Dowding Discussion

In my opinion he is worth getting. I have no knowledge if he is useful or useless in campaign missions but he is definently worth in the longrun. I speak with no knowledge but he doesn't need that much of an improvement in Combat. He won't be a fighter he will be a supporter. What he needs is mobility and obviously the stars in Aerial Combat. The Bonuses are his skill with Economy Improvement and the Aerial Bonus Dammage Skill. He is relatevly cheap if you peform the -40% mission. He wouldn't need much of an health improvement either as the location of his battle area is far behind the frontlines (still depending on your tech level)
He has the abbility of one skill improvement which you could add for repairing your unit or economic output of a city. He wouldn't need much of mobility improvement as he would be on a quick moving unit anyhow (preferably an infantry unit because of the No Terrain Mobility Penalty)
Repeating he doesn't need any combat skills and in a Campaign you could use him as a General on a Carrier while your actual Navy general is good to go on a Battleship

His artillery stars are useless

Throughonout. He is a general worth investing because of all the dammage he would deal. In one turn he could deal more dammage than 2 Tank Generals combined, wether it be with Aircraft or Missiles. It comes at a price of resources too. If you are that min-maxing of a person than he would imrpove an economy of a city greatly especially with a landmark and depending on wether you have extra medals on nothing to spend , spend it lastly on the Economy parts of his skills.

Also to the health thing. As he would be usually far away from anything considered a combat unit, the only thing that could hurt him are airstrikes and missile assaults. Well for that there is the Anti-Aircraft. An additional thing is , focus to always keep him on higher level city to earn more money with his starting economy skill. It may matter in a few turns.

So what I have to say. The health and artillery don't need to be improved. He comes cheap if you complete the 40% Mission. Only thing needing improvements are his skills with the exception of Explosives and Mobility isn't that much needed because the unit that he will be placed on is usually infantry with high mobility. He has a role in Economy Improvement as well but still acts as a foe to be threatned with. He produces more money and he turns it into dammage


Yes I am aware I have repeated myself. This was done quick and I wanted to make sure nothing was missed

I bought him as third generation after messe and vatutin.

He is useful in missions, conquests, dominations but so do any other general you buy. The thing he is good at is getting three stars pre pacific, where he can airstrike with great efficiency and get three stars in missions. However, you can also argue that with leeb on arty he can deliver enough damage to compensate the loss of airstrike flexibility.

Post Pacific I sold Dowding because he is inefficient. Airstrikes aren't effective anymore because city defense and insane tank health. His three artillery stars doesn't even scratch the enemy.
In theory I think Arnold will be better because of his built in 4star rumour.

However, I believe Dowding is useful endgame when he max out economic and tech output for quicker conquests.

I don't suggest buying this guy as 1341 medals for 6 air stars is quite steep. Three artillery stars isn't good enough without skills to backup.

Does explosives work for air?

Thanks. Carpet bombing definately works. Then I prefer arnold, as you could give him carpet bombing and air force leader and he'll be op.

True but Arnold exists and is so much better.

I find economic boosters to be useless haha, but i guess you do still have the medal laying around. Arnold is super fast and has rumor lvl 4, so he is a very strong supporting general. But if you want dowding all power to you

I agree, but it takes 832 coins to build a tier 3 super heavy. Those 50 extra gold won’t make a difference. Now dowding only has stars in artillery and he is slow as heck. However, I commonly shoved arnold on super tanks even in the last game due to his speed. Now he has rumor too. In my opinion, arnold’s superior movement alone is enough to make him a better candidate for the air force.