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Planes, if targeted on some hex will search around for a target. The search zone is quite large. The AI may have plotted that plane 3 turns back, on something else you did (tanks moving on a road nearby say that were in LOS to it), or just simply on a random hex in your deployment area, or as 'road rage' on your road network, or near an objective cluster.
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I don't think there was anything within 20 hexes of those five units. They were purposely in a non-eventful area. The idea is to find a woods hex for all five of them, with the ammo boys in the middle adjacent to them, so no movement need take place to resupply. The VAST majority of the games, no kind of retaliation whatsoever bothers them with such placement, even though tell-tale smoke is evident once they get going.
There was just no reason for that strike. The first plane took a slight SW course from a northern entry point, and going strictly by the course I don't think there was a single unit along that path, even within 6 hexes of the path, for the entire map, so obscure was the placement. I cannot recall the number of air attacks after that, but the very next one came from the south in a NW direction. I had the same reaction to both of them, once I saw the planes "Uh oh, there goes my ammo dump and IG's!" It was that obvious what they were out for. Like I said, I have played the game enough to see the arty will pull a rabbit out of a hat every once in a while, but it's also so stupid as to usually not react to four IG's with smoke trails that are very obvious, so it's not much of a gripe for it to luck out, especially since it is obviosuly random a great deal of the time, but the planes, if it hadn't been for that strike, even when they do strike at empty space, it's always apparent to me that something was in the general vicinity that it has spotted before, but that clearly wasn't the case here. Actually, if you had a flyby where the plane aborted, and even on the same turn the next plane did the nuke strike, that would make some sense, but for what appears to me to not be a random aerial strike force, to pinpoint it so clearly with no help is quite a mystery to me.