Night fighters: Escort/Sweep missions

[Halsey]

Posted this one here so it wouldn't diisappear on the first page.[:D]

Anyone had any success flying these missions?
My nightfighters will do airfield and port attacks, but not the other two.

Anyone else?

[LoBaron]

Hm, yes now that you mentioned it I have noticed that too, at least for sweep missions. My NF squads are always healthy and sound with
about 1-2 missions per pilot and no fatigue although set to sweep enemy bases for a couple of weeks... [&:]

[dorjun driver]

As per the manual, page 158, escort is a disallowed night air op.

[Mynok]

Did you try LRCAP? I haven't, but that's what I used in Witp for NF.

[Halsey]

No escort, I can live with that.

How about sweeps?
Be nice to use my P-61's and others.

LRCAP?
Nope, want to sweep or escort night city attacks.
So that option wouldn't really help.

[Mynok]

It wouldn't? It would put your fighters over the target hex, where they have a chance (small though it may be) to engage the enemy.

[xj900uk]

It's January '42 4 me & the Japanese haev been running in moonlit bombing missions in the PI and Malaya (particularly Singapore).  I have put up the remnants of a few battered & bruised squadrons to try and stop them, so far I have shot down absoultely nothing air-to-air (flak over Singapore is either good/British or lucky as it has taken down a few IJAAF planes) and lost about half a dozen fighters in operational (ie night-time landing) accidents

[Halsey]

Ugh...

Running LRCAP at 14 hexes with the valuable P-61's won't cut it.
Two or three might fly the hex against 30-40 Japanese defenders.
Not my kind of odds.[:D]