BoS career generates ground attack missions where I am outnumbered up to 6:1

[FTC_Mars]

I'm in the second half of the BoS career, flying as VVS in an La-5.  Missions over The Cauldron are being generated with a severe numbers disadvantage, up to 6 enemy planes for every one of my flight's planes.  This sometimes results in unwinnable missions where I am overwhelmed by enemy planes, unable to fight, run away, or land safely.  I'm playing on Medium difficulty with Medium front-line density.  I am not the flight leader, and I don't have control over the mission route or flight roster.

 

I've chosen an enemy river crossing attack mission as an example.  This problem happens mostly with ground attack missions.  My plane being at an 8:1 disadvantage is a bit extreme, but aborting a mission because I am fighting 3 or more enemies at once has happened more times than I remember.  In this mission two of the mission's en-route waypoints were placed inside enemy territory.  In some missions there is a friendly flight of 3-6 Yak-1s but they didn't spawn this time.

 

The screenshot below shows that there are 25 active enemy aircraft in the mission space while there are just 4 friendly planes on the map.  My flight of 4 was intercepted by a least two enemy flights.

 

The mission numbers disadvantage is made worse by the AI's aggressive behaviour: in the screenshot I am being chased by 8 planes, like a cloud of angry hornets, all the way out of The Cauldron, over the Volga, and back to my airfield.  My airfield was defended by 2 AA guns in this mission instead of the usual 5 guns, so those weren't a whole lot of help.  I couldn't land or run or turn and fight 8 against 1.  It wasn't fun to play.

 

 

Because this problem appears to affect ground attack missions the most I've been using a work-around of cranking down this mission type's difficulty to Easy.

 

I would love it if there was some boundary on the enemy's air superiority, such as:

 

• Have a proportional friendly airforce active in or around the mission space, e.g. 1 friendly plane per enemy plane

• Have one or two enemy planes chase me away, instead of all 8 doing so

• Guarantee my mission an escort when the odds are this bad

• Heavy friendly AA around The Cauldron

• Heavy friendly AA on the Eastern side of the Volga

• Friendly patrol flights along the Volga

• Active friendly missions in or around The Cauldron

• Friendly intercept flights scrambled when enemy planes cross the Volga

• Intercept flights scrambled from neighbouring fields when a friendly field is attacked

• Enemy planes strongly prefer sticking to their mission space (front line +15 km?)

• Only route missions through enemy airspace when necessary, otherwise prefer contested or friendly airspace

• My flight could bug out when they see an intercept flight (or two) closing with a 2:1 numbers advantage