Best way to fight tactical bombers

Numbers do matter, if they didn't, 1000 militia would be the same as 1 militia. However, micromanagement and tactics are still a integral part of the game. You are able to beat opponents with more units then you, as long as you are skillful and tactful.

To prove it, here are some pictures of my FIRST game ever (7+ months ago).

As you can tell, I'm Egypt, and currently the #1 player in the game. By day 5-8, every player has gone inactive except me and Germany.. until France awakes..

He managed to conquer a lot in less than a day, which led me to believe he was using gold like crazy.

Turns out, I asked him, and he was indeed using gold, so he sent a ally request to me, and I accepted, then I immediately canceled his vision to me, sleazy, I know, but I got a good look at his massive 100+ LIGHT TANK army, without him looking at mine. (it looks like medium tanks, but I checked each stack, he had at least 50, and they were a lot more out of picture.)

I prepared for invasion(he attacked Germany and took my lands in Algeria after they rebelled), built a ton of rockets, anti-tank, and tactical bombers(he did have AA), as well as subs and battleships... but he ended up accidentally crossing paths with my units, causing us to war each other. I could tell this guy was a noob, because he immediately assumed I tried to attack him, and retaliated as such.. which put me in a seriously bad position.

Fortunately, the bulk of his forces were pretty crap, and he wasn't the best player in the world, so he just sent hordes of light tanks at me, but I built a large defensive force of AT and blasted him with rockets and tact bombers. I sent light tanks to scatter through his territory and destroy his economy, I also destroyed ~25 units trying to cross waters because he had no sea protection, something that is also vitally important in this game.

Eventually I won with 1/3 of his army size, the ONLY reason is because of my sea power, tact bombers, AT, and rockets. I ruled the ocean, allowing me to go easily into his core territory, and I ruled the sky, allowing me to endlessly barrage him.

Jacey521 wrote:

Numbers do matter, if they didn't, 1000 militia would be the same as 1 militia. However, micromanagement and tactics are still a integral part of the game. You are able to beat opponents with more units then you, as long as you are skillful and tactful.

To prove it, here are some pictures of my FIRST game ever (7+ months ago).

As you can tell, I'm Egypt, and currently the #1 player in the game. By day 5-8, every player has gone inactive except me and Germany.. until France awakes..

He managed to conquer a lot in less than a day, which led me to believe he was using gold like crazy.

Turns out, I asked him, and he was indeed using gold, so he sent a ally request to me, and I accepted, then I immediately canceled his vision to me, sleazy, I know, but I got a good look at his massive 100+ LIGHT TANK army, without him looking at mine. (it looks like medium tanks, but I checked each stack, he had at least 50, and they were a lot more out of picture.)

I prepared for invasion(he attacked Germany and took my lands in Algeria after they rebelled), built a ton of rockets, anti-tank, and tactical bombers(he did have AA), as well as subs and battleships... but he ended up accidentally crossing paths with my units, causing us to war each other. I could tell this guy was a noob, because he immediately assumed I tried to attack him, and retaliated as such.. which put me in a seriously bad position.

Fortunately, the bulk of his forces were pretty crap, and he wasn't the best player in the world, so he just sent hordes of light tanks at me, but I built a large defensive force of AT and blasted him with rockets and tact bombers. I sent light tanks to scatter through his territory and destroy his economy, I also destroyed ~25 units trying to cross waters because he had no sea protection, something that is also vitally important in this game.

Eventually I won with 1/3 of his army size, the ONLY reason is because of my sea power, tact bombers, AT, and rockets. I ruled the ocean, allowing me to go easily into his core territory, and I ruled the sky, allowing me to endlessly barrage him.

MihailMD wrote:

why haven't we seen your strategic genius in the player's league??)

Also, is that going to stick with me forever? It's going to be hard to out live this shame apparently x.x

Jacey521 wrote:

Also, is that going to stick with me forever? It's going to be hard to out live this shame apparently x.x

Actually I attacked 3, and two of them only had 5 territories, I sent 3 units into both of those, and the rest of mine into Central China. My lands weren't defenseless though, I had like 10 militia and many units when you invaded, I just gave up whenever I saw you invade me, I was doing too much stuff irl

Jacey521 wrote:

Actually I attacked 3, and two of them only had 5 territories, I sent 3 units into both of those, and the rest of mine into Central China. My lands weren't defenseless though, I had like 10 militia and many units when you invaded, I just gave up whenever I saw you invade me, I was doing too much stuff irl

I had been building a lot of militia, and the AI didn't take most of my units, I still had 8 left, again, I didn't even try to resist you because I didn't care. and 15-20k troops? check that again, I lost 10,516 and Central China lost 21,635. So I literally had more than half of what I started with left. (If you start with 25,000 troops, as Central China did, I didn't even get to destroy him) I had 6 provinces producing militia and 6 other cities producing other stuff. If I would've had the will and my allies to back me, I would've stopped you.

I just didn't care, I even quit another game and gave my stuff away because I was (and still am) busy with other stuff, and I didn't want to get overwhelmed by CoW again.

Jacey521 wrote:

I had like 10 militia

Paramunac wrote:

Jacey521 wrote:

I had like 10 militia

Wow, militia. I see where is the problem

10 militia on top of what I already had x.x

Just use fighters to patrol over your advancing forces. Any TBs attacking your ground forces will have heavy casualties due to attacking into a fighter patrol area.

I killed 40+ tacs and 50+ fighters this way just the other day without a single loss to my own planes.