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rader -> RE: Pacific War 3.0 (No Encircled please!) (4/1/2021 8:20:55 PM)
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Hmm, interesting occurrence. My partner/opponent Richard isn't happy with the ground bombing. He sent me this note with the latest turn:
Note:
Small point
En masse ground bombing with medium bombers at 6000 feet when you can produce as many Helens as you want (1/2 bomb load of an allied HB), and I can't bomb with my limited pool of heavy bombers at below 10000 feet is a little bit exploitive I feel
Here's my reply:
Hmm, that never even occurred to me, but happy to discuss.
In my late war games, ground (and airfield) bombing is the bane of the Japanese and I expect it to shred my forces in 1944+ - which is precisely why I asked for a HR to limit it to 10K feet. I thought it was acceptable here because I expected to be on the receiving end of it later. From my perspective, it's also well within the acceptable but annoying pain of having to live with unstoppable night bombing that just chews up my fighters for negligible bomber loss. I expect that to wreck my cities eventually. Seems like the problem here really is terrain - in clear terrain, ground bombing is uber effective. In bad terrain, it doesn't do much. But I'd be ok with some kind of limit on both side for medium bombers too - altitude? Limit of 10K or 15K for all level bombers on ground bombing? What do you think makes sense?
Question:
Any thoughts on what should be done here? I'm sympathetic to his point but I think the Japanese player also has to put up with a lot of Allied uber-bomber stuff so not sure what the best compromise is.
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