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Bomber Squadron FAQ




Bombers are the special forces of the air corps, with excellent offensive but poor defensive capabilities. They attack at a '4' and defend at a '1' and have 6 movement points. Bombers also have a special attack called a Strategic Bombing Raid where they can attack the Industrial Complexes of enemy nations. On these attacks, if they survive the AA fire, each bomber causes 1-6 IPCs worth of damage to an enemy's current IPCs in hand.
  1. Q: If a bomber engages in a strategic bombing raid on a territory, can it also participate in attack on the same territory?
    A: No, a bomber can only be involved in one type of combat movement - it must choose to participate in the battle or exercise its special ability to engage in a strategic bombing run of the territory.

  2. Q: If a bomber engages in a strategic bombing raid on a territory which is taken over in the same turn, does an AA Gun located in the territory still get to fire at the bomber?
    A: Yes, an AA Gun is allowed to fire at all air units which engage in combat movement over a territory that is controlled at the beginning of the turn by an opponent.

  3. Q. Can an air unit provide a potential retreat territory simply by flying over it on its way to the battle?
    A: Yes. A territory qualifies as a legal retreat location provided that at least one attacking unit came (not necessarily originated) from it, and provided that this territory is friendly after all combat has been executed.

  4. Q. Can an air unit provide a potential retreat territory by overflying a battle site and returning from the other side?
    eg. Russians have forces in Karelia, and wants to attack E.Europe, and retreat to British occupied S.Europe sometime after the mandatory 1 round of fighting. So 20 INF enter E.Europe from Karelia, 2 FTRs take off from Karelia and fly over E.Europe, to S.Europe, and then return to E.Europe, can the attacking ground units retreat to S.Europe?
    A. Yes. However, if E.Europe has an AA-gun, it gets to fire at the plane(s) once when they fly over, and another time at the surviving plane(s) when they come back to E.Europe for the battle itself. If no plane(s) made it to S.Europe (due to being shot down by the AA-gun in E.Europe during the initial flyover), then no unit entered the battle from S.Europe, and thus S.Europe no longer qualifies as a potential retreat location for the ground forces in battle in E.Europe.
This page last updated January 5, 2000 by Micwil.

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