Kev, I completely understand your argument. Consider though, if you were at a base under attack, and you had a flight of B-17's fueled, crewed, and ready for takeoff (but still waiting for bombs to be loaded), would you leave them sit on the runway or would you chance taking them up and trust your gunners and the gunners of the other planes to give you cover? There is your reason for rolling buffs without ord, even if they would not have normally done so. Any plane becomes vulch defense when you have no ords and the FH are down. And considering you can only have one gunner, and the guns wont work until they are a certain alt above the ground anyway, true bombers like the B17 and B24 and such wont be real popular anyway.
My complaint is not necessarily that the A20 should be allowed to up without ord. Its that ANY bomber should be able to, simply because loadouts are supposed to be player choice. By forcing certain bombers to take ord you remove that choice. Not only that, you effectively cancel out the need to kill the BH to prevent people from upping bombers. The few that are available make absolutely no sense. But beyond that, you can nullify the players choice to fly most bombers as base defense without destroying the BH. Why even have BHs then? Just saying. The way its configured now is wrong IMO.
However, all that is moot. Its quite obvious by now that whatever the reasoning (and I just have to assume there IS some reasoning behind it), HT is not interested in changing it right now. Whether because it will change as part of a update to certain planes, or part of the beta (eventually); or perhaps there will be no change at all because the reason he has for it to be like it is, is good enough to leave it alone and we simply dont understand it.
