Should the AH2 Army play a major or minor role?

[Major_Hans]

I want a major role.  Granted, I want airpower to be the controlling force, but army units should capture ground.

I like realism.  Infantry units take and hold ground, so says the US Marine Corps.  Who are you to argue with the Marines.

The bare minimum that I would go for is to have static frontlines that only move when softened up by airpower.  Thus it only appears that the Army is winning, when if you step back and look it is the airforce that is the key to winning.

Or navy, in a Pacific campaign.  Ships or army units that have no human controls.  However, they wander up and down the "front" untill they find a hole, then go into automatic attack mode and poor thru the breach created by the planes.

Thus we have realsim, but we're only pilots.

Of course, I want to be a tread head too.

[Phelony]

sounds to much like ww2 online...i like it being a flight sim

[Major_Hans]

I disagree wholeheartedly.  WWII Online and that plan I listed above are nothing alike.

[Saurdaukar]

I think its a fine idea.  From what Im reading, HTC isnt trying to create a working WWIIOL at all, their making a pretty much dedicated flight sim, but aspects like sea and ground combat are required to create the "atmosphere" that the team is desperately trying to introduce.

I think waiting in the ready room, examining the troop movements during a breifing, and having your conduct in the air have an impact on the war on the ground would create a great deal of atmosphere.  If nothing else, troops movements on a map would clue you into the progress of the "war" and would also promote the feeling of being isolated that most pilots probably had.