Originally posted by Löwe
Sorry Reschke, don't mean to pee on the parade. This was a great idea , it's just a lil too what if. If you had dropped the Jets, and given the Japanese the maybe the LA-5, and LA-7 to represent the KI-100, and KI-84, this would have been a killer setup. I do appluad and appreciate what your doing though. For your first setup, you did great.
You'd be peeing on my timeline actually. And yes .. it's a far far stretch for suspension of disbelief but there just ain't much that can be done when the setup's premise relies on the limitations of the game's planeset. I had to work backwards from:
1: The game has no B-29s.
2: The game has no atomic bomb.
3: The game has no Allied jets.
and try to come up with some kind of rationalization that was at least in the ballpark. I agree that it's not a very good chance that the U.S./Allies wouldn't have made the progress they did in research and development but with the limits of the Ace's High virtual universe that's the only way to try to "explain" this alternate reality.
Hence:
1: Operation Felix succeeds and the Suez canal falls making the Med Hitler's personal pond thereby creating a more secure route between Germany/Italy and Japan.
2: Senator Truman axes the XB-29 project.
3: The Manhattan project suffers a major setback due to the Trinity disaster ... though the disaster itself proves the bomb feasible and the project HAS to carry on (though funding from several other research projects has to be redistributed to accomodate this).
4: The lack of foresight to make P-80 operations practical and feasible within the immediate timeframe.
5: No German jet technology or data surviving to make it into allied hands.
Yes ... you bet it's alot of far-fetched hoops to hafta deal with but I did my best. I, personally, am struggling some with the AR premise. If anyone can come up with a better storyline that can explain why we can't fly allied jets or B-29s or drop a nuke in this setup I'm all for it.
As far as modeling LA-either to represent any late war Japanese ride not represented in the AH planeset is concerned, I've been an advocate of that from way back. Unfortunately not everyone on the team is.
If you're just saying that it's not going to be fun because the premise is thin ... I sure hope players don't let that be an obstacle. Everything we play in any arena or event in Ace's High has an element of "what if" to it. If it didn't we'd just be paying HT $15 a month to be reenactors. Admittedly, this setup just has more "what-ifs" up front than most but I still think it's got potential to be not only different but fun and challenging..
I went ahead and jumped on the bandwagon with this and gave it my best shot to not only promote it but to make it just a little bit more believable. I figure if the CT Dev Group can make this one work then we can make most anything work.
I've already got plans to put the same amount of effort in supporting Squire's proposed setup.
