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heliodorus04 -> RE: 16.3.1 Limits on Conducting Air Missions implications (12/6/2014 11:50:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vandorenp
Do I understand this correctly?
If you have an air group unit with both bomber and recon units in it and the recon units fly, there after in that turn, the bombers in the air group unit may not fly the missions listed in 16.3.1?
You are not correct.
Let's start with a very important discussion of terms, because I think terminology is a bit of a barrier with this issue.
Air Base:
The air base is the counter on the map.
Air Unit:
An air unit is the body that flies missions from an Air Base.
Air units can be fighter, transport, level bomber, tactical bomber, etc.
Ground Support:
Ground support is the type of mission that occurs without any player involvement as part of ground combat. Aircraft can always fly ground support missions (this assumes Ground Support is set to On; if not, none of these missions can occur - this is important!)
Ground Attack:
Ground attack is the mission conducted by air units to attack ground units specifically outside of a ground combat.
IMPORTANT: Ground Attack missions may ONLY be flown by air units that have 0% flown for the current turn. In other words, if you've done ANY other mission this turn, you are ineligible for Ground Attack missions.
In the context of your question, Vandorenp, the reason you're not able to conduct certain missions is probably because you have more than 0% flow for those air units.
Important: If other air units on an air base have flown, it does not impact other air units on that air base. So when you fly recon, your recon air units have x% flown, but your level bombers (etc.) will still be at 0%
So your problem with those other mission types is not related to the fact that you flew recon missions from that air base. It must be another problem (like the fact that they've flown some other mission type and are no longer at 0% flown).
There are several types of air unit mission that can only be flown by air units that have 0% flown. Ground Attack is the most common one that you'll run into.
Transport missions are restricted to being flown only when you're within a certain distance of railhead. Further, while level bombers can fly transport missions, they can only do it when they are at 0% flown.
Here is where beginners often find trouble:
1) Ground support screws up your other plans
Experienced players start the turn with Ground Support turned OFF. You can turn it on later. But since any ground support mission changes you from 0% flown to 1% or more, it instantly ruins your other plans. If there's a problem with your aircraft availability, this is the first thing to learn to control.
2) Recon escort is on
This is a problem for fighter aircraft availability. Always fly recon unescorted. I've never heard anyone lose the war from losing recon aircraft. In point of fact, Germany has more recon aircraft than they can use throughout most of the war. (The Soviets do not have this luxury, especially early.)
If you fly a recon mission with escort set to ON, then those fighter aircraft are no longer available for other escort missions. They have flown more than 0%. Since fighters are few for Germany, this can become a big problem.
3) Range
Especially for Transport missions. Are you close enough to railhead? Are you close enough to the target?
Pay close attention to the ranges of aircraft that you're being offered for missions (using Shift-click) and if the range is unusually high, pay attention. Sometimes you'll inadvertently send aircraft from one army group to conduct another army group's missions. You'll use your mileage up very quickly.
4) Percent required to fly is too high.
I keep mine around 10%. This means if an air unit has 40 aircraft assigned to it, it will fly missions until fewer than 4 aircraft are serviceable for missions.
So if you're set at 50%, you have to have at least 20 aircraft serviceable to fly the mission.
One last point:
because Germany has so many recon aircraft available, there is no reason for German players to station recon aircraft on Luftwaffe Air Bases. Sometimes there's no harm in it, but especially for the hard-to-maintain aircraft (He-111s for example), pay attention to the support requirements of your air bases, and don't put so many aircraft on an air base that you can't get enough support.
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