Assigning missions to air units

[MagnusOlsson]

What is the most used strategy by you veterans for german air units? I specifically wants to know if it is beneficial to assign all units (even the FW's) to Ground Attack, or if I should keep the fighters in Escort or CAP?

/Magnus

[RickyB]

Originally posted by MagnusOlsson:
What is the most used strategy by you veterans for german air units? I specifically wants to know if it is beneficial to assign all units (even the FW's) to Ground Attack, or if I should keep the fighters in Escort or CAP?

/Magnus

Keep the fighters on CAP. This should maximize the number that defend against air attacks. It seems like it is sometimes useful to have some on Escort also, but I am not sure when right now. The cost of any ground attacks is too high to justify any bebefit from fighters. Believe it or not, fighter losses to flak are quartered (or close to that) when on escort compared to ground attack

[Patris]

I put the fighters on Escort in my turn if the bombers must accomplish a mission where there are enemy fighters, and put them in CAP just before the phase of combat (so they are not halved in defensive battles).
If I'm sure that no enemy air opposition is around (german '41...) I prefer put them in Training because some aircraft go always down for flak.
I don't use ever them in other missions because the losses are too high for the result obtained.
For the fighter-bombers I do the opposite, CAP in my missions and Escort in Combat, because their losses are too high (and kill too few enemy fighters) during my missions, while in Combat they are very efficient in killing enemy bombers (I think for their high Gun value) and besides this they are also used in Ground Attack!
(This is a feature not documented in the manual, I've discovered it by experience)

[Josans]

I make the air units assignaments like Fabio except the fighters-bombers. First I put this fighters on CAP and the others in E to encounter enemy fighters. After I put it on E despite the losses (low losses because there is a little opposition) and make (when OP allow)individual interdiction with bombers. Every time you make an attack the fighters-bombers also attacks, so if you have 5 air groups of bombers and interdict one at the time the fighters make ground attacks 5 times with the bombers . At less this show the game when you do it...