I had this cool idea today.
Though I never participated in the GMT TOD i think this might be similar though not sure, and it would cater to people in the US and mabye england/france timezones.
My inspiration for this is the board game risk BTW.
Basically, itll be a mini Historical arena, and would happen is that there would be two "commanders", 1 axis and 1 allies. Each side will have planes alotted to them at the beginning of the event . there would be SEA squadrons for each side and each participant wo-uld have but one life per week. If you ditched in friendly territory, you would only be out of action for that day, where if you landed safely you could replane. Additionally, a ditched airplane, no matter where it was ditched would be count as a aircraft loss. The two "commanders" would draw up the flight plans for each day and would have to authorize ALL flights, since they are "his" resources being used. Each day, airframes would be replenished based on how many fields were held -- again, like risk. If a pilot bailed or ditched in enemy territory, he could evade capture by having a friendly gooney bird SAR team come pick him up -- a film showing the bird landing, coming to a stop, ethn taking off and RTB would be sufficent since actual pickup cannot happen in AH. If the pilot was left in enemy territory at the end of the day's event, he would be captured and out of action for the week. Chute killing would be prohibited, and any instances of chute killing would result in a day's suspension from the event for the chute killer. The axis would have to use ami buffs and goonie because of current lack of a german equivilent. Basically, it will run alot like the SEA events, except with a somewhat strategic emphasis: capturing fields means you can get a larger supply of planes quicker.
We would need 2 people who wanted to act as "commanders" who would control the strategy for each day, and gameplay would be limited to a 2 hour period each day, no base capturing would be allowed outside this timeframe.
So basically what would happen is:
2 countries would each start with equal number of fields, and plane distrutions as follows:
Axis (1942)
75 109 F-4
25 109 G-2
25 FW190
25 Panzer
25 B17
25 C-47
Allies(1942)
75 Spit Mk V
25 Spit MK IX
25 Tiffie
25 Panzer
25 B17
25 C47
Then for each day each 3 fields held would generate 3 of the first type listed and 1 of the other 4, rounding down.
Buffs would have a 25K service ceiling for the event, as was historical.
If both the enemy refinery and ammo factory were brought to 0% simultaneously during the day's event aircraft production would be half of normal.
I think this could be a LOT of fun, especially if the commanders were into it for the strategy aspect. Kinda like running a falcon 4 campaign, but with real people
