Hard Sarge
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From: garfield hts ohio usa
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Wow, a lot of the old crowd IS here. I've been dropping by now and again to see if there's anything new happening but haven't bothered to post.
HS asked me in a PM about what I didn't like in the old interface. It seems to me that this is old ground, but I don't mind reviewing the reasons that I've put down the game. In no particular order:
1) having to "cheat" to get the RAF to fly escort with U.S. planes. Tedious.
we got the ADGB that is set to fly with the VIIIth and IXth, still not the full force of the RAF, but a little better, we have done some talking on how to allow units to be moved between commands, but that is down the road, if we can do it
2) having to plot all recon - yeah you can tell the AI to do it but they are awful. Tedious.
well, we still have to plot all Recon, but, now we do some area reconning, each plane will take a number of photos during the missions, so at times you may get 5 or 6 photos for each mission, this does make letting the AI plot much easier to take
3) NF plotting. Tedious.
one my list, would love to be able to set a profile, that can be done over again, once it has been set (who knows) also on the list is to look to see if we can get a more like daytime plotting for NFs to fly with the bomb raid, depends on time
4) FS suiciding on LW airfields.
on Airfields or RRs ?, either way, I thought we caught part of the bug that made the loop, I think we still have to put up with the first attack, but the follow ups are gone, Sweeps have some different effects now, they can be murder now, but can get hammered too
5) Mossies too easy to shoot down.
Mossies ? or you mean FB in General ?, FBs can and will fight back now, they can sweep and they can escourt other FBs, they will fight and they will get kills
6) Medium Bombers not accepting escort.
? this one is new to me ?, if you were having troubles with it before, I should be a thing of the past, I been plotting raids with Med and Lights left and right, no hassle with escourts
7) Bomber unit morale and experience.
no idea on this one, it seems to work, not see any more hassles with very low morale units, you take heavy losses they take a bit hit in morale, but most times by the time they rebuild, the morale comes back up, but to be honest, something that needs to be watched during testing, my tests have been too short to make a honest statement on this
There's a short list off of the top of my head. I also don't like the newest OB that delivers Allied units with only a couple planes.
again, sure not on this one, the unit coming in, should get it's plane numbers based on if there are enough in stock, and enough pilots in the unit, so units that I think may be in short supply, I have set to come in full (but that is still game driven, and does not mean it will always work)
It has also occured to me that there is a "joke" built into the game. From the start in 1943 up until after the bombers get released from DDay support, you are only getting your crews killed off in order to keep the game from shutting down on you. After that, you'll basically win based upon the conquering of territory by the Russians and the Western Allies. I'm exagerating a little bit, but that's basically it. If you can survive the incredibly dull period of bombing French RRs, you'll win.
Errrr, I won the game way back when, Jan 2nd 1945, and I won the game in Aug of 44, so I have not really seen this side of it, plus I think that game of yours was the 44 Campaign and there were some issues with the 44, all the work went into the 43
we have fixed some of the manatory errors that were in the game, we should be able to get out of the periods of long manatory targeting (not all the targets that are listed in Manatory targetting we counting as getting damaged)
I'll pick up the new game when it comes out because I'll be interested to see a total campaign. Hopefully the interface won't be as excruciating as the original games.
keep asking or posting what you thought about it before, keep us on our toes :)
Carlos
P.S. HS, you missed that it is Gabby's plane!
already posted on this, I was thinking it was, when you posted the shot from the wrong side :)
and of the two pilots for the 56th, I would be interested in, Gabby and the Mad Pole are them :)
post more shots of your planes, you do good work
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