Do port attacks destroy fuel?

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Nomad

A note, I am the one who did extensive testing on the supply destruction in witP a very long time ago. the destruction was NOT exactly 1% but it was close.

I suspect, like many things in WITP/AE, that 1% is the baseline and sometimes gets modified by various factors.

I'd like to see a MASSIVE EXPLOSION random for supply stockpile hits in some future day/patch/expansion. Ammo dumps burn and explode at least as much as shipboard magazines, and probably more if they aren't in deep bunkers or in mountain-hollowed magazines as at Guam.

The supply destruction from very large airstrikes always seemed a bit too low to me. One percent per is nice, but not decisive. Low-level, late-war Allied attacks ought to be pretty fierce, with napalm (first used at Tinian), WP, and rockets.

[Alfred]

Agreed. I do, not infrequently, see a single strike torching up to 5% of the fuel/supply stocks (depending on whether it was an airfield or port strike). With multiple airstrikes on the same base occurring in the same turn (=day) you might in effect have torched anything up to 8-10% of the stock at the commencement of the day. That is not an insignificant outcome, however in the real world had the same number of successful strikes been achieved, the net torching of stock would have been much more, to the point that the base would be effectively out of fuel/supply to operate fully at 100% the following day (not to mention the physical damage inflicted upon runways, docks etc).

Alfred