Originally posted by Esme
Who gives a monkeys what would be most useful or what wouldnt get used (supposedly) in the MA?
The MA has very VERY little to do with what WW2 air combat was about. It is completely unrepresentative. All the MA is is a bunch of people having fights under very unrealistic conditions with WW2 aircraft, in simulation. (And sure, I join in, and sure it's fun at times, for a while. But it ain't a simulation of WW2).
The real WW2 had an RPS (rolling plane set). It had an early part where there were early war planes against other early war planes, some of which were obsescent or even obsolete even by the standards of the day. It had a middle part, with somewhat better planes and a lot of the old ones still in service. It had a late part, dominated by late war planes, but with some early types STILL hanging around.
The supply of aircraft depended upon production and logistics to support them. Aircraft were flown in units, to orders. Targets didnt miraculously rebuild in 15 minutes. And so on, and so on.
Add planes that are useful in scenarios as the FIRST criteria. They'll get used or not in the MA depending on the conditions there and individual preference, and whatever happens, the MA will STILL be more like an aerial FPS than a simulation of WW2 air combat, so long as players of all sides are free to choose planes of any side from any point in the war.
And if the He177 gets added, I will be immediately launching a campaign to get a "reliability factor" built into planes to mimic the effects of real unreliability problems.
It'd be nice to see folks asking for more REPRESNTATIVE planes more often, and to express some delight in putting actual SKILLS to use, rather than simply stamping their feet and crying because they don't have the plane with the biggest engine, biggest and most guns or bombload, irrespective of whether it ever actually saw service or was an engineers nightmare.
Continually demanding "better" planes in that manner is generally a mark of a very poor pilot, and certainly an immature one, IMO. Learn to fly; learn to fight; there isnt any WW2 plane which can make up for a deficiency in basic piloting and combat skills.
Esme
agreed 100%!Thats exactly why I'd like to see biplanes and other early war planes!, But even for the MA, I would fly ANY and prolly Every plane in the Main Arena (other than spits and 109G10's)
Aces High is not just all about the Main Arena and what planes would "survive" in the Main arena.
Many of us enjoy scenarios,TOD,CT,and the Challenge of flying early war birds, shooting down the later "uber" war planes.
Every plane is flown in MA, and every plane get kills in the MA (yes even the C47!) no matter how "Obsolite" it is compared to the planes everyone else flys.
And many of you say "Early war planes don't fit with all the late-mid war planes we have, why add earlywar planes when theres nothing you can kill",
But if you never add early warplanes how will you ever have anything to kill with early war planes (easily anyway)?
I understand at the same time many of you would like to see late war planes added, and thats fine, I'm just saying we are REALLY lacking early war planeset, and its great to see HTC paying attintion to it
Will duck for cover behind my Gladiator now, as I see lots of MA Pilots charging at me throwing tomatoes;)
