Is logistics strike damage performed by ground or strategic attack? So, would a CAS or a Strategic bomber better for this role?
Better plane for logistics strike
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I think it's ground attack, because strategic bombers can't do logistic strikes.
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Logistic strikes target enemy trains, trucks carrying supply (if the enemy hub is motorized) and railguns. Can be performed by CAS or tactical bombers, but not strategic bombers.
Strategic bombing targets the railways and the hubs themselves. Can be performed by either strategic or tactical bombers, but not CAS.
Note that as long as your enemy has enough stockpiles of trains and trucks, their actual supply won't be affected when doing logistical strikes. It's only when they start running out of either when their units will suffer from low supply.
So, in general, if you want to disrupt your enemies supply, the fastest way is strategic bombing as long as you can bomb faster than they can repair. Logistical strikes will only be useful to this end if you can manage to bomb trains and trucks faster than they can produce them, and grind them long enough so you deplete their stockpiles, although disabling their railguns and also providing ground support can be more beneficial to combat in the short term.
Strategic bombing targets the railways and the hubs themselves. Can be performed by either strategic or tactical bombers, but not CAS.
Note that as long as your enemy has enough stockpiles of trains and trucks, their actual supply won't be affected when doing logistical strikes. It's only when they start running out of either when their units will suffer from low supply.
So, in general, if you want to disrupt your enemies supply, the fastest way is strategic bombing as long as you can bomb faster than they can repair. Logistical strikes will only be useful to this end if you can manage to bomb trains and trucks faster than they can produce them, and grind them long enough so you deplete their stockpiles, although disabling their railguns and also providing ground support can be more beneficial to combat in the short term.
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There is a "disruption" value applied to the supply provided by a hub when it is bombed even when the enemy has trucks and trains to spare.
It is a new mission, logistical strike, not available to strategic bombers.
Province AA don't protect from it, make some player annoyed. So we can get protect from only armored train (or cheap train) and stop using truck for supply. German AI seems not use this strike (?). Players better bomb the troops, not bother with this.
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CAS are extremely efficient at taking out trucks and can rapidly deplete stockpiles, at least the AI's. As the Soviets, it took me about ten days of logistical strikes by 800 CAS to wipe out the entire German truck fleet (some 1,800 of them). It doesn't help the AI that it apparently doesn't respond to these attacks by increasing fighter cover, in contrast to strat bombing.
It might just be me, but I've noticed the AI can be weird about using trucks and trains for supply and covering them with air power.
Sometimes, I decimate the opposing side within days as you describe. And then they never recover. Other times, the AI does try to oppose my strikes. And still other times, the AI realizes it's losing tons of trucks and trains, and ups production massively to try and cover the losses. I've seen Germany recover from having basically 10% supply (in the intel screen) to back to 100% within a couple of months if I focus my planes in other ways.
This may be a product how I set up missions or air cover or something. I dunno.