Has there been a update to to CoW came recently I am unware of regarding how planes behave when their airfield they are based from gets damaged, destroyed or taken over?
Previously you could pin down aircraft to go into transport/convoy mode several ways. E.g. if you can get paras in range, drop them on the airbase where the aircraft was flying out.
Similarly, damage it enough using strat bombers or rockets, such that the field is not operational anymore.
In my last WoW game, I had several cases where if the airfield the planes flew out of on patrol say, gets taken over or damaged, the planes do NOT go back to base and go into transport mode because the base got taken over or destroyed.
Instead, they stay patrolling (if that was what they were doing), and they simply get rebased to another airfield in range.
This "feature" makes paras and strat bombers obsolete. It also makes killing off airforce literally impossible.
It seems that having large stacks of lev 3 or more aircraft makes it pretty much impossible to kill or to pin down to kill.
I guess rebasing kinda makes sense if the new alternative is in range, but then maybe rebalance the game.
AA, SP AA, even cruisers seems impotent against higher level large stacks for aircraft.
Previously you could pin down aircraft to go into transport/convoy mode several ways. E.g. if you can get paras in range, drop them on the airbase where the aircraft was flying out.
Similarly, damage it enough using strat bombers or rockets, such that the field is not operational anymore.
In my last WoW game, I had several cases where if the airfield the planes flew out of on patrol say, gets taken over or damaged, the planes do NOT go back to base and go into transport mode because the base got taken over or destroyed.
Instead, they stay patrolling (if that was what they were doing), and they simply get rebased to another airfield in range.
This "feature" makes paras and strat bombers obsolete. It also makes killing off airforce literally impossible.
It seems that having large stacks of lev 3 or more aircraft makes it pretty much impossible to kill or to pin down to kill.
I guess rebasing kinda makes sense if the new alternative is in range, but then maybe rebalance the game.
AA, SP AA, even cruisers seems impotent against higher level large stacks for aircraft.