Alky, veteran sure, but they don't necessarily smack of "absolutely know their ACM" (and to be fair I'm the same way, so I can criticize).
Here's [one of] the problem: this thread was started claiming the allies "have no coordination or leadership" -- that's just another way of saying they don't fly as a solid gang en masse most of the time. It's not called leadership when the axis does this. It's just that their objective in flying the AvA is to do it as a unit. Most don't fly without their squaddies.
Most of the axis I've seen (when I flew the previous setup) were coming in with way too much alt, lots of speed, all the advantages, and still being worn down and pushed back or killed by an equal number of lesser-advantaged allies.
Now I can't really say the allies were flying much better. I'm just saying calling the axis "skilled, coordinated, and having good leadership" is a load of horse puckey!
There is no differnce between the two sides. Calling it "leadership" is just stroking yourselves. Blaming it on "lack of leadership" is just placing blame on something external.
Switching teams, having axis fly allied, and vice versa, will only yield the same results in the opposite direction. These guys are still going to fly in large numbers or with tag-team tactics, or with the advantage of speed, alt, or both. Whatever. They're still going to fly the same M.O., just in different planes.
It has nothing to do with "war" or with "leadership" or any of that. It's been this way for a while. Certain groups just happen to enjoy flying in groups, and they always have. It happens the active groups at the moment that feel this way prefer the axis rides. There used to be allies that did the same thing (back when AvA was called CT).
You shouldn't blame it on this new invention called "AvA leadership" -- because that's no better than calling the MA armchair squeakers shouting for help to take a base "leaders".
^-- I don't mean to insult the "AvA leaders" by comparing them to squeakers, I'm saying their role is inconsequential to what was going to happen anyways.
P.S. I could start an entire new thread on why the "war" won't work, and is flawed in general. One of the salient points is that you're rewarding folks with better planes for milkrunning fields. That right there is another major flaw. If it's a RPS it should be equal on both sides. You shouldn't get to choose which planes. They should be predetermined, regardless of one side's milkrunning/gangbanging/troopspamming capabilities.
