Originally posted by lazs2
I do realize that the core of CT players has very different opinions on what is fun than those in the MA... I admit that I am at a loss in understanding what is fun about some of the setups. I am serious here... I simply don't understand. Compounding my missunderstanding is the fact that in the setups I have seen with parity the fights are endless and well attended and the ones (like the current one) that aren't are not so much so.
lazs
Perusing this thread, it seems like the chief complaint this week has been about ganging. I've noticed it myself, even when I managed to fly Allied one night. Generally, I think most of us agree that it isn't much fun to be ganged, even if it is just like The Real War (observation: probably the real war wasn't much fun when you were being ganged, either).
I actually think the ganging is fairly innocent in its inspiration. I think it flows directly from having squads in a relatively low-numbers arena. If I were in a squad, I'd want to fly around with my other squad buddies, and help them if they got into trouble, and that would often result in ganging (what, you're supposed to pull off to the side and watch your squad-mate get killed?). I don't know how this plays out in the MA, because I never fly there, but in the CT, when you may only have 20 guys on each side, the two or three who meet up with a squad are going to get overwhelmed.
On balance, I can put up with it, I suppose, because we usually benefit from having more people in the arena. Some of us can remember back a year when it was not unusual to have a total of six or eight people (total) in the CT. I'll put up with the ganging, but I wonder if it wouldn't be possible for the squads to fly in flight strength, rather than squad strength.
- oldman (PS to Lazs: You may simply not enjoy historical match-ups, which is fine. I've always thought that P-51s fighting against P-51s was surreal, and detracted from the enjoyment. Plainly there are more of you than there are of me.)
