Noob questions!!

[tsimmonds]

No, they can also escort bombers on strike missions. You set the fighters for "escort", you get three missions for the price of one:

• CAP flying in the airbase hex to the tune of the % that you set (plus bonus scramblers), and
• escorts accompanying strike aircraft within the max range that you have set to the tune of 100%-(the % that you set), and
• the occasional CAP over friendly airstrike targets 1-2 hexes distant, within the max range that you have set

Klar?

BUT! If you get greedy, and set CAP to 100%, what you end up with is a LRCAP mission, which does not escort at all, and which does not benefit the base hex at all either. 100% CAP is for distant hexes only!

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

BUT! If you get greedy, and set CAP to 100%, what you end up with is a LRCAP mission, which does not escort at all, and which does not benefit the base hex at all either. 100% CAP is for distant hexes only!

Thanks! That actually explains a few things...

[tsimmonds]

Also, if you set 100% CAP (thus setting the mission to LRCAP), and then change your mind, if you change the % to 90%, the mission will reset to "sweep", not "escort". I have done this foolish thing many times; it gives you almost no CAP. What you want to do if you set the % to 100% by mistake, is to change the mission to "escort." This will automatically reset the CAP% to 90%.

Of course, you can reset the % if you prefer. You just have to remember to reset the mission as well.

[Skipster]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant


Klar?

Crystal. Many thanx [:D]