BUT..never...NEVER have I seen country channel filled with "JOIN MISSION!!!NEED 30 MORE PILOTS!!!" while flying knight or rooks. Yet when I'm bishop, they delete all mission with less than 15-20 people. To them it takes 40 or more just to take a base. This wasn't all about hording either. AS you can see Rusty saying on 200 that 40 planes at a Vbase is overkill, I totally agree. 40 planes with ordnance will annihilate any base, regardless of Airfield, Port, or Vbase.
I play just about every day, and I can not remember the last time I saw a mission with 40 planes. I don't fly very many missions with my squad, but when I do there are never that many. I'm sure it does happen occasionally on Friday and Saturday nights, but the most I usually see is 10 - 20. I have seen the Rooks and Knights come in with those same numbers many of times. Just the other night, one of them, I don't remember which because I don't really pay any attention to which country I am fighting, they brought in about 10 bombers alone then a crap load of fighters behind them. That's 30 bombers for one airfield.
I have also found when someone says 40 planes there are more likely 10. I do the same thing, I see all those red dots and it looks a lot more than there actually is.
Fred