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Originally Posted by Mobhack
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Originally Posted by Koh
Umm, that has happened to me pretty much every time an ammo bunker/depot has been destroyed by bombing while the plane is directly abvove the ammo depot. I'm not completely sure, but I think that all units in the hex of the ammo bunker/depot will be destroyed when it is blown up, or at least a really high percentage of them.
I guess the game doesn't check if the unit is flying or not. Or alternatively it is intended behavoiur. I wouldn't consider it too far fetched, given the size of explosion an ammo depot with as much ammo as those depicted in the game would create.
- Koh
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It is the secondary explosion size (1000lb bomb) - planes drop these in the hex behind the line of flight, not the same hex. So they are protected from the blast.
I had a Nazi Stuka take out an ammo dump of mine, and it was in an adjacent hex to the dump, since bombs are dropped 1 hex behind. But a secondary explosion went off in that particular hex. It died  .
No idea whether to call that a feature or a bug, really. The secondary explosion could always miss the plane after all, or go off in another of the surrounding hexes and not the one the plane was in. Plus they are not nice things to be near are exploding ammo dumps - warheads and stuff get thrown every which way including upwards. I think I'll side with "feature" even if it was not specifically coded that way intentionally.
Best to target an ammo dump with a stand-off weapon?.
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Agree with you Mobhack, i just remembered that in WW2 german stukas had minimun altitude to drop the bigger bombs(1000lb i think), dropping lower would get the plane in troubles as the blast make sthings fly, and also the british pilots that had to destroy V1 flying bombs that were too close would end blowing up with the bomb.