Carpet Bombing

[Marquo]

I am playing Prelude from B'45 - it is a great scenario for those who have not tried it. One thing is somewhat worrisome to me in the scenario, also in the Kursk game, are the carpet bombing missions.


Carpet bombing (US MIlitary Dictionary)= The intensive bombing of a designated area in a close pattern by many aircraft, usually B-52s, as though laying a wall-to-wall carpet. In World War II the term denoted bombing campaigns designed to clear wide areas for advancing troops.Also called saturation bombing

Carpet bombing ususally takes much time to plan, coordinate and amass payloads; yet in these scenarios these missions can happen several times or more per day. As above, these were usually "campaigns" (like to kick off Cobra), not missions organized on the fly as lower grade tactical responses. My Axis opponent is using his carpet bombers to great effect as a defensive reaction whenever he sees a stack of units approaching his line - within the context of the rules this a great use of the game engine, but it is not carpet bombing.

Marquo :chin:[/b]