Skip Bombing

[Lucy]

Reading about the 5th Airforce in the SW Pacific. Skip bombing was used by US aircraft.
NOTE: I use DM's method for high level bombing. Roll the AD if you get a six then roll each dice that rolled a six for a normal attack.

Would skip bombing have a better chance of getting hits? The pilots in 5th Airforce had to have extra training for this method of attack. In one example of a large attack two squadron's of B-17's attacked a convoy only one used skip bombing. A new unit to the area was not trained in skip bombing.

Rod

 

[DM]

Yes, a much better chance. The level mombing mod is aplied to those aircraft that made theit attacks from medium to high level. Refere to B-17 successes during Midway for a good example of the high probabilities of success when using this mode of atack

Conversely, skip bombing was conducted at very low level, so the "level bombing" approach isn't appropriate.

I'm working ona slightly developed version of all of this for an &P article (which will include the extra 200-odd aircraft types that were statted up fo OOB no sense in wasting all that work )