Strategic bombers dying

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  • In addition to Jacques answer, strategic bombers are a very poor choice against units, so it takes a long time to destroy 6 tanks. Each patrol tick attack will also cause the return fire defense of the tanks to damage the planes.


    The stated result is logical to me.
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  • VorlonFCW wrote:

    In addition to Jacques answer, strategic bombers are a very poor choice against units, so it takes a long time to destroy 6 tanks. Each patrol tick attack will also cause the return fire defense of the tanks to damage the planes.


    The stated result is logical to me.
    Yes, next time, use tactical bombers to destroy units and strategic bombers to attack buildings. Naval bombers are (obiviously) for naval units. Interceptors are good for everything.
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  • I'm sure what @obsidian_order meant is: How could a tank damage a strategic bomber in reality? Strats were flying at an altitude that was way out of range for the weapons tanks could use as air defense (machine guns).

    You only answered that it's an explicable result in CoW - which I'm sure was obvious to @obsidian_order already when writing his question. He certainly only meant to say that such battle results could never occur in reality. With which he's right.

    Unfortunately, with how CoW is structured, it's not easily possible to correct this. A second armour class for planes flying and attacking at high altitude (i.e. strats) would be needed. Would then make sense to introduce heavy AA, which would be able to defend against them (but on the other hand be much more expensive, slower and weaker against unarmoured ground targets than light AA), while all other ground units would hardly be able to damage strats (unless landed).

    But I probably wouldn't blow up complexity of the game that much (as an additional armour class would) just to model this one aspect realistically, so I think this should rather be kept as it is.
  • SirMcSquiggles Jr. wrote:

    Strategic bombers are nice as a damage absorber, but otherwise I tend to avoid it. You want to try to take a province with as much morale and infrastructure as you can, not destroy it.
    Yes, I only use it to bomb capitals in special cases.
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  • Bombing runs were frequently done at lower altitudes in order to locate targets, bringing planes into reach of ground weapons.


    In actual WW2 events, planes were frequently lost due to malfunction, navigation errors, or other things that aren’t simulated in Call of War. So if you want to match gameplay to reality these losses due to accidents are accounted for by the defense values of units even when it would not be “practical” to you.
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  • I guess the bigger question would be why are Strategic bombers hurting my tanks at all?

    The only precedent is carpet bombing in France during D-Day breakout. Strategic bombers should have fractional effect on ground units but also fractional damage from AA.

    The allies did suffer moderate damage from Strat bombers when bombing German cities in WW2 but these cities were very heavily defended with AA (concentrated and even placed in special AA towers) not spread out on the battlefield.

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