My planes don't defend themselves

It is because he had 12 fighters lvl 2 who are pretty strong against your 5 tac bombers and only 5 figthers. He lost some morale, that's for sure, but you suffered bigger casualties because he had stronger airforce. Advantages counts, not numbers.

1) He sent 2 waves of 6 fighters

2) Even if he did send 12 at once my stats would be superior because of the state-based damage efficiency

3) He did not lose a single hit point

In an earlier occasion I attacked 6 Fig of him with two waves of 6 Fig. I lose 2 fighters of each attackwave and he lost none. And in a later occassion he attacked 7 Fig. and 2 Tac. of mine with the same 12 Fig. and again I suffered losses while he did not.

When I asked him why he does not suffer any losses he called it 'tactics' and claimed that 'if 2 armies of similar size attack each other one does not suffer any losses'.

I just started having a somewhat similar issue actually. My fighters strength has suddenly been reduced to 0. 22 fighters, not one of them can do any damage, no matter the stack size, and they're just dropping like flies. Just had to bring them home when I realized, so now I have to wait and see if it fixes itself.

~Azazel~ wrote:

I just started having a somewhat similar issue actually. My fighters strength has suddenly been reduced to 0. 22 fighters, not one of them can do any damage, no matter the stack size, and they're just dropping like flies. Just had to bring them home when I realized, so now I have to wait and see if it fixes itself.

I realized it once they came back from a couple of attacks, and had lost a couple planes, but no damage had been done to the targets. Seems to have resolved itself, but I've just sent them on another attack run to find out. Maybe they just needed a rest :')

Well I hope so. I see his stack and it has exactly the same hitpoints like yesterday despite 4 engagements...

Were you intercepted on the way to the target or the way back?

I have this theory that once you've completed a bombing run and is heading back that they don't defend themselves, but I never got the chance to test it.

I had 3 different encounters:

1) I attack him -> I lose planes and he has no losses

2) He attacks me before I bomb -> I lose planes and he has no losses

3) He attacks me after I bomb -> I lose planes and he has no losses

Makes no sense to me. Maybe some Admin can shed some light on your theory?

Hmm. Maybe there's just a really big random factor to air encounters, or there's something buggy about them.

Unless there's something else I'm missing.

Gonna see if I can get a friend to try a few different things in a private game later and see if we can conclude anything about how things work.