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ORIGINAL: Klydon

Very interesting. I am surprised you are not digging in along the Molochna straight south of Z-Town as this will result in a very straight line, most of which is behind a river line. If nothing else, it makes sense as a point of delay. Same going north of D-Town. Lot of north/south rivers there to build behind and at least make him stop and set up for set piece battles.

Looks like most of his corps strength is in the south.

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

As far as airforse goes its a huge unbalance that the developers know about, but have yet to address.

The best you can do is take out 4500 or so first turn then bomb his air fields every turn, but still by July 42 the Red Airforse will get upper hand. One turn in July I lost 824 planes to his 486, 100% unhistirical, to say the least, but when the Russian player can build what he wants and the German can't those are the HUGE unbalance that will happen. In any game poeple will find game imbalances and exploit them to death, until the devs get off there butts the plane exploit will be exploited to death the same as the HQ build-up was.

So now Hoooper can use his air forse to grind down my army,because planes are so cheap to make. Alls the devs have to do is make planes cost more and exploit will end.

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ORIGINAL: delatbabel

This comes from Second Front/War in Russia. Bombing airfields was the best way to win the air war, and other than the first turn it's much more effective than history would seem to indicate. Now there were particular planes that were great at strafing airfields and causing buckets of damage, the US P-47 comes to mind, but for the most case flying level bombers over airfields is a very hit and miss affair, mostly miss.

Even then, in most of the well documented effective P-47 raids, there was a lot of airfield damage and not a lot of plane damage. The real destruction of the Luftwaffe occurred when the disabled airfields were overrun by advancing allied armour, and the planes on the ground couldn't get away due to the airfield damage and lack of fuel (fuel depots having exploded in the prior attack). The real telling blow was allied bombing of the production facilities though, the ball bearing factory at Regensburg being the most well documented case although not the single most effective one. Once the Germans couldn't produce the planes to replace their air to air losses the war was over for the Luftwaffe.

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As far as the Allied bombing goes, it really had no effect on German production or moral.

Germany's most productive months of the war were late 44. It did cause the Germans to expend resourses changing production locations and AA guns ect. So it did hope in that respect, but the bombing was a watse of resourse on our part also. So overall it probably had litte or no positive effect on the over all war effort.

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Hmmm, the fuel thing yes, but the Luftwaffe had more planes than they could use in late war. The really scarce items were trained pilots and fuel.

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

One bad thing for me going on is that when Hooper attacks me even in lvl 4 forts the loses are even, plus I lose allot more art or tanks because of retreating.

Instead of past turns where he was only winning 60% of battles hes winning 86%.

Not sure if thats normal.

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ORIGINAL: Hoooper

Now I'm feeling a bit guilty about all the airbase bombing I've been doing . I have no idea how much airfield bombing the Soviets did in the war, or how much damage it caused, but I agree with Mr Pelton that it does seem a bit over-effective in the game. And it's not like it's superb strategy - you just keep cycling air units with fewer than 50% planes ready to the national reserve and bring them back when they've been reinforced. The rest is just lots and lots of clicking. I guess there are tactics the Germans can use - bases with no planes and lots of flak attached to the HQ for example. Also, I wonder if putting the bases in cities and boosting the German flak support is any use?