Thanks to all who posted ideas. I 'm glad to see this has been at least a civil discussion to this point.
I was just thinking about game mechanics. In the early part of the war the German Blitzkrieg was the predominant effort, followed by the arial warfare of the Battle of Britan, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and eventually the American strategic bombing of Germany. It seems there could be a somewhat logical sequence followed in AH, emphasising the ground war in EW, air to air combat and attack bombing in MW and strategic bombing in LW. Not to lose any of these areas in any arena but maybe the scoring mechanisms could be modified for each arena adding emphasis to these specific areas to follow the progression of the war. I know there were a lot of other events I didn't mention but for me at least, these were predominant.
Something along these lines would help make each arena unique without the need to restrict the plane/GV sets any more than they are. It's kind of funny that the current arenas already do reflect this to a degree. A little extra well thought out push in each of these areas might be interesting.
Anyway, just another thought.
these are decent ideas. there's only one problem with them.
should htc implement something like this, then they'll be taking an arena away from those that like to fly and fight in said arena.
it's not up to htc. it's up to you, and me, and all of the other players.
if you like the idea of a ground war in ew, then you(or whoever chooses) simply need to post here on the boards, kinda like jaegr does for the ava. get somethign like that going in there.
htc's job is/was to give us choices to fly and fight the way we want. i make my home in mw. it's perfect as it is. never so many on, that all fights turn into 1 or 2 vs the horde. always plenty on to find a fight though. on the ground, in the air, and lately, i've been noticing dorks driving cv groups right into each other.
ew spends time empty. again, it's our choice. if anyone wants to make fights in there, of fight ew vs ew aircraft, with no chance of a lw bird ruining their fun, then ew is the place to go. or could those people be worried about their score?
get enough people together to head to ew, and there can be serious fun to be had.
the lw arenas i visit occasionally. last time i was there, i kept running into 163's and 262's. p38 ain't much match for them. but that's how those guys want to play.
htc has, and is doing a fine job of giving us choices. members making maps are doing a fine job of giving us tools.
it is what we make it, and nothing more.
