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Nix77 -> RE: Ok I need basic boot camp - air war. (3/28/2021 4:59:37 PM)
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Practicing on the AGN scenario (Road to Leningrad) is a good way to start. It's faster to execute turns on smaller map and go back to previous turn to see what you can improve, but you still have the whole Luftflotte 1 to manage.
My lessons learned:
- Read the manual :D
- Continuing from the above point, I learned that Turn 1 Day 1 the Germans have a surprise bonus, so use that to your advantage. I ran bombing sorties only on D1 without any recon (didn't seem to need it)
- Read everything about altitude from the manual. At least on German T1, 6000-9000 feet seemed to be a good setting. Could be different later on (AA, opposition, air mile optimization, more experienced pilots etc.)
- Air mission priority, use that! Make escorted sorties on Very High to hit fighter airfield at first (on T1). In general, get the opposition fighters out first, then fly bombing. You can do this on RtL scenario quite easily once you figure it out, and optimally destroy 800ish Soviet airplanes with only 10-20 casualties. Not sure how Air Superiority missions fit into this later on, but on T1 AS seems useless. You can fly bombing and ground recon later on with Low priority with just a few operational casualties.
- Use drop tanks selectively if needed, don't overdo it. I separated JG53 to be my "drop tank wing" and escorted the sorties to more distant Soviet fighter airfields with them. Check which staging base suits best to your escorts range.
- You'll probably want your best pilots on the fighters, so tag "Trained Pilots" on them
- You can evade AA by editing mission pathing nodes. Use the "Show AA" map mode, tag "Follow Path" and fly through low AA gaps.
- At least on GE T1, you need only 1-2 strikes per airfield with 50kg bombs. You can actually limit the number of bombers and escorts on the strikes manually to reduce fatigue and you'll still do OK. 20-30 bombers with 10 Bf-109 escorts do short work of most airfields.
- The more Air Directives you plan, the more you can control the results. But you'll do perfectly fine with bigger area directives if you consider them carefully.
I managed to get 800 SU aircraft destroyed in Air Phase alone with only 10-20 losses for Luftwaffe on the RtL scenario, using the full 10 Air Directives. And I'm sure there's still room for improvement though!
There's still a huge bunch to learn about almost everything in the air war for me, but this is what I picked up this far :D
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