Automatic intercept - Do you need A/S missions set for it to work?

[KenchiSulla]

I was fooling around with the air tutorial and managed to hit Magdeburg heavily damaging the industry there without being intercepted. Does this have anything to do with directives set by the German player / in this case the scenario builder who has set first turn directives? Do you need to set A/S missions as the German player to make sure raids get intercepted or is it fully automated and only depending on the route the raid selects?

[Helpless]

It should intercept automatically if you have enough resources within a range.

One thing to remember, unless assigned to any other AD air groups may fly automatic naval patrols, which eats up their miles as well. Disabling them for some air HQs can help to get more intercepts in the air. Don't remember if AI switching auto naval patrols off for some air hqs. Afaik, they all on by default.

[KenchiSulla]

Thanks for the advice, I'll look into it