heliodorus04 -> RE: please help the noob! (8/27/2016 12:44:58 AM)
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The manual is pretty deep. I know there is an updated version (that should be accessible via the standard game launch screen whether you have a Steam or Matrix purchased copy. I know that the last of the tinkering was with airdrop supply. You missed 'the glory days' of the German motorized divisions treating the eastern front like they were 'desert rats' going deep behind enemy lines, isolating entire Fronts. Ah, Mein Fuehrer! Sorry... When assigning missions via the Shift-click method, try selecting a specific airbase hex first. Then Shift-click on the target hex. You will find, often, that selecting different airbases enables other aircraft to join that might not otherwise. Especially where fighters are concerned, and where Air Resupply is concerned (where the Ju-52 airbase is attached to a Luftflotte far from the fighters, who are attached to Fliegerkorp near the front - FYI this is always how I organize my air resupply fleet). Also, my noob-friendly tip is that when you Shift-click for an air resupply mission, ALWAYS check whether the mission is defaulting to Supply or Fuel as its drop stuff. It can trick you. ALSO, another change in the last of the Air Resupply tinkering: IF you are flying supplies (or fuel) to a target hex that is not adjacent to a friendly air base counter (or that has such an air base in the target hex itself) will NOT receive nearly the same quantity of supplies/fuel as it will if such an airbase is present. So, keep an airbase near the panzers. Remember to move the airbase prior to the air supply mission. Another noob-friendly tip: As the German/Romanian, you have a serious luxury of more airbases than you need. As a result, you can relieve pressure on your Truck destruction rate by staging an empty airbase forward and then at the start of the next turn (because you can only transfer airbases at 0% flown) fly your aircraft forward and then you can start conducting missions from the newer base. Now the new airbase is empty (in theory) and you can move it forward over the next couple turns, possibly even by rail. I leave half the remaining airbases of the Romanian Air Farce at home.
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