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Strat bombers seem to get very few kills, with 99% of their damage vbeing supression. How am I supposed to ever get 3 heroes for one of these units?

CrimsonStorm wrote:Strat bombers seem to get very few kills, with 99% of their damage vbeing supression. How am I supposed to ever get 3 heroes for one of these units?

I've noticed the same thing and it seems that the invasion maps with all the ships are the only place to get a bunch of kills for them. I'm on Moscow '41 and my primary Ju88 (from Norway) only has 67 kills and no Hero, but has 308 Experience. I also have the same problem with artillery but to a lesser extent. They end up with more kills than my strategic bombers, but still lag way behind all my other units. Suppression is a key element of the game and wish there was a way to incorporate it into those unit's stats so they get Heroes as easy as the other more offensive units (most of which already have 2 Heroes each). Maybe give them one kill for every two suppressions they cause?

I'll see what I can do about it.

I just finished Sealion 40 -- and have 3 strat bombers on 3/3/4 stars respectively and no heroes

Anti-ship duties are a great source of kills.
Level bombers are a fairly unique beast though, would they really benefit from heroes?

+ attack, sort of nice, but they are suppression not kill based.
+ initiative, no appreciable effect
+ defense, marginally helpful, they are already quite well protected from ground AD
+ spotting, no appreciable effect

Kerensky wrote:Anti-ship duties are a great source of kills.
Level bombers are a fairly unique beast though, would they really benefit from heroes?

+ attack, sort of nice, but they are suppression not kill based.
+ initiative, no appreciable effect
+ defense, marginally helpful, they are already quite well protected from ground AD
+ spotting, no appreciable effect

I have to disagree:
+ attack - since they are anti-ship killers, extra naval attack would be nice or extra air attack if attacked.
+ initiative - ?
+ Defence - extra defence against AD or other air would be great!!
+ Spottng - I'd appreciate being able to see 1,2 or 3 more hexes!!

+ Defence against enemy interceptors would indeed be very useful.

I've noticed something, though: strat bombers gain lots of experience from bombing cities, but almost no experience from attacking ships, regardless of kills. I noticed this the first time when my He-111 scored 7 kills on a light cruiser, but gained 1 - one - experience.

Don't change it.

We don't need an invincible bomber flying around.

They are hard enough to kill. I get my strategic bomber up to 3 stars easily by the end of low countries.