[HunterICX]

Turn 1 - Air

The Airforce status: out of range or just an escort's excuse?


First thing first the objectives of this Operation:


From left to right: Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sdid Bouzid, Sfax, Gabes, Tripoli, El Algheila, Benghazi and Tobruk

Right so the Air Directives are set as followed:


Tactical Air units are set to support ground units while contesting for air superiority. Their bombers will focus heavily on bombing ground targets and interdict the enemy as much as possible.

The Strategic Air units will focus on bombing Airfield and ports in order to disrupt their air operations and supplies.

Weather


Bit of rain along the coast but nothing serious that'll interupt our air operations.

The Directives that where planned for this turn.

West:


Issues:
The 12th US Airforce, RAF Eastern and Malta command report that they do not have the aircraft available that are in range to perform recon and challenge the germans for air superiorty. transfer to airfields located closer to the front will be required (which I hope the AI Air management will do as I gave it order to do so)

East:


''Sir, I would like to report that ehm...''

Ow...bollocks just like on the West most of the superiority flights and apart from one recon flight they wont be flown due lack of aircraft being in range.

However this didn't spell a total disaster for my bombers as about most would enjoy some sort of escort, just half the way in most cases but that's better then nothing at all right? Well at least when they did fly escort for the bombers they did their job and protected the bombers however we need to have a bit of a talk about their skills to shoot down enemy fighters.



Results:


Overall not bad for a start where half my airforce doesn't find itself within range of the area of operations (hopefully this will be sorted soon)