PBEM LRCAP/CAP Issue

[tiemanjw]

Endy, in my pbem game, I had a similar situition over Prome. I owned the base, but he had sizable ground forces that I wanted to bomb the crap out of. A few things that worked for me:
1) use LRCAP (or CAP if you get the AF operational) at high altitude. I managed to get good kill ratios (with P40s no less) by putting a LOT of LRCAP/CAP at altitude. When my bombers came, his LRCAP got beat badly on several occasions. Don't be afraid of 100% CAP (or even LRCAP) for a short time. Especially if the range is low.

2) those sweepers are flying from somewhere. Bomb his base (sweep too if necessary). His AC can only sweep or LRCAP or CAP the base he is flying from. In addition to all the nasty Alfred describes, if his sweepers or LRCAP fly home to a bombed out AF, the ops losses will be very high (though largely unreported).