ORIGINAL: Darojax
What is the point of the NBAPs with the U-2VS aircraft? The game engine produce these aircraft at a heavy rate and I currently have 2 thousand of them at my disposal.
I've tried using these during nighttime, with impunity. In ground attack directives they mostly take extremely heavy losses. I've adjusted the directive to only fly during the best of weathers and only attack positions with very weak AA, but still they seem uncapable of incurring even a single man loss.
Someone please tell me if you found any use for them, in any way! :p
much the same, I actually run them at 1,000' day GA-unit attacks, they then need a couple of weeks to rebuild their morale and you can repeat. Its all low level damage in terms of disruption/fatigue.
Clearly once you need the airbases you may as well just use them as training formations, scrap when they reach a decent experience and the pilots go into the Il-2 formations.
At one stage there was an idea of a Soviet partisan box, and these could operate in that (fits as the type of damage they do is akin to that type of warfare). Problem is the theatre boxes aren't designed to be in direct opposition (even the Finnish theatres actually operate independently) but it might help. But thats a bit of a reflection as to their usage in-game, its clear the Soviets found them of use right to the end of the war.
