Why air/naval units lose org?

[unmerged(45895)]

Why do air and naval units always lose way more org than str?

If bombers are intercepted by fighters surely some of them are shot down instead of them fleeing in panic and using weeks to gather back to airfield before they are effective again? And even if they are shot down isn't lose to org quite small? After all there isn't huge organization changes when new pilot and plane is brought in. Of course new pilot has no experince but that is alredy represented by expereince of unit. So why is the org reduced so much? Shouldn't air units mostly suffer big STR losses whenever intercepted or facing heavy AA but their ORG should be mostly unaffected?

Same goes for ships. If ship does not suffer any damage how can it's organization be reduced? Crew of battleship is all the sudden totally unable to do anything since they are so scared of seeing enemy ships not firing them? Again STR should take much more losses than ORG in every naval combat.

In land combat losing more org is sensible. Troops get lost or panic, their supply routes ate cut, their communications cut off etc. But I sure can't see most of this happening to air/naval units.

 

[goobermaster]

For fighters I completely understand - in a furball dogfight confusion can occur. Also, the loss of experienced flight leads and group commanders (shot down) can put a serious crimp in the operation of the unit as a whole.

Bombers would suffer from this problem too, but I would think less so.

 

[unmerged(12779)]

Suffer morale & fatigue loss is understandable but the recovery time is
just ridicilous. A couple of days rest should put the guy back in good
shape. It did in real life. Can't we model that once in a while...


JIM

 

[unmerged(45895)]

For fighters I completely understand - in a furball dogfight confusion can occur.

Yes, but surely it gets solved by the time fighters are back to airfield?

Also, the loss of experienced flight leads and group commanders (shot down) can put a serious crimp in the operation of the unit as a whole.

Isn't that what experience of unit represents? Replacing str losses reduces experience so I think this covers shooting down of experienced leaders. Shouldn't this bring org down at maximum as much as it takes str down? And since most shotdown pilots are new ones org loss should be even smaller.