Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942

[mmarquo]

4 FW 190As take to the air to intecept 459 Soviet fighters and 122 bombers; a picture is worth a thousand words.

[jomni]

Isn't combat in the hex representative of battles that go on for the whole week instead of just one battle?
So it's not 4 vs. 600 in one go.  But it is still a noble effort.

[mmarquo]

Maybe it was 1 to 125 in 4 separate goes... [:)]

[paullus99]

Like the handful of Luftwaffe planes that made it into the air during D-Day.....

[LiquidSky]

or it was none and the flak did all the damage

[Jim D Burns]

Yeah, the allies lost close to 2500+ planes to German flak in the 3 month Normandy campaign. Flak was a real killer to low flying aircraft flying ground support missions.

Jim

[Mus]

All those Soviet birds but the Mig-3s are absolute crap performance.

[ComradeP]

I also doubt the FW 190's shot all of those planes down, especially given the weather. Soviet losses are pretty low for a strike like that in bad weather, but there might be issues with AA effectiveness currently.

[ool]

Better than the I-15's or I-16's I'm thinking.

[Yoozername]

ORIGINAL: Mus

All those Soviet birds but the Mig-3s are absolute crap performance.

You win this thread all-the-way BTW.

[BletchleyGeek]

There's a big difference between the number of planes reported to take part in a battle and the number of those which actually take part on it. I'm pretty sure many of those Soviet planes didn't even get to the battle zone or retreated before conducting their mission.

[G Felzien]

It was admirable of those lone pilots to take to the sky but I find the most efficient way to destroy Soviet aircraft is on the ground. You can open a hole in the lines and spring a brigade or two to charge into the mass of airbases covering 50 - 100 square miles! Oh and motorized brigades are fine. I found I can keep them fueled just but what is captured.

[Senno]

ORIGINAL: GFelz

It was admirable of those lone pilots to take to the sky but I find the most efficient way to destroy Soviet aircraft is on the ground. You can open a hole in the lines and spring a brigade or two to charge into the mass of airbases covering 50 - 100 square miles! Oh and motorized brigades are fine. I found I can keep them fueled just but what is captured.

Yeah, the masses of Airbases the AI accumulates are astounding.