Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: dr.hal

Could it be that you are making a tenuous association? Normally one puts one's flak guns around something worth protecting. Even the AI does this. Could it be that the computer is simply triggered by the things that the flak guns are protecting? Obviously detection level comes into play here, but I've never heard that the DL level singles out any type of weapon, such as AA guns on which to base its detection. So the computer is responding to something, but I doubt it's AA guns alone or even in general. Unfortunately for your pilots those AA guns are effectively protecting something that DID trigger the discretionary attack. Other factors such as the target's base size, AF size, numbers of troops, etc., seem much more likely to trigger a discretionary attack IMHO. By association those targets might just have lots of AA capabilities as well. Just a thought.

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

quote:

ORIGINAL: dr.hal

Could it be that you are making a tenuous association? Normally one puts one's flak guns around something worth protecting. Even the AI does this. Could it be that the computer is simply triggered by the things that the flak guns are protecting? Obviously detection level comes into play here, but I've never heard that the DL level singles out any type of weapon, such as AA guns on which to base its detection. So the computer is responding to something, but I doubt it's AA guns alone or even in general. Unfortunately for your pilots those AA guns are effectively protecting something that DID trigger the discretionary attack. Other factors such as the target's base size, AF size, numbers of troops, etc., seem much more likely to trigger a discretionary attack IMHO. By association those targets might just have lots of AA capabilities as well. Just a thought.

Correct.

S.7.2.1.7.1 of the manual lists the relevant factors taken into account by the computer when it selects the target. The only time flak is taken into account is when the air unit is set to fly at 100'. Pilots tend to object flying directly into concentrated crossbow/longbow range.

Alfred