AA50 escorts and interceptor rules

I found flaws in these rules:

1. Italy can send one bomber and 1 escort to UK and UK can have 4 fighters defending but only bring in one as defense, because poor Italy is too broke to buy proper fighter escorts.

2. Italy or anybody can elect to bring in JUST a bomber and no fighter defense, invalidating the entire rule.

not good.

ok will playtest.

i still think that fighters should have  a 1.5 avg 2  fighters get 1 and the other a 2!

ok this is what i have in my rules from these posts:

Fighter Defense/Escort:
During SBR attacks the defending player can bring in planes to fight against bombers defending at a 2. The attacker can bring in escorts to escort his bombers and they attack at 1. The maximum number of defending planes cannot exceed the total number of attacking air units including bombers. Only one round of air combat occurs prior to SBR rolls. The attacker can not bring in more escorts than bombers. Note: The AA gun rolls only against the bombers and not against the escorting fighters.

1/6 to 3/6 when shooting down bombers. I think we should play-test the 2/6 option

What?

I am using the standard AAE rules with limitations on total planes. its 1 for attacker 2 for defense. that’s it. I played it and it works.

as far as jets are concerned they should get 3 because these are independently created planes, rather than “POOF” all your planes are magically turned into jets thing. IN my system some techs like super subs, jets and heavy bombers need to be built from scratch. Its ridiculous to assume every plane is now having the new technology.

aha moohahahahaha AAE rules live and stand yes! anyways i just wanted to say that 2/6 is what i was getting at!

@Lynxes:

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I think you have misread the rules. It says that it is the combined number of fighters and bombers. So in 1) Italy would face 2 fighters, and in 2) it would face 1 fighter. The historical case is the UK SBR campaign prior to the entry of American escorted missions by Mustang long-range fighters, and I don’t think it would feel very good if Germany could just stack up 3-4 fighters and then UK would never be able to SBR with anything like OK odds. Hence the interceptor limit.

1. Well, you can make bombing more attractive - the bombing dice role is the number of damage tokens, and IPC cost - so in effect, because you have to spend IPC to conduct repairs - bombing is twice as effective.

Risk/reward.

2. The British bombing campaign was not that effective anyway - and you could say that playes have an option for daylight bombing - escort/interceptor rules apply, or nightbombing - damage is halved and escorts cannot be used, but neither can interceptors.

Hence, the US can afford daylight bombing which is more effective - and the British, who cannot, do the more ineffective area bombing. A heavy bomber at night just rolls one dice rather than two - which gives the US the option to do the Tokyo night raids if they want to avoid Japanese fighters.

I’d leave interceptors and escorts hitting on a ‘1’ or less…

But I also have a house rule where the US can build TAC air - attack 4 defend 3 (which can’t be used in strategic escort/intercept) - and the Germans have the same, they can build the stukas from the revised edition which attack at 4 and defend at 3 and can’t be used in strategic combat.

That way, the Germans and Americans have to balance the need for strategic fighters - and the more attractive tactical fighters.

Since the new edition has Me109’s, I’m loathe not to use my stukas from the earlier editions - seems such a waste!!!

Well latter i did figure out what the rule was and amended my house rules along his idea ( except its really the old AAE rule on fighter escorts).

On night bombing raids… i got 50% effectiveness, but no escorts/interceptors…or AA