If Britain purchases nothing but bombers, the Germans will gain more I.P. swing than the bombers can inflict. If BRitain purchases tech, they are simply hoping on a wing and a prayer. All the tech suck for Britain but heavy bombers and maybe longrange aircraft. If someone purchases a whole bunch of bombers just run over them with land units. Build an A.C. in the south to fill out your fleet once you have ramped up I.P. with Germany and then move it up north and land on them. If BRitain does nothing but build bombers they become inconsequential. Sure they take out more money that it cost them to build but they also have far less money than your mighty German empire. If they invest allot of money in tech and get lucky they get lucky. Full on bomber is a crap strategy. The Axis is really hard to play. Try to be more efficient on the eastern fornt and don’t lose tanks. Lose infantry. Very often you see people say that the everyone gang up on GErmany strategy works. It doesn’t, a frugile and efficient Germany can hold out and do severe damage while an unchecked Japan will soar up to insane revenue. Frugile, efficient, and conservative GErman play and strong Japanese play are required. Don’t pay attention to the advice on sites to build a factory with Japan. Build trnasports. Always attack Pearl Harbor. If the U.S. doesn’t engage the Japanese in the Pacific, Japan should crush Russia easily and the game will turn towards the axis as Russia is left staring at their 8 I.P. per turn without bombing runs.
Strategic Bombing Raids… bugged???
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New to this web site but not to the game.
My brothers and I play often (online) and have noticed that during SBR’s we hit for 5 IPC’s about 80% of the time. 1,3 and 6 combined, show up about 5% and 2’s account for 5% and 4’s about 10%. We have also noted that when an AA gun is not on an IC we hit for 4 IPC’s about 80% of the time with all other numbers showing up w/ the same frequency for the ramaining 20%. When SBR-ing with 2 Bombers the numbers seem to be totally random, however if you split the bombers up (example; UK has 2 Bombers ad SBR’s Berlin with one and South Europe with the other) for the raid we get a 5 with one every time and a 4 with the 2nd bomber maybe 50% of the time but that second bomber is also likely to hit for 1,2 or 3 or 5, never seen a 6.
I’m not sure if this all makes sense but you get the idea.
Could this be a bug? I can’t tell you how many games we play into the 18 - 24 round and no one loses any bombers (and we do a lot of bombing withouit worrying about getting shot down). We have actually had to set a limit on bombers being built to compensate for the bug (if indeed it is a bug).
Anyone else have this problem???