accessing planes from the pool

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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kewdo
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accessing planes from the pool

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Hi, Playing Soviet I have thousands of planes in my production pool, hardly any in my national reserve. Many of my air bases have no planes. how do I access the planes in my pool to fill out my air bases. I have plenty of manpower. After 3 turns of mud with no air combat one unit of MIG 3s turned up in my reserve. Is it just that I am short of pilots? Any suggestions appreciated[:)]
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you need to build air units (Fighter, bomber, etc) which then draw planes and pilots from pool
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Thanks for your reply. building new units is really what I am asking. the only way I know how to do it is through the national reserve but I don't have any planes in there. I have thousands in the production pool. The units I have are being replenished but I need more. I'm sure the answer will be simple but I can't see it.[&:]
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air units are built the same way as land units, see manual how those are built
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See secion 18.1.6 unofficial manual
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Thanks Chris and Denniss Red Air force all ready for the '42 Spring Offensive [:)]
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just give them some time to train or your new machines commandeered by very green pilots will be cannon fodder.
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Will do. Something that puzzles me is that when I use shift B I'm not offered any fighters. Fighter bombers but no dedicated fighters. I have ,for example, 1300 Mig 3s in my pool.
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MiG-3 may already be outdated and/or you have more of other F/FB types in pool
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I have a lot of FBs so I'm assuming I have to use them all up or until they go obsolete. Thanks for your reply
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