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loki100 -> RE: Organizing the Soviet Air Forces (4/14/2021 8:16:33 AM)
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re disbanding.
the reinforcement/arrival schedule is set out in the reinforcement chart - both for AG and AOG. Basically you stop getting AG from mid-43.
the pattern over the war is complex, not helped by the air groups resizing from 60-20-30-40 depending on unit type (see 16.4.8). Also up to mid-43 you tend to have plane shortages compared to your AG capacity, by the end of the war you can easily have too many planes for what you can use up.
But, in turn, you can't deploy that much to the map due to air base capacity and supply problems.
On the other hand from 42-44 you need a large reserve as you are constantly rotating air groups that run to low exp - as the Soviets once this happens get them off the map, they will never gain experience in combat as they die too fast - so you need to be able to replace.
on this subject, don't disband low exp just arrived air groups. See the note at the base of 16.7.1 - these are then treated as trained (even if they have exp of 30) as they come out of an air group and will be allocated to your TPI formations (thus lowering the exp of the very units you are trying to nurse to above average exp).
In my beta AAR, I disbanded too much (I think), should have made more use of the restricted status to hold the air group as a shell but equally come the late war there was no way could I make use of everything I had left.
What I would repeat is to keep the U2 formations till mid-43, let them gain morale and experience by a mix of niggly attacks and the reserve, then get rid of most/all - that will give you a very useful dump of trained tac bomber pilots at the time when the Sturmoviks come into their own (but also take horrendous losses).
You can safely get rid of recon groups as you end up with no more than 2-3 such formations for each of your main fronts.
I can give you saves from my beta test if that would help you to look at some of these issues for yourself
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