Ground counter for strategic bombers?

AA -anti air.

Defense against air attacks.The higher the level AA you have the better.Depends on the level strat bombers,not sure how many AA you need.

Only way for you to see it is to test it physically.

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Vanrendo wrote:

Only way for you to see it is to test it physically.

Anti-Air is kindof a solution.

Warning: ground units actually use their attack damage to hit back at planes bombing them (not the defence damage). The AA's attack damage is much lower, so it kinda isn't even good... you'll need high-level AA. With the benefit of higher levels moving faster, so you can arrive sooner at places you need to protect.

But it is very difficult vs strat bombers if you aren't an active invested player and your opponent is. If you can't use Interceptors to defend, you ultimately need a ground invasion to take the enemy out. I'd rather omit the AA entirely and focus on spamming more army so I can follow up with more destruction invading my opponent. But if you're on equal footing (can't decimate opponent in 24 hours), I guess AA is your best option. Preemptively built Fortifications could block most of the building damage, but that is kinda an awkward choice. So much forts costs too much food and goods.

My fav strategy would be some Axis medium tanks + mot infantry moving in, seizing enemy airfields and land until he can't fly his bombers from anywhere. Assuming you're in late game. If you're in early game (day 3-6), it might be unwise of your opponent to invest into strat bombers. You could take advantage of this with decisive full-scale invasion.

Just use war bonds to kill air bases. Planes are worthless now.

6thDragon wrote:

Just use war bonds to kill air bases. Planes are worthless now.

1. you have to scout the airbase, which might be up to 1800km away, given strategic bombers are used.

2. opponent can easily spam lv1 airbases everywhere, you're spending 4k WarBonds per action, he's only spending like 1.6k resources per airport. Due to manpower shortages you aren't able to utilize all resources anyway, so the decision to use them to spam airports kindof doesn't cost anything.

3. you still need to be very active to counter planes this way, especially long-range ones. Even before WarBonds I mostly used bombers against less active players, cause that's what you take advantage of.

Only if there's no storage limit, average players will stock up 300k WB and then spam it at random things as if the bonds were worthless. That will be a pain yes. I don't think planes are worthless now. I bet you I can win/survive a WaW using half planes/half ground units right now