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More than likely - the game is limited by the programming & I believe bombers take pretty good losses when going after ships with decent AA, though they do better against shipping.

It is hard to recreate the historical situation, so the programmers have to make their best guesses as to what is and isn't possible.

I haven't noticed dramatically higher losses on strafing runs against lightly defended ships, but you do see the morale drop.  The skip bombing is also a product of experience.  High experience pilots will do it more often.  In a recent game against AI, I sent an experience 90 B-17 group in a 100 feet against a transport convoy near the Admiralty Islands.  I lost one B-17 to flak and one to operational damage, had about a half dozen damaged and lost about 10 points of morale on a single mission.