I jumped in last night and joined the allied side.
I flew a spit, Had cannon so it is about the same as later models. Performance is down of course, and probobly not as good as the 109 or 205. However, it seemed the axis was getting beat pretty well from what I saw. There were only 15- 20 on each side so the action was concentrated in the air. With the limit on bombers it will be hard to take down a base or town. The spawns for tanks is set up for desert battles with a long way to go to reach a base. With the 30 troop limit set to take a base, I doubt there will be much of that. Not enough people to capture anything. It looks like another furr ball arena and I think most would perfer the other arenas where the action is quicker with more people on. I think this arena requires a lot of people to make it interesting and be able to take bases. Most of what was happening was fur balls, and individuals going to VB's to knock out the ack and radar and going home.
The desert setting is OK, however, in GV's I think most perfer the forest where its fun to sneak around, hide and ambush the enemy.
Maxx and I were on late last night, he said he was also getting ejected from the arenas. I got booted (AH locked up) whenever the server lowered the number of players in an arena. One time, it went from 300 to 100, I got booted, and when I signed on that arena was closed. In a few minutes it reset to 400 and I got on with good frame rates (for me).
Maxx said it was a new server. Wonder how AH tests their stuff before bringing it online. Probably like Microsoft.
