AARHE: Phase 3: land Combat

This is always the way I thought bombers should work.

When included in a ground battle, the bombers would sore in and sweep the area, allowing the ground forces to get ready and attack while the opposing side confused. Bombs were not dropped while units were engaged with the enemy within the cities.
With that being said,

A bomber fires in the opening step, casualties are removed immediately. The bomber may stay in for 1 more turn and repeat it’s opening fire step with a cost of 1 movement or it may fly into a second combat situation, sbr or battle.
If the bomber starts out the resolve combat phase in a SBR, then the AA shots fire first, followed by the bombers 1 die at IPCs, at this point the bomber may fly into a different combat situation, or stay in the SBR at a cost of 1 movement and enduring another AA shot before rolling a second dice at the IPCs.
In a naval battle, all kinds of air units were subject to anti aircraft fire from gun placements on battleships, therefor, I believe that aircraft should endure AA fire in the first round of combat, unless they are accompanied by a surface ship.

I know I am forgetting something and I will post it later.

RD

@Imperious:

Yes and thats something you wanted a while back… i think it would reflect the war better… the air combat values have to be possibly modified to the 1-2 range or entire air force may get wiped out in a single turn.

Oh no. Imperious Leader. I thought we could do multiple cycles of dogfighting already? (with dogfighting values and as long as you have land units left in the territory)
I only made a small change from that.

@rawdawg:

A bomber fires in the opening step, casualties are removed immediately.

Yep currently we let bombers fire in opening-fire. Althoght it is dogfighting rather than bombing if the other side has air units too.

So we are going to allow bombers to dogfight? Or are they going to have to take hits with out being able to hit the fighters back?

They are more like “stuck” to dogfight… Wouldn’t you rather bomb the IC without facing the fighters…

hm…

so you want to make BMR like 0/1 in dogfight…basically struck to “dogfighting” until enemy planes are gone…

and then for SBR, BMR can somehow skip the dogfighting…I mean we not allowing multiple cycles for SBR so it has to be

so you want BMR to dogfight at 0/1
what about Heavy BMR? Jet BMR? actually its “Advanced BMR” now

there is more to think about before having that “MP = no of rounds of further combat” rule
say it only applies when you the air units in question can’t land/rearm there

*when you have no land units and enemy has land units
for SZs
*when the “naval fighters” have no carriers to land on in the SZ, or
*when its non-naval air units fightting in SZ

and there has to be a friendly territory adjacent to the combat zone
and we still got to think what if there was pending combat in that friendly territory

I am actually ok with the current rules
“At the end of a land combat cycle, if only one side has land units remainig the other side must retreat.”

or the older version
“When only one side has land units at the beginning of a combat cycle, the other side must retreat at the end of the cycle unless those land units retreat at that time.”

then we allow 2 cycles instead of 1 cycle of air combat without friendly land units
so its works out the same, without being complicated

yeah this 2 cycle further combat thing precludes unlimited cycles of air combat while you have land units or carrier capacity

but then I just realised

“When only one side has land units at the beginning of a combat cycle, the other side must retreat at the end of the cycle unless those land units retreat at that time.”

still only allows for 1 cycle not 2

I have difficulty trying to formalise/word the air interdiction rule.

How does it interact with normal combat?
Is it a limit to air interdiction power with interdiction units relative to interdicted units?
Shall we limit it to BMR’s saturation level bombing…

Its complicated.

What you’ve mentioned before is not detailed. I was trying filling in the gaps but found it complex.

Special combat: Air interdiction

During your turn BMRs may be placed in territories on air interdiction missions. The BMRs do not participate in combat this turn and remain in the territories until your next turn. Interdiction missions in a territory is cancelled if there are enemy air units at the end of your turn, at which point the BMRs retreat to friendly territories with remaining movement points. During the enemy’s turn, each land unit moving into or out of a territory under your air interdiction mission rolls a dice a the end of “Combat Move” phase for each BMR. On a 1 the unit is destroyed, on a 2 the unit fails to enter or leave the territory. Interdiction missions in a territory is also cancelled if enemy air units attack the territory during the enemy’s turn. Normal land combat occurs in this case, except the BMR may only retreat to a friendly territory with the remaining movement points from your last turn.

Unlike close air support, air interdiction missions attack and disrupt movement of enemy armies, rather than working in direct support of friendly armies.

If it take a lot of space dont worry ill do it all…

Or we could go without it :-P

That sounds great.

ok I change

“Interdiction missions in a territory is cancelled if there are enemy air units at the end of your turn, at which point the BMRs retreat to friendly territories with remaining movement points.”

to

“Interdiction missions in a territory are cancelled if there are enemy air units at the end of your turn, at which point the BMRs retreat to friendly territories with remaining movement points.”

and

“Interdiction missions in a territory is also cancelled if enemy air units attack the territory during the enemy’s turn.”

to

“Interdiction missions in a territory are also cancelled if enemy air units enter the territory during the enemy’s turn.”

During discussion of Straits Interdiction (Gilbratar, Denmark, English Channel…) we thought air units should be included.

But currently we have already…

Defensive Air Support (DAS)
Declare in enemy’s turn, air units can defend in adjacent territory or sea zones instead.

Air Interdiction
Declare in your turn, air units stay in a territory and remain there until next turn or interrupted by enemy air units.

So I propose changing Air Interdiction to a rapid response movement like DAS. Declare during enemy’s turn.That way it goes along with Strait Interdiction better.

I don’t want a special/extra air interdiction within Strait Interdiction because thats not a good model IMO. Fighters can’t be in two places at the same time.