attacking airfields day 1

[neuromancer]

This is only for the North in Road to Leningrad, but I've been not particularly fancy in the last few games and gotten good numbers.

In my last run I got 742 on the ground, for a total 774 VVS aircraft destroyed on the first turn.
Typically only lose around 30 aircraft, mostly to operational losses, a few to flak.

A total of 4 directives, 2 cover the airfields within escort range, these are Very High priority, and then the next 2 go after the fields a little further out at High priority. Anything long range that only has bombers on it I don't even bother with. Longest ranged attack is to Riga. I don't worry about the load outs and let the computer worry about it. Only 1 strike per field unless there are a lot of planes on it - so for the north the two airfields at Alytus and Orany get 3 attacks between the two of them (I tried 4, but the 4th rarely bags anything).

[wpurdom]

I can't cite the manual, but the powers that be here have said that factory evacuation is automatic upon the taking of the city - whether ahead of schedule or not.
Have no idea what the effect of damaging the factory and then taking it is. Let us know.

[loki100]

if you force an early evacuation it takes more damage but that is the only real difference