Benzy wrote:
Well the Germans will have aircraft to deploy, the Allies did have air superiority over France but the Luftwaffe still contested the sky over France with a few thousand aircraft. Tactical bombing by the Germans on the western front was less common but was still a frequent enough occurrence, plus we saw an image before of a Stuka blowing something up so we know that fighters will have their role to play.
I disagree, by the D-Day invasion, not only had the Allies gained air superiority, but it can be argued they gained air supremacy. According to 1 soldier, he only ever only saw 1 Stuka during the entirity of the war, and that was at Carentan during the early days of the invasion. That being, a soldier that was never once taken out combat from June 6th 1944, to May 8th 1945, only for the 2 months from July to September 16th, and a short lull in December but being taken back only a few days after R&R due to the Battle of the Bulge. In game, of course the Germans will have a chance to contest the skies, historically, they could only muster up 1000 planes for their "big" offensive in December and nothing more, albeit with pilots with less than 20 hours flight time. Allied supremacy was obvious, even on the D-Day beaches days after the invasion, a conversation was heard by Eisenhower and his son, John Eisenhower, a newly graduated West Pointer.
*John after seeing vehicles of all kinds driving bumper to bumper, completely against doctrine*
John: "You'd never get away with this if you had air supremacy."
Eisenhower: "If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here".