"I have played a couple of France 40 campaigns and don't recall interdiction causing too much havoc."
The problem with interdiction comes with the German level bombers designated 'carpet' bombers in V-mods; and there are a lot of them: Normal programmed air interdiction makes a not too powerful occasional hit on a unit in travel mode or RR mode. That then gives the German player a clue as to where a column is and the German may then recon the area and spot the units in column: and then send in hundreds of the carpet bombers with devastating effect! In the older scenarios, when Luftwaffe units were not carpet bombers, the German player couldn't do this. However, in the 1940 campaign, French units were forced to move along roads and RR at night because the
Luftwaffe did indeed control the skies; so this feature of the game is probably very realistic. I guess the level bombers were made into 'carpet' bombers to reduce the power of German ground attack aircraft and it did so. But the side-effect was to make
der Luftwaffe an extremely powerful interdiction force operating on two separate phases: the 1st being the normal programmed interdiction which is now long-range recon, and then the mind-blowing follow up with close air recon followed by carpet bombers. Still though, the problem is that there is no let-up; in that
der Luftwaffe fundamentally doesn't lose any inherent strength anywhere along the line, ever.
jonny
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