Wellingtons stealing the show

Gary Grigsby’s War in the West 1943-45 is the most ambitious and detailed computer wargame on the Western Front of World War II ever made. Starting with the Summer 1943 invasions of Sicily and Italy and proceeding through the invasions of France and the drive into Germany, War in the West brings you all the Allied campaigns in Western Europe and the capability to re-fight the Western Front according to your plan.

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Wellingtons stealing the show

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I have some Wellington X squadrons in my (newly renamed) 15th AF and they seem to be the only ones who want to fly any missions. My B-17 and B-24 squadrons almost never fly. Their bases are in good supply, well within range of S. Italy, good morale, zero fatigue and all are set to fly (DN), but the Wellington's consistently fly all the missions. I'm currently hitting railyards in S. and Central Italy, which the forts and libs would be ideal for. Anyone else seen this?
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It is hard to guess without more info as there could be so many reasons. One could be that ADs has only Wellingtons assigned (i.e. not Auto).

In any case you can go to the AD details and see air group assignment and/or check "NO FLY INFO" if they are grayed out.
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If its the Battleground Italy scenario which turn are you on? You might have run out of B-24d's and B17F's and have to upgrade to next model
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Thanks for the replies! No, the plane selection is always set to auto (though the AD is manually created). I'm playing the grand campaign (early Nov 43) and I have plenty of Libs and Forts (guess I should, since they rarely fly!).

The thing is, they do fly a bit on most turns. I'd say, maybe on about 5-10% of the missions, the other 90-95% is all Wellingtons. Think I might set all the Wellingtons to rest on the next turn, just to see what happens. All other planes, like escorts, seem to behave quite normally in 15th AF. Odd.
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Could be it is not very distant targets which can get reached by the Wellies or not intensive enough. Game picks linearly groups attached to Air HQ command chain and stops when enough. It really depends what you are doing.
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See if you can create a manual bombing mission and try to choose which squadrons go on the mission. Choose the B17s and 24s if you can.
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Well, I think I might have figured it out. This last turn I had 15th AF hit rail lines (ground attacks) and the libs and forts were out in force. I believe it was weather causing the issues. The base with most of the Wellingtons (Hani, in North Africa) has been clear most of the time with rain at the other bases. Guess that must have been it.

Thanks for all the help and one more quick question: the rail-line ground attacks seem to get good numbers but is it fairly effective (along with hitting railyards) at isolating the battlefield? Anyone tried it extensively yet? Thanks!
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