A question about the BoBP career

[Name1123456]

I just started the BoBP career with the Spitfire Mk. IX. Most of the missions, however, seem to be ground attack missions. Is this historically accurate? If not, is there any way to change it? Would switching squadrons fix the problem?

[LukeFF]

Yes, it's correct how it's set up. 

[zdog0331]

22 hours ago, Name1123456 said:

I just started the BoBP career with the Spitfire Mk. IX. Most of the missions, however, seem to be ground attack missions. Is this historically accurate? If not, is there any way to change it? Would switching squadrons fix the problem?

That is how history happened.  Many pilots on this front at this time never saw a German aircraft in the air.  Was 90% ground target attacking.  The Luftwaffe was very small at this point due to the factories being bombed and the loss of aircraft and good pilots over the years.  Fuel, planes, and good pilots were in short supply and Operation Bodenplatte was the Luftwaffe's last ditched effort to regain air superiority.  They had far fewer aircraft and pilots so the plan was to destroy them on the ground in mass.  It didn't work to say the least.  After that attack, there were hardly any Luftwaffe planes in the air.  If you want anti fighter and anti bomber missions, play as the Germans.  The Allies had air superiority so they took advantage of this to bomb the ground.

[cardboard_killer]

1 hour ago, zdog0331 said:

The Luftwaffe was very small at this point due to the factories being bombed and the loss of aircraft and good pilots over the years.

 

In the book Strategy for Defeat, Williamson Murry put it like this:

 

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Unfortunately for Germany's cities, the critical production choices that German air strategy faced in the summer and fall of 1943 were made by individuals who did not possess the background to make intelligent decisions. [What a great way of calling people idiots--CK] . . .  By the summer of 1943, German strategy was already severely hampered by the choices and decisions made in the 1940-41 period that had failed to mobilize the European economy for a great struggle . Now in the summer of 1943, German leaders faced the choice of either radically restructuring the aircraft industry for a massive output of day and night fighters at the expense of other types or facing defeat in the air over the Reich . Milch himself had suggested a target of 5,000 fighters per month to Hitler in March 26th. But the top leadership was unwilling to address a military threat with a military response . In fact, the real triumph and impact of Bomber Command's "area" bombing campaign in 1943 was the fundamental distortion it caused in German armaments programs . The anger and desire for a retaliation strategy was particularly clear in the case of Hitler, but even as intelligent and rational an individual as Speer could not resist the attraction of paying the British back in kind .
 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2020 by cardboard_killer

[Name1123456]

Alright. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lusekofte]

There is a reason for the Norwegian skin. They did ground pounding and got decimated by aa. 

 

Edited January 6, 2020 by No.322_LuseKofte