Eliminate zone bases...

[bustr]

Make it take less bombs to flatten the strats.

Say the efforts of 5 bomber boxes in one well aimed pass to a strat.

I know the knights will furball while Rome burns.

And you just drop hangers across their front and roll up their bases because of the extended rebuild time. Though, the bish and rooks might actually put up a fight against each other, for trying to do this to each other. You can revisit the knights strats as needed along with distracting them with phony micro attacks to create furballs.

You want punishment for not fighting. This is punishment for not fighting while your country burns down around you.

The zones and strat are supposed to make the bomber guys happy and promote fighting.

[SlipKnt]

Me thinks the Me163 should be available where ever the strats move to. 

If they retreat, fine.  If they don,t, maybe have an uncapturable base in the vicinity where the forward strats are located so you can up Me163s to defend. 

Simple enough!!!   

 

 

[HawkerMKII]

Me thinks the Me163 should be available where ever the strats move to. 

If they retreat, fine.  If they don,t, maybe have an uncapturable base in the vicinity where the forward strats are located so you can up Me163s to defend. 

Simple enough!!!   

 

 

^^^this^^^

[ozrocker]

I agree with OP.



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[SmokinLoon]

If the genius of the strat is to promote visits from bombers so they can gain some perks but, eventually increase field rebuild times up to 120 minutes as a penalty for not defending them adequately. Which I've been there once helping, when 120 minutes was accomplished. The bish were SOL for a very long time that night as the knights dropped hangers. How many fields could your squad capture if It knew all hangers were down for the next 120 minutes for one side?

Ask Hitech to make it take x50 less bombs to reach 100% down for the strat facilities. You guys are fixated on punishing players like this is a 2 sided board game. If you can get the strat down 100% with a few bomber sortie early in the evening. The map is yours every single night you so choose. 120 minutes is real punishment after your bomber guys visit the whole front dropping VH and fighter hangers.

Then all you do is fighter hoard around your bombers to the strat like hoarding airfields. Kill all the defenders and your bombers cripple their country. At some point some of your bombers hit fighter hangers along the strat bomb run path as the down times increase to say 60 minutes.

Hitech does nothing but change a back end value and make a game change announcement.

Attention: Knights if all you care about is furballing beware. I have changed the damage to the strats so it takes x50 less bombs to achieve 100% down. This will mean all of your hangers will take 120 minutes to rebuild.

And we know as the strat goes down, so does the number of M3 and C47 trips goes up to rebuild them. And if your enemy has dropped hangers all around the strat, you get it. Just like AH1 when you could organize 300+ guys to reduce a country down to one field in an hour or so.

wat?   

This is about keeping the strats to the front, not adjusting the down time to hangers.  Make defending the strats a worthy cause.  If anything, I think HTC could adjust the zone bases a bit and have only 2-3 bases that are within peein' distance of the strats.  Remember, the Soviets were all ready to abandon Moscow and set up manufacturing in the east but it took the enemy to be knockin' on the gates before they moved.  On the same token, the Soviets were finishing T34 tanks and rolling them off the assembly line right in to a firefight.  So, I have no issues having enemy fields that close to the strats.  It is a lot of fun patrolling the skies hunting for loaded down fighters and bombers at lower altitudes.  Heck, I think HTC should add a few gv spawns and let tanks duke it out on the edges of the strats.       

[wpeters]

+1 one everthing about capturing zone bases including the 163

[bustr]

wat?   

This is about keeping the strats to the front, not adjusting the down time to hangers.  Make defending the strats a worthy cause.  If anything, I think HTC could adjust the zone bases a bit and have only 2-3 bases that are within peein' distance of the strats.  Remember, the Soviets were all ready to abandon Moscow and set up manufacturing in the east but it took the enemy to be knockin' on the gates before they moved.  On the same token, the Soviets were finishing T34 tanks and rolling them off the assembly line right in to a firefight.  So, I have no issues having enemy fields that close to the strats.  It is a lot of fun patrolling the skies hunting for loaded down fighters and bombers at lower altitudes.  Heck, I think HTC should add a few gv spawns and let tanks duke it out on the edges of the strats.       

It seems either get rid of them based on Lusche's analysis. Or based on that, simplify destroying strat so the country in question feels the full weight of the real value to their fun. Everyone was adding a need for consequences to ignoring strat and the combat potential that sort of happens from time to time. Or leave it all alone so that the very slow pain is in force that seems to be management's choice. For how to inflict pain on customers who don't care about the strat's health related to rebuild times from a mechanism like the strat.

It would certainly wake players up like the HQ getting flattened every 30 minutes.

[Lusche]

It seems either get rid of them based on Lusche's analysis

I'm not sure whos 'analysis' you did read, but for sure it wasn't mine.

[bustr]

I went to the source for the reason for zone bases.

It would make the strats effect on fun more relevant if they were a bit easier to flatten. Then zone bases would become relevant.

[RotBaron]

wat?    

This is about keeping the strats to the front, not adjusting the down time to hangers.  Make defending the strats a worthy cause.  If anything, I think HTC could adjust the zone bases a bit and have only 2-3 bases that are within peein' distance of the strats.  Remember, the Soviets were all ready to abandon Moscow and set up manufacturing in the east but it took the enemy to be knockin' on the gates before they moved.  On the same token, the Soviets were finishing T34 tanks and rolling them off the assembly line right in to a firefight.  So, I have no issues having enemy fields that close to the strats.  It is a lot of fun patrolling the skies hunting for loaded down fighters and bombers at lower altitudes.  Heck, I think HTC should add a few gv spawns and let tanks duke it out on the edges of the strats.        

Trying to bomb strats in a ftr is a complete waste of time unless there are several of the ack towers down, poof before you can even say it.

Knights are often defending their strats from nearby bases, when has this happened to Rooks lately?  

[SmokinLoon]

Trying to bomb strats in a ftr is a complete waste of time unless there are several of the ack towers down, poof before you can even say it.

Knights are often defending their strats from nearby bases, when has this happened to Rooks lately?  

Oh, I wouldnt say that it is a waste of time taking a heavy fighter to the strats.  1 single P51D can do a lot of damage in one pass.  Same goes for the P47D-40.  We'll make a single pass through the auto ack and drop everything on 1 factory and then RTB. 

All three chess pieces get their turn at getting their strats hit hard, I'm not seeing any one side get any more than the other, really.  Actually, I can't remember the last time I hit the Knight strats.  However, almost daily I'll hammer the squeakops at least once.   

[cobia38]

  -10  leave it as it is
   On some maps,bumping strats to the rear after porking them will hamper re-supply efforts. 
   some day the armchair generals will figure this out   

[Lusche]

  -10  leave it as it is
   On some maps,bumping strats to the rear after porking them will hamper re-supply efforts. 
   some day the armchair generals will figure this out   

Repeating this all over the BBS doesn't make it correct though

[cobia38]

Repeating this all over the BBS doesn't make it correct though

  I cant help it, 2 people post same topic    
     

[Lusche]

  I cant help it, 2 people post same topic    

Both topics are quite different, actually. One is about players and their motivations, the other is strictly about the gameplay function