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plane reserve questoin - 4/17/2012 8:09:23 PM   
tonedog

 

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Status: offline 		what are the pros and cons of keeping planes in reserve? should i always be keeping 10-20% of planes in a squadron in reserve?
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RE: plane reserve questoin - 4/17/2012 9:39:26 PM   
Mike Solli


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Status: offline 		I keep my frontline air units full with as many reserve planes as they will hold. When you lose planes, if you are at least full, you can keep adding reserve planes. If it drops below the full mark (which is easy to do), assuming you meet all the criteria for adding planes (supply, airfield size, etc.) you can only add 12 planes per week. In heavy combat, you can lose many more than 12 planes in a unit and then you can't replace them all quickly. You end up with air units at partial strength.

One con I can think of is that there are more planes on the airfield that aren't flying. If the airfield gets bombed, that's that many more planes that can be damaged or destroyed.

I still think it's worth it to keep the frontline planes stocked with reserve planes.

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RE: plane reserve questoin - 4/17/2012 9:48:14 PM   
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It's a pointless feature

in reality:

a "reserve" plane would be a disassembled plane

or

a plane ready to fly but with no pilots

in either case, historically they could simply transfer
a pilot in to fly (thus expanding the TO&E unit size of the unit)

or create a new TO&E with those new pilots and planes

remember at some point the IJN gave up on naming their units,
they just gave them numbers

i.e. "air group 601"

so... the player needs the ability to do the same
(to create new TO&E slots)

you really you need large empty TO&E slots
that can be filled as you want to


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RE: plane reserve questoin - 4/18/2012 1:04:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I keep my frontline air units full with as many reserve planes as they will hold. When you lose planes, if you are at least full, you can keep adding reserve planes. If it drops below the full mark (which is easy to do), assuming you meet all the criteria for adding planes (supply, airfield size, etc.) you can only add 12 planes per week. In heavy combat, you can lose many more than 12 planes in a unit and then you can't replace them all quickly. You end up with air units at partial strength.

One con I can think of is that there are more planes on the airfield that aren't flying. If the airfield gets bombed, that's that many more planes that can be damaged or destroyed.

I still think it's worth it to keep the frontline planes stocked with reserve planes.


I agree with with Mike here. Its much easier to plan ahead and have a few 'extra' planes lying around via the production system, and putting them into the units 'reserve'. Just saves time!!


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