<Salute> Anaxagoras and Arlo!
Gentlemen, you cannot imagine how refreshing it is to read adult and well thought ideas about BoB setup and AvA in general.
I totally agree with both of you, even in the objections and difficulties you raise in what concerns interested player base and available planeset.
Attrition has been one of my constant pleas for years in the Wishlist forum. The lack of truly important models - considered hangar queens for 99,9% of the player base - like the He111 and Blenheim, another quest of mine. Oh, the Spanish Civil War...a dream...The polish fighters, the russian early war fighters...how they would be important to re-create the first years of the conflict...
I cannot agree more with the idea of having different victory conditions for Axis and Alies. AvA War should follow a minimum historical script. Spanish Civil War, Winter War in Finland, Poland invasion, Norway, France invasion, Battle of Britain and so on...All different fases, all with different condition victories, all with different impacts on the strategical side of the war in every theatre of operations.
But bare in mind the effort put into this project by AvA Staff and the results it obtained. For the first time after many, many months, AvA attracts players. This is important. For the first time in years, I see AvA with more numbers than EW MA. Almost the same numbers than MW MA. In my Europe time zone, at least. This was a victory for the Staff and AvA regular players. Yes, AvA now is a bit less historical than it was. Yes, it's a capture the flag thing, nothing too elaborated. But it's bringing people in. And we don't have to suffer with Spit vs Spit fights. Well, we may face the odd 109/Zeke combo, but even that is better than the latter.
I would not push the envelope too fast and too hard. I would introduce subtle changes. To survive, AvA must "teach" his newer players to "enjoy" some limitations, some challenges, some handicaps.
Keep these good ideas alive and sneak them slowly into the sistem...And in 6 months we will have a larger regular player base, mostly made of people that will never go back to the MA's...
Excellent ideas, this is the kind of contribution that is positive and constructive. Thank you for reconciling me with this BB.
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