Yes it does, but if the intended goal was to lower the defense of overstacked armies, clearly they didn't succeed because it leaves out of the picture three very important cases:
1. Artillery exchanges (being a range attack, there is no defensive fire)
2. Naval combats of capital ships (for the same reason)
3. Airplanes patrolling or attacking land units (the planes receive defensive fire, never use their own, and the increase in hitpoints more than compensates the less efficiency, in many cases, due to better damage control).
If these cases were minor or rare it wouldnt be an issue - but clearly they are major part of the game.
EDIT: To put some numbers into this, in order to be concrete.
Let's suppose that (around Day 14) you face an army of
8 AA Lvl2
8 Infantry Lvl3
6 LT Lvl2
8 arty Lvl2
6 AT Lvl2
and you want to attack it with planes. Your air fleet consists of 15 interceptors, 15 tac, and 15 strat all Lvl2.
If you do a test, you will see that by far the best strategy is to send all your planes together (no splitting, sbde, or whatever strategic concept). Furthermore, if you have more planes, you simply add them as well - the more the much better. Effectively by adding more planes you add (a small amount) of attack, a big amount of defensive hitpoints, and you can laugh at the notion of "efficiency".
Since there is no ceiling in this, there is neither strategy or optimum.
1. Artillery exchanges (being a range attack, there is no defensive fire)
2. Naval combats of capital ships (for the same reason)
3. Airplanes patrolling or attacking land units (the planes receive defensive fire, never use their own, and the increase in hitpoints more than compensates the less efficiency, in many cases, due to better damage control).
If these cases were minor or rare it wouldnt be an issue - but clearly they are major part of the game.
EDIT: To put some numbers into this, in order to be concrete.
Let's suppose that (around Day 14) you face an army of
8 AA Lvl2
8 Infantry Lvl3
6 LT Lvl2
8 arty Lvl2
6 AT Lvl2
and you want to attack it with planes. Your air fleet consists of 15 interceptors, 15 tac, and 15 strat all Lvl2.
If you do a test, you will see that by far the best strategy is to send all your planes together (no splitting, sbde, or whatever strategic concept). Furthermore, if you have more planes, you simply add them as well - the more the much better. Effectively by adding more planes you add (a small amount) of attack, a big amount of defensive hitpoints, and you can laugh at the notion of "efficiency".
Since there is no ceiling in this, there is neither strategy or optimum.
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