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Spring Offensive Strategy Guide - Quick Nav Getting Started Airfields Escort / BARCAP Bridges Supply Depots Knee Map Armed Recon Dogfighting Tips Rail CAS Villages Marshalling Yards KC23's Spring Offensive Strategy Guide - Airfields Fortunately airfields are one of the least complicated of all the missions. Usually it only takes a couple of flights of medium bombers to shut each one of them down. The trick to airfields is getting all your fighters and bombers back home in one piece. When you first start the Spring Offensive campaign you have two high MiG activity airfields on the West Coast (Kimpo, Seoul) and one Centrally located (Chuncheon) . I like to start by setting up two flights of medium bomber attacks for each West Coast airfield. They are both very close together so one large BARCAP can effectively protect both groups of bombers from the hordes of MiGs that will be waiting. Derek Bond came up with some excellent advice on protecting these vital assets. Derek likes to use F80s as close escort and send all the F86s on BARCAP about five minutes out in front of the bombers. Then he uses any F86s left as escort for BARCAP. Making the F86s escort F86s keeps large numbers of F86s together. The result being, 16 F80s flying close escort and an additional 32 F86s in close proximity of both bomber groups. Before you go away laughing at these numbers (48 fighters) consider this. The Reds don't just throw a MiG or two at you they often send over 32 after you. You can be in a group of 16 F86s and get completely overwhelmed by numbers. On the other hand if you go in with 48 you can expect to have about a 10 to one kill ratio. It may feel almost like cheating in the first few days of the Spring Offensive, but after a month or so when you still have some F86s to throw at the enemy you'll be glad you were so aggressive early on. Replacement of F86s is slow, so guard them jealously. Once you taken out the high MiG activity airfields closest to the front you don't have to be quite so paranoid, but in the first few missions in the Spring Offensive be prepared for lots of company. These missions are often spectacular looking with several dozens of aircraft streaking across the sky all seemingly going in different directions. The airfields can be repaired ,so it is a good idea to keep checking to see how much has been repaired. In the "Dossier" window of the airfield in question, check under damage. If it is nearly completely repaired it is time to send a medium bomber strike at it. It is much better to hit an airfield just before it is completely repaired. This way you won't have to deal with a squad of MiGs waiting for you when you send another couple of medium bomber flights back to knock it out again. See also: Escort / BARCAP Prev Page   |   Next Page

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