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My opponent and I just noticed that pilots in TRACOM are getting wounded (thus lowering experience). It's not just a couple, but 10 or more, even a third of the pilots there! At this rate all our elite pilots will all be downgraded. Is this intended, usual, normal? Neither of us have seen this before in years of playing.
We're playing scen 1, new beta, and are in Jan 43,

Thanks
Bob

It is something in the new beta.

Consider yourself fortunate if they just get wounded. They sometimes get killed as well. TRACOM isn't the safe rear-area billet it used to be.

Not sure, but I think it's a concept borrowed from War in the East/West where veteran pilots get hurt or killed in training reserve while instructing student pilots or testing new aircraft.

IRL, a lot of pilots were lost in initial training. The aircraft were heavily used, mechanics not much more experienced than the pilots, and instructors could not be along for the ride after the first few flights. The quickly built training airfields had basic aids for pilot navigation and traffic control. Runways were minimal in length. And the pilots could sometimes go into the nearest town and get drunk before their training next day. Add to that the cocky attitude of young men with a lot of horsepower in their hands ...

So is this acknowledged as a bug or "feature"? Probably most unasked for addition, time to empty TRACOM and never use it again.

panzer51 wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 2:53 am So is this acknowledged as a bug or "feature"?

A feature according to the notes for a 2022 build...

Yes i have noticed this as well lost 3 training command pilots in march 1942.

Will keep a watch as the months go on but maybe attrition rate in Training command is abit high as i think at the time i only had like 50 pilots there.

At least they didn't implement losing planes as well as pilots in off-map training missions as happens in War in the East. The numbers are staggering on some turns.

Not sure who exactly wants to fuck up with a 15 year old game with these "improvements". 3 out of 13 injured knocking the experience down into lower 70s. ok, TRACOM is totally useless. i will simply give Japan 1,000,000 more oil and be done with it. Not to mention the built in Allied bias (I play H2H so yes I can tell). I think I'm done with this game.

panzer51 wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 7:54 pm Not sure who exactly wants to fuck up with a 15 year old game with these "improvements". 3 out of 13 injured knocking the experience down into lower 70s. ok, TRACOM is totally useless. i will simply give Japan 1,000,000 more oil and be done with it. Not to mention the built in Allied bias (I play H2H so yes I can tell). I think I'm done with this game.

Actually the bias is for the Japanese!

Good Japanese player can achieve win against AI by 1943 pretty easily. It is very difficult for allied player until 1944.

PBEM is different story, but even in that Japanese early war advantages are quite significant, not to mention ability to smooth and grow production and economy.