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2. I check every air group for low morale and fatigue, and I rest those with low levels. I rest more groups if it's raining. This is a 10 minute exercise, at least.

If I left group selection on auto, would the AI rest low-morale/high-fatigue squadrons for me?

It sounds like I should chill out and use "auto airgroup selection" more. Is that what you do?

Do you also recommend letting the AI transfer air groups around?

ORIGINAL: zombiewarrior07

I think this sort of "here's what you do every turn" list is enormously helpful for new players, such as myself, as it gives us a series of specific steps to complete, and helps avoid the sense of being overwhelmed by the complexity of it all.

Thankyou very much for posting this, it's exactly what I was looking for.

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The one thing that bugs me is that even on message level 0 some of my night bombing strategic air directives are taking a crazy long time to execute... like 5+ minutes per mission....

ORIGINAL: Grotius

I'm curious how much time you guys spend on your turns. I'm taking 1-2 hours a turn, and I haven't even tackled the grand campaign yet -- I'm still working on "Breakout and Pursuit," which is the 12-turn scenario from Normandy to Paris. I'm wondering whether I'm micromanaging too much stuff. Here are some of the things I do; am I over-doing it?

1. I read through the Shift-E logistics summary. This alone takes five minutes.
2. I check every air group for low morale and fatigue, and I rest those with low levels. I rest more groups if it's raining. This is a 10 minute exercise, at least.
3. I check the weather, scheduled reinforcements, victory levels, casualty counts, etc.
4. I check and adjust every Air Directive. I usually adjust target hex, area, staging base, days of week flown (especially if there's a change in weather), path to target (using Shift-O to check for flak). Increasingly I also do manual selection of air groups to include. I haven't tinkered much with altitude (yet). With about a dozen Air Directives in my current scenario, this all takes me 15 minutes or more.
5. I execute Air Directives, these days using Message Level 1 to speed things up.
6. I check Shift-U for interdiction results, then Shift-T for recon results. Pretty quick.
7. I check depots, railroads, use the 8 key to check on delivery paths, check supply details of key units. I also try to remember to cycle through all 8 soft factors to check for anything way out of whack, like units without attached support units. If I get caught up in logistics, I can easily spend 20 minutes doing all this!
8. I use Shift-R to make sure I didn't miss reinforcements. Move these forward unless there's a reason to wait. 2-3 minutes.
9. At last I move units and fight. I suppose this is the bulk of the time played -- the better part of an hour. Maybe this is where I could save some time! But the "undo" function is limited, and I don't reload saved games, so I'm careful.
10. I do rail repair toward the end of the turn. 5 minutes of fussing.
11. I tend to move my HQs at the end, too, to ensure everyone is within range etc. 5 minutes.
12. Fly air-resupply missions. I increasingly use manual selection of groups. And I like to double-check to make sure the receiving airfield/unit/depot in fact shows increased levels of supply/freight. Probably too fussy with this. 5-10 minutes.
13. At last hit end turn!

Maybe I should just the Force and do everything faster? I'm sort of surprised that I'm spending so much time on turns. Not dismayed, necessarily; I love the detail. But I'm curious whether others are playing faster. What do you guys do, and how much time to you spend doing it?