Full Rolling PlaneSet Rough Draft

[TheBug]

Ok here's a rough draft:


It would be a 5 week rotation, starting date would be August 1940 and ending date would be August 1945.  Therefore each day of the setup would represent approx. 2 months of the war.  I prefer to leave a plane enabled for the duration once it's service date is released, but can see arguments for dropping planes as the RPS progresses,  when Germany is knocked out of the war for example.  Any thoughts on this?

Also planes could be added based on service dates alone, not necessarily waiting till their respective nation was at war on the timeline.  Zero,Kates and Vals on day 1 instead of day 11 for example.

Also the map or maps to be used is open to discussion.

Again this is a rough draft and open to conctructive criticism, I am certain it needs tweaking from  a gameplay perspective.  There are no subs represented at the moment but may need to take that into consideration.  I think a full RPS in the AvA has a good chance to draw some numbers and hopefully entice a few to stick around for the other "traditional" CT setups.

Looking forward to everyone's input.

Day #1   Aug-Sep 1940-

Hurricane Mk I
Spitfire Mk Ia

Bf 109e-4
Bf 110c-4b
Ju 87d-3

Day #6 Apr-May 1941

Ju-88

Hurricane MkIIc
Spitfire MkV
Boston Mk III
P40-B

Day #7 June-July 1941

Bf 109f-4

Day #8 Aug-Sep 1941

P40-e

Day #9 Oct-Nov 1941

Macchi 202

Day #11 Dec '41- Jan 1942

A6m2
B5N2
D3A-1

F4f-4

Day #12 Feb-Mar 1942

Lancaster III

Day #13 Apr-May 1942

A20-G
B26-B

Bf 110g-2

Day # 14 June-July 1942

Hurricane IId

Bf 109g-2

Day #15 Aug-Sep 1942

Spitfire MkIX

Day #16 Oct-Nov 1942

Seafire IIc

Il-2 Type 3

P-38G

Day #18 Dec 1942-Jan 1943

Yak 9-T

Macchi 205

Day # 19 Feb-Mar 1943

Bf109G-6

F4u-1
TBM-3
P-47D-11

La-5FN

Day #20 Apr-May 1943

B-24J
SBD-5

Day #21 June-July 1943

Fw-190A5

Ki-61

B-17G

Typhoon IB
Mosquito MkVI
Spitfire VIII

Day #22 Aug-Sep 1943

A6m5b

Day # 25 Dec'43-Jan 1944

P-38J
P-51B

Day # 26 Feb-Mar 1944

Fw 190A-8

Day #27 Apr-May 1944

F4u-1D
P-47D-25
P51-D

Spitfire Mk XIV

Fw 190F-8

Ki-67

Day #28 June-July 1944

FM-2
P-38L
F6f-5

Tempest V
Spitfire Mk XVI

La-7
Yak 9u

Bf 109G-14

Day #29 Aug-Sep 1944

Me-163

Ki-84-Ia

Day #30 Oct-Nov 1944

Bf109k-4
Me-262

Day #31 Dec'44-Jan 1945

Ar-234
Fw 190D-9
Ta-152H

P-47D-40

N1k2-J

Day #33 Apr-May 1945

F4u-1c
F4u-4

Day #34 June-July 1945

P-47N

Tour Ends at the completion of Day #35.

[storch]

that is horrible, they'll probably do it

[Slash27]

Originally posted by storch
that is horrible, they'll probably do it

Best possible endorsement.


Thanks for the write up Bug.

[storch]

what did I tell you they are as predictable as their monthly cycle.

[Grits]

Originally posted by storch
that is horrible, they'll probably do it

That sounds like reason enough to do it. If they do use this set will you do us a favor a leave for 5 weeks since you dont approve?

[Treize69]

As a personal and squad-based (my own squad at least) opinion, I amd all for both leaving aircraft in for the whole rotation once they are enabled, and for allowing aircraft in based on service dates rather than date its country entered the war. Both for similar reasons.

Our squad, being a Romanian 109 squad, historically flew the 109E3, E4, and E7 until they were replaced by the 109G2. For historical ops (for us) this would cause a problem if the 109E was removed when the 109F became enabled. For squads based in other theaters, this could also be accurate because just because an aircraft is available, doen't mean it had reached all fronts yet. Just look at the 14th AAF in China or the RAF in North Africa as an example.

Also, I support the inclusion of aircraft before their country was actively involved for two reasons- lend-lease and subs. Like the fact that the Soviets and RAF flew P-40s well before December 1941. And substitute wise, the A6M2 is a great sub for the early model IAR 80s we could fly as another ARR ride (even though our particular squad never flew them). I know we were considering making the Zero (IAR) and Ki61 (poor He112) our main rides in the event of a PTO planeset.

I know those are selfish causes, but I figured I had better explain my reasons for endorsement beyond a simple "I like it".

[Have]

Day 34 - second MA?

[Treize69]

Yeah, its only for a day or two, but it would make the furballers happy.

Thats my only reservation about it, I'll probably avoid that last week- I prefer early to mid-war matchups.

[gear]

Does that meen that  "AvA" would stand for "Any VS All"?

[TexMurphy]

Well here is the problem with the AvA atm...

We do have the planes to make good ETO rpses but we dont have enough russian, japanese and italian planes to make any good rpses for the other theatres.

As it is now on the fin rus setup we actually run half of it without ANY russian made planes.

Imagine the PTO rps with only two zekkes a nik and a Ki84... wooo hoo massive...

We cant run ETO rpses all the time as that would get booring. We need to mix it up but we dont have the planes to do it in a good way.

So what do we do?

1. Stick to ETO only.
2. Mix ETO with a "fictional" rps like the one above.
3. Talk HT into allowing community to contribute with plane modeling.

Thats the only three alternatives I see.

Tex

[Slash27]

I dont think we have to to stick with an ETO only RPS. Obviously the PTO would be more limited and most likely will be alot shorter. But it can be done.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Slash27
I dont think we have to to stick with an ETO only RPS. Obviously the PTO would be more limited and most likely will be alot shorter. But it can be done.

Agreed.  A PTO RPS could run over two weeks and still show the progress from the Guadalcanal planes to the Okinawa set.

- oldman (...er...someone want to come up with such a thing?)

[Loddar]

In addition, remove that planes not in use by time and we don't have
a second MA i think.

[storch]

you could do PTO/MTO on a watery part of the map and ETO on the land side.  fun for all no one excluded and run the full planes set including the F4U-4.  the question becomes what map?  or you could do alternating weeks PTO then ETO start PTO early war and start ETO late war and regress, at mid tour it would be mid war for two weeks, the most popular planes for many of us are the mid war set.

[FiLtH]

Id love it. I look forward to the days the planes I love are released. I do think that day 35 shouldnt be the last day though. Id recommend running a week of all planes available so that the guys who just got the F4uC and P47N can enjoy them awhile.