difference between Fighter-Bomber and Ground-Attack

[Mario_Fr]

In terms of the game, is there any difference between class #44 Fighter-Bomber and #243 Ground-Attack?

The only thing I`ve found out is that #243 Ground-Attack has a different cost value. For some reasons, planes of this class are cheaper.

I`ve tried myself by copy and paste Russian unit #86 (Yak-9B) and changed its class to Ground-Attack. The cost value for Fighter-Bomber is 55, for Ground-Attack it`s 42.

Cheers

Mario

[scorpio_rocks]

I THINK #44 Fighter-Bomber will attempt to target armour/vehicles and #243 Ground-Attack will prefer infantry/soft targets. (similar to the difference between "Fighter Bomber" and "COIN fighter" in MBT)

[Mobhack]

The difference is target selection - the standard fighter bomber is slightly more oriented towards vehicles, the (used to be COIN) ground attack class is more likely to target foot troops. Though you would probably have to run the same test case a hundred times to notice any variations.

The real use of the ground attack class is mainly for human-only obsolete planes or anti-personnel loads that the AI wont take (it picks from the class 44).

Cost should be the same for identical planes, though. On the investigation list.

cheers
Andy