Mid-war has some real potential

[Guppy35]

Something screwed up this afternoon.  Guys flying F4U4s unperked in midwar arena.  LOL yeah that's midwar

[PropNut]

MidWar     Perfect Blend

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by PropNut
MidWar     Perfect Blend

THIS ARENA IS EMPTY most of the time. I kept running in to the same dude in the same cartoon at the same spot. Then suddenly some squad logged on and I found myself in a swarm of angry real estate Bees, rather than that 1 dude is was the same 20... the other 3 Knights called BS and bounced.

Then like the Locusts they are, *poof", the real estate Bees vanished having padded their base capture score accordingly.
 
Alone again with the dude, on rare occasion another Knight randomly cruised by, picked the dude, and kept going in to the abyss of green carpet never to be seen again. Where is the sound pack with cricket noises, tumble weeds rustling and ghost town groans?  An echo of your voice saying "Is anyone thereeeeeeeeee....e.e.e"

Most of the bases & towns should be "abandon", the graphics should reflect an apocalyptic like disaster with broken dusty planes, skulls, stray animals and left over "interactive porn" we can view. If there's nobody to twist a stick with, might as well have rub material to cure the boredom.

I challenge HT et al to include only the best porn to help replace the entertainment lost due to empty arenas, because totally tubular your own hand is more fun than listening to some nerd born in a pietri dish brag about how he (and his 29 real estate bees, rule teh skies!!

[Guppy35]

Yep, xmarine, that will help.  A big tantrum will no doubt change things

[Tilt]

Mid war stuff should not be after late 43 or very early 44 IMO..........

[SFCHONDO]

I think the plane set they chose for MW is fine, problem is to many don't want a challenge so they run to the LW arena so they can have there LALA's and 16's.

[Tilt]

F6F and Ki 84 should not be there  IMO

[SFCHONDO]

Based on when they were made you may be correct, I don't have a clue about which plane was in service when. I'm more about having a setup were there is really no 1 or 2 uber planes in the set. I don't feel those two planes harm the setup as far as being uber rides and dominate the arena. There decent planes which make for good fights.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Tilt
F6F and Ki 84 should not be there  IMO

Agreed.

- oldman

[Widewing]

F6F-5s were entering squadron service by late May, 1944. Ki-84s began arriving in JAAF squadrons in late April of '44, and were transferred to the PI on or around June of 1944. This puts them very close to the date when the P-51D began reaching the 8th AF (mid June of 1944).

I suspect that the F6F-5 and Ki-84 are included in the mid-war plane set because they are substitutes for the F6F-3 and Ki-44.

I do not see either creating any sort of imbalance, so I can see no harm in their being included until the plane set is filled in. Inasmuch as the F6F-5 is undermodeled in speed (lots of data to support it being a 400+ mph fighter), there's little difference between it and the F6F-3 in the game. In fact, the F6F-3 should climb better, but have a lower rate of roll at high speeds.

As to the Ki-84; it has very narrow speed range where it shines. Most pilots do not understand how to capitalize on its strengths.

My regards,

Widewing

[Mako15]

hehe even I enjoyed it

[pipz]

Think ill make Mid War my 1st stop for now on.Interesting plane match ups and like one of the other fellaz said theres something for everyone in there.Cya'z up!

"A bandit at your six is better than no bandit at all"
Pipz

[Squire]

Why is the F4U-4 enabled in the Mid War Arena???

Holy s***

Im assuming thats just a temporary glitch?

[The Fugitive]

Flew there for a couple hours last night. Heard Guppy was there, all that metal scraping down the runways on his famous landings can be heard across the arena  

Due to the ENY limiter I was forced to fly a 109E for a few flights, and even tho I had never been in one before I did OK in it, but more importantly I had a blast! Was out numbered a few times, but only 2 or 3 on me, not the massive hordes were you can't defend yourself. Got 2 to aurger and the 3rd one killed me one run, next I shot down 2 and the third got very carefull and I had to dis-engae due to fuel.

Was some fun fights, and neither would have lasted as long in the MA, and both would have ended with me getting cherry picked by 3 La's, a nik, and 4 spit16's

Ya at this point ya have to look for a fight, but thats alot better than having up in a horde because they cover 3 sectors.

Long Live the Mid-war Arena!

[Widewing]

Last evening (Friday), I stopped by the MWA at about 10 PM eastern for a little while before heading to the TA. I flew two sorties. Not much, but there was no absence of enemies.

Upon logging in, I went to A62 where I saw several red dots. I found two enemy strafing the field (a SpitVIII and a 190A5). So, I grabbed a field ack and dispatched both (killing the 190 as he tried to vulch TwinBoom). Meanwhile, a Tiger was shooting at the base from the western hill. I turned the field ack on him and forced him to back away into the trees. On our base, a Panzer was firing at the Tiger as well. With that, I took up a P-38G with two 1,000 lb bombs. After taking off, I spotted another GV at the spawn and dispatched it with one bomb. The second bomb was dropped on the Tiger. Rearmed, finished off the Tiger and killed another Panzer.

Received a 200 message telling me that "those were lucky drops." LOL

Low on gas (took only 25% to aid climb rate), I landed, but just minutes before 4 enemy fighters arrived on the deck. Their timing was poor as five of our fighters had taken off and were waiting. All four enemy were quickly killed for no losses.

I'm now up in a SpitVIII, three enemy fighters arrive at high alt. It's just me and another guy, but the enemy (in two P-51s and a 190) will not engage. They make half-hearted runs, but bear off when I turn straight into them. They get cold feet and go home.  

I ask why they refuse to engage and they tell me that they were outnumbered.... This is a new squad, populated with noobs. I offered to take them to the TA and see if we can give them enough basic skills so they have some confidence. They think I'm kidding. I assure them that I'm not kidding, and give them my HTC e-mail if they want to get together for some training. Most of them log off, so I head over to the TA. None show up, so I work with some other guys until about 12:45 AM eastern.

Numbers were low, 26 Bish, 22 Knit and 23 Rook (there was a special event running that bled off a lot of players). However, if you go to where the fights are, there's no lack of fun to be had. Numbers where considerably higher on Thursday, but there was no special event running at the time.

My regards,

Widewing