New arena, 5 nation setup.

[TexMurphy]

Originally posted by mars01
The idea I pointed out already happens.  When the Rooks and Bish are fighting it out and neither are really paying attention to the knights things get pretty boring for the knights.  I think this would just be exasperated with more countries.

On the contrary. With more countries the chance of this happening would be less. Rather if this happens the effects of it would be less significant.

Ofcourse this depends highly on how the countries divide the map. If the countries are placed in horisontal/vertical lines then it would happen. The two countries with only one borded would be ignored and the center one ganked from two sides.

But as long as the countries are placed like they are today in pizza slize layout each contry will always have two borders.

Its impossible for more then 1 country to be ignored with such a layout. If 1 out of 5 countries is temporarily ignored its less of a impact then if 1 of 3.

Why only one? Well because if 2 countries gang up on 1 country then 2 neighbours will ALWAYS be without a fight. This means they will fight each other.

Tex

[DoKGonZo]

Russia could have lend-lease Boston's ... and P-40's and Hurri II's for that matter giving them some Jabo capabiliy.

This could require a brand new terrain to be built, though, as most of the current maps are triangular layouts.

    -DoK

[Vudak]

Although I wouldn't mind a rolling planeset or something of the like, I wouldn't play any game where I had to decide which 10-12 out of 70 choices I'd use for any given amount of time.

I'd get burnt out too quick only flying one country's rides.

[TexMurphy]

Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Russia could have lend-lease Boston's ... and P-40's and Hurri II's for that matter giving them some Jabo capabiliy.

This could require a brand new terrain to be built, though, as most of the current maps are triangular layouts.

    -DoK

Yeah they could. Though Im pretty sure that part of the "get to a stage where we can start working on TOD" includes adding JABO, Bomber and Goone capability to all the nations.

Though yeah in the meantime it could be done.

Tex

[BigR]

I can see it now. Everyone will fly for Russia in LA-7s.  Then russia will be renamed La-La Land.

[Reschke]

One game already does that and its called Fighter Ace and what used to happen in F! 2.xx is exactly like you said. Although those "truces" lasted a little less than 1-2 hours they were fun and a pain since the auto gunners on the bombers would shoot at any unfriendly in the vicinty it got pretty wild if you had a mixed bag escorting a bomber flight over to GB land from Japanese and US territory. Its a novel idea but not one that I think would work in AH. If you break apart the planeset for each nation you will find that countries like Japan and Russia will be seriously limited and its to early in the AH2 ball game to have multiple new aircraft being added into the game.