Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA

[HawkerMKII]

Gibberish

Knights are always outnumbered and thus communicate more (100% bs)

We won the map the other day (1 time out of a 100)

Bishops and the other one are horders and vulchers (more bs)

Being in knights is character building, ie you cant win all the time and you will not be a spaceman or president

I am in charge of all the Knights by the way except Alfamega who is a law unto himself

[zack1234]

How dare you!

Its a outrage

[Vinkman]

I tend to agree that Rooks and Bish win the maps more than Knights do. I'm a knight since I joined ni 2009. I just think the knights are more interested in combat, than base taking. Knight squads are more interested in fighting incoming planes and GVs than putting any thought into coordinating attacks. There are a few squads that will organize missions, but it's very rare.

 It's not about being out numbered. Last night Knights had superior numbers for hours at 151, 150, 148, and lost them all. While we're all fighting the planes , the bish get groups of buffs and start dropping hangars, not just at the air base they are attacking but at the surrounding v-bases as well. Eventually we have nothing to defend it with, and the Knits simply move elsewhere.

Vast majority of knight squads are not interested in bombing and base taking.

It's a dog fighting country, so we lose the war almost all the time. It's a choice we make. 

[The Fugitive]

I enjoyed some of the RJO type nights that we use to have, why? Because they were run like an "allied invasion", and not a horde mission. Some of the force would hit one base, some another, all the while a 3rd was working a different front all together. It made defending possible, and more fun for everyone as they could find any type of fight you were looking for.

[Kovel]

I tend to agree that Rooks and Bish win the maps more than Knights do. I'm a knight since I joined ni 2009. I just think the knights are more interested in combat, than base taking. Knight squads are more interested in fighting incoming planes and GVs than putting any thought into coordinating attacks. There are a few squads that will organize missions, but it's very rare.

 It's not about being out numbered. Last night Knights had superior numbers for hours at 151, 150, 148, and lost them all. While we're all fighting the planes , the bish get groups of buffs and start dropping hangars, not just at the air base they are attacking but at the surrounding v-bases as well. Eventually we have nothing to defend it with, and the Knits simply move elsewhere.

Vast majority of knight squads are not interested in bombing and base taking.

It's a dog fighting country, so we lose the war almost all the time. It's a choice we make.  

I agree. It's awesome to see Knights defending bases, as they usually are very hot dogfiters. When I approach a Knight base and I see Knights upping to defend it, I always say to myself...It's not gonna end well....

 

[Babalonian]

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Note: both those screenshots are so OLD they outdate the Achievements BETA.    

[Nathan60]

Also vSLIMJIM hasnt flown since NOV and star23 since Sept! and that's NO guarantee the screenies aren't from several months BEFORE that 

[seano]

no one says nits cant get organized. every country is the same. i went bish because they actually join missions in the daytime when i play. rooks are only fun at night when im usually working. nits are the red headed stepchild

[earl1937]

  I am one of the mission planners on the Rook side. I do not intend to have a horde when I run a mission, but sometimes I have more "joiners" free lanceing on the runway, waiting for my strike force to take off. Some times I have so many "joiners" that I wind up not dropping bombs at all! I do this because I could care less about scoring, only running a good mission. I prefer to give each bomber element a target to hit, so there fore, sometimes I just go along and try to keep things organized. Doesn't always work out, but that is my intent!
A large majority of players in the MLW arena like to fly missions, fighter groups and bomber formations, because that is what they have seen on television and so there fore, so to speak, gives them the opportunity to "live the dream" of being a fighter pilot, or a bomber pilot and conforming to mission commanders directions and assignments. After all, there is some personal satisfaction to being assigned a hangar, GV, CV or what have you and carrying out your assignment.
I have suggested before to Hi Tech about giving us some more ground targets, such as railway yards and depots and GV motor pools to give the guys some additional ground targets to attack, but so far, has fell on deaf ears.
Would be "neat" to set up some 57th fighter-bomber missions, such as those which they flew in Italy during WW2, and I think it would generate more interest in the game.

[Babalonian]

Also vSLIMJIM hasnt flown since NOV and star23 since Sept! and that's NO guarantee the screenies aren't from several months BEFORE that 

Upon second look ,they're pre-chatbox tabs too.   

[HawkerMKII]

Note: both those screenshots are so OLD they outdate the Achievements BETA.    

Does it matter,,,the statement was.....Knights "Always" outnumbered, just proved that to be wrong

[The Fugitive]

I am one of the mission planners on the Rook side. I do not intend to have a horde when I run a mission, but sometimes I have more "joiners" free lanceing on the runway, waiting for my strike force to take off. Some times I have so many "joiners" that I wind up not dropping bombs at all! I do this because I could care less about scoring, only running a good mission. I prefer to give each bomber element a target to hit, so there fore, sometimes I just go along and try to keep things organized. Doesn't always work out, but that is my intent!
A large majority of players in the MLW arena like to fly missions, fighter groups and bomber formations, because that is what they have seen on television and so there fore, so to speak, gives them the opportunity to "live the dream" of being a fighter pilot, or a bomber pilot and conforming to mission commanders directions and assignments. After all, there is some personal satisfaction to being assigned a hangar, GV, CV or what have you and carrying out your assignment.
I have suggested before to Hi Tech about giving us some more ground targets, such as railway yards and depots and GV motor pools to give the guys some additional ground targets to attack, but so far, has fell on deaf ears.
Would be "neat" to set up some 57th fighter-bomber missions, such as those which they flew in Italy during WW2, and I think it would generate more interest in the game.

So that is what you should do. Use the mission channel instead of announcing one. Then only those "in" your mission have targets or know where you are flying. If "free-lancers" join in and ask for info give them some, even if their targets are at another base, name a wingleader and give him a half dozen of your free-lancers and give them an objective.

Just because you have a horde doesn't mean you have to bring them all to one target and so have players with nothing to drop their bombs on. If your going to lead, lead!  <--- and I mean that in a nice way 

[palef]

I tend to agree that Rooks and Bish win the maps more than Knights do. I'm a knight since I joined ni 2009.

We are no longer the Knights who go "ni!"

[danny76]

We are no longer the Knights who go "ni!"

well spotted

[Changeup]

Ummm, who cares.  Lets fight!