Zone system.

[Simba]

"would be nice to starve a country of fuel rather than kill em all"

I believe this was possible back in the early days of AH. The strategically-aware recreated the 'Oil Plan' that reduced Germany's oil supply to a trickle by late 1944 by bombing the hell out of the refineries and airfield fuel supplies; the furballers screamed in frustration when they discovered their favourite airfields had no fuel so they couldn't resurrect, fuel up and take off instantly, and some cancelled their subscriptions; HT mollified the furballers by making it impossible to drop the fuel available at any airfield to zero; the strategic element of AH suffered and the furballers were ecstatic.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, HT.

 

[hitech]

You are incorect. You could never drop it to 0, only 25. We did make a change to increase the min.

But the change was made not for furballing. The strat system has always been designed to limit the countries offense, not shut them down from defending.

That is why the change was made, because after the move of the towns, the short fuel load started removing the ability to fight, and with out fighting the game is not fun.

HiTech

[hammer]

...with out fighting the game is not fun.

Unfortunately, that seems to be becoming a minority opinion these days!

Regards,

Hammer

[2DIE4_420TH]

I see reading through the threads that some guys don't like flying for an hour to the target and back. I say they are not bomber pilots and should fly fighters. Is the reward of hitting your target after flying over 5 0r 8 enemy bases and shooting down 2 fighters greater than hurrying to the target and getting your points? I say yes!!! I say give the bombers a real role in the game, rather than just taking down hangers at 10,000 ft or less. That's why there are medium bombers. Not all air battles were at the front lines.

[Chalenge]

Medium bombers were at the front mostly. Heavy bombers were the strat killers. Extremely heavy bombers were only used against Japan and even they did better at lower altitudes.

[2DIE4_420TH]

So at this point in time, what does bombing the strats do for the game. Come on you got to give me some kind of joy here !