I don't know, they'll be fast-moving targets behind thick armour and strong concentrations of WAAAGH! energy. All our Scry&Fry targets so far have been relatively static Armies on the ground.
Tipping our hand is something to worry about against competent opponents who will adjust to mitigate or counter our newly revealed capabilities. We're up against an especially idiotic Ork. Even if he did realize what was going on, I doubt he'd be able to come up with an effective counter, or try to mitigate similar attacks in the future (i.e., whatever hypothetical method to defend the landers wouldn't be implemented on the Gargants or other large vehicles unless losses there to the same tactic get big enough to draw his eye).
Not pilots, engines/fuel tanks, like we did in earlier invasions.
Again, our enemy is a moron, there's no need to try any fancy nonsense, we just need to be as efficient as possible. Also this is Orks, when their aircraft randomly explodes midair they won't think "gee, there must be enemy psykers performing targeted pyromancy attacks", they will think "some burna boy got bored/too excited" or "grot got sucked into engines while trying to drink fuel" or, most likely, "hehehe boom".
Their superiority is so high that we can not contest the sky. We simply have to few fighters for that right now. Until the orkish numbers have thinned (both to the AA of the cities and to raids in space) we can contest and start harassing. Before that time we throw away lives for nothing.
@Enjou please change this. We did this exact thing when Valinor invaded and the resulting casualties to the enemy side were paltry. Have them do anything else.
@Durin, does this mean that the entire Force Weapon has to be made out of the wood or just that it needs to incorporate the wood into its construction?
A kill is a kill. This is a battle from a position of strength that keeps casualties to a minimum - we will lose more humans per ork fighting them on the ground even at wall defences than we will dropping them out of the sky with fighters. Fighter-bommas that we don't dogfight today will be killing our people as close air support tomorrow. Planes you can't use because you're afraid to lose them aren't worth preserving.
No it's objectively not, keeping casualties to a minimum means not risking them for higher exchange ratios, which is exactly what flying our outnumbered air into their entire landing force would be.
No fighters we dont risk our men to kill now will fall against our AA later, its literally got nothing to do with fear, no ones advocating for our planes to sit in their hangers the entire war that just silly, I want to deploy them where their casualties will be lowest, not their kill ratio the highest trying to chaise glory
Your massively exaggerating how fast the orks can recover, they will not in any way be able to actually start to increase in numbers over this war, they will lose troops and equipment constantly throughout, this is not even in question.
Yeah we were predicted an assured victory before the orks arrived then we started blowing hulks up left right and center, claiming we can now lose a war of attrition is just scaremongering
