Grass Airfields in WW1

[wolf1455]

I been playing the 1914 scenario a couple of times and realized that even if I got some air I dont seams to reach the french as Germany before I capture the airfields in Belgium.
Even thou I upgrade the tac the range doesnt get great enough for any use before belgium Airbases is captured. To build airbases you need the research finnished and airbases take awhile to build too.
My sudgestion is this:
HQ will provide airbase lvl 1 as a sort of interim grassfield.
Grassfields was easy to use and the air units ground personel man it. Repair might be lower but you can always move airunits need repair to a major airfield.
Other sudgestion if ofcource to have some more lvl1 airbases at start of the scenario on level terrains.
What u think ?

 

[the_legion]

I allways saw the Lvl 1 airbases as "Grass Airfields".
Takeoff and landing can be done everywhere, where it's flat, however
for refueling, repairing, and stuff you need some kind of basic infrastructure.
And "Grass Airfields" where not only used in WW1. They were widely used by UK-fighters
in the battle for great britain. I think the limited use of the airforce in WW1 is WAD.

 

[wolf1455]

WAD or not, one of the popular part of WW1 is the fighter aces, Fokker scare and other parts of the airwar. Here the tech fighting was on focus. First Germany got air superiority because of better tech and better pilots. Later Entente getting superiority because of mostly quantity.
If no airbases is awailable close enough to the front all this wount happen IMHO. Not until later in the war. Much later.