Silverwall wrote:
WW1 deep bombing was to be honest a complete non event militarily. It didn't disrupt logistics and the civilian bombing just made the targets mad. Strategic bombing was a waste of resources because of the lack of technique, suitable weapons and accuracy. Even in WW2 strategic bombing was mainly a waste and the effort to disrupt deep logistics took huge effort which was most effective when attacking precious rail stock.
Generally you are wrong.
The impact of WW1 bombing was not direct, but actually pretty harmful. The most important effect was the need to enforce blackout, move peoples to shelters during air raids - which affected the thransportation of cargo&hampered the factories and plants cycles. Recall all the evactuations, and the scale of the problem would be clear.
And also, the large number of soldiers, planes, guns, searchlights were relegated to rear air defense duty, instead of fighting on the frontlines.
Strategic bombing was a waste of resources because of the lack of technique, suitable weapons and accuracy.
Again, it's not true. Yes, the sights and planes were primitive during WW1 - but the altitude and speed were also quite low. And talking about5 airships, their main problem was navigation. if they were able to found target, they generally were able to hit it accurate enough. Simply because they are much more stable in air than planes.
The best way to impliment accurate attacks prior to electronic bombsights was with dive bombing (stukas etcetera) and while capable of going deeper than artillery they are still best applied to tactical targets.
The best way to implement the accurate attacks were to use airships. Wich could just hover over the target, bringing the relative movement to near zero, and drop bomb with high percision.
And let's not forget, that we are talking about Safehold. Where the opponent have no searchlights, no anti-air guns and no fighter planes.
In Safehold condition, the airship could just flew toward the target in a daylight, hover about 1000 meters above and drop bombs from "full-stop". And nothing that Church have could really prevent such thing.