Bombers, twin-engined and multi-crewed aircraft: Issues and suggestions.

[csThor]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

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I'd even go so far to decrease the points for aircraft and/or increase the points for ground targets. Ground targets is what air warfare is all about, fighters are merely there to ensure/prevent that.

I'm not a fan of that, either, simply because individual ground targets are not a criteria to evaluate the performance of a medium bomber. Theirs were are targets such as railway stations, critical supply roads and all those things which the military calls "lines of communication". IMO anyone who flies a bomber, Stuka or dedicated ground-attack aircraft (but not fighter-bombers) should get a point value per survived mission, maybe 0.1 points so that 10 survived missions equate one aerial victory over a single-engined fighter.

The problem with area targets in general is that they'd need to have a function so that damaging or destroying them would have a direct impact on certain aspects of gameplay. But for that a full-blown supply system would have to be programmed and that is a beast to do right.