My strategy was to full speed ahead into them but was sunk by torpedoes. Couldn't tell if it was ship launched or sub launched but they annihilated me, no chance.

<t> In this scenario I've created a huge sea control zone for all of my ASW planes and surface warships to patrol. When an unknown surface or underwater contact is discovered, ALL of the units assigned to that zone stop what they're doing and make a bee-line for that unknown contact, even if they're ...

<r> I'm noticing in BTR that some of my spitfires variants are carrying 2x250lb bombs. With a plane like the P47, I can choose whether to swap out drop tanks for bombs but with my spits, I can't remove the bombs at all.<br/>
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Two questions:<br/>
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Does the bomb-load hamper their ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
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Hey Sarge,<br/>
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Does deviating from the historical Luftwaffe production with the new research penalties make research a much less favourable strategy to just leaving the AI in charge of production ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge<br/>
the testers didn't want me to make the changes I wanted to add to the reseach system, so I didn't, but since players want to game the system, the way I wanted to avoid, we will make changes to make the system work the way it was suppost to<br ...

<t> I've experimented with my 109's on direct-fighter instead of bounce-fighter and I'm finding they're getting better results against P38s/P47s/Spits than they were before; they're actually getting kills! This also seems to have taken care of the 'intercept raid' wrong altitude problem as they don ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Golden Bear<br/>
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I guess we just disagree. Is it an Allied vs. Axis player thing?
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I don't think it's a agree/disagree kinda thing: you're seeing results that I simply don't get.<br/>
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I go out and shoot down 100 B17 ...

<t> I ran my own batch of test earlier today and ran them again now to verify and I'm seeing results that are consistently bloody. I've got a save made prior to the action phase as well as one from after the action phase to replay the action - IIRC, 36 - 24 bomber to fighter loses on the most recent ...

<t> I think there might be something to the front gun strength.&nbsp; I just had a golden opportunity dropped in my lap on turn 15 of my full BTR campaign to beat up the American medium bomber force when 75 B26 raided Quackenbush airfield up near Bremen.&nbsp; The escort was taken care of near ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder<br/>
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Kitridge, if you handle your patrols like that wouldnt the Bounce fighter/Bounce bomber/direct fighter/direct bomber doctrine kick in?
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Depends on who they see first. Sometimes the high escort is lagging ...

<t> Here's a question for the pros:<br/>
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How do you vector in your intercepts?&nbsp; I've used the 'intercept raid' button predominately over my BTR/BOB career to vector in patrols or scramble squadrons against specific raid groups.&nbsp; A lot of the time I find that these interceptors are ...

<t> Is there a way to stop the camera from jumping around the map?&nbsp; In BTR, I give control of Italy to the AI and keep LFT 3 and LFT Reich to myself but as raids come into Italy and start getting results, the camera keeps jumping down south to tell me all about it.&nbsp; I want to keep the ...

<t> As to the original question, I use the delay option more than layering at higher altitudes to protect my bombers. I like to put my 110's on close escort with 0 delay, have some 109's meet the formation at the english coast, again over the target, and again halfway home. These 109's tend to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: sven6345789<br/>
Question regarding the 1941 Campaign. How far into England do the Bf 109 with Droptank and the Fw 190 reach?
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Just from my personal experience, I've been strafed up at Wittering in 12 group and the 109's/Italian ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: RAM<br/>
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Well, dunno, maybe we're playing different games? <E>;)</E> <br/>
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All I know is that each time I've crossed path with a Thunderbolt, I've been in the losing side.
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I think I'm playing the same game as you ...

<t> The low level 110/109 bombing raids are killing my airfields and I've been hoping to at least make them costly by placing flak everywhere (Jerry lost 12 109 Fighter/bombers in one raid on a well flak'ed base). I guess I'll be using up all the other AA guns first in that case; 100 movement points ...

<t> I'm playing the 1941 BOB campaign as the British against the Germans and I'm noticing that when I go to the 'Move AA' option, it costs 20 movement points to place a 2lber pom pom AA unit that has a range of 4000. The next most expensive piece of AA (40mm Pom Pom) unit has a range of 5000 and ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager<br/>
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I has been three turns now in my 1943 campaign and the British have not flown a single sortie at night. No sweeps, ECM missions or bombing. <br/>
Could the AI script not have fired from day 1? I kind of hate to start over but that may ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge<br/>
can you give us some of your computer specs ?
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Vista Business 64-bit - Service Pack 1<br/>
4 GB RAM<br/>
Intel Core2Duo E8400 (3ghz)<br/>
EVGA nVidia 8800GTS 640MB - Driver version 190.38 (WHQL)<br/>
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I ...

<t> Agreed with E. The game even on highest message delay and slowest clock speed zooms by on my machine. Raids fly by and if I'm not double-clicking the start/stop button to advance the action as little as possible, I miss a bunch of action pulses. The map scrolling is on steroids too; a quick ...