On a side note, a buff crew in WWII needed some things to be successful:
a) Some serious guts, to face their survival odds.
b) Pilot ability. Not to jink, bank and roll the plane, but to manage engines efficiently. This meant not overheating them, taking care of consumption, and, finally, able to take the bird back home.
b) Some serious navigation skills, to arrive to target in time and avoid enemy flaks and fighter concentrations, along the way, if known and possible.
c) Some seriously good bomber, to manage Norden properly.
d) Some serious luck, because targets could not be effectively pinpointed. They relied on carpet bombing, and heavy eggs.
I feel those guys must be made of some special alien material. It must have been really scary, to put it mildly, to board one of the 8th. buffs in those hard times, especially the early days.
Now, if we turn our view in current AH situation, tell me which of these points are modelled.
I would like to make it clear that I LIKE buff tasks. What I deeply dislike is the sense that, being buff driving one of the hardest tasks (both in terms of raw skill and determination) perhaps with the exception of close ground support missions in WWII, in AH buff driving is only a matter of patience and, maybe, some sort of gunner skills.
IMHO, and it's my own oppinion, no pun intended to people flying buffs in MA as of now (to each its own), buff modelling should give a flavour of what buff drivers faced in WWII. It would improve respect to buff flyers in MA, and will show more of it to RL crews.
Cheers,
Pepe
