Originally posted by sparow
AvA maps should have few airfields available and operational. All other airfields available for emergency landings, eventually rearming and refuelling, but no spawning. No enemy dot dar for countries that had no such tecnology, only sector Dar Bar. dot dar only available to countries that used the tecnology, at the time they started using it. Wind and cloud set up the closest possible to the historical conditions of the place and time event. Icon range reduced to minimum, about 2k or less. All aircraft topped up at 100% fuel by default. No Ch1 or Ch200 enabled in flight.
I would like to see the RPS in the maps and a sequential rotation of historical theatres of operations. If we set it by year, we would choose a close series of aerial battles in different TO's, sequentially, and the RPS would be natural...
To these ideas, I would add the many interesting ideas that came up from so many players like the moving front, long downtimes for field ack and no rebuild for buildings and ships. I would add also the need for greater numbers of troops needed for capture - between 40 and 100, depending on size of target and number of map rooms - and double, triple or quadruple towns to simulate large cities. I would give names to towns and bases and make trains ackless, too. Basically, destroying refineries, ammo factories, trains, trucks or barges would have some impact in the course of the battle!
After some thought, I realised that AvA could really be the best of two worlds...Not a scenario and not MA. But a place where Propnuts, GVers and Couch-Admirals could have fun, in a good historical environment...And the key is in the dinamic rotation of maps along WW2 timeline and in a new approach to AH: pre-defined objectives, and a Side scoring sistem.
To understand this think with me: we're not here for the score, right? But it's a game that revolves about organized military campaigns, right? So, why not decide that the objectives are the same that in the past? And that the resources are similar and try to reproduce each side's resources at the time? Why not give a Side 3 points for a victory, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a defeat? We know this sistem, works fine. In the end of the "conflict" we would have Side A with 33 points, Side B with 10 points and the stats would read like this: Side A destroyed 333 aircrafts, 755 tanks, 55 ships, 999 AAA guns, 150 trains, 10 truck convoys, 5 supply barges, and lost 250 aircraft, 622 tanks, 10 ships, and so on...The same for the other side...
And AvA - read maps and setups - could even follow WW2 Timeline (forgive the gaps and possible mistakes, source was Wikipedia) to the day, like this example for 1942 (may send 1939, 40, 41, 43, 44 and 45 separately if you wish):
1942
January
2: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
7: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
11: Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
19: Japanese forces invade Burma.
23: The Battle of Rabaul begins.
25: Japanese troops invade the Solomon Islands.
31: The last organized Allied forces leave Malaya, ending the 54-day battle.
February
11: Operation Cerberus - Flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports; British fail to sink any one of them
15: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
19: Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia;
27: Battle of the Java Sea begins; The USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes off Java.
28: Japanese land forces invade Java.
March
10: Fall of Rangoon.
April
3: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
5: The Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
9: The Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country's East Coast.
18: Doolittle Raid on Nagoya, Tokyo and Yokohama.
23: Beginning of so-called Baedeker Blitz on English provincial towns; attacks continue sporadically until June 6.
May
4: The Battle of the Coral Sea starts.
5: British forces begin "Operation Ironclad": the invasion of Madagascar to keep the Vichy French territory from falling to a possible Japanese invasion.
6: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
8: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other's fleets.
12: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
June
4: The Battle of Midway;
7: Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands. This is the first invasion of American soil in 128 years.
21: Afrika Korps recaptures Tobruk.
28: Operation Blue, the German plan to capture Stalingrad and the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus, begins.
July
1: First Battle of El Alamein begins.
3: Guadalcanal falls to the Japanese.
21: Japanese establish beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna-Gona area; small Australian force begins rearguard action on the Kokoda Track Campaign.
27: First Battle of El Alamein ends.
August
7: Operation Watchtower begins the Battle of Guadalcanal as American forces invade Gavutu, Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Tanambogo in the Solomon Islands.
15: Operation Pedestal arrives at the island fortress of Malta.
19: Operation Jubilee, a raid by British and Canadian forces on Dieppe, France, ends in disaster.
26: Battle of Milne Bay begins: Japanese forces launch full-scale assault on Australian base near the eastern tip of New Guinea.
September
1: Stalingrad is now completely encircled by German forces.
3: Australian and U.S. forces defeat Japanese forces at Milne Bay, the first outright defeat for Japanese land forces during the Pacific War;
October
11: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
23: Second Battle of El Alamein begins with massive Allied bombardment of German positions.
November
1: Operation Supercharge, the Allied breakout at El Alamein, begins.
3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
8: Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria, begins;
12: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japanese and American forces.
13: British Eighth Army recaptures Tobruk; Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei.
15: Battle of Guadalcanal ends - Although the United States Navy suffered heavy losses, it was able to retain control of Guadalcanal.
19: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
22: Battle of Stalingrad - The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
Well, I would like to follow this plot, wouldn't you?
Cheers,
Sparrow
