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Maallon -> RE: Reduce air lost form flak (9/2/2021 10:16:14 PM)
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There is no definitive answer to that question as it is very situational.
Accuracy depends on altitude, weather, night or day, moonlight, crew skill, enemy cap, terrain of the hex, detection level, concentration of troops, fortification level and probably some more variables that I don't know or remember at the moment.
Flak strength depends on how many anti-air devices your enemy has in the hex and also what kind of devices.
If you want to avoid flak entirely, you can look up the anti-air devices, that your enemy likely uses, in the in-game database, every anti-air gun has a maximum ceiling.
But as a a general rule of thumb, if you are loosing a lot of bombers to flak -> fly higher and compensate the reduced accuracy with more bombers.
Often the only way to find out if a base has heavy flak (or flak at all) is to probe it with an attack.
Knowing the gun ceilings can help you a lot in deciding which altitude to use, let's say your enemy has two types of guns at his disposal:
A Light AA gun with a ceiling of 8000 feet and a heavy AA gun with a ceiling of 12000 feet. (The numbers are fictional)
Now, if you encounter heavy flak during a bombing mission, first try to bomb again at 9000 feet and see if flak is still heavy.
If not, your enemy only has light AA guns at the hex and you can safely bomb him from 9000 feet.
If you still suffer flak losses, your enemy has heavy AA guns at the hex and you need to go to 13000 feet to avoid them.
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