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Your gladiator squadrons are upgrading to better planes, so obsolete planes are getting back to storage. You can land-lease to Greece or china.
Your actual Air Wing: 100 Old Fighters
You researched the Fighters for 1936, yay, put them into Production. Now the factory making the New Fighter, lets say 4 units per week.
We wait now 2 months and then we look at our Air Wing.
Reserve 32 Old Fighters / Air Wing: 68 Old Fighters, 32 New Fighters.
Factory now can produce them faster, lets say 8 units per week and we wait 3 months more.
Reserve 100 Old Fighters, 28 New Fighters / Air Wing 100 New Fighters.
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So, when your Air Wing do now missions and lose planes, then you should be aware, you can and will lose more planes then your factory can produce. If you lose 16 New Fighters per Week and produce 8 New Fighters, then your Air Wing will have after 12,5 Weeks 0 New Fighters.
First:
New planes will replace old planes first, when all old planes are replaced, then they will go into the reserve. You can priorize some Air Wings, there should be 3 small lamps at Air Wing in the Air Field Window.
Second:
If you lose more planes then your factory can produce, then you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Your army need to get their airfields or you need to change your tactic/strategy.
You can't beat an industrial powerhorse in a long war, they will outnumber you after some time.
they waste time in useless day/night cycle and forget usefull crap to make the game more enjoyable, like more pause options
Just putting them there doesn't work. You need to assign them to air superiority mission, also change the mission cancellation parameter from "No retreat"/Default to something like 25% or 50%.
Sometimes your fighters' range is too short to cover the mission area. That happens if you put air superiority mission over southern italy from the base in northern italy, you squadron will have red stripes displayed. Yellow is a partial coverage.
Move your interceptors as close as possible to the area you want to cover.
Early biplanes and aircraft had terribe ranges. You need to move to an airbase that is closer... or use a carrier. This is one of the reasons why so many nations used aircraft carriers... you can literally have an airbase next door to any nation that is near water.
I am trying to get rid of the interwar fighters and bombers. I am supposed to make the old planes fight and be lost... and replaced with new ones.
What should I do (where to click) to achieve this result... aside from removing them from the production queue?
Please tell me EXACTLY where to click to get that and I'm done.... that thing screwed a big game for me with Italy and I can't wait to start all over again but I need to know this because I can't win without air fighters.
Color coding is a mission efficiency. It depends on the weather, squadron strength and max range compared to size of the area covered. Additional factors are radars and flack.
Squadrons with no mission are blinking with red outline. click on it. R-click on the map where the airbase is located. It will do engine sound. Pretty much you are done. as it defaults to superiority.
Also on squadron screen by double clicking the plane number you can adjust how many planes are in squadron, people saying that 100 is the number.
Mission window will open on the left, there are three icons. Air superiority, intercept and something. also present toggles for day night and toggle for mission cancellation. Chose intercept (targets bombers then fighters) for heavy fighter squadrons, air superiority (fighters then bombers) for light ones.
The interwar bombers and fighters need to be replaced by the new fighters and bombers.
How do I do that... for some reason I can't seem to make that happen... I figured: if these old airplanes fight and get lost but not produced, they can't be replaced.
But the new fighters in the line of production go to reinforcements... that's all right but how comes the old fighters are not being replaced!?!?!?
I still find them in the reserves and in the wings deployed everywhere.... what am I missing?
This is like saying water is wet:).
Are you playing non-English version? there could be translation errors. May be you are producing heavy fighters and have light fighters squadrons or something.
In my 3 games finished, US, UK and USSR, as soon as I researched 1936 fighter and started producing them all my squadrons of interwar fighters started to upgrade. individual squadron were showing something like 100 total, 36 I-16, 64 I-15. numbers changing until fully upgraded to I-16, and ll I-15 went into storage.
Also look at the production icon, it will tell how many 1936 fighters you need to replace all interwar fighters in your active units. It will show like 3 planes per week production and yellow number in the corner - need 500 more. If you don't see that, there is a mismatch between type produced and type active.
The losses are so heavy in Italy vs UK that you need multiple lines and not just one, to produce enough fighters. They do get produced but not in enough numbers.
Of course... increasing number of lines is better than adding more factories to the same line. It means increasing output and also means increasing imports.