I had this dream one night. I know it will be a while before we ever see this in AH, if we see it at all, but I wanted to share it with you guys :
Since the classic arena doesnt have to be historically accurate. I was envisioning an AH with distinguishable countries that the player could identify with. For example, the ORIGINAL (not captured) bishops buildings could be easily identified from the ORIGINAL knights' and rook's buildings because each country would have unique field layouts and building architecture. Just to add some inmersion each country could have a strong political inclination. Lets say the Knights might support communism, and the bish supported Fascism, while the rooks supported democracy. In addition to that, each country might have noticable strenghts and weaknesses: For example, the bish might have the best AAA, but a long resupply time for all fields. The Rooks might have the weakest AAA, but excellent radar, and the Knites might have a strong navy, but weak radar....etc. This would only work as long as these strengths and weaknesses are well-balanced between the teams.
AH could have a real-time "economy", where planes that are used most often result in very little ENY and OBJ scores and can even end up costing a some perk points. The least used planes would gain ENY and OBJ points. Each country would also have a limited stock of each kind of plane and that number would appear on the hanger menu for each plane. That number would go down as soon as a player is on the runway; if he comes back, the number goes up again. The amount of planes in stock would go up every day or so depending on the status of the factories. Of course, the number would vary for every plane and it would have to be a reasonable amount. Basically, there would be much less stock of "uber" planes and bombers than there is of regularly used planes. Attacking and defending country objects might begin to have a bigger role if factories could directly influence the amount of planes a country gets.
There are a bunch of other things i dreamt of that I cant remember now...but at least I got most of my main ideas there.
