Question about Lost victories.

[Robban]

I have played the first mission. I don´t understand. I used the option "stuka", but I saw no one in the mission. Can anyone explain for me?


Roger

[AbsntMndedProf]

Chances are they weren't there because your request for air support to high command was turned down. You don't always get what you want, unfortunately. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Eric Maietta

[Bing]

You might be lucky, not having the Stukas. If the CAS is a little TOO "close", your friendlies can easily be bombed and strafed. Besides, the stingy high command in LV doesn't give you the really good tank-busting Stukes (maybe they are being saved for late in the campaignk I don't know).

You get the ones with the fragmentation bombs; these can do a lot of damage to troops and soft-skinned vehicls in the open, but aside from the occasional direct turret-top hit will not take out an AFV.

Slow'em down, yes. Make the AFV crew wish there was a latrine handy, sure. So they help some, but I would just as soon have a dozen or more of those recon guys toting anti-tank mines. They are gloriously successful. Almost as good as the Soviet Superhuman Hell's Angel Motorcycle Corps.

When CAS works the way intended in W@W it is a joy to watch - the rocket equipped Typhoons are my personal favorite. Otherwise, per Rommel, I wish they had given me another division.

Bing

[Robban]

Ok, I understand. Thanks for the information. It´s a great game.

[Belisarius]

Originally posted by Bing:
You might be lucky, not having the Stukas. If the CAS is a little TOO "close", your friendlies can easily be bombed and strafed. Besides, the stingy high command in LV doesn't give you the really good tank-busting Stukes (maybe they are being saved for late in the campaignk I don't know).

You get the ones with the fragmentation bombs; these can do a lot of damage to troops and soft-skinned vehicls in the open, but aside from the occasional direct turret-top hit will not take out an AFV.
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Bing

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Well, I guess in the first scenario Roger was asking about, you don't really need tank-busting Stukas... <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

[Bing]

Originally posted by Belisarius:


Well, I guess in the first scenario Roger was asking about, you don't really need tank-busting Stukas... <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

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True. He will, however, if he continues with LV. He really will want them. I promise. What I'm really saying is that thus far in LV, now doing the 5th battle, the CAS has not been anything to write home to meine Mutter about.

Bing

[FNG]

Originally posted by Bing:


What I'm really saying is that thus far in LV, now doing the 5th battle, the CAS has not been anything to write home to meine Mutter about.

Bing

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I will not hear anything bad said about the Luftwaffe after two BF-110s cooked two KV-1s on the road to Dubno

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