Originally posted by Goblin
If you have not factored the additional 10% casualties that you will recieve from your own Strike Aircraft, you should not be in command. Turn command over to the second in command.
Goblin
Collary to tip #3: If your exec is not aware that it's 10% additional casualties
per strike element purchased you should just press F9 now and go catch a ballgame on TV.
Collary to the collary: Attempting to affect the above 10% casualty rule by purchasing extra AA with the intent of shooting down enemy aircraft (thus only subjecting your troops to damage inflicted by your own aircraft) will be generally unsuccessful (It's called "ack-ack" for a reason... "Ack! Missed him! Ack! Missed another!")
Collary to the collary to the collary: In the extremely rare case where your AA crews
do actually manage to shoot down an enemy plane, the anticipated corresponding lowering of casualty rates will immediately be negated by the wreckage of the aircraft shot down landing in the center of your heaviest troop concentrations, inflicting mass suppression and casualties equivilent to what the aircraft could be expected to have achieved over the course of the battle had it not been shot down.
Collary to the collary to the collary to the collary: In the most unlikely event that your own aircraft
do not bomb your own troops,
and your AA units managed to shoot down an enemy plane,
and the wreckage somehow does not land on your troops causing casualties, then all of your artillery units will
immediately become confused by the situation and all further bombardments for the rest of the game will only land where they will do the least damage to the enemy and the most damage to your own forces.
(Remember, these rules are for your own protection, and the protection of the free world. Should you ever actually "win" a battle without grevious casualties you might get the idea that war is "fun" and attempt to invade Poland.)
