"Well 321bar in the old DOA (which HT built btw) you had 2 seat aircraft which could call in arty strikes.
You had Zeps to hunt, barrage balloons to kill, a variety of things to do.
None of which are strictly required for a pure fur-ball environment.
All of which would probably add things for people to do, and thus tend to keep them in the arena. Thus keeping numbers a bit higher."
Spot-on, Ghost. When DOA introduced the artillery, it made a huge difference - almost became a halfway-decent WW1 flight sim, despite the removal of the code for 'flamers' as a lazy fix for the 'burnt-out but still flying' bug.
from this ol' DOA flyer.