FSO battle of attrition

[captain1ma]

I was thinking more along the lines of this....  a target base.... it's also a take off base. if the defenders cant defend it, it gets bombed into oblivion. next frame that base is unavailable. I know no one would want to actually capture a base or fly goons I don't really blame them.

IE a carrier setup. if carrier at 3.15 dies, its not usable as a target anymore. now you have to use one of the other carriers as a target, etc etc. this way you'd still have bombers and fighters in play, but parts of the landscape are not available. this would simulate a victory as a battle, and maybe a over all victory of the month if enough of them are sunk

vbase same thing, bomber come in, take most of it out, its not usable anymore, not that we do(use a vbase for much) in the FSO, but you get the idea.

as for planes, the planeset would remain untouched or adjusted as the cm's deemed necessary. just a subtle little change in the gameplay.... nothing drastic

[FBDragon]

I feel the same way. Play your role, fly what your told. With out the bombers its not FSO...it's king of the hill.

I'll be the first one to agree with you. I really don't like any of the ricepaper planes at all (no offence) but thats what we were given so I fly them. You gotta take the bad with the good. I love the FSO ( I think it's the only reason I still play) and wouldn't even dream of not showing up cause I didn't get what I wanted to fly. So to all the ones that wine about it, SUCK IT UOP!!! Or don't even play.   

[Trainee]

We'll be there in Wright Flyers with bricks if required.
 

[Ten60]

I think it'd be BA if you allowed a total restricted number of planes for each month.  For instance:

12 F4U-C's for the entire 3 frames.  If 11 are lost frame 1, then you only have 1 left.
80 B24's.  If 8 are lost then you have 72 for frame 2 and if in frame 2 55 are lost, then you have 17 left for frame 3.

So on and so on.  Depending on the victory conditions of the frame you could even award a % returned if a target base was completely destroyed.

For that matter you could award returns based on type of kill.  if 10 pilots bailed bravely, 30% of that airframe are returned for next frame.

Just a thought.  FSO studs like their realism.  That's for real.

[tmetal]

Restricted total plane numbers happen fairly often with 262's, arrado's and sometimes with the 163's

[Viper61]

good ideas and comments I think.  And I think most would agree what we have now is a Snap Shot type of event played out 3 times in a row.  The frames need to tie together in some form where there is cause and effect to what you do or don't do.

[Ten60]

Restricted total plane numbers happen fairly often with 262's, arrado's and sometimes with the 163's

I recall this.  But frankly if Allies lose 80 out of 80 B24's in a set, they wouldn't have gotten 80 fresh ones the next week...

[Nefarious]

Lots of interesting ideas, most have been tried before in FSO but are definitely worth revisiting while still using standard objectives and victory conditions (points). I have used different twists in trying to make FSO trying to spice it up a little. I have used the evacuation goal where ships represent men evacuated or the Re-supply FSO in Stalingrad.

I will consider trying to incorporate some of these ideas into my remaining setups in 2014.