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Benedikt:
I'm new to this game and I really love it.
But I always lose air battles. I encountered a lot harvesters and send my Stilletto and Saracen with Rocket pods and Missile launchers and cannons against the ufo but they always shoot me down. What am I doing wrong?

BTAxis:
Are you using 2.2.1? I know 2.2 didn't have aircraft HP implemented.

Benedikt:
Yeah, I use 2.2.1
I'm also wondering why I sometimes can use all interceptors I have and sometimes only one. Do I need a hangar for each aircraft or is it sufficient to have a hangar for each type (small/large)?

PeterBBB:
I use 3 Saracens together. Sometimes lose one, but they always down the UFO. They are fitted with rockets, the gun thing (no aircraft missiles coz they alway seem to miss) targeting comp, ECM and armour.

Also, I wait until the UFO is within range of the base missile batteries, sometimes they down the UFO before my aircraft are up.

You will need extra hanger to have more than 3 fighter aircraft I think.

Pete

Mayhem:
I very rarely lose a plane (in ordinary difficulty, at least).

Taking the advice of a previous poster, I have at each "interception base":

1 Saracen with armour and 2 ECM pods, plus 2 missile launchers.
3 Stillettos with no armour, 1 targeting computer, 2 missile launchers and a cannon.

On detection of a UFO within flight range, I send up the Saracen first, so that the UFO targets it.  Then I launch the 3 stillettoes.  The UFO is decoyed into shooting at the harder to hit, harder to damage saracen whilst all 4 planes unload their missiles at it. 

Ideally this is done within the SAM range of a base with 2 missile launchers, too, and it is very rare for me to lose a plane, and I've never failed to shoot down the UFO with this method.

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