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12.3.4 After the Assault (in all situations)
In terms of combat losses (for NW count purpose), the Defender suffers 0
losses if he resisted the assault, or 1 loss per corps if the fortress was
taken. This, for the entire assault battle.
13. Air Units
In 1914, at the beginning of the conflict, the air force is still in its infancy. It
only has the very secondary role of reconnaissance. It will then develop
little by little owing to technology, beginning in 1915. But by the end of the
war, the role of the air force should be crucial and decisive.
13.1 The Air Force
In 1914, at the start of the conflict, airplanes are still a new untried weapon.
New technologies have to be developed to make aviation useful.
Air Forces are built around air units squadrons, representing between 50
and 100 aircrafts. Aviation is represented by three counter types :
● Light planes, also known as “fighters” (small aircrafts, monoplanes,
biplanes and triplanes used for Recon, Aerial Combat and Tactical
Support)
● Heavy planes, also known as “bombers” (with bombs of all kinds, they
are usually unavailable at the start of the game)
● The German “zeppelins”, airships used as another kind of bombers
(and employed only by Germany)
Air Squadron Unit Description
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The Defender does not use any RP, even if he must do Morale checks. He
is immune from RP use.
● Black circle with the support value (tactical support and strategic bombardment), a bonus to combat values
(from 0 to +5)
● A grey rectangle (camera) showing the reconnaissance value (for air units only)
● NATO symbol showing the type of unit
● Name of Unit
● A plate showing the dogfight value (attack in air combat) and defensive values of the unit, as well as its
movement potential (in Movement Points) and, in addition the Range.
Air units values
Each plane has 4 values: Dogfight, Speed/Defense, Reconnaissance and
Tactical Support. These values have an important influence on the aircraft’s
performance, and they vary in the course of the game, when new
technologies are acquired.
The Range
Range is a key indicator for air unit. Each air unit has a range of action to
carry out its mission (value at bottom right of the squadron plate). This is
the number of regions the air unit can “fly” to.
Note that the range is also the movement capacity of the unit, i.e. the one
used for movement, administrative movement and redeployment.
NB: air units may be redeployed using rail movement with the HQ or GHQ
they are based in. If the HQ or the GHQ moves by rail, the Air Force moves
with them, no matter what the distance traveled. Each air squadron counts
as 1 unit (i.e. equivalent of 1 corps) for rail capacity usage.
Reconnaissance Value
The black figure in the grey rectangle is the Reconnaissance value of the
air unit. Basically, to succeed in a Recon mission, there must be a roll less
than or equal to that value.
Support/ Tactical/Strategic bombing value
This value is the red figure in the black circle. When the plane has a
bombing mission order, this value will be used both to determine mission
success (as in Reconnaissance) and as a combat support value in every
battle in which the plane is committed. This value also will be used on the
strategic warfare bombing table in the case of strategic bombing.
Dogfight, Speed/Defense
The first two indicators, Dogfight and Speed/Defensive, are used in
combat, respectively in attack and in defense.
The side with the higher speed value may receive either a +1 bonus to its
dogfight roll, or inflict a -1 penalty on the enemy’s when resolving an
aerial duel (random choice).