Big Week Statistical Summary AAR

[Nicholas Bell]

Just a quick summary of my loss as Allied player in the Big Week scenario. Just trying to get my feet week and remember what I've forgotten over the years about this game. In this scenario weather and lousy bombing makes scoring a win difficult.

Nothing out of the ordinary on day one, February 20th, 1944.

[Nicholas Bell]

Day 2 - lots of bad weather. I hit some airfields - a mistake. I should have attempted to hit something useful despite the weather. There's not enough time in the scenario to take off a day.

[Nicholas Bell]

I use heavily escorted raids with plenty of cover going in - and even more coming out to protect the stragglers. This lowers my bomber losses, but increases my fighter losses a bit. The close escorts usually absorb the brunt of the attacks. On the other hand, I don't have to deal with the hit or miss nature of sweeps - the Luftwaffe comes to me. Made one major error - I sent a group of P-47s on an under-the-radar bombing attack on Schipol A/F and they ran into a FlaK trap, losing 26 planes! Perhaps I should have done a recon first.... no more of that game for now.

[Nicholas Bell]

The slaughter of the Me-410s continues. They follow the raids back to the Allied bases ignoring the fact I have plenty of escorts on the return leg. Using plenty of High Cover Escorts on the bombers return leg is working better than attempting to coordinate sweeps to cover the returning bombers as I did years ago.

[Nicholas Bell]

Very good kill to loss ratio today.

[Nicholas Bell]

And the correct image for day 5.

[Nicholas Bell]

Bad weather totally nullifies one raid. Those higher than normal B-17 losses are because of that bug that causes raids to return to the last waypoint. My bombers were circling over Germany without escorts.

[Nicholas Bell]

Bad weather and the "return to last waypoint bug" hurts the 15th AF. This time it's the B-24s who take a beating circling over Yugoslavia.

[Nicholas Bell]

I lose. You need 24 points to win.

[Nicholas Bell]

Allied Unit Status at the end.

[Nicholas Bell]

Allied Aces. LTC Spicer had several missions with double kills and some with none. Zemke bought the farm I recall.

[Nicholas Bell]

German units at the end all badly shot about. The AI has no mercy and lets no unit rest I guess. Only a few units killed more than they lost, JG 26 being one of them.

[Nicholas Bell]

ObLt Kurt Necesany scored 4 of his 9 kills in a matter of 3 minutes during a single mission when he ran amok a raid where the escorts were heavily engaged elsewhere. (Must says his name doesn't sound German - must be some foreign volunteer..)

[jomni]

Here is Kurt's biography.
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/necesany.html

[nelmsm1]

ORIGINAL: jomni

Here is Kurt's biography.
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/necesany.html

That's a pretty nice site, hadn't seen it before.

[Nicholas Bell]

Yes, thanks Jomni for that website!