Originally posted by Flit
If you resupply the base, the troops come up faster 
Sometimes, troop porking is the only way to slow down the "horde", and therefore is a viable tactic.
I've spent more time flying supplies than your average DHL pilot. I known.
But troops seem to be always the last strat to come up when bases are resupplied. You can make multiple resupply runs without seeing troops come up. And then, after flying 4-5 c-47 missions, one dweeb in a typhie can take troops out? Not a good way to encourage selfless resupply runs. A good way to encourage dweebie behaviour.
I have no problem with "slowing down the horde." I do have a problem with one plane being able to do it at multiple bases. If a side can get its act together and mount a major strike that takes out a hardened troop strat, more power to them! But they shouldn't be able to benefit from one dweeb making a suicide strafing pass. I seriously can't think of one, defensible reason to allow such a thing.
On the other hand, a side should benefit from being able to maintain a sustained defense. The current system, that allows a single cannon-armed plane that doesn't care if it lives or dies to stop an entire offensive in its tracks, in no way, shape or form encourages base defense, since it is simply too easy to knock out troops. Require multiple passes by multiple planes and base defense makes sense.
Imagine the uproar if a single F-4U could take out all of a base's fighters.
The current system penalizes teamwork and planning and rewards dweebiness (but maybe I'm predjudiced).
Would my suggestion to require two troop drops cause some frustration?
Maybe. Maybe it would make it even more difficult to capture bases. That's a good way of slowing down the horde, right?
But it probably won't cause as much frustration as that felt by people who attack a base, knock down a town and then see it all go for naught since the goon has to fly in from east bumflup.
And it would also make the game more fun, since _ at least in my humble opinion _ defending or hunting a goon is a lot more fun than senseless furballing over a base you can't capture for lack of troops.
Am I trolling? Dang right. I'm trying to start a discussion, to get people to weigh in with their opinions on the setup. It sure bothers me the way it is set up now, but maybe I'm in the minority. I seriously can't think of any way of defending the current system and I'm curious if anyone can advance any good arguments as to why it should continue. Attacking the way the question is posted, and nitpicking about the way it is written just seems to prove to me a lack of defensible arguments in favor of it and an effort to draw attention away from the real debate.
