No fuel at HQ area field means no fuel for Komets to get to HQ attack bomber raid.
Leave fuel up, send bombers in, bombers are swarmed by Komets. No more bombers.
In other words, used to be a lone bomber pilot or two could grab to 35k, and then head on over to the enemys HQ and knock out that teams radar for a couple of hours. At 35k, bombers are pretty hard to kill with a prop fighter.
Then the Komet appeared. It has no difficulty reaching 35k in less than 3 minutes and it's exceptional speed and immense cannon firepower just shred 35k bombers. It's operational weakness is it takes almost all of a full tank of fuel to get up there, and it's only based at the field adjacent to the HQ.
So.. the bomber pilots are whining because there's now a defensive system in place that makes it harder for 2 guys to screw with the gameplay of 200 others. Now it takes teamwork and planning to disrupt the gameplay of 200 others. They find the inability to milkrun at high alt where the prop fighters are at a disadvantage 'unfair'.
War is hell.
