@largowin said in Strategic B R - an anti-aircraft gun destroys immediately or not?:
Rules:
Page 8 : « For each “1” that is rolled, one plane is shot down and immediately removed »
Page 15 : « A. The defending player fires his AA gun by rolling one die against each attacking aircraft (bombers and any fighter escorts). Each roll of “1” scores a hit and the number of hits is noted. »
For a Strategic Bombing Raid, f I understand correctly, an anti-aircraft gun has the same effect as an ordinary unit that sends enemy units into casualties instead of immediately removing them from the game?
The rule you quoted on page 8 refers to AA guns in normal attacks. In such case, the casualties are removed immediately.
It works differently in Strategic Bombing Raids, as reflected in the rule on page 15. In that case, the attacker’s casualties (the escorting fighters, anyway) still get to fire against the defending fighters before being removed. However, the attacking bombers are removed before they can attack the Industrial Complex.
I have another general question for attacks. (Should I make another post for this?)
Why does it always say that the defender should note the losses instead of sending them immediately to the casualties? When I played with my nephew, every time we shot an enemy unit, we put it in the casualty area, outside the battle board opposite his column, and the defender would then fire back with it one last time on the counterattack and that’s it.
I’m not sure what you mean. The only place I can find that casualties are “noted” rather than moved to the Casualties area is during Strategic Bombing Raids, and that’s because the battle board is not used.