Any particular reason why FAF brigades have 10 less fighters?

[lipton]

At the end we still dont know why the FAF (or the RAF cause noone in their senses could consider the BlenI a fighter) have 10 less planes

I too lazy to count. Do the FAF have an extra BGD or something like that?

[Kilemall]

I too lazy to count. Do the FAF have an extra BGD or something like that?

Nada, total AF count is same number of brigades, 4 fighter and 8 bomber and 1 HQ per type, and RAF and FAF are 50/50 of the Allied count, so 2 fighter/1HQ and 4 bomber/1HQ per each.

One thing to look at is the HQs, there could be some extra stashed in there, and you have to look at the WHOLE spawnlist so compare bomber brigades too, could be some extra makeup in there.

Finally, Rats look at spawnlists in their entirety, so could be there is a smidgen less for French air and more in the tanks for instance.

Edited December 17, 2010 by Kilemall

[Khsolo]

Nada, total AF count is same number of brigades, 4 fighter and 8 bomber and 1 HQ per type, and RAF and FAF are 50/50 of the Allied count, so 2 fighter/1HQ and 4 bomber/1HQ per each.

One thing to look at is the HQs, there could be some extra stashed in there, and you have to look at the WHOLE spawnlist so compare bomber brigades too, could be some extra makeup in there.

Finally, Rats look at spawnlists in their entirety, so could be there is a smidgen less for French air and more in the tanks for instance.

Actually LW has 5 more planes than the FAF in fighter brigades and 10 more per bomber brigade

So we you add up:

LW has 10 more per bomber brigade x 4 = 40 more planes

LW has 5 more per fighter brigade x 2 = 10 more planes

Total = LW has 50 more planes (109e1, e4 or 110s) than the FAF any given day over the map area

Source doesnt add HQ planes but im pretty sure you wont find 50 planes there

And then you wonder why the LW owns tier0

Cheers

[DOC]

Current numbers taken from our database (I don't know if your source matches that's your problem)

Fighter numbers total:

France : 190

Britain : 200 (10 of these are Blenheim Mk.I)

Germany : 200 (30 of these are Bf110C-4)

This breaks down to France and England having 190 single engined fighters and Germany 170, with the top tiers distributed thus :

France : D.520 = 70

England : Spitfire Ia = 70

Germany : Bf109E-4 = 65

Our experience tells us we need approx. 100 noob rides in supply to cover losses as noobs lose a lot of aircraft, but should only ever run out just before supply kicks in more.

France : 120 (Hawk 75)

England : 110 (Hurricane Ia)

Germany : 105 (Bf109E-1)

This is the hardest part to "balance" because the noob rides are also flown by vets as well and have different combat strengths and weaknesses. Bf109E-1's are the fastest and climb the quickest. Hurricanes turn well and have 8 or 12 guns. Hawk 75's dogfight the best but lack in climb and firepower, in addition the German airforce has heavily armed Bf110's that are not represented by any type in either of the allied airforces.

Of course none of the airforces are exactly equal because a Bf110C-4 doesn't exist in the English or French inventories. Blenheim If's are English only. Spitfires are not Bf109's, and so on.

Since this isn't a bug of any kind there isn't anything to fix really. Opinions on "how it should be" will vary of course, but the game cannot hope to serve before every opinion on the subject. We think it is fairly set up in respect to the OP. If anything, the Germans could get less Bf110's and more Bf109E-1s, but that would be a bad division of airframe types and not very representitive. Since they aren't running out of Bf109E-1's the majority of the time (we track this stuff) we think what we have now works as a good compromise of the many criteria we want this to cover.

[Tigger6]

Current numbers taken from our database (I don't know if your source matches that's your problem)

Fighter numbers total:

France : 190

Britain : 200 (10 of these are Blenheim Mk.I)

Germany : 200 (30 of these are Bf110C-4)

This breaks down to France and England having 190 single engined figthers and Germany 170, with the top tiers distributed thusly :

France : D.520 = 70

England : Spitfire Ia = 70

Germany : Bf109E-4 = 65

None of the airforces are exactly equal because a Bf110C-4 doesn't exist in the English or French inventories. Blenheim If's are English only. Spitfires are not Bf109's, and so on.

Since this isn't a bug of any kind there isn't anything to fix really. Opinions on "how it should be" will vary of course, but the game cannot hope to serve every opinion on the subject. We think it is fairly set up in respect to the OP.

Does this mean that Wright Brothers Model B is a definite no-go? :'(