Bridge bombing bug?

[Etude]

I played a game recently where I attacked a bridge with strategic bombers. I got some strange , even nonsensical results. The after battle report said things like '867 vs Bridge 750. Bridge has survived'

How can the bridge survive if I have inflicted more damage points to it that it had at the start?

This was no one off. I repeatedly got this kind of thing. Furthermore if you don't destroy a bridge on the first bombing run, it often seems pointless to continue attacking, you can keep piling on more and more bombers, enough to theoretically destroy the bridge up to about twice over. but the after battle report always says the bridge survived.

Is there anyway of seeing damage details to bridges? It' s easy with cities, you just click the hex and it tells you how much damage.

[ernieschwitz]

Combat in ATG works a little different than other places.

When determining if a bridge (for instance) is destroyed dice are rolled, or rather random numbers are generated. The power of the attack is measured up against the defense. If the attack roll is higher than the defense roll then the bridge is destroyed, if not it is intact. This means there is never a guarantee a bridge will be blown.

So in your case, the 867 result is reporting that the power of the attack is 867, while the defense of the bridge is 750. The two dice are rolled, and it must have come up in the favor of the bridge in this case.

In other words, not a bug, but the way the game works.

[Etude]

Good, thanks! I was almost going to give up on bridge bombing, but now that I know it's not a bug I can continue. It's still confusing and counter intuitive to read bombing reports though.

[ernieschwitz]

I agree. Maybe some show of the dice roll should have been made.

Oh and I forgot one thing. Some scenarios have indestructible bridges. It is a setting in the rulevars, and I cannot remember what number it is now. You can see the rulevars in an ongoing game in the statistics menu.