Originally Posted By: WhoCares
By when do you have to have them down at what level (how many units at Cat C), and where are you now?


That's top secret wink

But in rough terms it works like this: if before Sept 7 "and" the sum of RAF CatA and CatB squads is less then X then LUF wins and Operation Sealion is initiated.

If after Sept 7 "and" the sum of RAF CatA and CatB squads is less then X then LUF wins.

If victory conditions are not met by Sept 15, Operation Sealion is cancelled, and the campaign is lost.

We have no way of knowing how many RAF are at Cat C except to judge by the amount of interceptions - how many squadrons the RAF can put up against us in a day.

At this rate, with 500 aircraft avail, we can estimate the RAF still has 30-40 squadrons of aircraft, but we do not know their pilot/fatigue situation. Many of these may be Cat C with fatigue.

With 15 days left to Sept 7, if we continue attrition at 30-40 per day, we can potentially cut the RAF down from current 500 aircraft to almost nothing by Sept 7 (30*15=450), as long as we can provoke them to attack rather than marshall their forces.

And as long as we can preserve our own fighter forces sufficiently (we currently have around 680 Bf109s but pilots are the problem, as several gruppen are Cat C with fatigue).

PROPOSAL

Operations Staff propose another day of saturation raids, also reaching into the north and west. This will require use of longer range twin engine fighters as escorts, but should allow our Intelligence Directorate to be able to tally the number of enemy squadrons seen in operation. This will give us a better estimate of current RAF strength as well as continuing the attrition of the RAF.


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