ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
my point is, it is not good game play, it is gamy game play
and yes, you should have a good KD rate, the better Allied planes are not around yet
and the changes made, were not made to combat what a player could explot, it was made to correct what the AI was doing wrong, which the players also could do
hmmmm, 7-1 in losses, from what I remember, one of Swifts Allied wins, he had 1-5 for losses as the Allied, so, don't see where you are really doing so well
plus, as I said, I think your idea of good game play, would be exploted by a good player in PBEM, I already see the weak point, I am sure others have also
There's no way that the allied player could possibly exploit a good axis player accelerating something like Ta152 production. I just checked a save where I first got the 152C, date is 10/8/43 and since I already had 99 planes in the pool, I actually got it a couple of days earlier. This was done without impacting front line plane production. I build over 1800 109s (G5 and G6), 850 190s(A5 and A6), over 400 zerstoerer and 100 190Fs along the way. I even kept the Ga2 and Ga6 in production. Night fighters were switched to HE219A-2 but I don't think I switched any of those over to day fighters.
My production strategy was pretty simple, I switched over all of the research plants and minor ally plants (that weren't producing 109s) to 152C production along with a couple of other plants that I deemed worthless. My production was pretty suboptimal since I made some silly mistakes, in a 2nd game I could do better.
The main problem, I think, is the fact that research is bugged, you don't actually need engines for the planes in order to research them. I was researching about 40 152Cs a turn but my engine production couldn't support close to that since that was where I screwed up. I switched over large engine factories that are taking forever to come online. I might have averaged 15 603L engines a turn during that time which I don't think would have been enough to get me the 152 that quickly. Now that I'm building the 152, I'm building close to 60 a turn but my engine production is only 29. I'm guessing that I 'banked' all of the engines that I built while researching and now I'm drawing them out of a pool to support my production. Either that, or the 152C only take half an engine apiece. [:D]
Engine production seems to be the weak link for the axis since they're concentrated into fewer plants than airframe or parts production. A smart allied player is going to go after the engine plants.
