change to strats?

[Midway]

I tried the real life thing again last year as well. Didn't work. It sucks.  

       

 

[Lusche]

as Nit HQ is now being continually down, the mob is forming on Knight country channel... 

[Noir]

as Nit HQ is now being continually down, the mob is forming on Knight country channel... 

yeah well if 2 noobs can down the HQ for 300minutes that had to happen I think I'm going to put drop tanks on my P51 and go near nits HQ tonight 

[Midway]

yeah well if 2 noobs can down the HQ for 300minutes that had to happen I think I'm going to put drop tanks on my P51 and go near nits HQ tonight 

Am there now in my 262. 

[68Raptor]

Yup.. leave the perks. Makes a thankless job worthwhile and in the end will result in more B29s up for folks making those strat runs.

A few ideas on the HQ issue:
Double or triple the hardness or
add a dar ring around the place or
add a VH with a decent spawn or
add some soft guns or
change it from a single building to include the surrounding buildings
or max out the amount of auto ack (not puffy ack, the 37 and the 40s) to make a NOE run near impossible.

Those NOE lancs are a pain. The current way (at least on ndisles), a single player can keep the HQ down at the northern country no problem. Especially combined with the new .dt command.  

The .dt command does take away from the fog of war but if we are going to make the towns resupply-able then it's needed.  


Overall from what I saw this morning   to HTC! Nice work!

[1Eagle]

First... theres been a few changes since I was last here and I think most of them are PERFECT.

But this change on the downtime and its effect on resupply has left me very very dissatisfied and disappointed.

This..... was a HUGE MISTAKE.

I was actually so angry yesterday that I wanted to log in here and use a lot of filthy language I havent used much since High School.

1. Running supply was always something anyone, even the newest of players, could do successfully and make a "difference" for their team even when outnumbered and the chips are down.

2. For some of us veterans, me in particular, running supply was always cool to do for some reason. Also i still remember the supply trucks from Air Warrior (2 1/2 ton trucks, very easy to flip over in the game and big targets on the ground... you could break a sweat trying to sneak one onto a base that was under attack lol. Yesterday I had 3 messages "No Buildings Resupplied" after all that driving.

One of my biggest complaints has always been these maps designed for failure.... isolated bases that cannot be resupplied are difficult and frustrating to defend.

All bases should be resupplyable from the ground!

My prediction is that small attacks to capture will drop off dramatically due to the new failure rate, and the vulchers who take a base by flying in at bomber alttitude and then picking off all the uppers for an hour to get perks and points before they tire of playing with their food and finally take the base - will eventually prevail and that will be the end of the game for good. New players want to have some fun too, but vulchers aren't in the business of giving a darn.

3. We DO still have a number of players who enjoy the more realistic and historic type of long range bombing missions. But whats the point if all the damage is going to be back up before you even get landed? So now the freaks that want to fling bombs from a Lancaster at low altitude are going to be the common experience here? Is there any concern whatsoever for a touch of realism in the game?

And so I have a message for the "genius" that broke the game with this change: FIX THIS NOW YOU IDIOT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!

Joe

[Hap]

Guys, what about HQ being idiosyncratic to ND Isles?  And as far as Bish HQ, a nit did make a run at it.  I heard the alert on country when he was still 25 miles out.  Upped a 163 and throttled back to 15 mins and climbed.

Lo and behold there he was at 8K.  Nailed lead plane.  That was all.

We all yawn a bit when things blink.  Maybe it's our yawning and not low Lancs that's the problem.

[Lusche]

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!

Joe

Your "truth" made me spit my tea all over the screen 

[Rebel]

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!

Joe

 

[Zoney]

That is just an awesome first post.  Did you just call Dale an idiot?  Did you say that Dale did not create this game?

And this,
"ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!"

Your game?  Really?

Has insulting people been the method you use to get your way before?  Does that work with your wife?

Frankly, I feel sorry for you because you are so far out of touch with reality.

[Alpo]

And so I have a message for the "genius" that broke the game with this change: FIX THIS NOW YOU IDIOT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!

Joe

    GREAT first post!

[Fish42]

Guys, what about HQ being idiosyncratic to ND Isles?  And as far as Bish HQ, a nit did make a run at it.  I heard the alert on country when he was still 25 miles out.  Upped a 163 and throttled back to 15 mins and climbed.

Lo and behold there he was at 8K.  Nailed lead plane.  That was all.

We all yawn a bit when things blink.  Maybe it's our yawning and not low Lancs that's the problem.

That was me, I was at over 17k when I started to flash your bases but I had a P51 closing fast so I dove to pick up speed to get to the target and bomb it. the warning you had was from your Airbase that picked me up 20miles from your HQ, not  like the current knight and rook bases that have large spaces between Dar that its easy to NOE buffs into. I had just done an NOE to the Rooks HQ.

The knights know its NOE lancs as we have killed them each time, sometime we even spotted them as they were dropping. but as our warning system is the first flash of a HQ, we struggled to get there quick enough.

[tunnelrat]

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

Joe

You need to be banned, not just for libel, but for the sake of the brain cells around the world.

[The Fugitive]

And so I have a message for the "genius" that broke the game with this change: FIX THIS NOW YOU IDIOT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??

And lets just get the TRUTH out- this game wasn't created by Hitech (Dale Addink) it was created by KESMAI (Kelton Flinn and friends). It has been tinkered with over the years by Hitech and sometimes in a good way, but this is and always will be a KESMAI product. Please stop tinkering around and messing it up!

ALSO! ---- If you want to screw this up... why cant you post the Original in its own Classic Arena so we can enjoy our game the way we liked it before!!

Joe

This is the best part of this post! LOL!!!

First off, this game was up and running for some time before they shut down AW, I know because I was playing them both at the same time. This game is farrrrr more than AW ever was ( and that is only because EA games killed it before it could "mature").

I'm sure the new strat system will need a bit of tweaking, and I'm sure it will be taken care of, but this kind of post is just ridiculous!  LOL!!! WTG 1eagle

[NatCigg]

-45 minute down time for town was short enough.
-30 minutes and resupplyable, eek.
is there a train convoy or barge that can add time to town buildings or town ack?
where can we tell what a train convoy or barge is resupplying? does it have an assigned "reach" or a specific target once at destination?
must i bomb the city 50 percent so that town buildings will be down for 90 minutes?