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Piiska -> Air to ground - casualties still excessive? (12/30/2002 9:37:22 PM)
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I’m playing 2.20 (Fresh install, new campaign 17, head to head) and I’m still seeing air strikes causing sometimes surprisingly high casualties. In one strike from PM to Lae, 9 Hudsons caused 468 casualties on a strafing run. I know this got tweaked, but perhaps not so for all the plane models. Also 70-150 casualties are reported frequently by flights of 10-20 medium and light level bombers attacking at 6000 ft.
Is this fog of war, or is the damage really so extensive?
I’m also trying to figure if fortifying your bases helps against the air raids? Does the terrain count?
I just can’t imagine that attacking an army base in a jungle with 10-20 medium bombers can really kill that many grunts; when even today with all sorts of smart weapons and cluster munitions, aided with precision targeting, it seems to be very difficult to kill infantry on the ground.
Sure, on an occasion an infantry group can suffer horrendous losses, but to lose regularly more than 50 men seems…hmm odd.
How was this historically in the pacific? Were the (air) bases so vulnerable to air raids? How about Okinawa (level 9 fortress)? I thought that in spite of massive air and naval bombardment, the Japanese didn’t sufferer very high casualties. Disruption and loss of stationary equipment can surely be inflicted, but how about the actual loss of life?
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