Luftwaffe Bombing Run

If you’ve read the title then you know why people are here. Have you had frustrations making progress against an enemy with your elite fallsrimjager then suddenly….WHAM you hit a wall in your offensive with the enemy making a defensive line of MG bunkers, AT guns, and trenchlines for their infantry.

So, as luftwaffe you think to yourself if I get panthers, surely I’ll be able to breakthrough. Then you come to the sad realization when you get your precious 2 panther call-in you are hit with a 17-pounder that completely destroys one of your panthers. So you think to yourself again, maybe if I get a couple of mortars will I breakthrough? But then you realize after 10 minutes of pure bombardment the enemy gets tired of you tickling their emplacements and just push you with their tank horde or whatever allied heavy tank. So, whats the point of this small rant? That it is simply impossible to push a fortified position with Luftwaffe. As an infantry doctrine luftwaffe is extremely powerful in its early game, with its fusiler’s regiment 6 etc. However, luftwaffe in its late game is just flat out lacking against players that turtle a position and just hold out until they get enough resources to actually push out from their location.

Thus, why I am suggesting a new ability for luftwaffe, a bombing run. A high altitude bombing run would give time for the enemy to dodge with its infantry units, so it wouldn’t be difficult to see it coming so long as you pay attention to the minimap that is. I’d suggest 3-4 250kg bombs be dropped in a line similar to how the walking stuka is used in vanilla with its creeping barrage ability. I believe this would give luftwaffe a small buff against turtling enemies in the mid-late game. The luftwaffe arado strike is great for cutting off points, but it doesnt do much in terms of actual breakthrough. I’d suggest the bombing run cost high in munitions, simply because it would do massive damage to kill emplacements maybe 450-500. With luftwaffe munitions drop I don’t think pricing it high would be too much of a problem to begin with.

So in closing, this change doesn’t need to be immediate just something to be talked over, Luftwaffe could get a stuka call in as well, but stuka has trouble with targeting certain positions making it somewhat not worth using at times. Even if luftwaffe gets a basic nebelwerfer barrage it would benefit the doctrine. Or even if their leigs get fire rounds for dealing with emplacements. Just something for this doctrine is needed for late game breakthrough.