If only duck hunting were so easy. Would be great to know when where and how many at any time.
Exactly. Fencer, ROC, Guppy -- see? Someone gets it.
I can't tell you how many times I tried to make that point with those guys during the design of Battle Over Germany. "Not enough duck," I'd say. They'd come back with weak excuses like "What the h*ll are you talking about?" or "Brooke, you do realize that Germany had a thing called 'RADAR', which had a significant impact on how the battles were fought, and we need to include it for any realism whatsoever?" They made rude suggestions, rude hand gestures, and rude noises, including fake flatulence noises (and some not fake). I tried to explain it to them, including that B-17's and B-24's have four engines, whereas a duck has effectively only one (the duck itself, by my reasoning). Guppy said, "How about more cowbell?", but I wasn't sure where he was going with that, ducks and cowbells generally being completely different.
I gave them my plan. It's just like Charlie Sheen said: "Keep in mind, anytime I roll something out, my plan is the best plan in the room. And people are starting to realize that. That their plan is s–t, and my plan is gold. Walk into my plan and they’re going to win, win, win" -- except that they didn't realize that, didn't think my plan was gold, and didn't feel like they were doing to win, win, win. Unfortunately, while everyone knows that Charlie Sheen is a genius, or at least some sort of idiot/savant mixture the likes of which we can't even begin to fathom, no one realizes that about me (yet).
I'm going to post my plan below. I'm fairly certain that there will be enough popular support here to force Fencer, ROC, and Guppy into giving it the serious consideration that it deserves.
