Question about aircraft reinforcements

[Tobes_31]

Hi,

Super stoked about Hoi4 and long time lurker round these parts.

Whilst reading about Operation Pedestal (sending carrier aircraft to aid the defence of Malta) I wondered if there will be a way that similar scenarios are modelled in hoi4?

As I understand it, aircraft are built and stockpiled off map. But say playing as the UK ive stockpile up 1000 spitfires, and seeing the axis begin to make a move on Malta would you just be able to create a new wing at the airfield in Malta and blob 500 aircraft there seemingly overnight, or is there a chance for the enemy to react and intercept the aircraft before they reach it? thus making it necessary to fight aircraft through, perhaps in a similar fashion to Pedestal irl

 

[Victor Cortez]

I don't know but I'm curious as well.

 

[leeuw]

If I am right, in a WWW (maybe the first of Daniel in single player with Japan) it has been shown that there is a delay between when you set up a wing in an airfield and when the airplanes arrive at the airfield.

 

[Tobes_31]

thanks for the replies guys! Ah great the delay will stop gamey behaviour (that's what most concerned me) would be pretty great to have to fight carriers (and the precious aircraft of course) through to their destinations

 

[LordOfWar16]

Yes. You can create airwings wherever you want. The further away it is from your capital, the longer it will take for them to move and deploy there of course. Even daniels airwings he created in northern china took about a week or two to deploy there.

 

[Victor Cortez]

Yes. You can create airwings wherever you want. The further away it is from your capital, the longer it will take for them to move and deploy there of course. Even daniels airwings he created in northern china took about a week or two to deploy there.

But I suppose deployment is limited by range, right?

 

[TheOrangeGuy]

I'm pretty sure they won't be intercepted, no one mentioned that

 

[Gort11]

The size of airbase also limits the number of aircraft you can have there as well.

 

[Daddl]

As fights only happens inside the target air regions, I don't think they can be intercepted.

However, as said, it will take a few days if not weeks for aircraft to arrive elsewhere, and their number is limited by the size of the airbase in that province.

I would doubt you can put more than 500 aircraft on Malta if you don't improve the air field there, but I don't know if we saw numbers for that in the old WWW (and if they are still the same of course).

 

[potski]

It's days rather than weeks. And there is no fixed limit, you can put as many as you want. Remember an air base is a state building, not province. It could represent several major airfields within the state operating together, as well as dispersal sites. It's like saying there is a fixed limit of only 1,000 planes allowed in Texas. Malta could probably hold 500 planes without any penalties, at a push.

But you might not be able to properly supply them in Malta, especially if you have a large garrison and many ships based there.