I'd love to hear some sort of respone to the question @ hand. Not surprisingly I tend to find myself in agreement w/ Dan in regards to how we have our fun in AH. That being said as much as I dislike it when the furball I'm in gets taken out w/ the FH/fuel/ etc. I can understand and appreciate that we all get our kicks out of AH in different ways and their has to be an arena to accomodate, as much as possible, everyone.
But that being said.. the field capture as a target, as a goal can lead to some outstanding fights. For a few minutes all the different goals of the game come together. The strat minded/win the war types are after the field and progress on the map, and the air to air/furball types are having fun trying to stop them. Everyone wins, in this little idealic scenario.
What I can't seem to wrap my head around is the desire to mass as many people against as few as people as possible and just steam roll on through, rinse, repeat. If I wanted to do that I could get 7 friends and join a H2H server and have fun shooting ack all night long and save myself $180 a year.
The same idea can be applied to dogfights.... what are the fights that you remember? the one where you BnZ'd a F4F4 in a 190D for half an hour. Or the time you ran into someone of equal skill in the same plane? Sure you might lose... but planes are free and no one really dies as a wise friend of mine likes to point out.
I'll sign off now after suddenly realizing that I've managed to write another chapter... but this game is what we make it. And it strikes me that if we conduct ourselves in a way that allows all types to enjoy the game. We all come out ahead.
