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Tuk -> RE: Doctrine (1/28/2010 12:47:50 AM)
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Yep,
Set to bounce fighter doctrine.
Either sortied directly at an escort group, deliberately converted from patrol to intercept known escorts or patrol converting to intercept on own initiative. I've tried it all.
Fighters instead attack bombers from a different raid.
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I've outlined the various circimstances it occurs in previous posts. Now I'm focusing on where they occasionally intercept their intended targets.
I find so far-
1. If the escorts are a little behind their bombers, angle a patrol to catch them up from behind and that will work. Once separated from bombers you can get the escorts fine (though I had one example of interceptors attacking through escorts at same altitude to get to the bombers behind them. Shame must have deleted the screenie).
2. Get the little burgers before they rendezvous with bombers on the return trip.
3. If very lucky, I will catch a top escort layer when bouncing from on high. Speed of interceptors may play a part here, as escorts will usually try to dive below the bombers and you know what happens then.... So engage them in a dogfight before they can scoot.
4. Sometimes the escorts don't dive but duke it out instead.
5. Once escorts engage interceptors they will often lose the bombers and attack escorts back.
There are probably a few more instances I can't recall off hand but they all add up to the same thing. Fighters, whatever doctrine you give them, always choose bombers just as gentlemen, supposedly, prefer blondes.
Something else I noticed which is related. All the 1943 nightfighters are set to direct bomber doctrine. I've never noticed them attacking without a bounce though.
All this leads me to believe that doctrine is a fiction. If it is programmed somewhere, it is being over ridden by something much stronger in the code.
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