Everyone seems to be under the delusion this game is about WW2.
The strats are there to entertaine Lusche and keep him in the game providing his excellent charts so HTC dosen't have to.
They are not there to change an air combat game that uses WW2 toys into a WW2 Strategic War simulation. Players don't defend the strats. They entertain themselves with the notion of scalping defenseless bombers and getting their names in lights when they land. The strats are there to cause combat by giving bombers something to do and get shot at doing it.
The only way to make the strats have any impact on it's country's ability to fight is to fly 60 bombers to it and flatten it in one attack. But, that only slows down the rebuild time of some objects globaly for about 2 hours which players can resupply by M3 and C47 in the mean time. They can still up late war rides and fight back because the game is about combat. Not about about strategicly castrating a country so it's players have no way to fight back.
Thats called a
Strategic War Simulation.
This is a Piu, Piu, Piu take that MoFu, I'm better than you are game. It's about whizzing in the other guy's wheaties and making him cry. Then coming back for revenge which your hanger has unlimited amounts of.
Everything in the MA is there to promote combat and your toys happen to be WW2 themed toys. Not recreate WW2. Thats supposidly what the AvA and SEA arenas are for. HiTech could just as easily change all the skins to look like the aircraft, vehicals and ships from the movie "Sky Crawlers" and the game would be the same. A combat sim using some kind of aircraft with guns and some kind of vehicals with guns so you can whizz in each others wheaties. Then go Neenner, Neenner, Neenner on channel 200 and all the other girly fight crap that keeps the customers using the unlimited revenge in the hangers.
