ORIGINAL: Dinglir
ORIGINAL: Telemecus
Or use strategic bombing to keep the production level from expanding. [:D]
I have never really been able to get factory bombing "right". Sending 400+ Ju88's in two daytime attacks on a factory, only to see the damage total at 3% is just plain disappointing to me.
That is true but there are two other points to consider
i) If it is expanding from a low base 1% damage is all you need. Stopping Il-2 factories at a production of 1 a week, T-60 factories at South Stalingrad at only 1 a week, rocket-launcher factories, Yak-1 factories, T-34 factories ... they all lose thousands in production just by your getting 1% damage.
ii) The damage is cumulative but the repair is sequential. Getting from 0% to 3% is not much use. Getting from 45% to 48% on factory that repairs at 3% a turn is as that extra 3% lasts 16 times longer! Building up large damage totals at first can be difficult work, and impossible if the other air commander is on to you. But once you get there it does reap huge rewards.