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Road to Leningrad - following the boot camp and I'm not getting the numbers of damaged Russian planes on airfield
bombing. This gives the Russians Air a boost it shouldn't have.

If I am wrong please tell me.

TIA

Where can I find the Boot Camp Grubwurm?
Just some tips for Airfield bombing I found out myself.
0) The AI is not that good in bombing. It is much better to do it yourself.
1) Turn ground support off and do your ground attacks until you can't move anymore without displacing an enemy airbase. Your ground troops should not need the help, but your bomber save flown miles. More important, the enemy airforce which is not yet destroyed shows up and is easy prey for your fighters (ensure they are in range) which gain cheap experience on this way. Turn fighter intercept up, to around 150% or so (This strategy is not mine, but from Ketza).
2) The miles flown limit for airbase bombing is 1/3. So bomb airbases closer to the front first. Once the airgroup reaches 29-32%, bomb the bases far away. On this way you can reach up to 40% flown after the last mission.
3) Airgroup transfer is cheaper in miles than airbase moving. Therefore you should use the following tactic: Bomb with the forward located airgroups until they have above 33% flown. Than move the airbase to the front. After this, transfer the rear area airgroups to this base, so the way to the enemy is not that far. Air transfer will only use 1% or so.
4) Manually select the staging base (you know how to do this?). On this way you can select the closest base and save miles. The AI sometimes sends bombers from the Lvov Area to Odessa when Romanian Airbases are only a few hexes away!!!
5) Make sure you do not concentrate your airgroups too much, because the supply of a single airbase is limited. If no fuel or ammunition is left, the airgroups don't fly anymore, even though they have flown less than 33% of their miles.
6)From my experience, bombers are more juicy targets for ground bombing.
7) Reduce % required to fly to 0-5%. We want our airforce to give everything on turn 1!
8) Don't forget to reduce the TOEs of not fully used airbases. I do not yet know whether this changes something, but we don't want our men sitting around idle.
9) Get the enemy airbases to detection level 5 before attacking through recon. This increases the hit chance.

I am no pro though and I have only played Road to Minsk and the first 4 turns of Road to Dnepropetrovsk so far.
Feel free to correct me.

I know there is a download of this pdf but cant find it anymore.

This is the boot camp I was referring to although I do have the pdf version cant find link.

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