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End of June 44, the AI sent me the nasty-gram and transferred me to the Aleutians. Not surprising as I was having trouble keeping my score above 22. But what the heck, it was my first game. A virtual training mission.

Between mandatory orders and crummy weather, good days were rare. If I went up with cloud deck < 10,000 ft, my planes got slaughter - particularly medium bombers. So I used the Jimmy Doolittle tactic after good escort fighters began showing late 43. That is raid the Luftwaffe could not ignore: 400+ bombers escorted by at least 300 fighters, often followed by a "welcome back" fighter sweep to cut down stragglers. By late January I got fairly good at daytime high altitude work. Lots of losses on both sides but the Luftwaffe generally 10-40% more planes than I did.

By tactical work resulted in excessive losses, and night bombing was a crap shoot. My tactical war was not unappreciated. The ground-pounders broke out of Anzio ten days earlier than history, D-Day came five day earlier than historical, and Cherbourg was captured on D+6. Much earlier than history.

If at first you don't succeed... I started another go at the AI.

Oddly enough, when I checked the end-of-game messages it appeared that Goering fired AI-Adolf Galland and shipped him off to Smolensk.

This is odd, what version of the game are you playing? You cannot influence the June 6th date for the Normandy invasion, it will always happen on June 6th. Only the dates of the subsequent breakouts in Normandy and the westwall can be influenced.

According to the "About" screen it is V1.00.

It was puzzling, indeed. The weather prior to D-Day was like historical - terrible. Low ceilings. I could barely get recon flights off. It wasn't as if I was wear the Germans out in Italy, either.

The quick fall of Cherbourg caught me by surprise as well. Yes, according to mandatory, I was pummeling he Normandy area, but not that much.

Well, we have done some major improvements and bug fixing since that version (from 2009) so you may want to download the new patch version 1.06.83 followed by the 1.06.83 hotfix released a few weeks ago.

One of the many bugs we fixed was the timing of the Normandy and Avalanche invasions, which were off by several days giving Allied players the impression that they were actually influencing that date which they were not since they cannot be changed.

If you need any help with downloading and installing the patch, I can help you but please post your request in the tech support forum for others to see.