Those P38's could all run in NOE and popup at the last leveling your town with an M3 or C47 waiting near by. It would take about 20-30 of them. A third would die to the initial town ack if they choose an airfield with the town 1-2 miles from it's field. The remaining with 2-1000 and rockets would level the town and kill ack in 30 seconds. By the time of the first lifter, troops would be out. And all those P38's looking for something to shoot at would keep the troops safe. Three boxes of lancs with 14-1000lb leading the popup of 10-20 P38 would make it work better absorbing the ack fire and killing most of it on their first pass. Then the P38 would have a cake walk mopping up the town with bombs, rockets and killing any uppers the lancs didn't get.
Exactly how 30 Squadron from Australia hit Japanese bases on new guinea along with AAF B25 and A20 squadrons as their standard mission. The British ran daylight NOE medium bomber assaults on factories in Holland early in the war. So small hoards assaulting targets from sea and ground level was SOP in WW2.
P38 doing the same thing above radar is them giving you a sporting chance to see and stop them.
I can't help but noticing these complaints seem to hide an obvious fact. The only way some want anything attacked in this game anymore is from a position of weakness that can easily be destroyed by defenders with minimal effort. In many cases that is how an attack "can only fail". There has been a concerted effort in the last few years to stigmatize anyone who organizes other players to help them capture anything too easily. Kind of an effort at the dumbing down of Aces High in favor of a steady state boring status quo for the defenders. Attackers = Evil Sneaky People
No body agrees for the most part to load up ord to go capture a field thinking they won't capture that objective. My own squad loads up ord to whizz on a field to start fights for the sake of a fight most of the time. Then the green guys follow us and attempt a base capture. But, back to the other players loading up ord.
They don't play this game thinking about the OP of this post that we should all just amble on over there, then notify everyone like ideots, we are here and want to fight you for this base. What's the point? The capture by that method will never happen given in this game how we love hoarding missions once we know their location. Unless you show up with 60 bombers and shut the whole base down in one pass while PMing the OP of his field status.
HOST: dude!!!! your field is dead.................
The point for the players to agree to the time and trouble is to "capture the field". You show up without bombs to start furballs. No one signs an agreement to play this game by rules of game play conventions or limitations on game player association. The only ones I've ever seen are in game and this forum by "Politically Correct Nannies" trying to force everyone else to play in the MA their way without first agreeing to take over paying the other players subscriptions as the coercion for compliance.
My compliments to the P38 hoard. Half the time these days you look for knights. Half of them are sitting in a tank somewhere drinking beer and ignoring the air game while they shoot the same two or three guys in the back while they keep respawing in front of them. Tried it one night recently and landed 9 kills. Sure is not as nerve wracking and uncertain as air to air ACM combat. Kind of addictive like playing Windows solitaire. Just push a button 9 times in a row, then land a kill string. At least no one whines about being HO'd. Just, dang wher'd that MF hide himself, when Dr7 nails em.
