[WarInEur] Flying the friendly skies

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In a message dated 03/08/2007 19:15:49 GMT Daylight Time,  
ultrasoundimages at sbcglobal.net writes:

I think  I agree, but let me pose a couple of corner cases.

1) German moves  first and withdraws all air points from the front. His air
range remains  12, even though there are no planes left to fly. Any naval
movement covered  by his air range is safe from extraordinary (but not
ordinary) air-sea  interdiction. The cowardly RAF must gather its courage
before recklessly  flying where the 109G normally flies.

Wallie moves second and withdraws  all of his air points from the front. His
air range remains 12, even though  there are no planes left to fly. 

Q: Can the German interdict movement  in the channel? I would say no as he
has no planes on the front. He may  have planes coming in and he has planes
leaving, but no planes are actively  on the front.

The war continues from the point  above:





Taking your example above, does this not describe the German operational  
plan for Husky, and indeed Normandy?
Luftwaffe abandoned all forward airfields, taking their forces into the  
interior, then stocked up various airfields to enable a massive mutiple unit  
transfer at the moment of decision? In Tunisia a version of this was donee by  
operating the tunisian bases (and later in Italy and Sicily) as advanced landing  
fields.
 
Where your illustration breaks down, is the weakness of the airforce whilst  
it is xferring, leaving you opponent with the initiative during those key 
turns  as you bring the front up to strength.
 
As indeed happened in Normandy, and in Sicily.
 
There are penalties inherent in what you propose, which are not yet  modelled 
(although I do have a version of this that does cater for your  proposal).
 
 
-|steve|-



   
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