Confusion on Strategic Bombing

[The Great Santini]

Figuring out the combat effects of strategic bombing is puzzling me. (1)Is the bomber defense and bomber defense bonus added together to detemine the BD of a resource or does the BDB only apply to a unit on the resource? (2) The strategic attack value of bombers(4)is quite a bit higher than the BD of most resources. Is this an inherent advantage for strategic attack? (3) What value of the bomber is being compared against the BD to determine its' expected losses? (4)Do increases in heavy bomber research and anti-aircraft research cancel each other out? If this is so, doesn't the fact that the defender must apply this AA level to each potential target while the attack must only apply bomber research to his few bombers make this more cost effective for the bombers? (5)Since bombers can receive readiness and morale boosts when commanded by headquarters and resources do not doesn't this give an edge to strategic attack? (6) If an air fleet on escort cannot reach the target its bomber is attacking but is within range of an intercepting air fleet will it still attack the intercepting air fleet? (7)If an intercepting air fleet is attacked by an excorting air fleet does it still get a shot at the bomber?

[Terif]

- bomber defence (BD) influences how much damage a bomber takes against this target

- bomber defence bonus (BDB) in contrary protects defending units in this terrain/on this ressource and reduces the damage for the defender

- Anti-air tech only increases the damage for attacking bombers and bomber tech only increases the damage for ressources the bomber attacks.

- bombers will be intercepted by enemy airfleets if they are in range of the target and then there will be an airfight between bomber and airfleet. If there is also a friendly airfleet in range that has not been in action this turn, then it can fly escort for the bombers and this means both airfleets will fight against each other, while the bombers can reach their target without airfight

So the answers to your questions are:

1)No, these are two different values - BD increases the damage for the bomber, BDB reduces the damage for the defender

2)BD has nothing to do with the strategic attack value of the bomber. The higher the strategic attack of a bomber, the more damage it will do to a ressource. But anti-air defence will also increase the damage for the bomber - so with higher tech both sides will simply take higher losses

3)BD of the defending unit is multiplyed with its readiness (for ressources: BD+Anti-air level multiplied with its strength where str 10 is 100%) - as a rule of thumb you can say each point BD means expected losses of 1 for the the bomber when attacking that target

4)No, they only increase the damage for each other (bomber and ressource). Since bombers are much more costly than any ressource, bombers used to reduce enemy ressources are pretty much neutralized with anti-air lv 2+ as then it is too expensive to attack a ressource with bombers only to reduce enemy mpps - then bombers have only a strategic value: to bomb enemy operating centres out of order and reduce entrenchment before a ground attack.

5)The other way around: Ressources have 100% while bombers without HQ are at max 75%, so they need HQs to get also around 100 (+see point 4)

6)No, it only depends on if the target of the bomber is in range

7)No, only both airfleets battle against each other

[Desert Dave]

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[ November 22, 2006, 08:04 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]

[The Great Santini]

Thank you, Terif.