ORIGINAL: Devonport
Going well. You are getting decent Bombing VPs now, what is your strategy? I think that a higher number of targeted attacks by Bomber Command and 8th Air Force seem better than fewer, larger attacks on a wider area, but I have no evidence to justify that. I haven't been able to get the VP numbers that the experts have.
Well compared to NOSBs 18-19 bombing VPs per turn, I thought 13 was pretty mediocre. I think I maxed out at 15 points a few turns ago, but bad weather has meant no missions for a few turns now. At this point in the game I had not even used Strategic/15th AF for strategic bombing. I am just playing the AI here so I am being very lazy with my bombing strategy. Bomber Command has had the same AD almost every turn, namely to bomb within a 3 hex radius of Dusseldorf. Priorities are Manpower and HI. I have about 1000 bombers in BC, so I set about 10 strikes of 100 aircraft each. I am only bombing 2 days per week. Meanwhile 8th AF has been bombing a variety of targets outside the Ruhr: Berlin, Leipzig, Schweinfurt and others. Whatever my recon says has a lot of HI. Sometimes I will just bomb 1 or 2 specific hexes/cities; other times I will bomb within a certain radius. Of course, every few turns I have to divert 8th to bomb the u-boats.
On the ground you seem to be heading for the Alps! Is that the strategy or will you go for the city points at Rome soon?
My long range plan is to push the Germans to the Alps. But my objective here was simply to stretch the German line by attacking wherever it was weakest. If the Germans were weak on the west coast I would have attacked there, if they were weak in the middle (unlikely with all the mountains) I would have attacked there. I don't worry too much about City points. My objective is Berlin before the New year. Of course, against a human opponent I might have to think differently.
