send 200+ fighters in each region - they will stop

They're not stopping, I've put 900 fighters across 3 regions where they operate and what they do is keep switching to the weakest or most uncovered regions, I have to chase them around now and my buildings are suffering huge damage, repair queue is in the dozens

Same problem here.

Despite all of the DLC's and mods, have they still not sorted out the Strategic bombing headache yet? Heyfords bombing the crap out of Germany in late '39 and German fighters unable to stop them? WTF? This is by far the biggest bugbear in what could be a good game!

At that point I usually run a couple of thousands fighters and bombers myself. Covering the area with a couple hundred fighters each is usually enough, tho I also like to just bomb UK myself, drop their airports to 0 and cripple them into a useless blob, while nav bombery destroy their whole navy, opening the path for a sea lion before the USSR gets involved.

Tho be aware, that the game is over if you kill the UK, USSR cant stop germany alone. So if you want to end the game like this, make it harder for yourself by also going to war to italy, hungary and romania while fighting the allies and USSR.

You need to put up fighters to stop them, you dont need more than 1000-1400 fighters. Some bombers will get through. Of course the AI will try to kill you. This is a wargame.

"Why are the allies sending 3k+ tacs to strategic bomb Germany so early in the war? No amount of fighters (inc heavy) or AA and radars can stop them from bombing buildings."

Its easy to stop them and a few fighters can significantly slow down their bombing damage, in the meanwhile you can easily conquer France and so on or like me - all of Europe.

By then the bombing will only pick up later on but by then you either Sealioned Britain, defeated Russia or got alot of AA and Radar in your country.

Playing Germany is very easy in this mod after all.

UK spams mediums and USA heavys, non stop since 1940. From 42 it was impossible to build new buildings. I spammed fighters (60 MFs)and heavy fighters (15 MFs) to counter, in 44 I have 10k mostly elite fighters and rule the sky over Europe and Russia with k/d ratio of 5:1. I also blocked the channel so they must flight trough it with losses and control every important area with 800 fighters.

Despite this bomber spam still never stops, a formation of 2000 hops around to the area where it's weakest (still gets slaughtered, but number stays steady), wonder where they get the rubber from as Japan conquered most if it and UK is blocked by subs. AI cheats for sure.

Anyway after some trouble in the East, Romania switching sides and losing North Africa it's going towards Moscow and A-Bombs soon.

Against this bomber hopping it shpould be possible for an interceptions group to cover several areas at once otherwise too much micro.

I never need more than 1.8k or so Fighters to cover the homeland, and you need to start building Fighters relatively early, before 1938 so as to have a stockpile. You simply can't begin producing Fighters in 1938 after building nothing and expect there to be an airforce. Same goes for nearly everything in this game.

Idk how you're not holding. A Static Eastern Front is very easy in this game, what's your Air Doctrine looking like? and USA in 40 sounds like a failed Sealion. Sealion is very easy in SP because AI can't be bothered to protect their coastline properly, so I'd recommend reloading an earlier save and actually doing yourself a favor and doing a sealion


Also do Harsh Quotas on all your occupied territories except stuff with High Compliance like Bohemia and Moravia. Your factories will increase by 100 easily.