Pro Tip: Air Supply

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Pro Tip: Air Supply

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If you want to do air supply, make sure to zoom out. Eligible air bases for a mission will be highlighted in Yellow.
If you simply right click a supply mission, the program often gives you the no transport aircraft available message erroneously (probably because fuel is probably even in shorter supply than supplies for the unit, so all the program may be telling you is that fuel drop missions are unavailable.

Took me a full campaign season to figure out lol...

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RE: Pro Tip: Air Supply (question)

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Actually, at first only bases that can do fuel drops are highlighted.

How do you tell the engine to highlight bases that can do supply drops?
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Also on a connected rail line..helps.
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oh yeah. keep the Ju 52 on a rail line or on a short tether. Then they are quite good. What is annoying is that I can't get the hang of putting the fighter escort bases near the front, on a direct minimum fuel requirement to tbe escorts. The engine does not seem to recognize that these escorts don't have to fly all the way back to the JU52 bases etc. Oh well, it isn't TOH_BTR but just sayin...
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oh yeah. keep the Ju 52 on a rail line or on a short tether. Then they are quite good. What is annoying is that I can't get the hang of putting the fighter escort bases near the front, on a direct minimum fuel requirement to tbe escorts. The engine does not seem to recognize that these escorts don't have to fly all the way back to the JU52 bases etc. Oh well, it isn't TOH_BTR but just sayin...

I use 2 AB's with 52's and 110's mixed in.

Generally speaking 52's see little Russian fighters the first 10 turns as Russians are running and rebuilding AF.
So 110's do just fine vs crappy Russian planes that do try to intercept, 42 is another story.
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