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"Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 2:01:46 PM

olperfessor

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(1) On some bombers' Air Unit Information Screens, we see a numerical representation of bombing accuracy (e.g. "Bombing Acc: 24%") which I used to guess was calculated using the individual pilots' ratings (so that transferring experienced pilots in or out would change this rating), a nice shorthand way for us to estimate a unit's effectiveness or need for training.

But then I found a unit with "Bombing Acc: 0" (and of course some with no accuracy rating), despite having pilots with some skills. So this accuracy seems independent of the pilot mix. Is this a representation of the unit experience, presumably reflecting ground crew and staff experience? I'm not looking for details of how it is calculated, just a general sense of what it represents.

(2). The "Major Skills" that some air units have (e.g. "air," "land bombing" or "defensive"). . . are these achieved by the totals of pilot skill ratings in the area? Or based on the unit's past missions?

Apologies if answers appear elsewhere in the forum. I looked.

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 2:10:36 PM

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Bombing accuracy is calculated when your units actually fly attack missions. Bomb hits out of bombs dropped.

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 2:20:12 PM

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Presumably the Bombing Accuracy Percentage is just "historical" and does not effect any future mission (?).

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 2:28:01 PM

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It is just information how your unit has been performing.

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 5:50:26 PM

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Are you sure this is accurate? I have several Dutch units with bombing accuracy numbers which I KNOW have never flown a mission.

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 5:57:58 PM

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Are you sure this is accurate? I have several Dutch units with bombing accuracy numbers which I KNOW have never flown a mission.

Are you certain? I once thought so too, but I had disbanded a unit who had a few pilots with a couple of missions and they were recruited into a different unit, and now that unit had a bomber accuracy rating i think.

check the PILOTS screen and see what their mission count is.

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RE: "Bombing Acc" and "Major Skills" - 2/22/2010 6:00:45 PM

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Ah, that might be it... I'm pulling pilots out of certain units and pushing them into others in order to create a few combat units and some non-combat, training only (unless the SOBs are at the gates in which case even the training units will be thrown into the fray ) units.

So, probably I have some of my better pilots from other units in those units and they must be giving them the pretty high bombing % rates.

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