Ground target destruction – point and area hits

[Cat Shot One]

Perhaps I’m missing something in Air Strike, but how do you exactly destroy a ground target?
– Will point hits already be sufficient?
– Will only area hits take it out?
– Do both have to be reduced to zero?
If you find the relevant text, please write on which page.

[Renko]

To destroy a target it depends on the target, but usually you need to cause both area and point hits – to sink a ship you must destroy all the hull (area hits), however a mission may be a success if you achieve less than that – see the scenarios for more detail.

Ground targets are very hard to actually destroy, which is historically correct

[Jesse]

Also remember that critical hits do more damage. 2 point hits for critical hits on a strafing run (or 1 point and 1 hull if strafing a ship). 1 point and 1 area hits for critical hits on a bombing run.

[Cat Shot One]

Jesse, absolutely, I had that on the radar.

Renko, the only reference to destruction I could find in the meantime is in scenario 7 on page 61. Here it says twice that destruction equals the reduction of all area hits to zero, no point hits mentioned. Do you have another page or source in mind?

[Renko]

Bugger – ignore me – I think I dredged that up from the beta. Basically area hits blow stuff up, point hits are suppressing light flak and keeping peoples heads down

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