The more attack points against infantry that you have the quicker they die.

Want to get rid of those pesky airplane convoys quicker? Put two or three 5-squadron wings of higher level tactical bombers on patrol overhead, and watch the convoy melt away.

I just tested it yesterday ingame 2 times, 1 light tank lvl1 vs 1 air convoy, in both times the air convoy dies in 2-3 combat ticks.

We also confirmed that in our combat calculator, by making 1000 test calculations, with the same result.

When the fight takes much longer, it must be because of some special circumstances or bugs. For example:
Sometimes your troops capture the province before attacking the air convoy, due to the "unit jumping mechanic", then both are standing in the province center without fighting at all. That may be the issue in some of these cases. To circumvent that, always give another move or attack order to trigger the fight.

I remember (or think I remember) that this was the case when I started playing this game. An airplane convoy of multiple planes was usually destroyed in the first hit from nearly any unit, which I think was a bug that was fixed somewhere along the line.


Of course when an airbase is located in a city that is captured by an armored unit you have to remember that the armored unit is fairly weak in cities. Only using half their strength.



Now there are some cases where airplane convoys defend themselves and do damage back to their attacker, but that doesn't always happen, so it is hard to duplicate.

Well, as far as I know, that's not supposed to happen.

My biggest aggravation in the past is when I catch a wing of 6 or 7 or more squadrons on the ground, defenseless, with a vastly superior ground force (usually a vast moving column of armor and mechanized infantry) and it still takes several hours to kill those supposedly defenseless aircraft convoys. Of course, this leaves the attacking force pinned down and subject to a variety of counter-attack tactics with rockets, nukes, etc. This is why I have taken to killing off grounded aircraft convoys with tactical air and/or fighters, because they can kill off the convoys more quickly and they don't leave an attacking column of ground units stuck in place for hours.

I agree it is not supposed to happen. There are a few, and I mean very few, reported cases of this and I have never been able to duplicate it. So it could be reporter error, or perhaps there is some circumstance that triggers it, but until we can duplicate it we simply have to assume that there was another force or unit involved.

Air convoys have no attack or defense so that is puzzling.