@Narvik:
Fighter cost 8, att 2, def 3, move 2, can scramble, intercept and escort bombers, land on carriers and newly captured territory.
Tac bomber cost 10, att 3, def 4, move 2, land on carriers, SBR Ports and Airfields
Medium Bomber cost 12, att 2+2, def 0, move 4, SBR all facilities with two dice
Heavy bomber cost 15, att 2+2+2, def 0, move 6, SBR all facilities with three dice
AIR COMBAT
1. One round only of Air-to-air dogfight
Escort figthers att at 2, intercepting fighters def at 3.
All types of attacking Bombers roll 1 in the dogfight. Def Bombers roll 0
2. Surviving attacking Bombers commit to SBR a facility or Carpet bomb land units.
2a. One round only of SBR. Facility AA-fire to Bombers. Remove casualties.
Tacs roll 1 dice, Medium rolls 2 dice, Heavies roll 3 dice, every eye is one damage point, as OOB.
2b. One round only of preemptive carpet bombing. Present AA units roll AA-fire to bombers. Remove casualties.
Medium bombers carpet bomb with two dice, 2+2 is hits
Heavy bombers carpet bomb with 3 dice, 2+2+2 is hits A Bomber need a matching land unit when carpet bombing, like the Battleship do when shore bombarding
Casualties are removed from play, they cant defend.
With a Fighter unit with such a high defense @3 in SBR, is this too overpowered compared to OOB?
I think so, after a few calculations.
Any SBR against such a foe, on a 1 StB vs 1 Fg even in this modified situation (2D6 damage, 12 IPCs) gives high odds of losing for the attacker (-3.31 IPCs damage /StB making a raid) while the OOB G40 SBR is clearly positive toward attacker (+ 1.18 IPCs damage/StB making a raid).
Even Heavy StB at 15 IPCs and 3D6 damage is at a low - 2.78 IPCs damage/ Heavy StB making raid.
So, this SBR system is clearly not an incentive to makes SBRaids.