Carpet Bombing

[Ricky B]

...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.

Well, actually "carpet bombers" have appeared "normally" in PzC long before I put them in the _Alt scenarios (and it wasn't just for the planned level bombers in N44). As a random example, the Blenheims in the stock F40 game are "carpet bombers" and there are many other examples from the stock games where carpet bombers are used outside of N44. So needless to say, I don't feel like I am using them in some unintended way. All I merely did was made some logical standardization out of the chaos so that instead of having some bombers in some PzCs as "carpet bombers" and the same such bomber in another PzC as a "bomber", I simply decided that all real world bombers of the period who were classified as "level bombers" should be "carpet bombers", and this works logically IMO.

Hey Ed,

Sorry I maybe didn't phrase it better, but I wasn't trying to say you were the first to do it outside of Normandy, or that it was a bad use, or anything, just that when the setting/rule was developed it was to represent true carpet bombing and the impact of that. The standard games have used them for a few specific models, your assignment to all level bombers works too.

As I mentioned, my only concern has been the huge difference in effectiveness against a big stack vs a small one - I have killed 150 men, deployed, in a Minsk game on occasion and that seems a bit high for the number of bombers involved (12 I think? but maybe more), but not unreasonable either considering everything. I guess my thought is that it was intended for the heavy bombers originally, I believe, and that causes the rule in other usage to be VERY effective, when the bombs hit the target.

Rick