Luftwaffe losses in 1940

[Strela]

The good news is the system can adjust availability over time. There is a lot more flexibility in the air system than first meets the eye. You can make aircraft both available (reinforcements) or unavailable (withdrawal) as well as adjust the starting strengths. You can also look at the AA rating for ground units and make the environment much more unpleasant for air overall.

Finally, you can limit where air can bomb etc using the Low visibility air effects (reduced air availability) , indirect fire and air strikes by the map (prevents unsighted hexes to be attacked) and limited air recon (limits attacks based upon air recon).

Also finally remember that most scenario designers only included ground support / attack aircraft and recon. Fighter combat / raid interception is handled via the values in the parameter data file. Therefore to try and reconcile the numbers of available aircraft vs losses is a bit of mute point, as only a specific section of the air forces are modeled directly...

Personally, I believe the system is quite elegant and allows a clear representation of the air to ground support that is required in this kind of simulation. The modelling of overall air superiority is not required or done abstractly, as is the air portion of paradrops and air resupply.

David