Down times are just a bit too short.
The down times are just too short. It forces us to have to dweeb out when attacking the airfields. You have no other choice but to dump your plane right after dropping your bombs.
We can knock things down at the bases but with the down times being just 30 minutes, we can't really get back in time to capitalize on taking anything down. By the time you drop your bombs, RTB, take off again and arrive bakc on target, whatever you knocked down is going to be back up again.
If we had 2-3x the number of players we have this amount of down time could work ok. We could bum rush a base in one run. There are currently a couple of bases we could take with a rush. For instance for the Allies A10 and A13, could possibly be taken in one run, but only if they are un or lightly defended, we'd need about 8-10 guys to pull it off. A 4-1 numbers advantage and we can probably pull it off. Very realistic, but not fostering much in the way of strategic GAME play.
It's even worse for the Axis, who usually have a numbers disadvantage. At best they get even numbers or if they have a numbers advantage it's rarely more than like 15-12 or something like that.