Why are we going this direction?

[gatt]

 

Lets face the facts guys, while some players like the early & midwar matchups, by far the majority of players like the latewar 1944-45 aircraft

Hi Verm,
I'm afraid your right ... hmmmm, your personal opinion why the majority like more late-war?



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GATT
4° Stormo Caccia - Knights

[fscott]

Vermillon, if that is the planes we will get then that is wonderful.  What I was fearful of is the prototypes, and aircraft that never saw enough combat to be "proven."  I'm fine with your list though.

fscott

[Wanker]

Personally, my favorite period of the war is the early war. But I could see the writing on the wall from HTC straight away. So, while I'd really, really love to see early war here, it makes more sense to just start at the end of the war and work backwards.

[SKurj]

Me...

Early to mid war is my personal favourite..

SKurj

[fats]

Everyone knows that '43 ETO brings the best game play... well except for damn game designers who don't seem to realize it.


// fats

[funked]

ETO?  Been there done that.

Eastern Front would be much more interesting.  You can have 1:1 scenario maps that don't involve hours of flying.  None of this fuel multiplier BS is needed.

Low level furballs, armored units overruning airfields, suicidal dive bombers and attack planes?  Some of the defenders of "realism" say this is "arcade", but guess what?  All that stuff happened countless times on the Eastern Front.  You can have dweeby fun and hard core realism at the same time.

Also Mid-war ETO had no ground combat.  Eastern Front gives you constant combined arms battles.

Post-Overlord ETO does give you combined arms, but by then the Luftwaffe was not a factor over the battlefields, and the battle on the ground was one-sided as well.  But in the East air superiority was in dispute for most of the war, and the ground war went in favor of both sides at times.

[This message has been edited by funked (edited 10-26-2000).]

[popeye]

I was hoping that the release of 1.05 and a PAC would be an opportunity to create an early war environment.  Would love to be flying Wildcats and P-40's against early war Japanese planes.  Would be a kick for players who like the Japanese planes to have an advantage.

Oh well, guess I can wait.

[Vermillion]

 

Hi Verm,
I'm afraid your right ... hmmmm, your personal opinion why the majority like more late-war?

Gatt, this is just my personal guess, so take it with a grain of salt  

Two reasons, and both are very "American" in attitude. But we have to remember that the majority of the player base is American.

1.) Why should I want to fly a P-40B, when I knew that the P-51D, can kick its hind end, and is much better!! {in kewldude pilots voice} Its an American attitude of always wanting the lastest, greatest, fastest, basically what they percieve as the "best". And so that equates to the latest planes from WWII, that can still be considered that they are actually from WWII.

2.)The "America is the Best" syndrome. I mean after all didn't America come into the war and kick everyones butt and win the war?   We both know this isn't necessarily the truth, but its what alot of Americans think of WWII based mostly on old John Wayne movies. So in what period did America and her Allies totally dominate the war? Yep, you guessed it, the Late war.

Now, I'm just doing a little amatuer psychology here, but you see a little bit of what I'm trying to get across. I think #1 is the major reason, with a little bit of subconcious #2 thrown in for good measure.



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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[-tronski-]

Sodding P-51H's, and Ta-152's!!!

This games gonna end up like the WWF..lots of steroids..not much action

I agree with Vermillion about the Yank based late war toejame thats dominates the BBS. Saddled with the usual LW whining about a token few Kurt Tank designs.

Don't worry about the 2 years of a war that the US didn't fight in. And just ignore the  soviet ,commonwealth, and axis early/mid war types which numbered in their THOUSANDS! And concentrate on a couple of muscle cars that "might" have seen a couple of solid weeks of action, instead of the mundane types which turned a war.
That way we can all sit back and smile at the poor fools stupid enough to try to take up a lanc, or zero and last more than a few minutes before that Ta-152/P-47M rips it a new stunninghunk.
But at least your US money base with be pleased with themselves...

Tronsky RNZAF