In side the magic box of the air system

[Peltonx]

I have allot of data so be great if people wait until I am done- 15 posts

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I been around a long time and can easily see a skunk when I see it, if the ratio is wildly wrong over time something is wrong. Killing the messenger never changes the data.
So knowing there is something wrong under the hood. I spent months tring to figure out WitE and have yet to spend more then a few hrs under the hood of WitW air system. I figured I would go under the hood and see whats wrong inside the black box.
I know based on the data there is something wrong with WA bombing and probably the same with the LW. I saw this data Liquadsky provided and saw this as my starting point.

[Peltonx]

2 HvH May 44 CG - on Bombing area 1 -

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3 HvH May 44 CG - on Bombing area 2 – I did not move any planes I left them as is no load out changes ect. Having said that load out matter and allot of other things and you see towards the end.

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4 I tried several game versions just to see if this was a bug or part of the basic engine. After messing with things I was able to come up with a set-up that kept planes RTF static

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5 One other weird thing is how loses are counted. This is towards one of my 5 turn tests, the 9035 truck drivers are counted under current turn loses, but not under total loses. Flipping the coin they appear to count as VP’s. I have seen this happing and knew something was not getting counted or probably being counted in another area. So basicly with the right buttons pushed WA can average 40k per turn in axis losses. This is without me spending another 2 weeks getting everything just right, because as we will see loses could be much higher for far less loses.

[Peltonx]

6 This was the best turn I was able to get, again without really tring using .01

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7 This was the best turn I was able to get, again without really tring using .12 The totals are about the same very little difference so I know whats going on is WAD be it a poor design and unhistorical. So I can now better see that something is very wrong because I can get far better ratio’s the KWG is and far more wildly odd combat ratio’s. I decide not to kill the messenger and follow the data. So as allies I can generate 200,000 loses in just 5 turns and do it unending. At this point of testing I don’t even know which buttons to push to make these loses silly.

[Peltonx]

8 Weather does matter some what I found on average it drop loses from 40,000 per turn to 30k, forts seem to matter little and the same for terrain as we will see. Here is a standard lose chart. As the data is spit out every turn I see things I love to see when I am testing, results that are not normal. So at this point seeing I am going to be playing Germany in this and future games I deside to see if I can do this with the LW.

[Peltonx]

9 The WA¡¦s had about 110,000 to 120,00 sorties per turn and Germans 12,000. So yup I am surpised the LW does so good. 10k losses from bombing and I have yet to start really digging ƒº. I tweak a few things and find that this also can be done forever as WA¡¦s ¡V so again WAD all be it unhistorical and poor.

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10 I love it when I see this 5796 on my 1st try. So still not wanting to kill the messanger I decide to follow the data.

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11 So I try other hexes.

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12 Yup even in the mountains.

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13 So at this point I really start digging and find.

[SigUp]

You were bombing an HQ. They have been extremely vulnerable going back to WitE. I could probably kill a couple thousand men in a packed HQ in WitE too.

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14 Another run. So terrain matters a little 18% about. The best I was able to do was 7000 using 800 planes and lost 250. But if I can cause 5k men, 400 guns and 150 AFV’s for less then 10 planes I do that any time.

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15 I need at least another 2 weeks as allot more can be done with this as seen below it can
be spammed also. From my info I would say WA’s could do at least 60,000 per turn and
probably far more once troops hit the beaches and

more importantly still strategically bomb Germany as so few planes are needed to cause 40-50k loses per turn.

It can also be done at night with loses being lower but higher planes lost per turn, but this is an easy
way to farm VP’s for next to nothing in loses for Germany. There is no running from this
exploit, no hiding no counter. I spent months playing around with WitE and I have just begun
messing with WitW. The game is kind of boring but seeing allot of the systems are rumored
to be used for WitE 2.0 I figured I start looking inside the black box. For the life of
me I can’t understand the general circus that goes on when I post clear things that are
wrong on these forums. This has been going on now for 3+ years and over and over I prove
I am right and the other 20+ wrong.

I choose to follow the data while the 20+ play the same old card.

I am done with this circus as I have clearly proven my point and have gotten tired of playing this game on the forums.

You have killed the messenger so now you can follow the data.

[LiquidSky]

That's why I don't disband the Luftwaffe bombers. If you use them in quieter areas of the front you can sometimes get away with only losing a few of them. Even in more heavily defended areas, I was trading half the Luftwaffe bombers for good vps.

Before the rockets got fixed I was also killing an awful lot of guns and afvs. But the dive bombers are pretty good too.

[Peltonx]

ORIGINAL: LiquidSky



That's why I don't disband the Luftwaffe bombers. If you use them in quieter areas of the front you can sometimes get away with only losing a few of them. Even in more heavily defended areas, I was trading half the Luftwaffe bombers for good vps.

Before the rockets got fixed I was also killing an awful lot of guns and afvs. But the dive bombers are pretty good too.

bad guess.

[KWG]

If you read all my posts my main argument has bee that it COULD be done, not so much what it does.


Then how does one account for:




"The Kursk salient became a storm of combat, but on 13 July Hitler, confronted with the Anglo-American invasion of Sicily, called off CITADEL. The Battle of Kursk was a significant Soviet victory, and would soon lead to pressing back the Germans all along the Eastern Front. The Shturmovik had made a major contribution to the success of Red arms. Il-2s destroyed 70 tanks of the 9th Panzer Division in a mere 20 minutes, inflicted losses of 2,000 men and 270 tanks in two hours of attack on the 3rd Panzer Division, and effectively destroyed the 17th Panzer Division in four hours of strikes, smashing 240 vehicles out of their total of almost 300. "



A 2 hour attack. Or is the above a QUOTE and not DATA?



And when one considers the Luftwaffe and what causalities it caused at the 2nd battle of Kharkov.

Stalingrad what is the data for causalities caused by Luftwaffe?

Am I correct in that not all looses are KIA and there will be troops returning?

[SigUp]

Pelton, I bet close to 100% of the four-digit losses were due to bombing a hex with an HQ. This is not a problem of the air system, it's a problem with the vulnerability of HQs that dates back to WitE. Especially Allied HQs are susceptible to gigantic losses due to how packed they are.

Just to demonstrate my point, I fired off the Bulge scenario and let the couple of German tactical bombers fire away at SHAEF, which I moved into their range earlier.

Example 1:



Example 2:



Example 3:



At that point I wondered what the maximum amount of damage was that was achievable. So I opened the Westwall scenario, again moved SHAEF into range and used the German fighters in a FB role.

Result:



This was pretty much the maximum that could be destroyed. Follow-up sorties pretty much failed to destroy any elements. Also to note, 484 planes were an overkill. I could achieve the same result with at least half of that.

So unless you post the detailed breakdown of those four-digit kills I can't see those numbers as evidence that the air system is flawed.