I usually just get all my cities bombed and my planes dont seem to do anything to the enemy. Is there a way to make the work. Also unrealated, can you get your AI to to naval invasions?
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You can win the air war in many ways.
Defensive concept:
Set up AA defenses in all cities with industry except one.
The AI will now bomb (usually) only this single city and this works to your advantage when you defend it.
Offensive concept:
Set your Air wing (4xINT) to agressive intercept mission over the area in question and give them small areas like 3 provinces diameter or so and not more to defend.
Important is you have to have some radar already up and running (a level one or two preferably)
This works for me all the time.
In the beginning of the war (39-40) the fighters are a bit weak and might need some swapping sometime.
Later that disadvantage diminishes and they can be left alone for prolonged periods.
@Naval invasions by AI
From what I learned this is not recommended.
Defensive concept:
Set up AA defenses in all cities with industry except one.
The AI will now bomb (usually) only this single city and this works to your advantage when you defend it.
Offensive concept:
Set your Air wing (4xINT) to agressive intercept mission over the area in question and give them small areas like 3 provinces diameter or so and not more to defend.
Important is you have to have some radar already up and running (a level one or two preferably)
This works for me all the time.
In the beginning of the war (39-40) the fighters are a bit weak and might need some swapping sometime.
Later that disadvantage diminishes and they can be left alone for prolonged periods.
@Naval invasions by AI
From what I learned this is not recommended.
I had fighters, and then i clicked the AI button. Look at the production screen for 30 sec, see IC falling, notice British Bombers over all my industry.
For air defense (interceptors to deal with bombers) it's better to use the actual AI air interface you get when clicking on an air unit then right clicking on a province.
I use the circular radius setting (the settings are along the top of the card) and set the range about half. You do that for each air unit you want on defense. That usually gives me real good coverage with overlapping zones of responsibility because I build a crap ton of interceptors and have 2 -3 interceptors in a group at every airport at the start of the war.
I set the orders to "Intercept" set the time to "day and night" and the duration to either "defensive" or "passive".
Intercept means that your planes will only take off when a bomber is seen in their area of responsibility. If you use "air superiority" then your air units will be constantly flying in search of enemy aircraft and that eats up fuel stocks as well as never lets your air units rest to recover org or strength. So, for defense, "intercept" is best.
I set to day and night because I don't have enough aircraft to set full coverage if I split shifts and use 2 air units to cover the same area but at different times.
I use either defensive or passive so that my interceptors don't get eaten up so fast as they would on aggressive.
All that is on the card that pops up with you right click a province while you have an air unit selected.
After that, pretty much leave it alone and let it do it's thing.
I use the circular radius setting (the settings are along the top of the card) and set the range about half. You do that for each air unit you want on defense. That usually gives me real good coverage with overlapping zones of responsibility because I build a crap ton of interceptors and have 2 -3 interceptors in a group at every airport at the start of the war.
I set the orders to "Intercept" set the time to "day and night" and the duration to either "defensive" or "passive".
Intercept means that your planes will only take off when a bomber is seen in their area of responsibility. If you use "air superiority" then your air units will be constantly flying in search of enemy aircraft and that eats up fuel stocks as well as never lets your air units rest to recover org or strength. So, for defense, "intercept" is best.
I set to day and night because I don't have enough aircraft to set full coverage if I split shifts and use 2 air units to cover the same area but at different times.
I use either defensive or passive so that my interceptors don't get eaten up so fast as they would on aggressive.
All that is on the card that pops up with you right click a province while you have an air unit selected.
After that, pretty much leave it alone and let it do it's thing.
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Thanks will try that, how does strategic bombing work? Just get a ton of bombers and click London? Do i need escorts. And how about navies, my thinking is one large surface fleet for naval superiority. and one large sub fleet for convoy sinking.
If you're playing axis my suggestion is to just skip strategic bombing.
With naval stuff, someone else will have to give you details. I avoid that part of the game like the plague.
But with subs, you want to have those in many small groups of, iirc, 2. Large groups are easily spotted and beaten up.
With naval stuff, someone else will have to give you details. I avoid that part of the game like the plague.
But with subs, you want to have those in many small groups of, iirc, 2. Large groups are easily spotted and beaten up.
Turn on industrial map mode and you'll see which areas are interesting to bomb. the greener, the better. Off the top i can name Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham
You don't really need escorts as they are abstracted in the strategic bomber's air defence stat.
However, if you want to do the blitz, you need a few interceptors, a few tactical bombers (runway cratering) and a lot of TACs on reserve.
also, you WANT Radar in northern france. As soon as you unlocked radar, pre-build it so that you simply have to insert it, instead of building it in the province directly