ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: Baelfiin
You also can score bomb points from hitting fuel/oil targets outside of Germany. The thing about going deep into Germany after the Uboats is that by the time you get there you have had a chance to be intercepted by every fighter in Germany. In my game with Pelton I got my head handed to me early and I had to make a conscious decision to NOT go after Uboats and just deal with the VP loss until September ish when the b17g's come online and I had enough p38 and p51 built up.
If the Luftwaffe is concentrated in northern Germany, try blasting the fuel and oil in Belgium and France.
If you decide to go after a uboat target, only go with 8th air force at 31k plus. Make sure you are going only once per day for however many days you bomb for that turn. And then make sure to max out requested aircraft for the raid, and put a minimum of 96 required.
BTW I don't think the VP's losses for U-boats are too harsh, good German players are not going to make it easy to go after them without losses.
Well, I havn´t been going deep into Germany. I´ve been hitting the U-boat factories around Hamburg. That means I can make 95% of the trip over the North sea minimizing losses. It also means P38 can escort all the way. My thinking was that it would minimize losses to sustainable levels. I was wrong. [:)]
I´ll try to up the altitude to 31k and see if losses drop a bit. I feel I have to keep going for the U-boats now or the losses have been in vain. I´m in too deep to back down now.
Obviously you made a different choice and I´m can´t wait to compare results. I hope you will continue to update your AAR? [:)]
I think they may be too harsh in the sense that it might force the allied player to go after the U-boats regardless of losses. Obviously I have nothing more then a gut feeling to back that up. I think your game might be a good indicator on if I´m right or not. I HOPE I´m wrong because clearly there should be other options. [:)]
If its out of p47 and spit range is what I mean by deep into Germany.
My last screenshot of bombing raid at U-boats I took the entire 8th air force to Hamburg 1 raid a day for 3 days.
300 plus p38 and p51's (for some reason only could get 144 escorts per raid)
600 plus b17 b24 (only would fly 330ish per raid)
I faced raid1 300 fighters
raid2 280
raid3 254
My losses from flak and a2a-- 44 fighters, 64 bombers, Germans 23 fighters
Bombed the U-boat factory from 27k and did 79 percent damage to 35 factories.
The next turn U-boat points went down to -1
I am actually happy that I didn't lose more planes on the first raid being outnumbered 2-1 in fighters.
Its hard for me to do really good aar with server game but I will try to put some air details into the next one vp charts etc.
One thing is for sure, my experience is that if you play Pelton, bring your a+game 8)
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