Precision Bombing

[Lucarse]

Another annoying question,...
Under patch 1.29 what is the behavior of precision Bombing?.
I have the vanilla version so of course the bug in this prevents these strikes.

Does the strike allow you to target specific buildings (usefull if you want to destroy the barracks or coastal fortress?) or is it random if so how is this a precision strike??

Please explain ???.

[spy14]

It's a ramdomly targeted building. Or civilians if no buildings are left. Kinda semi-precision then. What gets me about it is that you get Stealth aircraft many turns before precision weapons...

[Lucarse]

I find this annoying, i can see the real life breifing....

'Now B2 pilots we have this little invasion planned and we really want you to take out the barracks but any building will do..especially the library..they'll have nothing to read!'.

hmmmmm

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Lucarse
I find this annoying, i can see the real life breifing....

'Now B2 pilots we have this little invasion planned and we really want you to take out the barracks but any building will do..especially the library..they'll have nothing to read!'.

hmmmmm

I think when you select a city for PB, a list should appear giving you a list of targets to pick. Factories, Harbors, and Airports would be prime targets.

[Lucarse]

exactly!

[Lucarse]

Thrawn who is your new avatar i heard it came from a US tv show???

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by spy14
... What gets me about it is that you get Stealth aircraft many turns before precision weapons...

Well, you COULD get precision weapons first, if you went out of your way to do so ...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Lucarse
Thrawn who is your new avatar i heard it came from a US tv show???

It's from MST3K, the Prince of Space episode.



Yes, a list of buildings/units would really make PB very powerful. If they did that... and unlock the 8 tile distance in the editor I would start building planes.

[Chemical Ollie]

Precision bombings suck.

If you bomb a city you normally would like to achieve some goals, with this order of priority:

1) Reduce HP on defending units
2) Kill population to prevent cultural flipping and reduce metropolis defence bonus
3) Destroying improvements is not on this list, except for some rare occations

Precision bombings do things in exactly the wrong order.

I don't know if anything is changed in 1.29 but this was how it worked in the last patch before that.

[reefer addict]

i used it well in my last game, i took central america from the aztec but didnt have the units to keep grabing there cities, so i p-bombed the ones near my new cities on the border and took all his close cities down to one population point and blew up everything that was producing culture. i havent had any problems with culture flipping in the modern times due to this style of containment, and my enemies are not producing very much near the front.

[Thrawn05]

I find bombing period bad. I don't build planes and carriers because I can send all those bombers in and all of them fail. HOW DO YOU FAIL BUSTING UP A ROAD!

Can someone in the Real-Life department tell me a time in WW2 were a bomber or fighter FAILED to bust up a rail road!

[vmxa1]

I do not mind if bombs fail to go off once in a great while and if they fail to hit the target more frequently, but not to the level they do now. They are more a pain than anything, but I will make a few. They are are to eventually wreck improvements.

[Fitz]

Thrawn, go read Catch-22. At one point they bomb the wrong village.

[Akaoz]

Originally posted by Thrawn05 Can someone in the Real-Life department tell me a time in WW2 were a bomber or fighter FAILED to bust up a rail road!

*cocks an eyebrow*

That depends. If the allies needed a piece of rail blown op in northern France around June '44, they had enough planes to blow it away.

But, around that time they had problems getting the bombs to hit within miles of their targets. That was with American daylight bombing. With the British night raids it was even worse. In general something less the 10% of bombs dropped landed within 3 miles of it's target.

In the modern era this has improved somewhat though.

-Alech

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Olaf HÃ¥rfagre
Precision bombings suck.

If you bomb a city you normally would like to achieve some goals, with this order of priority:

1) Reduce HP on defending units
2) Kill population to prevent cultural flipping and reduce metropolis defence bonus
3) Destroying improvements is not on this list, except for some rare occations

Precision bombings do things in exactly the wrong order.

I don't know if anything is changed in 1.29 but this was how it worked in the last patch before that.

Olaf, what you want to use are Cruise Missiles. They target only defending units.

If the tool called "Precision Bombing" does not suit your concept of it, then come up with a concept to suit the tool. It seems that PB is for causing ruin to the enemy's infrastructure, so use it in their backfield.