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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: thndregg on December 12, 2010, 10:00:25 PM
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Simple question on a topic that will most likely degenerate into something worth locking instead of cruising on a plane of acceptable intelligence & courtesy:
In the Late War Main Arenas, which side seems (as in simple non-factual perception) more resource-adept at keeping their bases from being overrun- as in, which side has a better understanding of the cause & effect relationship of the various base strat objects (or lack thereof when they are porked)?
I have noticed that defense is thought of a lot more often than "stopping the drain"- as in getting at the source of the troops (the barracks), getting at the source of the bombs (the ord bunkers), etc...
Key word is "source". Defense alone does not work unless the source of the problem can be destroyed.
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I will have to say rooks, always someone porking ors or troops at the base im rolling from.
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Bish suck at this as you know egg. Rooks are always seem to be more strategically vigilant.
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As a Bish, I would have to say Rooks.. They are always porking...
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I'm a Rook. Rook's suck, terribly, but we do always seem to have someone hitting troops/ords.
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All three are the same.
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one thing i find hilarious about the bishops
they will have 20 and 30 plane high altitude missions which take players out of the game for hours while they lose bases. yesterday they lost 8 bases. while they accomplished to bomb the rook factories. i think all buffs made it back, some landed as few as 1200 points for a 2 hour flight. they slap each other on the back about the great mission they just accomplished.
as for bombing hq, it takes about 5 min to resupply it from nearest base.
semp
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When you switch sides a lot, you will learn on every country channel that "we" suck, that "we" do not pork, and that "they" show us what organization really means while "we" are just furballing.
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one thing i find hilarious about the bishops
they will have 20 and 30 plane high altitude missions which take players out of the game for hours while they lose bases. yesterday they lost 8 bases. while they accomplished to bomb the rook factories. i think all buffs made it back, some landed as few as 1200 points for a 2 hour flight. they slap each other on the back about the great mission they just accomplished.
as for bombing hq, it takes about 5 min to resupply it from nearest base.
semp
So, the factories were bombed....
Instead of bombing the bases that attacks came from? :uhoh
Must take the evil at its roots :lol
HQ is only a lure for those who want to bomb ..... They probably think that the bombing HQ will make the enemy vulnerable .... ? :x
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one thing i find hilarious about the bishops
they will have 20 and 30 plane high altitude missions which take players out of the game for hours while they lose bases. yesterday they lost 8 bases. while they accomplished to bomb the rook factories. i think all buffs made it back, some landed as few as 1200 points for a 2 hour flight. they slap each other on the back about the great mission they just accomplished.
as for bombing hq, it takes about 5 min to resupply it from nearest base.
semp
So you think you should always play for maximum impact on the war and never just for having maximum fun? Maybe the guys in this mission didn't care about the lost bases? Maybe their mission was fun & great & a success?
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Porking is a very valuable strategy. It stops a horde right in its tracks.
Squad MO is to gather everyone up and usually our first runs are our "toolshedding" ones. Best we did recently was 5 ponies and shut down ords/barracks on 3 small feilds and a medium feild on the same sortie.
Result: It keeps them "honest". Now you are free to roam and kill bad guys. Now even if its for 40 minutes, the bad are guys are on their heels trying to regroup and usually that gives you enough time to do the same.
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So you think you should always play for maximum impact on the war and never just for having maximum fun? Maybe the guys in this mission didn't care about the lost bases? Maybe their mission was fun & great & a success?
+ 1. I saw people greifing the 91st the other day about this on 200. People thinking that missions need to have a tactical value in order to be fun. I hope ThundrEgg and the 91st will keep doing what hes doing and wish EVERYONE will follow and see more of it. :salute
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All three are the same.
I agree.
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All 3 are the same, except for the one that isn't.
:huh
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What you mean to say is "all three are the same,,,,, but different"
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Putting aside all the typical "all the same" hyperbole and myth's my honest opinion is the Rooks seem better at the above mentioned skills/tasks.
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Someone once said to me "The Rooks are just... chaos... it's just chaos at all hours." But I prefer chaos over order.. It's more organised. :rock
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one thing i find hilarious about the bishops
they will have 20 and 30 plane high altitude missions which take players out of the game for hours while they lose bases. yesterday they lost 8 bases. while they accomplished to bomb the rook factories. i think all buffs made it back, some landed as few as 1200 points for a 2 hour flight. they slap each other on the back about the great mission they just accomplished.
as for bombing hq, it takes about 5 min to resupply it from nearest base.
semp
As opposed to what? :huh That was the 91st BG and 20th FG you observed having some change-of-pace fun. Would you rather promote us into doing exclusive (furball-killing) hangar banging instead? I guarantee your current opinion would be far overshadowed be those that value a good low knockdown-dragout fight.
Basically it was a run I put together since we've got the upcoming scenario fresh on our minds & we wanted to do something on that line in the main & get out of the drudgery. The 20th <<S>> was expert as usual in escorting us and knocking Rooks out of the stratosphere. :)
Base taking is fine & dandy, and losing consecutive bases gets wearing. I don't treat it like real money. It's a game, and my lowly opinion was the map was very stale.
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+ 1. I saw people greifing the 91st the other day about this on 200. People thinking that missions need to have a tactical value in order to be fun. I hope ThundrEgg and the 91st will keep doing what hes doing and wish EVERYONE will follow and see more of it. :salute
:) I just saw this as I was responding. Thank you, Tralf! You are correct. We had a damn good time.
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one thing i find hilarious about the bishops
they will have 20 and 30 plane high altitude missions which take players out of the game for hours while they lose bases. yesterday they lost 8 bases. while they accomplished to bomb the rook factories. i think all buffs made it back, some landed as few as 1200 points for a 2 hour flight. they slap each other on the back about the great mission they just accomplished.
as for bombing hq, it takes about 5 min to resupply it from nearest base.
semp
I wish more people would do these kind of missions. How can you be a world war II airplane junkie and not appreciate an escorted bombing raid deep behind enemy lines, or the chance to intercept it?
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I wish more people would do these kind of missions. How can you be a world war II airplane junkie and not appreciate an escorted bombing raid deep behind enemy lines, or the chance to intercept it?
Absolutely, they are fun to fly as well as fight. They only suk when you find them noe nothing about that can be appreciated.
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It always surprised how few players will pork ords and troops. They will lose base after base because ords are up at the attacking air field. No matter how many times I type go kill ords. It seams to me I am one of the very few who will take down ords. I pretty much saved A56 the other day just by porking the ords at the attacking field. Even out numbers as we were we held A56.
This is a simple tactic that works and yes they can resupply the base,but I guarantee the other side will get tired of driving M-3s with supplies before I do bombing them back down. Plus if they are driving M-3s with supplies all day, They ain't attacking you.
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Lemmings are lemmings, country is unimportant.
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This question must be for the win the warzz types. :)
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All of my spies say this very thing!!! :aok
When you switch sides a lot, you will learn on every country channel that "we" suck, that "we" do not pork, and that "they" show us what organization really means while "we" are just furballing.
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Porking is useful, but boooring.
wrongway
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Porking is useful, but boooring.
wrongway
you are correct!
i spent my first 2 years in this game porking ords and troops. I've done my share!
plus, on the flipside, you take out ords, they quit bringing bombers. I like shooting down bombers.
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We fly missions to hit strats because it's what the big birds did. I know the impact can not be that big, but it really does not matter. If we need supplies or GV's or something, the 444th will help out, but bombing is the main deal for us whether it's winning the map or whatever.
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I hope ThundrEgg and the 91st will keep doing what hes doing and wish EVERYONE will follow and see more of it. :salute
+1
:salute Thndregg and the 91st.
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Plus if they are driving M-3s with supplies all day, They ain't attacking you.
Where's the fun in that? I like when they are attacking.
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Poking ords and resupplying a base to get it back up is boring. However it is like driving a garbage truck, No one wants to do it but it needs done. porking works out well for me as I have very low frame rate plus it helps out the guys I and with at the time.