[mochaman]

Hi, about the air stacking penalty. I'm playing Hard level germany HSR 1.5 (not grofaz, hehe get my ass kicked every time). Its 1942 and I have a 5, 6, and 3 stack interceptor fighters in the eastern front the 6 stack focke woulfs the rest bf 109's (the are for the human player not A.I.).
Anyways, I find that the Soviets bombers attaking my divisions completetly take my fighters org down and cause about 50% damage. So now I had to pull the fighters back and my divisions are getting attacked daily by stacks of 15-20 bombers. It kinda pisses me off that the soviets are the most technologically advanced and my fighters cannot even affect their bombers because of the stacking penalty.

Finally the question is do you reallly need the last HOI patch in order to use the latest stony, because i saw it as a requirenment. And if you dont need the 1.06c patch (I believe it is?) then which one is the one you guys recomend?

thanks for your time

[Aregorn]

The latest HSR is 1.06 be sure you get that one, and it was made for HOI 1.06c otherwise the game balance will be severely affected.

[bshirt]

mochaman;

Yes, it was a bigtime problem before.

Switch to hsr 1.06 will help you massively. SR upgraded the stats on your fighters to help compensate for the air stacking problem and the endless hordes of Russian fighter/bombers.

[mochaman]

Yeah the new figthers really help, but still in HSR number 5 i got my ass kicked in the air. SO B-shirt, you are saying HRS 6 improved even more from 5 with the air warfare?.I havent tried 6 yet , finishing a game with 5 but if the air system is even better, then great!!! need to stop those russian bombers!!!

[dec152000]

Hi,
I don't think HSR 1.06 has any further air tweaks so the current situation is as easy as it gets. All you can do is try to defeat the bombers piecemeal before they grow to giant stacks. Having fighters in the target province helps a lot to keep the ground forces from getting beat up. I'm curretly fighting the same uphill battle.
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[bshirt]

mochaman;

Whooops!

I stand most humbly corrected.

I was somehow under the impression that further airpower tweeks were in hsr 1.06. However, dec152000 is as sharp as they come so I honestly apologize for giving you the bad scoop. I really mean that.

But I can say with 100% certainty that the vicious Russian Bear's land units has been toned down just a bit with hsr 1.06 due to Stalin's purges. If you take on the bear, now more than ever, the sooner the better.

That doesn't address the air problem, I know, but I thought it might help a little bit.

Good luck!