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ORIGINAL: Dive Bomber1

Also, has anyone figured out a good use for Sonias in the Game?

Thanks -

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Well with high exp they are good as port defense ASW planes ... their short legs are their main detriment to other missions ... but train em up to 80 on ground support in China .. then place them on Naval Search at your important ports and if a sub shows up switch them to ASW and you'll get some hits!

IRL they were useful mostly for reasons that aren't represented in the game.

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

The mechanics of the game make ground attack aircraft of much more limited usefulness than in the real world. The Hurricane Mk IId, IV, and the Sturmovik were excellent anti tank planes and good general ground attack platforms, but they don't work that way in the game. Army cooperation planes were usually based on improvised airfields just behind the front lines where their short range was not a detriment. In the game, the mechanics of bases doesn't make that possible.

Attacks on troops don't have the effects they did in the real world either. By 1944, the Allies were using fighter bombers and even planes like B-25s and A-20s coordinated with ground troops to eliminate fortifications and artillery. When napalm came into use, it was extremely effective against tunnels and bunkers. Fire is the most effective way of taking out those types of fortifications.

Early in the war, small attack planes like the Sonia had a major demoralizing effect on troops. Especially in China. By mid-war the demoralizing effects of these aircraft diminished quite a bit.

Bill

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

The mechanics of the game make ground attack aircraft of much more limited usefulness than in the real world. The Hurricane Mk IId, IV, and the Sturmovik were excellent anti tank planes and good general ground attack platforms, but they don't work that way in the game.