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I just need some help with general strategy.

1) How do you decide which targets to bomb, fighter suppress, NI, recon?
2) How do you decide strike size?

I am just trying to grasp basic bombing strategy.

Any help will be appreciated. [&o]

Thanks,

LOL

think how the big boys felt ?

and what 60 some years later, they are still arguing who was right

but...

your goal (if we talking BTR) is to gain AS over France before the landings take place

so, that means you want to cripple the LW, now you can do that a number of ways, but knocking down planes and pilots is one of the good ones, but, with out stopping his production of aircraft, it is just numbers, you have to weaken the pilots while trying to slow down the numbers of planes built

you also want to knock out his war making protental, which is Steel, Rubber, Alum, Ball-Bearings and Chem, which, in the long run, also will hurt his production of Aircraft

it is a twisted web

even worse, then the big boss are going to be stepping in and telling you, hey forget about that, hit this, Sub Production gets too large, you are going to have to knock down the Factories making subs, the V-Weapons get too strong, you will need to shut down the V-Sites (or hit the V-Factories), you may also get to hit some Sub Pens (not a happy day in any bomber crews career)

In the beginning....try to survive [8D]
Use BC for railroads, ports and area bombing...and for targets inside cities.
In the beginning try to be carful with your strategic forces (8&15 AF)
Hunt down the LW with your tactical forces for a local air superiority.

Later try to concentrate on a certain cluster of targets:
- aircraft industry (AFAC, EFAC, CFAC, ARM, ALUM,....)
- oil industry (OILS, OILR, FUEL, RR, PORTS and A/F!!)
- weapon industry (ARM; STEEL; RUBBER........)
- resources (STEEL; RUBBER; ALUM)
....and some other combinations

One question really arises when speaking about possible targets to hit:

Electric power plants: they are supposed to give energy to all the other industries. Knock this one out, and you've shutted a lot of enemy production off.

How does this work in the game?. I mean, if you "kill" an electricity production center will it affect the surrounding factories only? (would be the previsible thing in real life). Or does the game engine calculate all the electricity production for a given turn, then calculate global production?.

Let's say, a 5 electricity power plant is bomber to rubble (100% damage). Does this mean the factories in the immediate vicinity now suffer penalties from receiving 5 less points of energy, or are those 5 points from the total, and then it affecs the whole industry (as the like of there are, say, 5000 total electricity production for the germans. With that damage now there are 4995 so now all factories production are reduced by that %).

Even taking that in account I think that german power plants are a very attractive target...close them and you've killed a whole bunch of birds with just one shot...

thanks in advance [:)]

POWER is hard target - you are welcome to try it [:D]
5700+ points with a critical level of 1500.......

it is a very large power grid, damage one part and the rest can help cover the load, but I would say, that if you shut down the power around a city, you will get some effect to that city

the hassle, as Swift is saying, shut down the power, most large cities, which held the most Production, also have alot of power stations around them

cripple the power around Lipzig and Halle, will take some work

in the long run, cripple the power and you cripple the production, but that is a major job

(after the war, the thinking was, it wouldn't of been as HARD as everybody thought, the grid wasn't as strong or robusts as the experts had thought)

now.......

if you want to get into the what if's or why for's, or what the hey's

there was a Rubber plant in Poland, very large, and it never made one ton of rubber though out the entire war, but the power supply to the plant, could of ran Berlin, which was one of the largest users of power before and during the war

and in the Harzt (?) mts, there was another underground factory, that also had a power supply as large, and nobody even had a "guess" as to what it was suppost to be making, they destroyed it before the war ended