Escort or lead

[Courtenay]

It is the ground support phase of the opponent's turn. He is not doing any ground support. You have a 7/2 FTR and a 6/5 FTR, and you really want to get that 7/5 FTR through as a bomber. The opponent has FTRs to intercept. I routinely fly the 7/2 FTR as an escort, but is this always right? Is it better to have the 7/2 FTR fly as a FTR, or as a bomber in front of the plane you really want to get through?

I do not know the answer. If your opponent rolls an AA or an AX in air to air combat, you want to have flown the 7/2 as a lead FTR. If your opponent rolls an AC, you want to have flown the 7/2 as an escort. Also, flying as an escort gives you one more point when you are shooting back at the enemy.

I suspect that the answer depends exactly on what FTRs the opponent has available. Does this question have an easy answer, that does not require a bunch of math to figure out?

[rkr1958]

It is the ground support phase of the opponent's turn. He is not doing any ground support. You have a 7/2 FTR and a 6/5 FTR, and you really want to get that 7/5 FTR through as a bomber. The opponent has FTRs to intercept. I routinely fly the 7/2 FTR as an escort, but is this always right? Is it better to have the 7/2 FTR fly as a FTR, or as a bomber in front of the plane you really want to get through?

I do not know the answer. If your opponent rolls an AA or an AX in air to air combat, you want to have flown the 7/2 as a lead FTR. If your opponent rolls an AC, you want to have flown the 7/2 as an escort. Also, flying as an escort gives you one more point when you are shooting back at the enemy.

I suspect that the answer depends exactly on what FTRs the opponent has available. Does this question have an easy answer, that does not require a bunch of math to figure out?

Definitely depends on the a2a of your opponent's fighter and I don't see any way to the correct answer except through math. Well, there is one ... you could run a number of monte carlo trails. I wouldn't do it through MWIF but would write a simple computer program to run 100's or even 1000's of replications.