Setup questions for CT Staff

[Miska]

I am new to AH (refugee from the neighbours) so please bear with me.

Would it be possible to have a CT set up in which there is no base capture and in which one side's bombing score - bombers lost is used to generate a score each day?

I am thinking of a late 1943 8th AF type set-up in which one side flies bombers and escorts and the other side intercepts.  It might also be a very good set-up in which to try no or very low icons and extended night-time.  B17s and P47s by day, lancs and Me110s by night

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Miska
I am new to AH (refugee from the neighbours) so please bear with me.

Would it be possible to have a CT set up in which there is no base capture and in which one side's bombing score - bombers lost is used to generate a score each day?

I am thinking of a late 1943 8th AF type set-up in which one side flies bombers and escorts and the other side intercepts.  It might also be a very good set-up in which to try no or very low icons and extended night-time.  B17s and P47s by day, lancs and Me110s by night

That sounds like fun, but no-capture CT set-ups have basically flopped in  the past.  Capture basically drives the game and fights.  
Personally, I love flying and defending in bomber formations, and I love attacking bombers.  I think that I would enjoy this set-up a lot if ther were decent numbers to support it.  I would be surprised to see agreat turn-out, however.  Most folks want fighter on fighter engagements.  It would also be a turn off if most of the bombers cruised at 20+K.

Great idea, but I do have my doubts.

eskimo

[Sabre]

Aways glad to hear set up ideas from the player base.  Unfortunately, we don't have the arena set up variables to allow this type of set up.  Scenarios can do this, as when the CM corps put on "The Mighty Eigth" last year.  But in an open arena setting, we just don't have the tools to do this.  We can't even make bases uncapturable, which would be a great help IMO.

The closest we came to something along these lines was when we ran Battle of Britain the first time in the CT.  We aske Pyro to reset the arena stats to coincide with the start of the CT week.  That way we were able to monitor attrition throughout the week and declare a winner at the end of the week.  We had no way to monitor bomb damage...only aircraft/vehicle losses.

Sabre
CT Staff

P.S. There might be a way to use bomber perk points earned as a measure of bomb tonnage dropped on target.  I'll give it some thought.