There is a bonus for having more planes than the enemy (even if 75% of your planes are from 1936). Heavy Fighters cost more production than light fighters. Not researching everything in the tree is one of the things that separates a smart human from the stupid AI.Ĥ. Fighters also have no carrier variants which is a problem if you are Germany and want to fight the USA (often the navy of Japan is reduced to nothing and the americans have 200+ ships). Heavy Fighters are a luxury because they are essentially a technological dead end (there is no jet heavy fighter). To make a long story short fighters+naval bombers can defend 1 sea zone away from an airfield and tactical bombers+heavy fighters can defend up to 2 sea zones away from an airfield.ģ. Note that in the same way as naval bombers are better at killing ships than tactical bombers fighters are better at killing fighters than heavy fighters the difference is primarily range. Heavy fighters can be used to defend island outposts better than fighters due to longer range. Having longer range means you need to rebase the planes less often.Ģ. This is marginally helpful when pushing into certain countries that have sparse airfields (namely russia after you push in deep). You use heavy fighters as a luxury item when you are lazy about max range. The first thing to learn when playing a game like HOI is that history often gets thrown out the window.ġ.
