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Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:36 pm
by mmarquo
4 FW 190As take to the air to intecept 459 Soviet fighters and 122 bombers; a picture is worth a thousand words.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:07 pm
by 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.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:11 pm
by mmarquo
Maybe it was 1 to 125 in 4 separate goes... [:)]
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:25 am
by paullus99
Like the handful of Luftwaffe planes that made it into the air during D-Day.....
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:49 am
by LiquidSky
or it was none and the flak did all the damage
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:53 am
by 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
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:18 am
by Mus
All those Soviet birds but the Mig-3s are absolute crap performance.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:11 pm
by 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.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:46 pm
by ool
Better than the I-15's or I-16's I'm thinking.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:53 am
by Yoozername
ORIGINAL: Mus
All those Soviet birds but the Mig-3s are absolute crap performance.
You win this thread all-the-way BTW.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:22 am
by 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.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:07 pm
by 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.
RE: Hero FW 190as in Winter 1942
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:02 pm
by 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.