Land based fighters don't fight carrier planes

[CrackingShow]

Did some testing, and It looks like land based fighters/heavy fighters don't engage carrier planes in Naval Battles, is this WAD? Looks like the only way to influence naval battles with land based air is to use bomb the ships, not try to kill the carrier planes.

 

[Riekopo]

Yeah I think this is a known issue. But honestly for the Pacific it's a good thing considering how things are. There's already too many high level Air Bases and aircraft in the Pacific ocean I think. If land based fighters could destroy Carrier aircraft then the problem would be even worse.

 

[CrackingShow]

They should limit the size of airbases or make planes more expensive to build, you can easily end up with many thousands of them.

 

[Swamperino]

They don't fight carrier planes, but putting land based planes on air superiority mission does achieve air superiority. At 100% air superiority, carrier planes don't take off since they get -100% to sortie efficiency.
It's a shame that planes can't fight in that way, but it would probably make carrier planes even more useless then they are currently. There should probably be an upgrade limit on Pacific airbases to prevent this from happening in the first place, but even this probably won't model reality very well. Surely the Italians must have had a reason besides prestige to be building a carrier for use in the Med.

 

[CrackingShow]

They don't fight carrier planes, but putting land based planes on air superiority mission does achieve air superiority. At 100% air superiority, carrier planes don't take off since they get -100% to sortie efficiency.
It's a shame that planes can't fight in that way, but it would probably make carrier planes even more useless then they are currently. There should probably be an upgrade limit on Pacific airbases to prevent this from happening in the first place, but even this probably won't model reality very well. Surely the Italians must have had a reason besides prestige to be building a carrier for use in the Med.

I didn't know about that Air Superiority thing, thanks