AND I will continue to reiterate til it sinks thru the ol noggin that even 20 to a port or vbase that is well defended MAY not be enough at times....
Can't agree with you more but the key word here is Defended. Considering the arena environment at the time. Considering the information available on radar I think it reasonable to have assumed there would be little defence.
There are crazy things like gvs, supplies and whats the floaty thing with deadly guns that can kill you (surrounded by other floaty things with deadly guns) from 5k plus and takes a crapload of ordinance to kill....oh yeah a CV...we Bish are not as adept at knowing where the enemy cvs are at all times as YOU seem to be...BTW the floaty thing can spawn planes like an airbase...FYI
Be careful here I may have to add you to the list of paranoid Bish. Yes I am adept at figuring out where Cv's are likely to be....grasp of the game and all that
Funny how you mentions CV's at ports within ten minutes of Belial posting about CV's. The fact of the matter the Cv wasn't there. This was and I'm assuming reported by the Bish that killed the ports radar some 15 to 20 min earlier. Let alone the dribs and drabs of Bish that had visited said port in the hour leading up to the attack. Funny also how this convenient side bar to the issue hasn't been brought up before. Perhaps because it was a known fact the CV wasn't there.
The way you, shawk, elk etc were typing on ch 200 sure made it seem as if there would be a stiff resistance at the time...it never panned out. Also the vbase in question had a friendly (rook) gv spawn into it and the rooks occupied the adjacent airfield.
I only made a comment after the Vbase was captured
"If your giving it wtg for that capture you should be ashamed"...to quote. I saw the dar dots as I was RTB'ing. Like many others I was already in air committed. As previously stated not many are willing and rightly so to bail.
Well I hope this helps you put things into proper perspective...if not at least we can agree that you are so far committed into continuing this argument that you refuse to acknowledge the reality of field capture...perhaps you should take a tour as bish or knight to realize that this is NOT a bish or Thndregg issue...
SO my point remains that NOONE can arbiter what is overkill for a base capture because NOONE ever knows what the resistance will be...
If you were a 2 week newbie I would grant you the fact about not knowing what the resistance would be. However I don't in the least think this the case. How many 2 weekers muster a 20+ missions?Within 5 minutes of joining the arena it's easy to assess the situation couple that with known facts and good guess work you have a pretty good idea of things.
The REALITY of field capture isn't to over kill or to treat every base including ports as being armed to the teeth. This game would turn to watermelon if every mission or every capture attempt was to transgress to this ideology ....
that's my whole point. Given the arena environment at the time. Given the known facts. Given that someone other than a 2 week newbie could guesstimate a given resistance at a given time I maintain that that was pure over kill on a port.
What do you actually think happens? You think rooks are sat in the tower waiting on the next Bish or Knight mission? You think 20+ plus wirlies were sat there at the port waiting for the attack that was big enough to take the adjacent field. Or do you have a REALISTIC acceptance that most players at any given time are in the Air / Gv'ing doing stuff.
Mark my words...if crap like this were to continue or worse still...expand. It will provoke the powers to be to protect their product which will have profound consequences on us all..... Think ENY think arena split.
Go have ya fun but get real.
