Aurorus
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe Here is one way I am trying to use my airforce. These Oscars are hanging out at Shwebo, and set to strafe naval targets to a range of 6 which puts the coastline of Burma within range from Akyab to Chittacong. Also in the airbase, is a Sentai of A6M5cs on escort at 1000 feet. Now, they will scream into their raid at 4-6K, fight with the CAP, but hopefully the Oscars can make their runs -- look at their bombing accuracy! Shwebo hasn't been reconned in ages by the Allies, and as soon as it is these guys will fly out to safety, but I am hoping to get a good lick in low, after having dive bombed the last group from 10K. If you want the Oscars to attack small ships, PT boats, small groups of AKs, etc.. You are best off creating a "pilot- commander" for the group or a assigning it a pilot commander. An air-group assigned to naval attack must decide to launch on a target. This seems to be function of the aggressiveness of the commander (and the task-force commander if part of a CV task-force). Then the group must pass up to 4 separate leadership checks to determine how many planes actually launch- anywhere from 0% to 100%. Your current commander is a typical mid-tier Japanese Army aviation commander- 52 leadership, 59 inspiration, 63 air, 63 aggressiveness. A typical pilot promoted to an officer from the Japanese army will have a leadership of 71-75, inspiration of 65-75, and (if from a fighter squadron) an aggressiveness of about 40-50, and an air of 35-40. You suffer on the air and seem to suffer a little in swirling dogfights with these promoted pilots as commanders. But bomber groups, especially those attacking small naval task forces or those scheduled to attack targets with low recon values, seem to launch with much higher frequency and in greater numbers with pilot-promoted commanders. To promote a pilot, simply select an air group that has a pilot commander and then its commander on the pilots screen. Click on the far right column, setting "retain pilot" to "off" for the commander. Then send him to the reserve pool. If there is no other pilot of officer rank sufficient to assume command, the program will automatically promote a junior officer to commander rank and give him a random set of ratings, roughly in the parameters that I have listed above. I have found this somewhat helpful in getting squadrons to launch in situations where they seem unwilling or unable to launch otherwise.
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