Singleplayer Conquest Campaign enemy bomber help

[jswarpaint]

Ok so what is the plan when defending and the enemy bomber flies around and bombs ya .. how to defend against this ...

Also, ... so the more units I field in a battle the more the enemy fields .. ??

If so I should field a small group of elite units rather than a bunch of stuff ??? Assuming if I field a small group of elite units the enemy AI will only field a small group too ????

[KARMA]

aircraft are broken and need to re addressed.

[Moses]

against aircraft you need flak cannons.

[Balalaika]

Aircraft seems to target large concentration of units or most expensive units. You have two chances to take it out. 1. Initial fly by. 2 Bombing run.

Make sure you bring at least 2-3 AA units with you and deploy them with or behind your heavy units or artillery. They will automatically target the plane. Air is non issue.

[Saxhorn]

Move your units. AA doesn't work well enough against aircraft . The chance of the AI shooting the aircraft down with manually controlling it is small.

You can try to shoot the aircraft down with an AA unit using direct control but should you fail one of your units is going to eat a bomb.

Don't forget you can pause the game select a unit unpause the game and give the move order. This way you can move all units you think might be the target.

[jswarpaint]

Originally posted by Saxhorn:

Move your units. AA doesn't work well enough against aircraft . The chance of the AI shooting the aircraft down with manually controlling it is small.

You can try to shoot the aircraft down with an AA unit using direct control but should you fail one of your units is going to eat a bomb.

Don't forget you can pause the game select a unit unpause the game and give the move order. This way you can move all units you think might be the target.

Thanks for all the replies .. I figured the AA was like you said even though I just started playing this . one can research AA but its better to keep units spread out etc.

Regarding the Pause thing .. a game l like this should only be attempted if one can Pause AND Give Orders which I realize is impossible one must do what you say pause find the unit unpause give it an order .. blah blah blah ...

Steel Division 2 enables one to give orders with a Pause this is essential though vacant in Ostfront ... essential to be able to perform because the computer gives 100 orders at once ..

There is a slow down setting but I have not fooled with it yet. Would be epic if one could pause and give orders.

[Saxhorn]

Game speed can only be changed in the single player engine.
Conquest uses the multiplayer engine so you can't alter the game speed.

[Tiniturtle]

all nation have halftruck with flak canon
3.7cm flak can shoot down any bomber in this game

[underd0g]

Originally posted by kanchoanego:

Aircraft seems to target large concentration of units or most expensive units.

Not always true. Once I had a single soldier, that I had sent ahead of his squad, targetted by a bomber. It looked very stupid, but then again war is always stupid.