Gen.Hoepner
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Joined: 9/4/2001 From: italy Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent Hi Gen, glad to see you back on this forum. Well, my impression was that the programers never reall ysaw a problem with airfield night bombings. After all, the fact that B-17 weren't used at nbight doesn't mean they can't be. And as we have no historical result, WITP results may be good... Of course, what is wrong is the whole ability to have 100 B-17E bombing a Burmese airfield at night... In RL only some tens of Allied heavy bombers were able to fly each night over Burma, even in 1944. Night bombing is not in formation but a lonesome business and so few AC will attack to avoid collision and so on. Especially for attacking an airfield. In fact, most aircraft not flying should be on satellite airfields or on dispersals and airfield bombing should be far less dangerous, at day or at night... Game will be far more realistic if all aircraft of stand down units, or flying in another phase than the current phase, will suffer far less losses than now... Some units get decimated on the ground, yes, but it was because they were ready to fly, or because they were in overcrowded airfields. WITP doesn't care... As for the game is now, only home rule can limit night bombing. My own rule is that night bombing of everything except manpower is limited to a squadron (or a third of a group) from each starting base, and it keeps the result very historical. Manpower attacks (area bombings) are unlimited, so the example given above are OK according to this rule. On the other hand, I have never dealt damage to Allied industry or resource/oil centers with manpower attack, Japanese bombers had just not enough bombs to do enough damage. But with 31 manpower hits it is possible there is some real damage, but certainly far less than with a day bombing raid. Thanks Laurent. Really happy to be back However,night bombing remains a thing that needs, really bad, to be house-ruled
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