No Icons for enemy

[jimson]

No, only enemy icons are off.

Seano, we normally run specific scenarios, Battle of Britain, Midway etc.

Yes the plane set is limited but they really are a lot of fun. Come on in some time if you like

[seano]

half the fun of the main arena is shooting down the same plane you are flying. its an even match and dependant on pilot skill.  we need to try this in a late war main arena setting where perk points will count. thats the only way we will get the kind of numbers we need to make it fun and resonalbe. the axis [lanes are at way too much disadvantage. a 190d9 didnt have that much less turn radius than a p51.  190 a8 for that matter.

[Arlo]

half the fun of the main arena is shooting down the same plane you are flying. its an even match and dependant on pilot skill.  we need to try this in a late war main arena setting where perk points will count. thats the only way we will get the kind of numbers we need to make it fun and resonalbe. the axis [lanes are at way too much disadvantage. a 190d9 didnt have that much less turn radius than a p51.  190 a8 for that matter.

 

[jimson]

half the fun of the main arena is shooting down the same plane you are flying. its an even match and dependant on pilot skill.  we need to try this in a late war main arena setting where perk points will count. thats the only way we will get the kind of numbers we need to make it fun and resonalbe. the axis [lanes are at way too much disadvantage. a 190d9 didnt have that much less turn radius than a p51.  190 a8 for that matter.

You may be right, but that's not the charter of the Axis vs Allies arena.

[seano]

You may be right, but that's not the charter of the Axis vs Allies arena.

no its not, but the guys who run the ava could actually try a main arena style fight without icons with the whole planeset.

[Arlo]

no its not, but the guys who run the ava could actually try a main arena style fight without icons with the whole planeset.

That wouldn't pass muster with HT.

[Oldman731]

no its not, but the guys who run the ava could actually try a main arena style fight without icons with the whole planeset.

So could the FSO, or any of the SEAs.  "Axis v Allied" suggests a certain inherent limitation.

- oldman

[jimson]

About the only times we ever depart from the Axis vs Allies format is for the Soccer War and that was a RL battle and during jaeger's Jetweek, and even that is a loose Korean war interpretation with the ME 262 subbing for both the F-86 and the Mig-15. (two planes very similar in performance)

[jimson]

Hey, here's your chance.

During the server work something happened to my terrain so the arena has rangoon loaded with a full plane set and I don't have time to fix it LOL, so until another staffer gets in to fix it, there ya go.

[captain1ma]

full planeset with no enemy icons!!! yeehaw!!!!

[Karnak]

I recall an Israeli setting in the AvA as well.  Israel and its neighbors use a lot of surplus WWII stuff, Bf109s, Mosquitoes, Spitfires, ect.

[Oldman731]

I recall an Israeli setting in the AvA as well.  Israel and its neighbors use a lot of surplus WWII stuff, Bf109s, Mosquitoes, Spitfires, ect.

Yup.  That was back before AH2.  Can't remember the player's name, he was Israeli and came up with the Israel map.  Some good fights back then.

None of those AH1 maps survived the transition to AH2, though, which was one of the reasons why AH2 largely killed off the AvA's population.

- oldman

[Arlo]

None of those AH1 maps survived the transition to AH2, though, which was one of the reasons why AH2 largely killed off the AvA's population.

- oldman

Hey, good point. Time to learn how to make maps. 

[jimson]

Everything is fixed now.

[muzik]

except in a furball you will have several airplanes both friendly and foe all around and hard to tell who's who.  remember lots of us are getting up there in years and we need reading glasses to even see the big icons we have now.


semp

I like the idea, but you make a good point. The solution could be some kind of minor visual cue that lets you know who's friendly. Not a full icon, but maybe a small dot in place of the icon or a colored outline of the friendly a/c.