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I think the training of air units is still too effective. I played the sovied side and i put my air groups to training and in early '42 i had many of my air groups at 80+ experience (and slaughtering the axis airpower in weeks). This is too much i think. To think that an unit can get this high experience level without any real combat experience is quite silly.. So, I propose that gaining experience by training above 60 should be very hard and above 70 impossible. This should apply especially to fighter units, bombers however could be trained little higher (maybe 75-80?)

-Pasi

Yes, but this feature grows esp. strange by mid 1943 when German pilot replacements become nearly unteachable. In reality German military training system was hardly worse than Soviet one.

Part of the problem is that you are (I think anyway) playing the AI which is practically brain dead. When playing a human you will find yourself using those planes more often at lower experience levels. This means you will not have large numbers of highly trained pilots by mid-42 in a human vrs human game.
But making it very difficult to train over 60 for the russians would probably make a great deal of sense.

I have run a limited test on some of this, and this is what I have found so far. All nationalities seem to lose 3 experience points every time 10 planes are added to the unit. I don't know if there are further losses when damaged planes are repaired, I haven't tested for this yet.

For training, the Germans gain 3 experience points per turn up to 60, then it drops off by 1 up to 70, then it is based on chance. The Finns and the Soviets gain 2 points up to 60, then 1 to 70 and then variable. This does not seem to be based on year, unlike what I thought before testing this - the Germans maintained their experience bonus from training in 1944.

The Germans repair the highest percentage of damaged planes, then the Finns, then the Soviets. Again, this seems to hold throughout the war.

I plan on testing further as I have time, but this is what I have found so far. Definitely not like what I expected.