My gut feeling is to initally ignore the CH stations completely apart from a few unescorted ultra low level lone wolf raiders and concentrate everything on the frontline RaF airfields.

Sending smaller diversionary raids and then concentrating all resources on one airfield to totally put it out of action will push the RaF back and force them to fly as far as the LW so evening up the fight a bit.
Once the RaF are on the backfoot, then shut down the CH stations totally while still making sure the airfields are kept out of action.

My thinking is that the airfields need destroying totally, the RaF will throw all resources towards stopping this so attriting their fighter resources.

The CH stations are too hard to knock out completely while active airfields are nearby, so take out the airfields first.
THe RaF will have to fly from/to the London stations and will have to have more standing patrols to compensate for the extra flying time, so burning up more of their resources.

As long as the RaF losses outstrip LW losses then the campaign 'should' be winnable.

Did they have those back in '40?

Yep they did. And if you fly the RAF side in the campaign, when the Luftwaffe causes heavy damage to your RDF you get the message 'Dover CH has been damaged, mobile units are filling the gap'.

I'm leaning towards going hard and heavy on the larger fighter command airfields at Manston, Hawkinge and Tangmere tomorrow (game time).

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Yes I would also use a meet and greet escort if the raid was deep into enemy turf, over the Channel it seems overkill. But maybe should consider...



V true



Yes. If you watch the pattern of bombs from level bombing, standard spread is pretty tightly clustered. Bomb in trail causes a longer line spread with greater chance of hitting a specific target.



Yes, note to self, order colder blood!

There is so much detail in this game. The strategy part alone is a game in itself, and as good as any Paradox game

Sure is, and did I mention it isn't a text message...it's a nice sæxy WAAF voice keeping you informed....

Good read and plan so far Keep hitting them same targets. Maybe low level attacks in between ?

A pity we don't get the equivalent in the German campaign.

They did. But they were far less capable than the fixed installations.

From the official history of the Ventnor CH station:

RAF Ventnor bombed

RAF Ventnor continued to work effectively until 12th August 1940 when 15 Junkers 88 dropped 72 high explosive bombs on the station at mid-day, leaving it badly damaged and off the air.



The photo above was taken from one of those bombers, the transmitter towers are in the foreground. Although a domestic site was also located within the compound at the top of St.Boniface, the official record states that amazingly only one person was injured. However a reliable source has recently informed the writer that at the time, the word amongst the RDF people was that "several" WAAFs had been killed during the raids on the RDF stations. Despite the on going danger from ten delayed action bombs, the station was back in limited service within the hour. On the following Friday there was a second raid by 6 JU87 aircraft which deposited 15 bombs into the compound with the result that two unfortunate hits finally created damage that could not be fixed easily.

Armourers (six men and two corporals) were rushed from the Fort Grange airfield near Gosport to deal with the remaining bombs waiting to explode. Four were dug out and one detonated as it was being taken away. A fifth bomb exploded as the detachment were waiting to return to their base which by then had also been attacked. - Thanks to Don Sutherland for this information, he was one of those brave men. Today, near the parking spot close to R Block, there exists a strangely cratered area amongst the gorse : I believe them to be bomb craters. The station remained unserviceable for two months but mobile equipment was brought from Kidbrook in London and installed at Bembridge to 'plug the gap' in the chain, albeit with reduced range, until the Ventnor repairs were completed.