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Arkham -> RE: Is strategic bombing broken? (7/5/2014 10:22:40 PM)
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I don't use tons of night missions, but i have few bomber losses. I don't send out the heavys every night, only every few nights. I've been doing it more lately as part of operation exhaustion.
Typically i send about 4 -5 squads of mossie level bombers deep into Germany turf around 8-10 PM. Then around 10 PM i have the 205 squad hitting a southern german city like Munich. This drags all the night fighters after them and when they are trying very hard to intercept the fast bombers my heavies are going in to another area all together. The mossies also capture good radar data for use in jamming. I typically send about 150 bombers to each city in the city cluster area. For bigger cities I send raids of 60 bombers in with initial points at the 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock and so on positions. They all hit at the same TOT, but they bomb different areas of the city so 500 bombers are not hitting the same area over and over. Setting different initial points is very important for this.
at the same time i have all my Halifax ECM's (24 bombers total) sitting on top of all the radar stations around the target cluster. When i watch the map and have radar ranges turned on, i typically only get one long ranger circle around the area I am hitting, everything else is shut down. I hardly ever lose bombers for this.
I need to get better about timing my night intruders however, so i can get more camp kills from NI's landing.
Using this method I have taken cities from 10-20 urban damage to about 70-90. Plus this way does not cost me a ton of missions or time to set up. Its a huge pain in the butt to do it the way described in the war room.
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