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I had actually looked at the 1941 GC scenario and yes, it seemed to be OK. Hence my careful wording in my first post that this might not be an issue. But I had not had the chance to look at every scenario. Nor is there, on a first reading of the Editor manual, any mention ...

<r> It <U><s>[u]</s>may<e>[/u]</e></U> be that it does not matter (ie because individual scenario setups may get it right) but the allocation of aircraft types to specific air groups within the Generic Data seems hopelessly confused. Those units that have an aircraft type allocated to them - by no ...

<t> The 8/60 Type 98 supposedly had a short barrel life of only around 600 rounds, compared to twice/thrice that for the 40 calibre models (and indeed the 127/40). That may have been a factor against it seeing wider service - a piddling number only were made after all. Maybe there were other issues ...

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Maybe the runway wasn't large enough to handle the larger aircraft.
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Since they ended up on Canton Is a couple of days later, that can't be the ...

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The Brits WERE bombing from "masthead height" from the beginning of the Pacific war, but they hadn't developed the "skip" technique, i AFAIK they didn't have special bombs... their results weren't nearly as good as the later "skip ...

<t> Boozer is indeed a radar warning receiver.<br/>
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Harley, as the code god, will correct me if I get this wrong. But the reason you are seeing an apparent discrepancy between the aircraft database and the squadron details is because some items - such as Schrage Musik, radars and ECM kit ...

<t> With regards to the weather - look out especially for very low altitude cloud. There may only be 10-20% coverage, but if it is down at, say, 600 feet or less and over your homebase... fog is, as it was in real life, a killer.<br/>
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Sadly there is no way for us to incorporate in the game ...

<t> To be more precise - the altitude may be over or under, although I personally tend to find, when playing test head-to-head games vs myself, a tendency to under report. Bottom line is - usually wrong, whatever!<br/>
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Going high, as a defender, has its risks, especially vs small raids - you ...

<t> In the early stages of a 43 campaign, you can do worse than follow real-life German practice and be wary of being drawn into big fights with 8AF escorts over France and the Low Countries. If your opponent or the AI is silly enough to go deep, leaving the P-47s and Spitfires behind, then hit him ...

<r> Regarding loitering/goal-hanging with NIs, as Harley says! I have just written an explanation <LINK link="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2254590"><s>[link=http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2254590]</s>on another thread here<e>[/link]</e></LINK>...<br/>
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Hope it is of ...

<t> The single deadliest use for an Intruder is to send single-aircraft missions to known NJ bases to "goal-hang". Eg, at start of game, bases like Leeuwarden, Twente, St Trond and Venlo, where you will find the four gruppen of NJG1. Say your Bomber Command Main Force is all heading off at 1900 to ...

<t> IIRC they are in the game as generic armament factories (eg the one in Belgium) - so yes, abstracted representation of softskin motor transport. Fords were even more ubiquitous on both sides than many people realise - the Soviet GAZ trucks were based on Ford components, for example. The ...

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For what it is worth, I wrote a short guide to early game escort tactics in The War Room section (top of the page when you enter this forum). <LINK link="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2251944"><s>[link=http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2251944]</s>Can be ...

<t> This is, perhaps, pretty much a statement of the obvious. But it might be of help to newcomers, so here is a short description of how I would layer the escorts for an 8th AF raid in the first couple of months of the game. Thereafter, you start getting large numbers of escort fighters, so are ...

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So this is a "War in the Pacific" in the air version ? Same level of Depth and Details ?
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Yes, pretty much.
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TechSgt<br/>
On second thought... Is there anything easy? [;)]
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I find losing aircraft quite easy... [8|]<br/>
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Good points on all the others - I intend to try to start a couple this weekend when I have a bit more time for sensible ...

<t> As far as the 110G-4/M1 is concerned, the fact it appears in the aircraft listings is a bit of a quirk of the game engine. As you say, it is an add-on Rustsatz kit, and that is exactly how the game handles it - any G-4 unit can be converted to and from M1 simply by clicking on "add extra cannon ...

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What I have done is start a new thread in The War Room, with a cut and paste of all the good comments here - I will edit the top post regularly as people come up with anything else, so that hopefully one long but single first post in the thread will save people ploughing ...

<r> Culled together from a thread in the general area: I will try to edit into this top post cut and pastes from various people, to save having to trawl through longer threads. Some may appear contradictory - eg TechSgt and I differ on the utility of the Mosquito pathfinders. Take your pick - we are ...

<r> The learning curve is a lot lower than something like WitP. This is because it is a very detailed representation of one aspect of the war (the European air war) rather than all aspects of a theatre. For example, you are never going to have a unit starve to death because you forgot to send a ...