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- From: graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
- Subject: Re: Fire in the East, German Strategy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.190419.4221@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:04:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.184349.26169@news2.cis.umn.edu> thornley@milli.cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.181203.2585@beaver.cs.washington.edu> graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:
- >>
- >>Another general comment on the German initial attack in FiTE/SE: the
- >>group I play with is tending to use almost all of the Luftwaffe for
- >>the surprise attack on the Soviet Air Force. We hold back two Me109s
- >>to drop the number of attacking aircraft to 69.
- >
- >Just to nitpick, why 109s? Since this is an air unit bombing mission, they're
- >just as good as He 111s (both having an effective TBF of 2), and the 111s
- >are slightly more useful (considering there will be no Soviet air in the
- >surprise turn).
-
- I'd want to double-check the rules set, but I don't believe the surprise
- attack counts as airfield attack. Bear in mind that some of the dead Soviet
- aircraft go into the EFT box, rather than remnants. These, presumably,
- represent those shot down in air-to-air engagements. But I could be wrong.
- --
- Stephen Graham
- graham@cs.washington.edu uw-beaver!june!graham
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