borsook79
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ORIGINAL: Borsook It's a good idea, we should be able to destroy bridges both by air and artillery attacks, it did happen quite often. Did it happen quite often in 1939/40, later in the war the allies had a comprehensive campaign to destroy bridges prior to D-Day and used enormous air power to achieve it (using multiple strikes and numbers of aircraft that the Germans could only dream of). The Germans probably did not want to destroy bridges in 1939/40, therefore, we don't know how successful they would have been, whilst the Allies demonstrated total failure to destroy bridges with air power. I'm sorry but this is not a good argument. Stukas were quite good at this task, indeed in 1939/40 Germans did not try to destroy bridges very often (actually they used dive bombers to prevent the enemy from destroying the bridges). But why should it matter? This is a game, not a movie, if the player wants to attempt to destroy bridges by aircraft he/she should be able to do so, regardless of the fact whether it is a good move or not. How do we know that Stukas were 'quite good at this task', how many bridges were destroyed by Stukas at this stage of the war. It doesn't matter why they were not used to destroy bridges, they just weren't. Stukas were very effective, as they did not have to hit the target to disrupt and demoralise forces, during the Meuse crossing at Sedan, constant dive bombing failed to hit most of the fortified positions, but did effectively suppress them, to assist the crossing to take place. However, to destroy a bridge you have obtain direct hits, nothing less will do, my point is that there is little evidence to assess how effective airpower in 1939/40 was in destroying bridges. I agree, this is not a movie, where the bridge goes up spectacularly when required, so how does the game designer set the odds for how easy it is to destroy briges, when there is so little data to work from. Of course direct hit is necessary, but this was the main strength of this plane, being able to score very precise hits. That is why they were used to prevent destroying of bridges, they targeted little buildings which contained the controls of the charges I can't see how they could miss a bridge, which has been shown by the later stages of the war.
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