BOB 1.02 1 month campaign 1940...Interesting observations

[Rusty1961]

1. Me-109/E-1s can fly all the way north to Wittering? I damaged a lot of them, yet none appear to have to ditch or crash-land. I would think a E-1 would easily be a bingo kill on the flight out due to damage. I damage these planes at Wittering and they still egress with no problem. Yes, I even ambush them just NE of England with Spits and they still outfight my spits. I get damages, but almost no kills.

2. Does the AI cheat? The AI hadn't been bothering my coastal airfields until the very day I moved 18 Hurricanes onto a coastal base. Makes me wonder.

3. The gruppe leaders of the German bombing formations usually do more damage than the follow on bombers!

I'm really curious about #1 and if that is historical. My information says no, but I'm open to other sources/opinions.

[harley]

2. Absolutely not. This was one of our major hangups with the old BTR/BOB. The AI uses a priority system to pick a field for a sweep based on multiple factors including AC, location/zone, AA, etc. It used to use the current AC on the field - so it had god knowledge. I changed it to use the reconned plane levels, and most recent recon date. So in theory if it recons on day 0, you move on night 0 and load up with flak, it could then sweep an empty airfield flak trap.

I'm not sure about #1 - I don't pretend to know the history, I just code. I'm confident my fuel model is OK, but different things affect fuel use, so we never implemented a crash on 0 fuel...

#3 isn't unusual. The leader gets the best position and no smoke. The followers have to deal with smoke, creepback, and diminishing returns...

[Erkki]

Played some 50 turns of the BoB40 campaign, only, against the AI, best the 109s seem to be able to do is some 1,2:1 air to air. In Bob41 they do considerably better, especially Bf 109 F-4 and of course the Focke-Wulf. [:'(]