Originally posted by Wotan
Are you blind? It offers nothing for some of us. Thats kinda Urchins point.
I agree with him. The map itself aint the problem. Its the lack of good fighting that bores alot of folks.
Gentlemen, if you want to catch fish, ya gotta go where the fish are. The problem is that this is a huge lake and the damn fish don't school, except for the piranhas (gangbang hordes attacking undefended fields).
There's lots of opportunities for small fights, but more often than not, these turn out to be n00bs and basically you end up simply padding scores. This map requires minimal SA skills, simply because there's few enemies to watch. Challenges are few and far between.
Last night I bombed and rocketed GVs for what seemed like forever. This gets old quickly. So I upped an Osti and sneaked onto a Bish airfield, killing 10 aircraft before being hit by a bomb. Well, the fight was exciting, but the trip takes too long.
Maybe one might want to pad their bomber or attack score by hitting a factory. Forget it. There's a mob already there waiting for something to come up, so that they can all race to kill it... Except when the train pulls in and they scatter like sparrows when the cat shows up.
Want to try something different? Then try this. Take a light bomber (I prefer the SBD), fly (alone) to a small enemy field, deack it with bombs and guns, then wait for one or two weenies to take off for the "easy" kill. Then beat the snot out of them until they resort to Ostis and M16s. At this point, head for home. Trust me, these dorks will up and follow you. Once they are clear of the field, drag them into a canyon, turn around and beat 'em up again. Do it right and you'll get home with several kills and the satisfaction of having done it with one of the least aircraft in the plane set.
Sure, this amounts to nothing more than clubbing n00bs. But what else are you supposed to do on this map if you don't want to join the piranhas attacking undefended fields?
As usual, a few fights evolve around CVs. Unfortunately, it takes hours to get a CV anywhere near an enemy base. Even then, there's no promise that the enemy will respond. I sank two enemy TGs last night with Cruiser guns, for lack of anything else to do. A grand total of 3 aircraft rose up from these CVs, and I killed those early on with my FM-2. When no more came up, I manned a turret.... Pretty dull, unless you like this sort of thing.
Again, when there's 15 or more CVs on the map, there's little effort made to kill them. Morever, with a gozillion airfields, there's little reason to use them and it can take many hours to get them anywhere where they may be useful anyway.
Sure, there are some really good fights on this map. Unfortunately, they are generally rare. If we had another 200 players it would be a great venue, but as it is, it's simply too vast, being 4 times the area of the other maps.
My regards,
Widewing
