Ver Haff All Zee Bombers Gone?

[Shiva]

75HE is rather weak or we have some damn strong town buildings.

Well, if it takes a 250-lb bomb to blow a town building, then since most blast-effect bombs had a bursting charge of about half the weight of the bomb, that means that it takes 125 lbs of high explosive to blow the building. A 75mm HE shell has, IIRC, about 5 pounds of explosive as a bursting charge. Since it takes less than 25 rounds from a Panzer to kill a town building, I'd say you're getting a bargain.

Requiring 2500 pounds of bombs to destroy a hangar is a game-balance mechanism; clearly, the relatively light construction of the typical aircraft hangar could be destroyed by relatively small bombs; however, making aircraft activity dependent on the survival of the hangars requires that hangars be made hard enough that it takes some work to destroy a hangar.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by AtmkRstr
Tour 2 – 8.6%
Tour 8 – 11.9%
Tour 14 – 10.4%
Tour 20 – 8.8%
Tour 26 – 8.3%
Tour 32 – 3.7%  (11.0% Divided by 3 because of formations)

This isn't exactly accurate because of confoundment with C47s and naval bombers, but that 3.7% is quite shocking none the less.

"The following list shows the percent of bombsight equipped multi-engine strategic bombers that are shot down compared to all aircraft (and vehicles) that are lost per tour. (B-17, B-26, Boston, Lanc, AR-234, JU-88, & KI-67) "

That's why I didn't include navy and dive bombers (and goons).

The exception is the Ju-88/Jack-of-all-trades Level, dive, and torp bomber.

The point is still the same though: bomber use has dropped significantly.

eskimo