
The following components contribute to the final damage value: The planes of each sortieing wing are allocated against enemy wings proportional to their visibility (against all wings for damage and only against ground missions for disruption).
If enough enemies are detected, bombers can also deal air damage though. Carrier fighters actively take part in air combat (as superiority fighters) and all types of enemy carrier planes are available as targets if their carrier is in a naval battle.Īir wings sortie in descending order of air attack and agility against detected enemies, so fighters and heavy fighters will generally do most of the damage dealing. Likewise, if the enemy has no ground missions, own interceptors will not attack. If the country does not send ground missions, enemy intercept missions will be ignored as targets.
Planes on port strikes are ten times less visible.Īt most three times as many own planes can attack as enemies are visible, so good detection is important to fully utilize available air wings, especially when the enemy has fewer planes. Planes on close air support mission are twice as visible. Regular bombers on strategic bombing mission and carrier-based bombers can reduce their visibility with the "Strategic bombing visibility" modifier (Infiltration Bombing doctrine: -50%). The fighters and bombers don't need to be from the same enemy country. If the enemy side includes both ground missions and superiority fighters, the latter will be fully visible.
The number of visible planes can be further modified: Only this percentage of enemy planes will be visible.
Bad weather: reduces detection by up to 90%. Air missions: Planes operating in the region yield up to 80% detection chance (with 3000 planes, non-fighters only counting half). Radar: Radar coverage yields up to 50% detection chance (at full radar coverage). Occupation: Occupying land in the strategic region enables spotting planes from the ground and yields a chance of up to 10% (when controlling the whole region). The detection chance depends on multiple factors The prerequisite for attack is the ability to detect the enemy. Enemy countries are any that this country ( or the host country of air volunteers) is at war with. In this phase, own air wings will try to attack the enemy, both by directly damaging them and, in the case of enemy ground missions, disrupting them.