Luftwaffe replacements/upgrades

[stevehall1963]

Hi

Propably the first of many questions so please forgive me if they are sometimes bordering on "silly"

1. When an LW Unit has many damaged planes Max 40 Ready =19 Damaged = 21. If there are planes in the Pool is it better to send the unit back to the national Reserve to swap out the damaged or not ?

2. If a plane has an upgrade path e.g He111H-4 to HE111H-6 and there is a number of HE111H-6 in the pool is it better to manually swap the H-4 to H-6 or let it happen via the swap out logic.

Thanks in advance
Steve.

[Gabriel B.]

THe unit is perfectly able to repair the damaged aircraft as long as you do not oveload the airbase .

Manual swap, but it better to refrain from presing aircraft straight from the asembly line into combat.
In the first 5 months reliabilty is poored than shown .

H4-to H6 case , the improvement is minimal and the aircraft is still worse than the old JU-88A.

[stevehall1963]

thanks makes complete sense. will have to do some more reading of the manual again !!

[SigUp]

ORIGINAL: Gabriel B.

H4-to H6 case , the improvement is minimal and the aircraft is still worse than the old JU-88A.

Indeed, in 1941-42 the only German level bomber which can keep up with the Ju-88 is the Do-217 E2 and you just don't get enough of those. The production amount of Ju-88s is enough to switch nearly the entire bomber force to it down the road.

[swkuh]

Ju-88's, right. Quickly you can be 100% the better spec'd piece, as you can for several others. Guess WitE gives, Germans at least, a lot of premium replacement pieces. Do-217, Me-262, Ju-88D1, etc., different stories. Not sure any attention here makes a difference, though.

[Tuhhodge]

In all seriousness, when one bears in mind the scale of the game, does the qualitative difference of the JU-88 over the HE111 matter? Let alone the improvement offered by an H6 over an H4?

[SigUp]

Actually it does in 1941, unless my impression is all wrong. If you utilize interdiction the Ju-88 suffers fewer losses due to the higher speed. It is only marginally slower (about 3 MPH) compared to the I-series of Soviet fighters which make up the bulk of the planes in the early going.

[Gabriel B.]

ORIGINAL: SigUp

ORIGINAL: Gabriel B.

H4-to H6 case , the improvement is minimal and the aircraft is still worse than the old JU-88A.

Indeed, in 1941-42 the only German level bomber which can keep up with the Ju-88 is the Do-217 E2 and you just don't get enough of those. The production amount of Ju-88s is enough to switch nearly the entire bomber force to it down the road.

Heavy maintenance beast , full strength bomber group takes up 177 suport squads compared with 130 for JU-88.
the total number of bomber aircraft a airbase can support is 76 for the he-111 and Ju-88, since for most of
1941 your bomber groups are understrenght ,that is not a isuee in 1941 , but becomes one in 1942.