But but but folks, We did about 20 missions one day of what I would call In-Your-Face missions and Rooks and Knights both backed down. Several were into areas of 2 full dar bars. I thought wow, this is going to be fun. Guess what, they all towered. Now if we, bish, are such skilless dweebs why did they do that? Oh btw they complained about that. We did this at 15 on the map where 15 is a large base and also a port. Rooks had the cv there and were constantly resupplying the field. They had a high cap of 262s, tempests, and p51s. All the uber planes they could muster. Ghi put up a mission of just 12 p38s. Only 12 mind you. We sunk the cv and took down all the hangers and captured the field in like 10 minutes. Then you want to complain about a few NOEs. If I were you guys I would look within to solve your problems instead of trying to conform everyone to your set of rules here on the forums.
As far as base defense goes I've seen a handful of Bish hold off 2 dar bars of rooks and knights. I bet they do that more than iRookies and Knits combined.
Recently, after leaving Rolling Thunder I thought about going back to Rooks. I thought well they have too many mouths and chest thumpers. I could just squelch them though. But then I was at a base where a handful of Bish were holding off 2 dar bars of rooks. The only thing the Rooks were into was vulching and picking and they weren't doing a good job of that. Every now and then a single rook would take a swipe at town. After being there an hour sitting in a ww I just rolled back to base and went elsewhere. Then I thought what was I thinking and I dropped the whole idea of going rooks.
Back to NOEs, Those are the easiest missions to stop if you are alert. If you're not then that is your fault. I saw where rooks did a bunch of NOEs the other day on the Trinity map. I didn't see one complaint about those here. Didn't matter we had all those bases back a couple of hours later. It seems it's only bad if bish do them. According to the rules trying to be laid out here one Noe is okay, 2 is bad, and 3 is just way wrong.

Addendum: What really slays me is that I see people on this thread that don't hardly ever play in the MA's and yet they want to comment on the play. You know they have a furball arena. You can pick in there like you can in here and you can't take bases (I think). Maybe even find a duel if that is what you are into. I learned a week into this game that dueling skills don't do it. You are almost guaranteed to get picked. So nothing has changed and unfortunately we still have the whiners too.
Let me tell you about whiners and this applies to real life as well. They are going to find something to whine about no matter what. If you cater to one problem they will whine about another, if you cater to that they move to the next. They never ever take responsibility for their own destiny or rely on their own problem solving skills. Everything is some one else's fault. When I look back over my life and see the many mistakes I made at least I can say I did them and I was responsible for the solutions. I'm also responsible for my fun. Not Lute, not Scotch, not Nobaddy nor anyone else. Just me! Try real hard to learn that and you will be much happier people.
And I want to thank you all for giving the bish the power over your fun. We'll take good care of it I assure you. Do you think Scotch will have fun if we take this base. Yes. alright lets take it for Scotch. About if we pick nobaddy. Most definitely he will have fun. Alright lets pick him. Yeah!