Setting up a raid
The main interaction point for the Raids feature is the map. You see potential targets on the map and when you hover them you get more details about them. When you click the target icon, you start setting up a raid against that target. Some targets might have more than one viable Raid type, in which case you first decide what top target with this particular raid. What do you want to strike, the Reichstag, or the experimental nuclear facility in Potsdam? (Just an example, right. Germany does not start with a secret nuclear lab, Promise!)


Assembling and preparing
You can’t launch the Raid immediately. The unit must travel to the starting location if not already there. Usually there are other requirements as well. It might require extra equipment of some kind. (Common examples being convoys, transport planes, infantry equipment, or even nuclear bombs…) Once everything is in place, the unit can start preparing. Equipping the right type of bombs, undergoing special training, and so on. The amount of time needed depends on the Raid type. Once preparation is complete, you can launch the Raid whenever you choose to - as long as the launch criteria are met. What does that mean? Well, some raids can be prepared in peace time for example, but can’t be launched unless a war is ongoing.
Launching and Success
As said above, the Raid can be launched either manually or automatically. Or if you prefer, you can launch all prepared raids at the same time with the press of a single (red) button. Once launched you will see a 3d model travel to the target, executing its orders. And when it strikes you get a report of the outcome.


Cost
Starting a Raid is a bit of an investment. Especially in time, as the unit involved will be unavailable for quite some time. In addition, additional equipment is sometimes needed, forcing you to have it in your stockpile. Finally, there is a Command Power cost to Raids, lowering your max cap while preparing and executing.
Filtering
Together with the map mode selection ui, you have a new section with raid filters. This allows you to hide and display your raid targets and raids depending on your preferences. If you are only interested in displaying Air Raid targets for example, you can hide other categories. Or if you want to hide them all in the Land/Sea/Air map mode, you can do so, and only access them through the raids map mode.Types of raids
There are a few different types of Raids to choose from in Götterdämmerung, some of which I will talk a bit about below: As mentioned in the beginning, you can for example do a strike against an enemy experimental facility - much like the historical Raids on Penemünde. This will, if successful, cause damage to the facility; making it slower, and you can set the actual project work back by a number of weeks or even months, buying you more time to defeat your enemies. If you do the Bouncing Bomb special project first, you can strike an enemy Dam. Dams are a new building that we have added. They apply state level bonuses, and thus are useful for boosting your industry, but of course they can be a bit of a liability if your enemy comes up with a way of destroying them. You can’t build Dams per se, instead you get a few starting ones, and then certain countries can get more through their focus trees where appropriate. Additionally, if you have developed the bouncing bomb, you can do lock strikes. There are two major locks represented in the game, Panama and Kiel. Blowing up one of these will stop naval traffic through the canals. And no, there are no locks or anything you can blow up in Suez… Sorry… It’s just a flat stretch of water through sand… Raids can be used as counters to enemy super weapons as well. If your enemy develops the V3 mega gun project, you can use your earthshaker bombs to target and destroy them. Another thing you can do is to try to strike at your enemy’s resources. For example, you can try to target the Ploiești oil fields, as was done by the USA in Operation Tidal Wave. A successful strike here will lower the oil output from Romania for quite some time, thus hampering the German (and Romanian) war machine.

Custom Raids
Not all Raids are available to everyone. In order to make raids even more flavourful, we have also added a few custom raids; such as the German Eben Emael raid where Germany had spent a vast amount of money and resources on preparing for a combined paratrooper and glider attack on the Belgian border fortress - having their soldiers train on every step of the attack beforehand. Or as the UK, you can replicate the British bombing of Berlin during the early stages of the war (this was, and is in game, mainly a morale booster). We have also included some of the more odd but rather flavourful Raids, such as Operation Jericho where the UK tried to free French resistance fighters by blowing up a prison using Mosquito fighter bombers.

