Originally posted by zorstorer
Why not add a train mashalling yard in each zone that could be hit to slow the rate of trains/trucks coming out. Might add another level to the strat system that is able to be interdicted...
Just a thought anyway, would be cool to do low alt penetration missions like all those gun cam movies you see of the AC straffing the trains/trucks.
that's why people mention they want more strat.... things like this would be cool, but whole maps would need redesign to add things this way.
I always thought the HQ should be something different... maybe a city, and all strat in the same area. Within this, a Train Mashalling yard that supplys ALL the fields. etc. something along that lines means bombers have to fly over large expanse of enemy airspace, and has to be organised to make the diffence. 3-4 bases around this "HQ" would be uncaptureable, and there for will be the "final" bases on reset.
Right now we have strat spread out (except SFMA which is my fave map because of this), which means the strat is too easy to hit, by just capturing 2 or 3 bases its already within your territory... it just doesnt make sence..
Originally posted by Simaril
Yeah, to get the strat system hurting in any meaningful way you need to get a group involved.
It would be way cool to get a group started with true strat efforts. Once people saw what strats could do, they might actually try to defend the strat system (although as HT said elsewhere, defense is usually lots less exciting than offense). Who knows.... maybe we could start to see the AH equivalent of the strategic bombing campaign of WW2.
BTW, it has all been done before, and on a large map to boot. A few months before I started AH, someone spent weeks organizing among the Rook squads. They put together a combined maximum effort, the Rook Joint Operation (RJO) that started with a 100% porking of the entire strat system (on a large map) for both Bish and Nits, They then systematically assigned bases to squads, and kept a constant pressure across both fronts to take bases pretty much at will. I heard that HT actually called the organizer to talk about the night...it was the first and only time that the entire strat system was down!
aye, i remember this. And fester once came over to knits to do the same against rooks.... he used the new demand of bombers (the b24 just came out so everyone wanted to fly it) and crushed rooks strat to the point they all left...
City down to 0%, troops down to 0%, Hit hq and destroy all troops within 100miles.... rooks had no dar for like 2hours. boy the whines was bad... but to be fair, it took us 3hours to get to that point of being in the position to hurt them that bad..... why didnt they see it coming?
I do like anti buff runs, but the issue is these ALSO need to be organised if the buffs are organised. you need 190a8's or 110's up, with 109 escorts for the p51's.... but its a lot easier to get attackers organised and using team work. defenders just up in dribs and drabs. This often mean they are totally utterly decimated by whatever attacking force it it... be it a bomber raid, or a base capture raid.....
Defenders rarely have the organisation to make the difference against a organised attack.
