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Title: new big city question
Post by: jolly22 on January 18, 2010, 02:29:07 PM
Ok, just a question here...Why cant we just bomb anything??  The city is pointless if we just cant bomb anything. If your going ther eyou might as well bomb anything. You ave about 5-10 seconds to hit your target before you overshoot. Plus the lag is crazy if you going over low.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Spikes on January 18, 2010, 02:30:19 PM
Why would you want to bomb anything? It won't help the 'war effort' as much as hitting troops, or ammo, would.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: jolly22 on January 18, 2010, 02:31:20 PM
What does it matter???  When you bomb the troops or ammo or anything, in what way does it help the war effort???? 
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Strip on January 18, 2010, 02:31:56 PM
With the pinpoint accuracy we have now your saying the target isnt big enough?

In certain areas you can bomb everything, consider the non-bombable areas high valued civilian or historical areas.

Like the Vatican or many different other historical churches....

Strip
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Spikes on January 18, 2010, 02:32:07 PM
Slows down the regeneration of troops/ammo at airfields.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: jolly22 on January 19, 2010, 01:06:59 PM
Slows down the regeneration of troops/ammo at airfields.

I didn't know that......Say you get it down to 50%........Does it take 50% longer to regenerate?
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Spikes on January 19, 2010, 03:52:34 PM
Erm....not too sure about the actual timings...might need one of Lusche's pie charts or something...:)
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Wedge1126 on January 19, 2010, 03:59:39 PM
Actually, it might be interesting if you took a penalty for hitting the unbombable areas.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Ghosth on January 20, 2010, 06:21:56 AM
Say we are talking just about troops.

If you properly take down the city first, then the training strat.
I think you can be looking at a lot more than 50% respawn time.

Normal respawn would be 15 min?

I think if you did everything "right" that you could change that to over an hour. Possibly 2 hours.

Then you'd still have to go kill all the barracks at the front line fields to have an effect.

Where's one of those experts when you need one?

Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Wingnutt on January 21, 2010, 11:25:57 AM
Well in real life, especially at night they did pretty much bomb whatever..

I think it would be nice if hitting anything did indeed cause that building to be destroyed, and show in the buffer, and count as points.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: thndregg on January 21, 2010, 01:42:41 PM
Strat works in a chain. The more damage to City, the longer the rebuild of factories. The more damage to factories, the longer the auto-resupply of base strats (radar, ordnance bunkers, barracks, ack). It is all percentage based.

http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/levelbombing/levelbombing.htm
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: MadHatter on January 21, 2010, 01:51:38 PM
The 81st hosts strat runs as often as we can. From what we can tell (based on the help site description) if you knock the industrial center down to 0% it's supposed to take 3 hours for it to rebuild. If you knock the training facility down to 0% it would take 3 hours but it requires the city to rebuild. So if you hit city, then training, you can effectively knock out troops for 6 hours. The most damage we've been able to do is knock the city down to 4%. My question is the flak towers in the city, are they considered part of it? It takes 20,500 pounds to drop the city (by specs, using 84x250 pounders, we always use 500's) but if you throw the flak towers into it (just the 2 in the industrial center itself) that numbers jumps to 92,500 pounds.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: 321BAR on January 25, 2010, 08:18:29 PM
Well in real life, especially at night they did pretty much bomb whatever..

I think it would be nice if hitting anything did indeed cause that building to be destroyed, and show in the buffer, and count as points.
uh uh. the americans and the british took totally different approaches. british night bombing killed thousands upon thousands of civilians and no strategic targets. it was pure anti morale against the germans. the americans day raids would only attack major war facilities inside those cities such as bremen with its production factories.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: jolly22 on January 25, 2010, 08:54:49 PM
uh uh. the americans and the british took totally different approaches. british night bombing killed thousands upon thousands of civilians and no strategic targets. it was pure anti morale against the germans. the americans day raids would only attack major war facilities inside those cities such as bremen with its production factories.


but still ended up killing civilians.
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: texastc316 on January 26, 2010, 04:43:37 PM
Would like credit for the civilians
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Flayed on January 26, 2010, 05:57:47 PM
just don't bother with the Fuel factory it's totally useless to bomb.    And I don't know why but so many times I've gone to the city and the one and only thing that anyone has hit is the Fuel factory even though it does next to nothing now... 

  Noobs?
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: jolly22 on January 26, 2010, 06:00:29 PM
just don't bother with the Fuel factory it's totally useless to bomb.    And I don't know why but so many times I've gone to the city and the one and only thing that anyone has hit is the Fuel factory even though it does next to nothing now... 

  Noobs?


People just like seeing the flames!
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: guncrasher on January 26, 2010, 11:20:29 PM
just don't bother with the Fuel factory it's totally useless to bomb.    And I don't know why but so many times I've gone to the city and the one and only thing that anyone has hit is the Fuel factory even though it does next to nothing now... 

  Noobs?

fuel factory serves as a beacon for next buff formation.  also makes a nice bbq.  btw bombing anything on the strats is really a waste of time, other than to pad the score or for fun. 

semp
Title: Re: new big city question
Post by: Plawranc on January 26, 2010, 11:45:21 PM
On the history quote the Brits DID hit industrial targets.

Instead of using precision bombing like the USA, they just destroyed the City the factory(ies) were in.