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ORIGINAL: neuromancer

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ORIGINAL: loki100
aye, they boost fortification building if in HQs. You'll find that most infantry divisions can go from 0-1 fortification off their own construction values but if you want more (quickly) then you need SU capacity and decent supply

Ah, so forting up at the corps level, but at higher level are probably better off in a corps, or assigned someplace useful. Or will a CU work in the city/ depot/ airfield the HQ is sitting on as well?

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ORIGINAL: loki100
ok mission height is only really important for the route in/out - remember that recon works along the mission route. In region the planes adjust to the best height for their camera (or lack) automatically.

Oh ho, okay that I didn't know. I'll have to look that up.

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I tend to run 4/5 hex boxes 3 days a week - that tells me if a unit is in a hex or an airbase is being used - it doesn't tell me much more. So its a judgement with limited assets on one side of the equation and your desire for good levels of recon information on the other

So slightly smaller area. How many strikes and planes do you use?

Generally I mostly just want to know where the enemy is, I have done specific hex runs if I want detailed information. But as you say, with the limited assets, I don't want to lose a pile of them to operational losses in the first month of the war.

In another thread you talk about running too many air missions that causes the operational losses to pile up, problem is I have no idea how many is too many. 1 Plane = 1 mission per week? Per day? What?

Thanks for the replies Loki.

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ORIGINAL: dudefan

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ORIGINAL: loki100


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yes - particularly good idea with recon missions as you note. They try to avoid combat so escorts aren't that valuable

I tend to manually assign so that removes escorts from the mission, in turn they are deep enough over enemy territory to avoid pulling down auto-intercept

QOL
Should be possible to enter zero (no escorts) imo

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ORIGINAL: TheFerret

Is there a way to do it if I am using automatic assignment of mission aircraft?

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ORIGINAL: MishaTX

Quick question. I've read the manual regarding this particular issue thoroughly (at least I think so but I may have missed a mention somewhere. GREAT manual, by the way!), but what exactly are the rules regarding isolated enemy hexes behind your lines auto-flipping control if unoccupied and not adjacent to an isolated enemy unit?

I know that in the "old" game it was pretty easy to see which formerly enemy hexes behind your lines had units in them because they were the only ones that didn't flip (and a bit cheesy, in my opinion). Did this change? Do I have to send a Romanian out there to scout all of the Pripyat to clear out those hexes now? If so, fine. It's not like they're much good anyway.

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ORIGINAL: loki100

unfortunately not, there is a 'transfer' filter (usually hidden) but that seems to relate just to current manual transfer not future theatre changes

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You can assign a given AOG to support more than one
air mission. So using the example above if KG51 is now
allocated to a new mission, by default it will seek to split its
planes 50/50 between the two

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ORIGINAL: horza66

As Soviets I was seeing issues with my divisions in the SR getting enough AT guns into new and rebuilding divisions toward the end of 42. Thankfully I had a number of Fort units I could disband, and quickly had 1800 45mm At guns in the pool. However 3 (!) turns later I'm still at 1400 guns in the pool and many divisions are at ~85% or worse on their TOE because of lack of AT guns.

Weirdly I ran into much the same issue in WITE1 with artillery in the same period when I was trying to get artillery divisions in the reserve make it to 100% TOE.

Is there some routine internally where the resource allocation "reserves" a minimum number of AT or artillery, against future possible losses? I can't think of any other reason that guns in the pool are not allocated to completing TOE requirements.

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ORIGINAL: Hardradi

Big thanks to everyone answering questions.

And some more questions on Road the Leningrad scenario:

1) Playing as the Soviets, I tried to re-fill a depleted Mig-3 Polk by setting Replacements to High Priority for the individual Polk. Next turn newly built Mig’s went to another formation in Reserve or are still sitting in the Pool. How do I get them out of Production to my chosen Polk? Is this possible directly or indirectly?

2) Also I can’t seem to change to Air Group Asset Priority, it appears to be only capable of change at the Air Command Level. I can see the button but there is no interaction. Although the manual at 16.2.2 seems to indicate that you can do this.

3) In the RtL scenario is a Recon Polk called 15 MRAP-KBF. This unit cant fly recon missions on land because it is "Naval Only – YES". Also it can’t do Naval Patrol missions by itself, what do I do with this unit?

4) In the Reserves Theatre Box what does it mean in game terms when some of the units are pick/red in colour? Do they become active the next turn? (The tool tip says its restricted by game options)

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ORIGINAL: neuromancer

Loki: Thanks for the info, some things for me to look at.

I will say I don't like the default settings for the recon, it sends out scads of planes and then I suffer scads of Ops losses just because of the sheer number. In my current Road to Leningrad game (take 3, from the top, this time with *feeling*!) I seem to have found a level that works pretty well, getting a decent report on where the enemy is without losing *too* many planes )still more than I like).

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ORIGINAL: James80

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You can assign a given AOG to support more than one
air mission. So using the example above if KG51 is now
allocated to a new mission, by default it will seek to split its
planes 50/50 between the two

I can't get it to work. If I try to assing another AOG to a mission the game tells me "Reassign air group to another air directive"? What do I do wrong? I want to use my (spare) fighters for multiple air missions to escort my bombers.

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f you manually assign air groups or AOGs to a particular
Air Directive they are then not available for any other AD
in that turn

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ORIGINAL: loki100

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ORIGINAL: horza66

As Soviets I was seeing issues with my divisions in the SR getting enough AT guns into new and rebuilding divisions toward the end of 42. Thankfully I had a number of Fort units I could disband, and quickly had 1800 45mm At guns in the pool. However 3 (!) turns later I'm still at 1400 guns in the pool and many divisions are at ~85% or worse on their TOE because of lack of AT guns.

Weirdly I ran into much the same issue in WITE1 with artillery in the same period when I was trying to get artillery divisions in the reserve make it to 100% TOE.

Is there some routine internally where the resource allocation "reserves" a minimum number of AT or artillery, against future possible losses? I can't think of any other reason that guns in the pool are not allocated to completing TOE requirements.

the main issue for the Soviets is that there is a series of hard caps on production of certain items, esp AA/AT and artillery. You'll have a production problem for heavy artillery all game, AT and 75mm artillery eases in 1943.

check the pool and make sure you are looking at active (not transit), this can be a lot less.

to get the equipment into formations, the best is to have them in refit mode and on a large depot or in the reserve