Carpet Bombing

[Ricky B]

And you must be playing the VM version of the games, Marquo - the carpet bombing rule was added to represent specifically the planned extremely heavy bombing attacks by the allies at Normandy, I believe. But VM took the rule and added it to most level bombers to show their inherent innacuracy, since they should at least sometimes miss their primary target and wander up to 2 hexes away. As with most uses of rules in a way they weren't designed for specifically, the result is what you see - and my big concern is they can be deadly against a big stack, but then always a pleasure to see an enemy CB attack wander into the dropper's own troops.

So if it bothers you enough, you can play the standard versions of the scenario, or make your own alternate version of the alternate versions of VMs and switch the bombers back to regular. You are correct that these are not technically carpet bombing missions, just a use of the rule for other purposes.

Rick