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Djordje -> RE: 2 questions (12/2/2004 3:36:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Admiral Scott
1. Does it matter if I have fighter groups with leaders that are best suited as a bomber group leaders? They start that way, should I change them to fighter suited leaders who are more aggressive?
2. Do air units suffer higher operational losses if they fly in bad weather, including search missions with float type planes?
When its a blizzard or thunderstorm should I ground all flights and then resume them when the weather is better, or isnt this programed into the game?
1. There was a thread few months ago (can't remember who did the testing, but he did a great job) that explained a few things about fighter, bomber and third class (recon?) leaders. In short, things are little messed up here, but I'll try to explain:
- Leaders above certain value in air operations are "fighter" leaders, no matter about other stat values
- Leaders that are not "fighter" leaders and have land operations above certain value are "bomber" leaders
- Leaders that have both air operations and land operations above certain value are "fighter" leaders. This is the reason why you have so many fighter leaders, and so few bomber leaders. To be a bomber leader pilot has to be really bad as fighter leader. This also means that some of the fighter leaders are also good (and some probably even better) as bomber leaders, but there is no way you can tell which one, except by looking into the editor.
"Air operations" and "Land operations" are values that can only be seen in the editor, don't look for them in the game.
So, to answer your question now, if you have figher squadron led by a bomber leader, you are in trouble, change him ASAP. If you have bomber squadron led by a fighter leader, you really can't tell if he is good or not, so if he has good leadership and inspiration leave him be, if not replace him.
2. Bad weather is BAD. I really hate when I transfer my squadrons from one place to another and forget to look at the weather, and end up with few planes and pilots missing... Loosing good pilots just because I was lazy to look is bad [:)]
I don't bother with cancelling air mission because of the weather, if it is bad in base hex or at destionation hex they will cancel it on their own. It is much worse to have your base bombed and no CAP, so half of the planes get destroyed because your enemy was not so careful about weather and his pilots...
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