Rules Only: Any advice on Aircraft Combat Rules in Traveller?

[Timerover51]

Make sure that whatever data you look at breaks it down by country and year the attacks occurred. One reason the Japanese went to suicide attacks was that by 1944, they were loosing up to 90% of their attacking planes, with very few hits to show for it.

 

[kilemall]

Make sure that whatever data you look at breaks it down by country and year the attacks occurred. One reason the Japanese went to suicide attacks was that by 1944, they were loosing up to 90% of their attacking planes, with very few hits to show for it.

Captain Hughes in his classic Fleet Tactics book described the WWII carrier attacks as pulses of ship destruction.

In the early part of the war the carrier pulses were devastating. As the war progressed and tech like radar, AA fusing and beefed up gun batteries came they reduced relatively particularly against the USN.