# of Groups on a runway?

[Marty A]

interface is not 'user friendly' either. you do not know how close to over stack until you are over stack. same with units of ground. no idea how much room they are on a 6000 island until you have them there.

[bsq]

ORIGINAL: Marty A

interface is not 'user friendly' either. you do not know how close to over stack until you are over stack. same with units of ground. no idea how much room they are on a 6000 island until you have them there.

Air units I'd agree with, you need to stack it to over-stack it, however you know exactly how many front line and second line troops are in each unit and you know the limit on each island as it is clearly there on the base display.

[Dante Fierro]

After reading this discussion, I remain mystified regarding air stacking limits at a base.

If for example, if you have a base at 4AF level (with no HQs nearby), does that mean you can have 4 active air groups with any number of engines? Or you can only have 4 groups AND they must meet engine level limits as well?

I think the whole problem here is the semantic use of the word OR in the manual regarding air limits. Is it an Exclusive OR or an Inclusive OR?

[Itdepends]

If you exceed either limit, groups or engines, its overstacked

[Dante Fierro]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

If you exceed either limit, groups or engines, its overstacked

Thanks.

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: Nemo121 Post #13

So, Reg, you don't consider that if a group was reduced to just a single plane in a Level 1 airfield that it would occur to ANYONE to tell all of the guys NOT required to service that single plane to take up positions a bit farther away from the airfield in order to allow another airgroup + pilots + support groups into the airfield?

I'm sorry but that just beggars belief.

I only just saw this and will answer the question rather belatedly.....

The answer is "not if you want the air group to stay operational and be able to accept replacements." The logistical tail doesn't necessarily decrease in proportion to the number of aircraft supported. The facilites they occupy is a great part of their operational capability.

You can make the ground element vacate their facilities and disperse the personnel to make facilities available for another unit which is what you are doing when you DISBAND an air group. Just don't expect them to setup and be able to conduct operations if you need them tomorrow.

If you just want the air group to temporarily move over to make space, just transfer them to another base (intact).