Sredni -> RE: Merging air squadrons into groups? (12/24/2010 9:10:20 AM)
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I find as allies that engine stacking is the larger part of my airfield limiter anyways. Increasing airgroup size would merely be a time saver, with a lot of the time saving being with trainee groups back in the states. I suppose increasing single engine fighter group sizes would allow you to stack a lot more pre AF 9, which could be a problem for balance reasons. I remember early war I had a lot of issues reaching the engine stacking limit in india with their smaller fighter groups until I reached level 9 AF's. It's generally only with p-38's and 4e bombers that we hit the engine limit before we hit the admin # limit. But I also generally only operated from level 9 AF's anyways. ... ahh but now that I think about it it would make basing fighters forward easier. Say you've just taken a level 3 AF, you could put 150 single engine fighters there if you didn't have the limit of # of airgroups. Whereas now we could fit 3 groups (25+25+25, or 16+16+16, or whatever) or 3+3 groups? with a decent air hq(with a radius of 3) nearby. At least I think that's how the air hq's work. 6 25 plane groups would give you 150 planes as well though, the engine limit for a level 3 AF. Or 108 if you were using marine units, or 96 if you were using british 16 plane units. Anything with 2 engines or more will generally hit the engine limit before the stacking limit. As a compromise (if necessary for balance reasons) I would be happy to see some form of trainer groups brought back, with the ability to combine trainer groups together. A toggle we could switch back and forth, and then if we switch them back to combat groups they could break back down to their normal size units. I just want this to lessen the tedium of trainee pilot management. edit: or include bombers along with the trainee groups. Bombers will hit the engine limit before the AF limit (when using hq's) so it doesn't really matter. Every time I need to rebase my bomber force (like 90% of my operational bombers are in one stack heh) I shudder because it's such a chore of clicking, so being able to combine bomber groups would be more of a tedium saver then an actual change to gameplay.
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