I ran a stuka mission a few weeks ago. Any time I run a mission I usually use early war aircraft with some kind of theme to the mission to add some historical flavor to it, so this time it was Stukas with 109G-2's flying cover. What was hillarious is that half the people that joined didn't even bother to look at what planes were in the mission. Others were like, "put 110's and typhoons in and I'll join." I told them no, I wasn't going to run some uber-lw cannon armed NOE lemming mishun.
The guys that didn't really pay attention howled when the mishun spawned. They were like "wtf is this pos plane?" and they exited. I guess flying a Stuka was too much for them, they needed their crutch. Ended up having about 7 Stukas though, but at one point there were 13 signed up. Now that would have been cool, and that was the point. Kudos to those that stuck around and flew. Our goon was some other squeaker who never responded to any coms, flew right to the field and dropped his troops on the runway. lol.
Point being it takes either a lot of old timers to be on to pulll it off, or you have to herd the cats (squeakers and LW ride potatos) into the not so uber historical stuff. Then you really have to cajole them to get them to fly above 500 feet and tell them you aren't hitting a base, you're trying to recreate a historical air to air matchup. That will get a chorus of wtf's and I'm outta here's.
Do it with the vets on. Karaya's a good cat herder for the Rooks to get people into the fun kind of missions.
