There is nothing realistic about capturing fields in AH, it's a issue of gameplay that isn't that poorly done. People whine about taking out the hangers to stop fighters taking off as not being realistic, it's not. Ack popping up after 30 minutes, nothing realistic there either. Then again, it's all in good gameplay as we know the goals we have to achieve in order to capture a field. It's really no more unrealistic than what you are asking for Yello, being able to solo capture a field. If you wanted realistic then you'd have to land 100 goons with troops to fight off the defending troops while every soldier with a rifle shot back at you if you flew under 500ft alt. The current method of field capture gives you tonnes of options, sneak a goon in after a de-ack raid, OR, hit the hangers and ack to make it safe, OR, get a tight vulch so a defending can't get a plane up to stop you... etc. Several options, not just send 100 goons to drop troops everywhere and then wait for the the battle to end (or something like that).
My point is, after you get by the realism of the capture model, which I think it mostly pretty workable, my problem is these people who are getting away scott-free by bombing and then bailing before they get chased down. They invest the time to come to the target, I invest the time to stop them. If they bail then they get away and I've invested my game time for nothing. At least give me the satisfaction of helping them improve their gunner aim while they try and fend me off and me the satisfaction of trying to shoot them down
btw, it is possible to self goon a target right now, you just have to be really quick about it. The ack isn't the problem, it's the hangers that pop up really fast. You just need to get all the ack in a nice compact period of time (3 passes), get back to land and run the goon straight in. If you snooze or take your time you'll catch the hangers out of sequence. 30 minutes on the ack is actually quite a long time if you just do one field then run back for a goon.
-Soda
