Early war and Midwar arenas

[Badboy]

Yep

I miss the MW arena.

Hard to put my finger on why, but first thing to occur to me was that the more even planeset made it more about the man than the machine.

There must have been other reasons because I just had so much fun in there.

Badboy

 

[Lazerr]

Yep

I miss the MW arena.

Hard to put my finger on why, but first thing to occur to me was that the more even planeset made it more about the man than the machine.

There must have been other reasons because I just had so much fun in there.

Badboy

 

This could be obtained in the Melee by modifying ENY and perk values.  I guess that is my opinion.

[JimmyD3]

The fights would increase in the game.  Its a bandaid though.  Smaller maps and limits to resupply for a newly captured base only.  Crazy how many people will jump in supp trucks before the base is even white flagged.

We used to use planes and tanks to hold a base.

Well when you have the likes of Notar coming in NOE WF town/deack in one pass, goon/m3 at the map room you have to do something. Not blaming Notar, just he has fine tuned a capture technique that is difficult to counter act in a timely manner.

[Eagler]

The maps are large enough that certain bases within ma could be restricted to earlier planes

These bases would be located far enough away from later plane bases as to make it time restrictive to interfere

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Eagler

[Black Jack]

I was one of the regular in Mid War. There was always the same bunch more or less. Around 30 players total at the time. You had to play all facets of the game, fighters, bombers, gv's. And the plane set was very equal. Hell the perk planes were Spit8 and Typhoon. I miss it a lot. Like Hazmat said, now if you try to fly something from mid, you always trying to catch something that will not turn to fight.

Black70

[fuzeman]

I wish I could. I work Friday through Tuesday so I miss all the events

KOTH , usually 2nd Saturday of the month, dog fights dog fights dog fights

[hazmatt]

KOTH , usually 2nd Saturday of the month, dog fights dog fights dog fights

Um, I work: "Friday through Tuesday" That includes Saturday...

[fuzeman]

Um, I work: "Friday through Tuesday" That includes Saturday...

I sure read that bass ackwards, didn’t I.

[fd ski]

let's have a three parallel arenas, early, mid and late war. You have to win two out of three to win the war Put them all three on one map so that one doesn't jump arenas...

[SPKmes]

I sure read that bass ackwards, didn’t I.

I like that song

[Ack-Ack]

Yep

I miss the MW arena.

Hard to put my finger on why, but first thing to occur to me was that the more even planeset made it more about the man than the machine.

There must have been other reasons because I just had so much fun in there.

Badboy

 

The quality of fights were also better and it was much easier to find 1v1 fights, or at fights that weren't gang fests.

I also agree that the plane set did tend to favor the skill of the player over the plane.  In MW's heyday, the top killer was the P-38J, far out numbering the #2 fighter and the P-38J's numbers were a direct result of 3 players. Those three players made up about 70% of all kills in the P-38J, while only making up less than 10% of all deaths in the Lightning.

[LCADolby]

MW had a better balanced overall plane set (P51B excluded) making it a great place to fly. Sad though that only once the LW broke and all of us had to fly in there.

[potsNpans]

Mid War was great, but then I always preferred Axis vs Allies when it had the numbers.

[Hajo]

We had sorta of a club on Weds. nights some years back.  When we had certain people on from all countries we would go to the MW arean and just fight.  Toad, Shamus myself and others would just go and have good sized dog fights with an altitude limit of 5K.  The P47D11 did very well there if it weren't overloaded with full fuel tanks.  Miss those days.  We called ourselves "The every other Weds. night fight club."

[RAG]

The Breakfast Club was good too, miss it much