As a veteran HoI2 player and experienced HoI3 player I was really excited about HoI4 when I recently purchased it. The land combat with planning looks great (although a bit more tooltips and flexibility would come in handy), but I'm really confused about air and air-sea combat.
Started as Germany, went fairly historical, in 1939 took Poland and since I still got time before winter, went through Benelux and defeated France. Then came the "Battle of Britain" part. I built radar lvl 2 in Normandy, sent my planes over the channel and into southern Britain to bomb/air superior/intercept. The RAF was almost wiped out (lost approx 600 planes and were no longer showing anywhere to contest my air superiority, they were left with only ~20 AA installations in southern Britain), and I was left with approx. 900 CAS, 700 INT, 600 TAC, 60 NAV. Was a bit disappointed thet I can't send TAC to bomb ships. But more disappointed with their actual effect.
When bombing Britain strategically (day and night), I was losing about 6 planes/day, and after a month I read that I bombed about 20 facilities... Well, is that it?
The sadder part was bombing ships in the channel/in the ports. GB had a regular fleet stationed in the Channel, which was chatching my submarines trying to sneak through to the Atlantic with breathtaking efficiency, but when I sent all my planes to bomb them, the results were something like 4% dmg to a single ship per day. (and it also led to spamming of "naval combat" messages between a couple of my planes and some ships) The UK even staged several lame attempts of invasion - under these circumstances! There were british soldiers trying to storm my beaches being bombed by hundreds of planes...
Am I doing something wrong? Or is the bombardment really that weak? Should I really get STR and NAV to do the job, because CAS and TAC are only useful as ground support?
Started as Germany, went fairly historical, in 1939 took Poland and since I still got time before winter, went through Benelux and defeated France. Then came the "Battle of Britain" part. I built radar lvl 2 in Normandy, sent my planes over the channel and into southern Britain to bomb/air superior/intercept. The RAF was almost wiped out (lost approx 600 planes and were no longer showing anywhere to contest my air superiority, they were left with only ~20 AA installations in southern Britain), and I was left with approx. 900 CAS, 700 INT, 600 TAC, 60 NAV. Was a bit disappointed thet I can't send TAC to bomb ships. But more disappointed with their actual effect.
When bombing Britain strategically (day and night), I was losing about 6 planes/day, and after a month I read that I bombed about 20 facilities... Well, is that it?
The sadder part was bombing ships in the channel/in the ports. GB had a regular fleet stationed in the Channel, which was chatching my submarines trying to sneak through to the Atlantic with breathtaking efficiency, but when I sent all my planes to bomb them, the results were something like 4% dmg to a single ship per day. (and it also led to spamming of "naval combat" messages between a couple of my planes and some ships) The UK even staged several lame attempts of invasion - under these circumstances! There were british soldiers trying to storm my beaches being bombed by hundreds of planes...
Am I doing something wrong? Or is the bombardment really that weak? Should I really get STR and NAV to do the job, because CAS and TAC are only useful as ground support?
