MishaTX -> RE: Manually running the Axis first turn Ground Attack on the VVS for 1941 (12/24/2021 4:41:00 AM)
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First of all, let me give you a million +1s for putting the time into this. It has made my life so much easier when it comes to setting up the Turn 1 Axis air offensive without losing my mind over making individual directives for every single Soviet air base, which is what I used to do! Quibbles? Of course I have some, I'm an "expert", after all [;)] (not even slightly). I thought the altitude setting of 5000 ft for the ground attacks was odd since I seem to recall that there's something about dive bombers not really being as efficient below 9000, and you do have a lot of those at hand on Turn 1. I may misremember or it may no longer be the case, but when I changed that (after an initial few test runs where I went by the numbers on your setup), my losses inflicted did seem to go up by several hundred dead Soviet planes. On the other hand, the "Kiev Run", which I thought initially to be completely insane, actually turns out to be well worth it in my opinion. Sure, I lose about 30 or so planes there but, since they're level bombers which, in my opinion, don't matter that much for the rest of the game as this, unlike WitW, is not an Air War game, I really don't care that much. They took out quite a few reds in return. And the sequence in the South with the Romanians going for Ochakov first instead of Odessa first actually works much better than my idea, which was to attack Odessa first. Good call! (I ran quite a few tests). Finally, your setup in the text includes two different attacks on the Brody airfield, but the summary screenshot shows that it's not there, instead there is an attack on Izyaslavl. The text setup is, in my opinion, superior since Brody is well worth an extra sweep with their fighters, and Izyaslavl is pretty much irrelevant since the planes there are bombers which will get cut to ribbons subsequently if they try to get past the LW anyway, I just thought it might help if you adjusted the screenshot for the sakes of easily confused clowns like me [:D] Summary: As a result of all of your work with a few modifications as mentioned above now results in 3500 to 3900 Soviet losses in exchange for 150-200 Axis, 75% of which are level bombers which I don't care much about after turn 1 anyways, so, in conclusion, thanks again a million times! [&o]
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