Talk:Combat/Installation Type/@comment-154.5.164.69-20151231213226

Regarding land bases and carrier plane attacks:

A land base may be targetted in the opening airstrike by any plane with a divebomb stat that participates, specifically dive bombers and seaplane bombers. It may not be targetted by a plane with a torpedo stat in this phase, as these are launching torpedoes which the bases are immune to. Even with the bonus opening damage, this attack is unlikely to do greater damage than any existing land base enemy's armour rating.

However, during the shelling phase, a land base may not be targetted by any carrier without a plane with a torpedo stat. If a carrier has at least one plane with a torpedo stat, they will consider the land base as a valid target. Once again, this attack is unlikely to do anything but scratch damage.

The pseudo-IRL explanation: during the opening strike, dive bombers are equiped with their heaviest possible single bomb while torpedo bombers are equipped with a single torpedo. By the shelling phase, dive bombers have switched to multiple lighter bombs while torpedo bombers now carry multiple heavy bombs. This is partly why no torpedo animations are ever shown in the shelling phase, even when planes are equpped with nothing but "torpedo bombers".