loki100 -> RE: Soviet biplanes (11/2/2015 8:50:06 AM)
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I think you'll get pretty radically different views. Some players argue that you leave the factories that produce them somewhere the Germans will capture so as to get rid of them completely. I get a lot of use out of them, but you need to use them in a suitable role. I put them on a quiet sector (where the airbase capacity is of no importance) and use them for attritional attacks in a night bomber role. The Germans don't have many night fighters so if you spread out a bit you'll mostly face no opposition. If you run an attack slowly, you'll also notice they do a lot of disruption (in addition to outright casualties). Disruption is good - that element can't fight that turn at all, and will gain fatigue when it recovers. Fits the standard Soviet tactic of them cutting the engines, flying silently over a rear area camp, drop some bombs, lob out some grenades (hopefully) restart the engine and fly away. All done in the dark, leaves massive chaos behind, few losses but no one gets any sleep. Use them on the Finns, as the Axis power with the biggest manpower constraint. Every now and then you'll get a really big hit with decent losses but the regular loss of 200 or so men a week actually hurts the Finns over the game. You'll not win the game with them, but I think its well worth building around 15-20 squadrons (apart from the admin cost to create the basic formation, they are very cheap to produce). edit - the other biplanes, make sure they are on auto upgrade. Get rid of one way or the other, manually upgrade (they should have decent morale etc if they have been sat in your reserve for some time), wait for the auto upgrade or scrap them.
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