I am playing the bottlenecks mod and for the first time I've played up to late 1943. I have a question for the vets that have played late into the game. Is it normal that I can't get air superiority or fill my squadron's out historically for lack of planes?

With 50 something thunderbolds and 40 ...

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Thank you for the responses.

1. Force Z was out of the area returning to Capetown. It was not part of the issue.
2. I don't know what the threat tolerances were, they were AI controlled and I did not look at that when I peaked. I don't know if the AI even uses threat tolerances.
3. It was scenario ...

In in late December, and I'm Allied against the Japanese AI. The TFs that send additional troops to Malaya from Cambodia that should sail around singapore and land on the w side of the penensula instead whet east of borneo and south of Java. I found them by accident (3 TFs) in late december and ...

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I've got one game of the next to the last version of the Bottlenecks mod going and it's at 5/43. I've lost Oz (all of it) and lost via sudden death (which we ignored) and will fight on, and I would like to start another game to try to see if I've learned anything from my current thrashing.

In that ...

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Thanks for the post.

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I need suggestions/advise.

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