Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

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eeyore19682001jmn
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Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

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I'm playing Eagle Day as the Germans, and there are serious problems trying to select fighters, both as escorts and for fighter sweeps. Most of the squadrons don't get listed as available to be chosen. This is true even when the mission is clearly within their range, and even when I switch the form-up point to being directly over the airfield the planes are based at. It happens with units that have a morale in the 90s, so that can't be the issue. I end up with many days when I send less than half of my available fighter squadrons on missions because I can't select them for anything.
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simovitch
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RE: Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

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Each Luftflotte has it's own exclusive fighter arm. Get to know where these bases are, and pick some foul-weather days to move the fighters closer to the Channel coast near the popular form up locations for LF3 and LF2.

The reason is these early Bf 109's had limited range, and if it looks like they will burn up too much fuel to fly from their base to the form-up point and then perform the escort to the target, they stand down and you can't select them. That's why sometimes you will just have the longer-range 110's to choose from.
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eeyore19682001jmn
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RE: Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

Post by eeyore19682001jmn »

These are not the problems.

1) This is happening within Luftflotten. I can't assign these fighters missions to escort any bombers based anywhere, nor to fighter sweep mission.
2) It's happening with longer ranged BF-110s and with fighters based right on the Channel.
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RE: Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

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These are not the problems.

1) This is happening within Luftflotten. I can't assign these fighters missions to escort any bombers based anywhere, nor to fighter sweep mission.
2) It's happening with longer ranged BF-110s and with fighters based right on the Channel.
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RE: Problems Selecting Fighter Escorts

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So I reviewed your save and I'm sorry - There are gobs of fighters to select as escorts so I'm not sure what is happening on your end. Also, your question on using Me 110's for sweeps in BoB is answered in the rulebook (no you can't use them except as escorts).
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