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ORIGINAL: rustysi

Strafe (must be trained at 100 feet).

I do it at 1k all the time and it works.

This is true for attacking, but I am talking about training when I say 100' to train strafe. I usually train LowG first at 1000' and Strafe skill does NOT increase at that altitude.

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Strafe is pretty much a wasted skill to train in. Under powered and the costs of attacking at low level is harsh even for strafers. It is the bomb that matters and does the killing-so train in bombing skills.

You have to choose the circumstances. I took a Japanese base in Malaya and kicked out the Japanese AF Unit that was there - into Jungle/Rough terrain.

I did not have the infantry units to spend two weeks marching into the hex to eliminate them, my bombers had other targets and there were very few enemy air attacks, so my three fighter squadrons (2XP-40E and 1X Hurricane IIc Tropical) had little to do (and no other location that had enough air support to go to). I had trained them in LowG and Strafe to broaden their experience.

So I put them to work on the AF Unit (Ground Attack, 1000'). They both bombed and strafed and at first there was little visible effect. But as their disruption rose and my fighters got more experience with this mode of attack, disablements began to appear and eventually those became destroyed squads and devices. It took about three weeks to completely eliminate a unit of about 2200 troops (mostly support/engineers). The unit was out of supply and there was no flak. I sent frequent recon (Hurricane PR - too short ranged to use anywhere else) to keep up the D/L for the attacks.

The fighter guys got a nice boost to their experience level and to their Defensive skill. And I did not have to worry about the homeless unit marching onto the rail lines.

A Jap BF would be a rough equivalent of Chinese infnatry - no proper AA weapons to speak of.They might have as well tried to shoot down the Allied aircarft by throwing coconuts at them.

I did an image search looking for a Homer Simpson with slanted eyes, no luck. Anyways:

Chinese infantryman:

"Coconuts, mmmmmmmm!"