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After playing the 700 turn campaign game for 270 turns now, I feel I can comment on some of the things I've read here. It may be that the German AI uses our plots to ambush on the return paths (I hope not). Having destroyed every German radar 2/3 the way to the Rhine in my game (south of Volkel), I expected Bomber Command raids to have at least some grace of time going in. But that doesn't happen. There is only one method to keep losses acceptably low from German night fighters: create as many missions as possible. Flooding their defense with attacks from the North Sea down to as far south as Stuttgart seems to scatter their defense. I'll send a minimum of seven missions in, four of five with the heavies, with the Mossies flying in paired squadrons as diversionary raids. Lots of night intruders escorting the bombers, and many on independent sweeps, to put as much as possible on their screens. I've had night fighters chase my Black Widows! Typically losses stay well below 4% per mission, though usually one mission will take the brunt of it and suffer 6-7 % loss. Now and then I give into my desire for a thousand plane raid (usually Berlin), but the damage done isn't nearly worth the slaughter of your units and their plunging morale. Strange that the British kept that large raid system going the whole war; big, easily tracked raids. Once the Germans found the Bomber stream it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Must have been the headlines. "Thousand plane raid hits Berlin' sounds impressive. Ten one-hundred plane raids less so.