Heavy bombs

Heavy bombs describes both an area attack and a vulnerable delivery aircraft: “You call in a heavy bomber, which drops 5 large bombs. The bombs deal area damage and deal increased damage in the center of the explosion. The bomber can be shot down.

Range: 3 sectors.” Demo build 23882143 records a 5-second cooldown, an initial cooldown and no use in fog. There is a source discrepancy: the description says 5 bombs, while the linked bombing component specifies 16, released half a second apart. Both belong to the same extracted demo. Keep that disagreement visible when planning a strike; neither the description nor the component count alone establishes the number of successful impacts on a target.

Demo build 23882143 records area-resistance coefficients on potential targets. Examples include −0.5 on the Empire Additional generator and 0.9 on the neutral Anti-aircraft tower. Their values are not a verified formula for blast damage, so they do not establish an exact multiplier or near-total absorption. The bombing component’s 16-bomb setting also differs from the wording of the official description. This is a disagreement within the demo sources, not evidence of a dated balance change or a prediction of how a later version will behave.

The description includes “increased damage in the center”, so the intended impact point matters. Mercenary factories record an area coefficient of 0.0, the Empire Additional generator −0.5 and Mat. Fabricator −0.2; Trench and Bunker record 0.6. These fields do not by themselves rank the targets by damage received. Heavy bombs has a release interval of 0.5 seconds, compared with 0.15 for Incendiary trail. Use that distinction to assess the attack’s timing, while checking whether targets can move; the interval alone does not prove that a particular unit escapes.

Trench records an area coefficient of 0.6; this does not establish a guaranteed defence against the strike. Anti-air and movement are options to assess because the aircraft can be shot down and the attack is aimed at an area. The correction dated 5 September 2026 concerned the recorded payload, not a balance patch: the component specifies 16 bombs, compared with 58 for Incendiary trail and a single bomb for Gas bomb. These counts do not prove which strike is easier to survive. Judge the flight path, cover and actual impacts together.