Question about defending own territory's air.

[him_15]

Let's say I am playing as Germany and the war just break out, the allied send bomber to bomb my provinces, with fighters escorted. Should I set my defending fighters to air superiority or interception mission, or both together? Thank you!

 

[Jays298]

Interception puts the focus on bombers first. That's what you want if there's a large bomber wing sent to your home area.

They will not do this for long. But you will have to set some fighter wings over Germany until most of Poland falls, and then the AI decides to stop sending the bombers.

 

[kettyo]

Interception wing will take off only if there are bombers, air superiority will always take off.

So setting a wing to both is the same as you just set air sup.

I don't know what's the matter if you have better interception bonuses than airsup bonuses but you need your planes in the air all the time. Will setting them to both orders switch bonuses depending on bombers being there or not or will you always get airsup bonuses?

Probably @bitmode can answer this.

 

[him_15]

The reason i am asking this is because If I set the fighter to both Air superiority and interception mission, would that lower its efficiency? Also if I only set my fighter to interception, the whole Germany air superiority turn red, that doesn't feel good either.

 

[joerd9]

It turns red because your fighters will only take off to intercept incoming bombers. As long as there are no bombers, just enemy fighers (that cause no direct damage), they stay on the ground. And they don't generate any air superiority while grounded.