[WarInEur] Flying the friendly skies

[Hansen]

What I was trying to do was point out the corner cases for the rule you were
supposing. I'm not advocating any side for the rule. I can see a good reason
for either rule (always have air range/no AP,no air range), but with the air
abstraction as is, I don't think you are going to find a tight rule that is
realistic and playable.

 

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From: SGMINFO at aol.com [mailto:SGMINFO at aol.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:09 PM
To: ultrasoundimages at sbcglobal.net; warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: Re: [WarInEur] Flying the friendly skies

 

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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