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About to try the newest patch... been more than a few years since playing this...

1) If you 100% flatten a German industrial target, does it also eliminate all present AA Guns?
(or do you have to target AA separately?)

2) similar question for Airfields, are all AA and Aircraft on the ground lost if you score a 100%
hit on an airfield... (or do you have to target AA and Aircraft separately?)

3) Railyards also simulate communications networks? If you flatten enough of them, does it
slow computer Axis player reaction time vs. Allied raids?

4) How can you make Bomber Command fly daylight missions? Bomber Command frequently
flew daylight Lancaster missions after D-Day...

5) Does it seem that Allied replenishment rates are too few per day? Especially 1944-1945?

6) By 1945, the U.S. had so many B-17's and crews that they were running A and B Groups,
similar to the Fighter Groups... Has this been incorporated into the game?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can share.

Hi and welcome back!
1-2. With level bombers depends on how much flak is present and the size of the target. fighters and fighterbombers strafing airfields and troops will be best at eliminating the most flak, bit it's usually the smaller, more numerous guns. either way you will very rarely eliminate all the AA guns even with 100% damage. It is assumed that the guns are distributed in the vicinity of the target in the fields, etc.

3. Rail damage effects the ability to supply/reinforce axis troops and deliver aircraft replacements to nearby airbases and impacts production of nearby industries. It will also add to industry score.

4. Currently, you cant per se. But if you have the pools you can always change out your B17's and B24's for Lancasters and vice versa, but they will stay with the original HQ.

5. Never heard any complaint before.

6. No.

Hi simovitch

I hope you can help me out here : I have now played twice the 1944 campaign as allies - and the game both time lose me out by 24/7 1944. I think I have a reasonable score until april 1944 - but then the game locks 6 out of 8 airforces to AVALANCHE and OVERLOAD, steadily degrading my points over time. By the time the game cancels me out I am having a score of 3/4/14. Please explain what I am doing wrong here in order to pass the date and return the airforces to strategic bombing. I am running the latest official patch. all the best from Denmark.