Quick Questions Thread

[dudefan]

February 42 and my luftflotte 2 is gone! I pulled all planes to Reserve during blizzard and now the whole Luftflotte 2 AOG gone also. ..Can i bring it back?

[Bamilus]

ORIGINAL: dudefan

February 42 and my luftflotte 2 is gone! I pulled all planes to Reserve during blizzard and now the whole Luftflotte 2 AOG gone also. ..Can i bring it back?

Nope. It's a scheduled withdrawal. I think if you have enhanced player TB control you can get some of it back but I don't play with that setting.

[dudefan]

So i can plan directives only with luftflotte 1+4?

[Bamilus]

ORIGINAL: dudefan

So i can plan directives only with luftflotte 1+4?

Yes, welcome to 1942 life as Germany on the East Front. It sucks, but you have to learn to focus your air power on one sector. Germans used almost all their eastern front airpower just for Case Blue in mid 1942, which is the AGS front.

[dudefan]

Thx

[MechFO]

You get Luftwaffen Kdo East in early 42. That's a Luftflotte in all but name.

[James80]

I played the scenario RtL a few times. Now I switched over to operation typhoon. Since turn 4 a lot of my units have a cv <3. The ToE seems okayish. But - oh boy - it is raining hefty. And there is heavy mud everywhere. Is this the reason for the bad CV? Is this taken into acoount?

[Bamilus]

ORIGINAL: James80

I played the scenario RtL a few times. Now I switched over to operation typhoon. Since turn 4 a lot of my units have a cv <3. The ToE seems okayish. But - oh boy - it is raining hefty. And there is heavy mud everywhere. Is this the reason for the bad CV? Is this taken into acoount?

Yea there's a steep penalty for CV for heavy mud, further modified by road level. Page 482 in manual has table. On good roads it's 50% penalty, on average it's 75%, on poor it's 87.5%. Very hard to do any attacking in heavy mud, but usually you can find some light mud hexes in between. Note these penalties are calculated based on ATTACKING hex, not defending.

[James80]

Thanks, Bamilus. The soviet Winter has hit me hard!

[squatter]

Just wondering how much Soviet players tend to use 'merge' units function in the summer of 41?

Is it a rare event, or something you look to do whenever you can to build stronger units?

[M60A3TTS]

ORIGINAL: squatter

Just wondering how much Soviet players tend to use 'merge' units function in the summer of 41?

Is it a rare event, or something you look to do whenever you can to build stronger units?

The thing to note there is that the AP cost of Soviet divisions goes from 8 to 2 at the end of 1941. So if you think you can wait until then to replace the ones you lost, it can be a valid tactic.

[Gam3r]

ORIGINAL: Bronze

This then brings us to a bug or a manual misprint: (pg. 473) "If this (Mis Pct and Esc Pct) is set at 100% it will pick the
number it thinks it needs and if these are lacking then that mission WILL NOT take place."

With both Mis Pct and Esc Pct set at 100%, the first ground support missions will fly with escorts. Later into the turn ground attacks in the same area (in this case my drive on Leningrad) will result in 90 to 100% A2A losses for my unescorted bombers. The escorts are lacking but the mission WILL take place.

Perhaps game count partial escorts as escorts, thus sending unescorted bombers.

[dudefan]

Does for air transport only the freight in the starting base matter, or does it count in all the supply from depots close by?

[rob89]

What is the meaning, use and effect of the 'Formation Role' in the (HQ)Unit Display?

Couldn't find it in the manual...

thanks in advance

regards

[First_Contact_Gamer]

ORIGINAL: rob89

What is the meaning, use and effect of the 'Formation Role' in the (HQ)Unit Display?

Couldn't find it in the manual...

thanks in advance

regards

I am not sure I am familiar or have seen this - could you perhaps post a screenshot of where you see it?

And to clarify you do not mean "Formation Type"? For example with Formation Type you may have "Front","Army","Construction",etc. Or you may be seeing the types of HQ capacities that are covered in 21.11.3?

Thanks!

[rob89]

ORIGINAL: First_Contact_Gamer

I am not sure I am familiar or have seen this - could you perhaps post a screenshot of where you see it?

And to clarify you do not mean "Formation Type"? For example with Formation Type you may have "Front","Army","Construction",etc. Or you may be seeing the types of HQ capacities that are covered in 21.11.3?

Thanks!

No, it's not the Formation Type.

If you click on a HQ counter on the map, opening its Unit's display, up in the header, you can see, among others, 'Formation Role', that can assume : 0=none, 1= security, 2=defend, 3=attack

regards

[squatter]

If I set - for example - my Northwest Front HQ to supply priority 4, does that priority

a) only apply to this HQ and any units directly attached to it?

or

b) apply to all HQs and units below this HQ in the command chain?

[FriedrichII]

After transfer to a new airbase all my damaged aircrafts are lost.
Also in the order of battle these damaged aircrafts are missing. Where are they?

[Bamilus]

ORIGINAL: squatter

If I set - for example - my Northwest Front HQ to supply priority 4, does that priority

a) only apply to this HQ and any units directly attached to it?

or

b) apply to all HQs and units below this HQ in the command chain?

Answer is B page 313

[angelsdodgers]

Hi all,

Is there a way to see what units are unfrozen each turn? When I use the "I" key I only see the reinforcements and transfers; not the units that became unfrozen.

Thanks for the help.