My suggestion to the horde troubles are the following:
1. Limit squads to one wing. The "mega squads" just snuff the life out of the map when they are on.
No way to do it. Even if they had totally different names they could still all join up as "sister wings"
2. Lift the radar height. The lowering was to discourage the NOE mission. All it seems to have done is promote 30 plane attacks.
and lowering it will bring back the 30 plane NOEs.
3. Reduce the lethality, ie: # of gun positions, in a town. I thought the unarmed towns were cool and a great place to GV fight.
it is easy enough to roll around town with out getting hammered by ack in a GV now, learn to hit ack with a gun and your alset. I find more trouble with IL2's hunting me in towns than GVs.
To address counterpoints:
1. No I am not switching sides.
2. No I am not just going to fly high cap over fields and pick.
3. No I am not going to hang out in the cool new mossie.
4. No I am not leaving my squad to go join a four or five wing squad.
We have already lost guys who are long term players due to the recent shift in the game play paradigm. I end up fighting no one or ten at a time. It is getting very old. Just my thoughts, fire away.
-Crusader
If your not willing to bend, why should anyone else?
The horde are a result of people playing with out skill. They need the "safety in numbers". The horde won't disappear untill people learn to fight their way out of a wet paper bag. The best way to reach this end is by having these "mega squads" train their people. I know, most will say they do have training, and some of them even do
but until they train and then use them as trained groups they will have hordes.
Right now they use 30+ people to hit a base, and sometime they get it, sometimes not. Even if they "train" like they say they do, they run missions as a horde because they either don't trust the training they have done, or they have to admit that they really havn't trained at all. If they were a trained group they could take two bases at the same time with that many. Hitting 2 bases at the same time would force the enemy to split their defense making their attack work even better.
Until these "mega squads" can be honest with themselves and truly train, and use those trained elements as attack groups we will have skillless hordes counting on numbers to get done what skill could get done on a wider scale.
