Air Strike PriorityTarget - Crews

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by DRG

.......and was there "smoke" over the guns from that firing ?

Don

Over 2 or 3 yes.

The attack was well behind the lines (artillery position) so I had no line-of-sight with any unit much less an FO.

1st aircraft attacked a smoke puff and did no damage with cannon, rockets, or it's bomb (bomb hit 1 hex short of the artillery which seems common when aircraft carry only 1 bomb).
2nd aircraft attacked the same hex as 1st in spite of having been targeted on another smoke puff. Missed with cannon, hit with rockets, missed the hex with it's bomb.
3rd and 4th aircraft ignored their targeted hexes (different artillery units) and made a bee-line for the crew created by the 2nd aircraft's attack. Where they strafed with cannon and rockets and one even hit the target hex with it's bomb.

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Over time I have seen many, many instances where aircraft will ignore other targets if there is a crew within about 5 hexes of their their assigned target hex. This happens frequently enough it seems crews are the priority target for aircraft.