BoB, 1940: Did not LW send bombers over England, targetting the RAF airfields? What was their purpose? To piss off the RAF, or to cut down on the RAF's defensive capabilities? IIRC, it was the latter, and that example can be used here.
Well, unless the furballers are willing to accept much heavier field-porking, I don't think that HTC's going to do much in that direction. The problem is that, if you look at the actual
usage of bombers and jabos during the war, and compare it against the MA, what we have is a mess. The early war tactical bombing was performed by dedicated jabos like the Stuka and light bombers like the Ju-88, but by the late war, tactical bombing had been taken over by the heavy fighters, with light bombers no longer being the most effective close-support weapon. And in the MA, because there's no restriction on what plane people pick to take up (except for the perked ones), tactical bombing is an air environment that is no longer survivable for the light bomber at low altitude, and inappropriate for the heavy bomber at high altitude. Jabos
are the light bombers of the late war -- four P-47s could carry more bombs than one four-man Ju-88, and be less vulnerable to interdiction.
1) How does one prevent against the uber-ostis? As it sits now, especially on something like the pizza map, one Osti is a far better choice than an entire squadron of B17's or Jabo's...its more deadly offensively against ground targets, faster to get to target, and more defendable. Point here is that if all else stays the same, at least on the pizza map, all you'd do is further negate the need for buffs. With hardened targets the uber-37mm of a single Osti would still take out an airfield structure without issue...or strat ones for that matter.
It occurs to me that the problem with '
die überFlaK' could be addressed by adding another type of ground object. We already have FlaK emplacements to defend towns, fields, and strat targets from aircraft, and we have shore batteries to defend against naval vessels. But a FlaK emplacement is -- or should be, if the armor model was done right vs. light HE rounds -- a poor choice for defending against ground vehicles. If the towns, fields, and strat targets had PaK (
Panzer
abwehr
Kanone -- anti-tank gun) emplacements that would attack incoming enemy GVs, that would thin out the Ostweenies.
PaK emplacements at towns and small fields would likely be two or three 75mm PaK 40 in bermed emplacements (the gun is already modelled for the PzKpfW IVH, so it doesn't require a new weapon definition); a medium field would have the same number of emplacements, but in concrete bunkers like a shore battery, and a large field would have five or six emplacements in bunkers. Vehicle fields would have one or two open PaK emplacements. Strategic targets would likely have a PaK bunker near each corner, towns might have a pair of open PaK emplacements at diagonally-opposite corners.
