Originally posted by soupcan
does this mean you have tried to recruit a number of fellow furballers
and could not muster support?
No, what he means is, eventually you have to land and rearm and the horde has generally clobbered the place so you can't re-up unless the vulch pattern is on and then it's so the horde can get quick 'kills' so they can land their 'attaboys' to all that aclaim.
And with the fields further apart, by the time you can get the defenders up from the nearest field and get back to defend, the horde is milling about above you and the field is taken or close to it.
Sadly regardless of someones ACM skills, there is little they can do against a mob with alt and E. Just off the ground with the wheels barely up and trying to gain flying speed is hardly a position to fight in. Even if you can avoid the first passes, the horde is lined up waiting for you to get engaged with another plane so they can dive in and pick you.
You want to play it that way, fine. But give me satellite fields where fighters can up from, close enough to make a difference. Give me VHs at the satellite fields so I can roll the flaks to defend. Up the number of manned ack guns at the base and increase their toughness. Do this to allow the defenders time to react to all those horde taking the undefended base ops.
Make taking a base difficult so folks have to work at it. Make it a challenge. There were reasons the general policy in strafing fields was one pass and keep going in WW2. Lots and lots of guys went down making that second pass.
In AH, the manned ack and VH goes first so there is no ack. The flak guns aren't camoflaged to make spotting them harder. They are right where everyone knows they are.
All the mission jockeys talk about coordinated planning. OK this ups the challenge. You are covering 3 fields, with intense flak and the potential for fighters upping from any of them to cover the main base. Not quite as easy for 6 guys in 110s and a goon to get the job done. It would take bomber coordination, fighter sweeps and escorts as well as jabos. You are all about win the war, well then you'd surely enjoy the challenge of having to actually work at it
