IC from bombing raids need to take a lot longer.

[Alexander Seil]

Indeed, Germany had part of production spread in a small production points, part in large underground industry complex. Both were not present in HoI.

Arguably that has the same effect as rapid IC recovery. I think HoI2 achieved a good balance. If you look at Blue Emu's threads, it's possible to use strat. bombers as USSR to basically wipe out Germany, if you get forward bases from Finland and in the Baltic.

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

zwerg festung anyone??

I'd so buy HoI3 if it had that as a minigame.
You could grow mushrooms to supply your armies, and equip divisions with obsidian-wood swords.

 

[unmerged(128754)]

One of the things that is really missing in this is the lack of a drain in the IC to get back the port/factory/infrastructure that gets bombed. No production is diverted to replace the damaged/destroyed 'military industrial complex' stuff that had been targeted.

 

[Tornadoli]

There should be a repair slider as well, to repair IC.
Because even if only the roof is destroyed, it still needs the materials to rebuild it.

 

[krieger11b]

One of the things that is really missing in this is the lack of a drain in the IC to get back the port/factory/infrastructure that gets bombed. No production is diverted to replace the damaged/destroyed 'military industrial complex' stuff that had been targeted.

You know you just reminded me how bombing ports is now going to have a meaningful effect now. I think that Italy might benefit from a some bombing raids on Egyptian ports.

 

[unmerged(128754)]

Always thought it was strange that you could be bombing the heck out of Japan, rewduce the IC to a trickle and magically the factories would rebuild themselves..

 

[al_faris]

It took years to put out the oil fires from the first Gulf War, imagine a bunch of incederary bombs on an oil field.

I'd just like to nitpick here a bit. the oil fires from the first gulf war (all 700+ of em) were put out in 11 months and i remember because i still have the memory of 12 noon being turned pitch black dark across the enitre country because of their smoke.

 

[Alexander Seil]

Always thought it was strange that you could be bombing the heck out of Japan, rewduce the IC to a trickle and magically the factories would rebuild themselves..

Indeed, American strategic planners were rather surprised too, I'm sure :rofl:

 

[Waffen9999]

Yeah that one. Hitler was just insane, the man could not think in terms of defense, he thought was always on the offense even when losing ground like crazy. It wasn't until 1944 he finally let more fighters be produced than bombers.

That thing looks like something out of Command and Conquer........ but to the topic, a slider that allocates a portion of IC to repair infrastructure would be a good move I believe, that or you tie up manpower to it as you're assigning X amount of manpower for reconstruction efforts.

 

[krieger11b]

That thing looks like something out of Command and Conquer........ but to the topic, a slider that allocates a portion of IC to repair infrastructure would be a good move I believe, that or you tie up manpower to it as you're assigning X amount of manpower for reconstruction efforts.

This is at least a good compromise.

I'd just like to nitpick here a bit. the oil fires from the first gulf war (all 700+ of em) were put out in 11 months and i remember because i still have the memory of 12 noon being turned pitch black dark across the enitre country because of their smoke.

I would like to thank a fellow Veteran for his service.

On topic I would like to say that 11 months (more so with 1940's oil fire fighting equipment) would guarantee that oil production would not return before your country was defeated.

 

[{LD}Firestorm]

You also got to remember, those fires were deliberately set. At Romania, when they know of enemy bombers coming, they would shut down the wells so that if fire did catch, it would not light the entire well on fire. There are also security features in the plants themselves that make sure the fire does not spread to the wells.

 

[Zeitgeist]

I don't think an additional repair IC penalty needs to be assessed since, in my opinion,the IC damage from the strategic bombing already abstracts this.