Realistic Air Base Redeployment Time

[Otto]

As everyone knows it only takes a couple of days to redeploy planes to new airbases. While I am not an expert I am guessing that the redeployment times for planes in HOI4 are much faster than what could have been done in real life.

I have a bunch of house rules I use as I play (SP Germany) that create a more historic and realistic game. I am thinking of adding one in regard to how long I have to wait before I can use redeployed planes. I create airwings of 100 fighters and 60 for CAS and Naval. I assume the planes themselves can/did fly on their own from base to base. What about the added ground crews, admin personnel and fuel and ammo that would be needed when 100 planes show up?? Any thoughts on what would be realistic redeployment times?

 

[Louella]

Seems like it's difficult to find information about this, but I did find a few things like, an RAF squadron (601 Squadron) took 10 days to be redeployed from the UK to Egypt. Though the aircrew went to one airfield, while the ground crews went to a different one. 615 Squadron took 3 months to redeploy from the UK to India. 607 Squadron took 2 months to do the same.

Redeploying squadrons during wartime was a bit of a mess, with the ground crews and aircraft&aircrews often changing unit designations, due to stuff like aircraft and aircrews being absorbed by other units to replace losses.

 

[Happy Trigger]

In the current patch, if you deploy 100 planes on an airport, it takes (if i am correct) 1 day to the personal be assigned to the planes. Then, when you move your planes from one airport to another, it depends of the distance, but normally is very fast, because they just fly from one point to another. I think that fighters (others planes too) should be delivered to their respective airports by land, unless they are under the coverage of the plane, and the personal between 5~10 days, because sometimes the number of people moving from one airport to another is around thousands. Even the time to replenish losses is very fast, when it should be slower taking in account the time to bring these planes (and spair parts) to the location of the airport.

I hope they do some change about this in the next patch/DLC.