I'm playing a game as Germany and invade Poland in 1939. I'm seeing Hurricane's; Spitfires and MS 406 fighters flying out of Poland. How is this possible?
British and French air units in Poland 1939
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So an Air unit in London England redeploys to Warsaw Poland through the entire Luftwaffe. That should be reworked.
The Polands have buyed some fighters from that Nations and have if I rember history correctly some Volunteers.
Oh, it's far worse than that. You could redeploy an air unit from Belfast to Singapore while at war with every country in between, without checking to see if that model plane had the fuel for even a single leg of the trip.
I can only guess why this is the design. My current favorite guess is: the devs haven't found a fix that doesn't also prevent the AI from redeploying any air units at all.
Then again, this isn't even the third-worst problem with the air system by my estimate. The air system overall needs a rework.
Having played a game where you have to rebase manually with range restrictions, They made it this way to be convenient. It really doesn't have that big of an impact on combat.
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Sorry, but the premise of this thread disproves that, unless you want to claim British and French air power in Poland "doesn't have that big of an impact on combat".
It really doesn't. I could delete my air force and still kill Poland with ease. Unless unlimited range planes cause more problems than this singular situation, its not worth the micro hell and effort to change.
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A historical example of using long range airplanes for rebase is the BF 110 used in middle east. Every other light plane couldn't do the flight.
The entire commando was a failure, but they tried using proper equipment.
The entire commando was a failure, but they tried using proper equipment.
I'm personally fine with being able to rebase anywhere from anywhere regardless of range, but I do feel like the planes should actually be on the map and able to take damage. rather than basically teleporting.
The range issue (Sending wings to an airport in 20.000 km distance) is hard to fix and I think I'm fine with the abstraction.
Maybe it could be like this:
- Deploying planes from stockpile is only possible at airports in states where you can deploy land forces. (=core states ?)
(The mechanic is already there because you cant deploy new wings at airports of a country you sent air volunteers to.)
- Sending planes from one Airport to another takes much more time (x5 ?) to simulate using other Airports.
And then the enemy terriority issue (thread topic) could also be taking into account by calculating a further time delay based on enemy air superiority in zones the airplane crosses. (Simulation going around that somehow.)
Maybe it could be like this:
- Deploying planes from stockpile is only possible at airports in states where you can deploy land forces. (=core states ?)
(The mechanic is already there because you cant deploy new wings at airports of a country you sent air volunteers to.)
- Sending planes from one Airport to another takes much more time (x5 ?) to simulate using other Airports.
And then the enemy terriority issue (thread topic) could also be taking into account by calculating a further time delay based on enemy air superiority in zones the airplane crosses. (Simulation going around that somehow.)