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Crackaces -> RE: turn 48 May 14th air kia report (2/24/2019 5:35:03 PM)
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It all depends on the make up of the Soviet Air Force.
88mm good vs I’ll-4’s 37 and 20mm good vs IL-2’s.
With an environment of mostly tactical aircraft and IL-4’s conducting unit bombing my General SU assignment per HQ active in combat is 3 mixed LW for about 80 tubes and 3 LW light for another 90 light tubes. In hot areas I will assign an SP flak unit directly to a unit. Just a FYI I assigned 20mm quad flak vs cavalry units which caused quite a controversy <smile>
One thing about flak. Kills are nice but disruption is the typical “good” result that you will only see at high message levels.”XYZ unit turns away “ after facing either a fighter or flak unit is a nice result. Although you do not see this on the combat result at the very end. A derived metric is less than expected disruptions of your units. Remember air takes place before any ground combat takes places in the firepower phase. So keeping your devices from disruption while your air disrupts is decisively an advantage. It turn a held into a rout on the attack or a “sure rout” into an unexpected held on the defense,
Also remember that the SU’s move up to the next HQ during the logistics phase. This is good because hauling around SU’s is hard on trucks. It also means that army and army group commands are plumb full sometimes with SU’s. Strategically placing these units between the Soviets and their targets can add hundreds If not thousands of flak tubes. I have seen an entire Soviet bombing run destroyed by the OKH unit being nearby an airbase that was attacked.
One thing I do is use my recon to draw lines from my airbases to my targets and estimate flak. Each recon run will report flak for that mission . The next step is to do the kabuki dance with recon bases , figure out the optimum flak lanes for attack, kabuki your airbases so your flights minimize flak exposure. This along with maximizing supply, protection of forces, etc ... it is not the extra bombers shot done but minimizing turn always that I have the most concern.
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