Actually that's not correct. We saw plenty of action within the first 30 minutes. Mostly fighters using the time to either bounce or run us out of fuel. It's the bomber that came in way late. The crux of the complaint is the tactics the Allies use consedering the limitations that the FSO has to have. Something like this:
We all know the superior fuel advantage the Allies have. Can't blame them for trying to use this to their advantage. It has been a long since practice of basically running the LW out of fuel in order to hit targets realitively untouched. But the limitations of how things are run in the FSO make this very very frustrating.
As it is now, because of the rules and, let's be honest, less than honest people, LW is forced to go wheels up while Allied bombers are still rolling down the runways in England. That never happened, and if it did, by pure coincedence. In RL, sweeps and scouts would report activity along with radar installations to obtain information on IB enemies. Only then would LW interceptors be scrambled.
Now before anyone puts forth the arguement that LW could launch and wait on the runway, there is the entertainment factor of a game, not real life. Nobody wants to sit idle on a runway for the first 30-45 minutes of the event.
I think what 73 was getting at is in order to both simulate some RL action but to keep the attention of an A/D/D community, it should behove the Allies to attack their targets with the vigor and voracity that they are capable of. Not to dilly-dally behind the notion that we can do this, so we should.
