Re: This week - North Africa

[araiguma]

Just because a certain model came out on DD/MM/YY doesn't mean that it made it to Africa at that time.  There would be some trickle down, and I would imagine that the best and newest equipment was kept in England until air dominance was firmly established prior to shipping anything to Africa.  And then the equipment actually has to get there.  They wern't just FEDEXing each other parts and equipment mate.  In here you get to fly a "perfect" plane everytime you take off with quality gas and ammo vice some beat up old workhorse fighter with too many hours on its engine.  When I first joined the military, my job was aircraft battle damage repair on A-4 skyhawks.  We learned how to use things like old soda cans and scrap metal to patch bullet holes in wings and fix damaged ribs, stuff like that.  We'd have planes flying with bent frames, etc.

So no wokets 4 d HOicane

[Shifty]

Just because a certain model came out on DD/MM/YY doesn't mean that it made it to Africa at that time.  There would be some trickle down, and I would imagine that the best and newest equipment was kept in England until air dominance was firmly established prior to shipping anything to Africa.  And then the equipment actually has to get there.  They wern't just FEDEXing each other parts and equipment mate.  In here you get to fly a "perfect" plane everytime you take off with quality gas and ammo vice some beat up old workhorse fighter with too many hours on its engine.  When I first joined the military, my job was aircraft battle damage repair on A-4 skyhawks.  We learned how to use things like old soda cans and scrap metal to patch bullet holes in wings and fix damaged ribs, stuff like that.  We'd have planes flying with bent frames, etc.

So no wokets 4 d HOicane

sorry wrong button

[Mister Fork]

The AvA admin have a Aircraft/Vehicle Service Date table we maintain that players have contributed to.  Each date was throughly researched for the date it saw operational duties, not finish trials and testing.  It also has dates for Theatre's of operation, for example dates it was active in European and Pacific Theater's of operation.  We then use this information to create our historical match-ups based on maps of area for a particular period of WWII.

Our current setup is testament to our research and historical engagements.  We often have to balance the arena however, like adding the Sherman and Panzer for the Zipperheads...err Tank fans (sorry, old Army slang).