However I score this, I'd fly again in a heartbeat. Scenarios are AH's best experience.
+1 for the setting (terrain, plane set): late war ETO plays into AH's strengths, and that Germany terrain is just jaw droppingly beautiful. Very cool with so many forested areas and a lot of uneven topography - NOE missions really required concentration. Would've loved even more plane types like the A-20, Spit 9, P-51B, P-47D-25, P-38J, 190A5, 109G06, maybe even a couple Ar234s to keep the Allies busy in their own backfield.
+1 for command staff: Always a difficult position, but I thought we had great leaders from the top right down to the flight leads. I'd bet the Allies did too.
-1 for scoring/balance: something was off, way off. Some theoretical assumptions didn't hold against experience; hoping to learn from this. Scoring isn't everything, but I think a few more scenarios with scoring/balance off by this much will harm participation eventually. I know designers always strive for a fair engagement but the magnitude of score difference, even when the Axis outnumbered the Allies, was just too great.
-1 for the perk planes: I loved the idea of a few Tempests and Ta152s in the mix, but those perk planes with the talented sticks driving them became force multipliers that were just too hard to account for.
-1 for the "MA" feel: I felt the AO was too small - we were in contact with enemy forces too early after launching I thought. Radar gives away too much info; there was very little "fog of war" that I remember in earlier scenarios. Also, we jumped all over as a unit - landing at one field and then upping quickly again at an airfield on the other side of the map felt a little MA-like.
Adding those up gives my overall rating as a -1, but I still enjoyed the scenario a lot.
