to Recon for, etc. It's up to you but doesn't take long and doesn't tend to need changing often.

2. Look at my AOGs and decide if I'm happy with their Stances and Mission settings. It's hard to go wrong with Flexible, but sometimes an AOG is ground down and you want to set it to Rest. Sometimes you want to limit flying to the day or stand down entirely during terrible weather (thought the AI usually handles that well without needing to fully stand down).

3. Decide if I need to do Naval Interdiction on any ports, in which case I pick one or two AOGs (usually the Flieger Fuehrer Ostsee and another bomber AOG) and assign them to Naval Ops targeting the port I want to cut off from supply instead of having them follow a ground HQ.

That pretty much takes care of it and once you get the hang of it, with the full AI Air Assist it often takes less than a minute per turn.

Regards,

- Erik