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I would be interested to see if the Devil's Brigade, as I see them as a very good cross section of the win the war crowd, would be interested by the prospect of a landing requirement for strat targets to yield greater reward in the war effort.
I like to think of ideas like this one in terms of real world equivalents. Certain
tactical recon information, would be gained from
de briefing pilots returning from enemy territory. The same is immediately evident with the use of communications while in flight, sighting enemy fleets and direction, enemy formations NOE, etc. Assigning more importance to actually landing after a mission strike may have a two prong result. First, bomb and bail gamers will loose some important details for country intelligence on strategic targets. (pilot doesn't return home, clipboard status loses the damage report, while actual damage remains but unknown until another strike on that target) Second, escorting bombers would have added benefits to country intelligence reporting.
Possibly how this would look: Field stats on
clipboard will be reflect the current damage of that field done by that bomber / attacker (including ground vehicle)
unless that vehicle / aircraft has been destroyed or pilot has been "captured". A ditch in "friendly" territory would still report the current damage done as a result of that pilot's actions.
As long as the above landing and "friendly" ditch occurs, the
morale of the country will be boosted and the enemy morale will be lessened. This will be shown in terms of
additional downtime, and message will report "
SYSTEM: FH1 A14 Rooks downtime increased 3 mins. downtime remaining 6 mins".
This additional message in conjuntion with the recent damage message for bombers
will now identify a bomber pilot with specific targets. A sort of AH2 flash news reel, more bomber cool points.
Sorry Grizz, I ran with it