I'm trying to find the optimum place to park my bomber units so that I get the optimum coverage out of my bombers. I'm keeping this particular bomber unit ( KG-1 ) at it's maximum range because that's what the situation calls for. Other bomber units may be assigned to a particular ongoing battle and then the situation would call for the bomber to have a range that just includes the hexes contested only. And perhaps set to three-dots for more of an impact on the few targets available to that bomber. I'm in the habit of moving tired bombers to a far away coastline hex where the supply level is outstanding. But now I'm changing my policy to get each aircraft fine-tuned to the spot where it's parked. That requires me to park them where there is enough supply to fuel and arm the aircraft adequately enough to permit at least three strikes per turn, say. Two strikes per turn may be all that's needed from each aircraft unit depending on the operational tempo.
Air War Status
A glance at the air losses meter reflects the hotness of the air war just now. I'm having good luck parking a lot of fighters around a designated target so that by having a bomber strike that designated target will elicit some enemy fighters to attempt to intercept which will elicit friendly fighters to react to intercept the enemy fighters and most of them ( the enemy fighters ) get shot down a dozen at a time. Serial usage of such strkes will, by the end of the turn, result in quite a few enemy fighters buying the farm, kicking the bucket, disappearing over the western horizon for the last time. The air losses meter says that the Soviets have lost 340 aircraft so far and I haven't executed the round 1 combat phase yet so I'm pretty sure that number has been extensively inflated. I've lost only two dozen Me-109's and 1 FW-190 so far which is something I find miraculous. I would have expected the numbers to be closer to the early hundreds. Maybe I'm expecting D21 results from this scenario instead of the smaller numbers that would be expected.
