AA and carrier questions

[baronvonmunchausen]

Hi,

Some rules questions.

1.
I am still confused concerning AA.
Say I have an army in Kiev, and both Kiev and the army are upgraded to level 1 AA. When the German tac air attacks, what happens? With my army benefit from the fact that the city is upgraded or not?

Secondary question: does AA also have a limited number of strikes per turn to defend surrounding infantry? If yes, does that mena that if the strikes re used up, and an enemy air units attacks the AA unit, it will be defenceless, or does it maintain indefinite number of strikes when defending itself?

2.
I have a carrier that has not moved. I would like to send out planes to scout some sea hexes nearby. But when I click on the hex, the carrier moves. Only if I have expended all the carrier movement can I send out planes for reconnaissance. What must I do to send out only the planes?

Thank you for your help!

B. Munchausen

[Bavre]

1.
The unit upgrade gives the army better def stats, protecting it and helping it to hit back vs air attack. The city upgrade gives additional terrain def bonus for any unit on that tile that comes under air attack. Note that a terrain def bonus (just like entrenchment) only counts for damage mitigation, it does not help you hit back.

Btw, a good way to find out what does what against what is to do a little hotseat vs yourself. Upgrade some german Westwall hexes with AA, switch sides and hover with an attack of the french bomber over the corresponding german corps. In the center bottom of the screen the corps on upgraded hexes should show (+1.5DB) vs (+1DB) for those on unupgraded.

An AA has 2 strikes to intercept. When those are used up, an attack on the AA will not get intercepted. However the AA will defend itself with its bomber (or fighter) defense against the plane, just like any other unit. Unless there's a huge difference in XP/morale/tech that will normally not go too well for the plane.

2.
Press and hold shift.

[Zeckke]

in a city, dont upgrade AA from city, just upgrade the AA unit infantry

[baronvonmunchausen]

Thank you for the clear answers.

So I guess it is still worthwhile to upgrade a cityAA I want to defend with infantry against bombers, if I have the ressources.It just is not as effective the next level of AA for the infantry unit.

[baronvonmunchausen]

2.
Press and hold shift.

I am playing on a Mac with Parallels, and this does not seem to work. Any Mac/paralleles players out there who know the newsier to this? Or is it my French keyboard?

[OxfordGuy3]

Thank you for the clear answers.

So I guess it is still worthwhile to upgrade a cityAA I want to defend with infantry against bombers, if I have the ressources.It just is not as effective the next level of AA for the infantry unit.

For the AA of a resource to provide any benefit to units defending in it, you usually need to upgrade the resource's AA to 2 (gives +1 AA to the defender) or to 4 (gives +2 AA to defenders), as adding AA to a resource only gives +0.5 per level to a defending unit.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

2.
Press and hold shift.

I am playing on a Mac with Parallels, and this does not seem to work. Any Mac/paralleles players out there who know the newsier to this? Or is it my French keyboard?

Unfortunate Son uses a Mac partitioned to use Windows to play SC games. I'll contact him and see if he can help with your specific problem.