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Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/25/2014 4:37:49 PM

caliJP

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So I have 2 airbases seating in the same hex, under the same Fliegercorps.
One has 60 bombers or so (He-111 LB)
One has 130 fighters (BF109s)
None of them are set to night mission
All bombers and fighters have flown 3% or less
Air doctrine for ground attack is 75/100. % required to fly at 10%

Yet when I do a ground attack, not a single fighter joins the fight, leading to massive bomber losses. Note that the distance between airbases and attack hex is only 4 hexes.

What gives?

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/25/2014 5:03:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: caliJP

So I have 2 airbases seating in the same hex, under the same Fliegercorps.
One has 60 bombers or so (He-111 LB)
One has 130 fighters (BF109s)
None of them are set to night mission
All bombers and fighters have flown 3% or less
Air doctrine for ground attack is 75/100. % required to fly at 10%

Yet when I do a ground attack, not a single fighter joins the fight, leading to massive bomber losses. Note that the distance between airbases and attack hex is only 4 hexes.

What gives?

Are you manually selecting the airbases or just doing an auto bomb? You should be able to select which planes go on the mission by doing it manually.

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/25/2014 5:34:55 PM

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Fighters must be at 0% to fly in a ground attack. This was done as a form of limiting ground attacks way in the past (so don't ask me for reasons). However, there is no such limit when doing airbase attacks (and of course ground support).

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/25/2014 9:53:50 PM

caliJP

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OK thanx Morvael. So I think it means that if one wants to have a chance with Ground Attack, you need to set interdiction to 0, because if not, you always get a turn back from the soviet player with some small % on all or most fighters squadrons?

DV, yeah even doing manually, I don't have any fighters available to pick. Likely because of the point explained by Morvael.

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/25/2014 11:09:12 PM

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% is reset to 0 at start of turn. You must be sure you didn't move airbases, transfer air units between airbases, fight (GS causes % to go up). Basically the best option is to do it at start of turn.

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/26/2014 12:07:56 AM

caliJP

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Hmmm OK, I'll have to look into it some more then. Thanx Morvael

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RE: Axis fighters won't escort bombers - 10/26/2014 9:42:39 AM

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Also be aware that if you do recon missions first, the fighters may be flying escort for them and make them ineligible for some of the missions later.

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