Strat Runs

[SuBWaYCH]

Do people consider major raids on strat targets (a.k.a City/Ord factory) dweebish or lame? I actualy think that carpet bombing strat targets is a lot of fun. Sorta puts you in the cockpit of a 44' raid into Germany. Ofcourse, coming across 163's and 262's and such make it even more exciting. I'm just wondering what other people have to say about this.

I consider milkrunning 1 person most of the time.


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P.S. i was the guy that lead that big Strat run onto Rook City and AA factory Tuesday night. Was tons of fun to all that participated!

[DoNKeY]

Was there supposed to be a pic?  Not getting one.


donkey

opps forgot to answer.  I don't think it is, unless someone shows up to ruin your party, and you run.

You talking about doing this in bombers or jabo?  If jabo, see above.  If bombers, and you come in at 3k, prepare to be called a noob.

[Ghosth]

Strat targets are there, they are part of the game as it was designed.

As such they are valid targets, be it a single ju-88 milk run to training to bring bomber score down. Or a full on raid on city with several planes. Knights should do MORE of this not less.

Knights need to learn to pork troops & Ord across the front more often.

Hit em wherever and however you can.

[thndregg]

I wish these targets were bigger, more dificult to get at, and more heavily defended by AA and fighters alike.

[MjTalon]

I do small/major mission buff raids to strats from time to time, and i'm primary rooks. There not dweebish or lame because they are assistancing your country greatly by knocking out the next countries ammo fact/city/radar. IMO its more important than capping a base.

[Speed55]

If that's what you have fun doing, then it's niether dweebish, or lame.

Originally posted by thndregg
I wish these targets were bigger, more dificult to get at, and more heavily defended by AA and fighters alike.

I'd like to see the cities from the combat tour pictures incorporated into the MA's, with 2 or 3 sections of the same sized strat factories that we have now built in.

[BlauK]

If he strat areas had a bigger impact on gameplay the player themselves would see them worth protecting. Now it is pretty much just the same whether they are up or down.

[Speed55]

I agree Blauk.

[crockett]

They are pretty useless to hit IMO. In most the strats can be resupplied before the bomber lands his plane. Only time it's worth while, is if your team has captured the closest base to that start to stop the resupplies.

[Rich46yo]

When I bomb strats I almost always go against Knit ones. They have some very good sticks who will go after bombers. Its true that one flight of bombers against a strat will have very little effect on the game but how often have you bombed frontline bases only to have them back up and running by the time you landed?

                     You cant play this game to please others. To some people everything others do is "dweebish or lame". Most of all those who chose to fly bombers. Really, who cares what others think?

                      Bombing strats is "fun". Myself and Talon once took 2 B-26 formations out, reduced a city from 100% to 50%, and on the way back took out a 262 and a 163 with our guns. What could possibly be more fun then that?

                     I love these bombers AH has modeled. Enjoy them too and play the game the way you like. Better yet become a Rook and join us sometime on strat runs.

[blkmgc]

Originally posted by BlauK
If he strat areas had a bigger impact on gameplay the player themselves would see them worth protecting. Now it is pretty much just the same whether they are up or down.

Agreed. The strat pieces are in place, they need to be tweaked a tad though.

[BlauK]

I myself cannot resist going after enemy bombers
That is why I am all for anything that would make me see more of them.

[BaldEagl]

One set of bombers can do a lot of damage to a strat.  Lancs can easily bring one under 50% (the threshold at which there is an effect for hitting them).  Heck, last night I flew a set of AR234's over the Knight city and dropped it to 75% by myself with only the 9 500Kg bombs I had on board.

I rarely, if ever, see anyone trying to resupply strats.

[1Boner]

If you can knock down the cities, then pork the strat, it will have a bigger impact on the down time of the strat.

Not to sure, but I think if you also hit the HQ in addition to the cities and strat that will also increase down time.





Drinkin heavy at 30k,

Boner

[BaldEagl]

Cities supply strats which supply fields.  HQ has no effect on this.