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RE: Is strategic bombing broken? - 7/5/2014 10:22:40 PM

Arkham

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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.

< Message edited by Arkham -- 7/5/2014 11:24:13 PM >

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RE: Is strategic bombing broken? - 7/5/2014 11:29:08 PM

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http://www.filedropper.com/save008

This is a save i quickly threw together with the above tactic. I took Mannheim from about 10 percent urban damage to 80, at the cost of 25 bombers. And considering I had 1200 bombers going out, a 2 percent loss rate is not terrible at all. Furthermore, 10 of the losses were due to AA, so only 15 bombers were actually shot down. Three nights later i've totally recovered and ready to do it again.

Also, i normally would not have flown so early due to the moon giving light. I typically only go out when the moon is not up. My losses normally are much lower.

[edit] I also did nothing to camp the NI's. Enemy losses would normally be much higher.

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RE: Is strategic bombing broken? - 7/6/2014 6:43:04 PM

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Nice concentrated attack.

For a higher Terror and Industry score you could attack multiple small cities, and attack in the City circle (damaged site + Terror).
In a PBEM your plotting would be deadly for your crews, but against the AI the tactic works better than I thought it would.

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RE: Is strategic bombing broken? - 7/7/2014 1:36:06 PM

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I've noticed that the lowest ready luft amount shown in the campaign summary is starting to slowly drop. It has been hovering aroune 4002 for the past few weeks, but its going down now and currently is sitting at 3950 or so. Is this due to the pilot shortage starting to take effect?

Every day I KIA at least 15-20 pilots, some days even better.

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RE: Is strategic bombing broken? - 7/17/2014 1:20:28 AM

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Its now for me early April '44, and I still can't break the f'ing Gustov line. Oh well, keep pounding I guess.

I am having an interesting result with my campaign against luft pilots. A few game days ago I had 90 pilots KIA and another 100 or so wounded. As I kill more and more, less and less planes are able to take off and be damaged. So I am now seeing a result where I get something like 4-500 luft sorties during the day, and 3500 available planes. Thus, my AS score is dropped to two since there are so many ready planes.

All these planes sitting empty on the runways without pilots to go break them. Kind of funny honestly.

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