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To me, airpower is work intensive, but it is also essential to ground operations.

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Plus you need to be careful not to set your A/C operate in 24/7 missions, that will also run down their organization. Plus, if your A/C are operating in a non-air superiority environment, they can be mauled quickly and it is hard to detect in a timely manner. Stacking is particularly important with airpower, because it is easy to over-stack and the penalties are high.

If the enemy has a much higher organization and your organization is low, the battles will be short.Īirpower is a tough thing to properly control.

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Your units might be at full organization, but your max organization might be 30 while the German organization is usually 70+ max.

You have to realize, though, the organization bar is relative. Otherwise I am not sure why the battles are happening so fast. Perhaps you have you time scale set really high, the moment you un-pause the game, the battle happens really fast. Without seeing your game, it is tough to know what is going on. I'm enjoying the game more than I thought I would so far but much of the game's inner workings are still confusing to me. Any tips?Īlso, the game seems to crash at random intervals on two different PCs (Win 7 and Win. I send in tac bombers with fighter cover on daylight attacks but they don't seem to do much except get their organization knocked down to zero and then I have to order them back to base to refit. Their organization numbers are nowhere near zero so why are they retreating? I've got them well sorted in divisions/corps/ army/ army group/HQ hierarchy and have decent leaders at all levels.Īs for air power, is there a way to co-ordinate it with ground forces for attack or defence? I tried using the battle planner tool, but I can't seem to get it to function. My units seem to have better numbers than the Germans, are on the defensive, and have fortresses and terrain to their advantage yet they often seem to just retreat out of a zone with zero casualties. It's now spring 1940 in my game and the Germans are starting to attack me now as they've just overrun the Low Countries and are in the process of knocking off Norway. I spent two years getting the economy in order, extending the Maginot line, and building up a lot of infantry and artillery (as well as researching tech for them) as well as pulling all my colonial troops back to France. I figured it would be the simplest country to start with in that all you really need to do is try to survive the German onslaught. I started the game in 1936 and decided to play as France.

I've been reading through and watching various tutorials on the net and I think I'm beginning to get a handle on things but I do have some questions. I've never played an HOI game before and I'm finding the learning curve to be pretty steep. Anyway, I've been reading a lot about Bomber Command lately and I wanted to play something with at least some element of strategic bombing so I picked up the Their Finest Hour DLC on sale at GG and fired up the game.

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I received a free copy of Hearts of Iron 3 from Paradox several months ago but, due to a large backlog of games, I never even got around to installing it as I'm not the biggest fan of Paradox games.

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