wwengr
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Joined: 1/14/2007 From: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Big B Ok, Why do CAP units with morale above 50 (according to the e-book) need to pass two additional 'moral checks' to fly their assigned number of aircraft... and why would all seven squadrons - all with moral between 83-99 - and and experience between 60-75, fatigue below 5, more than enough aviation support, more than enough airfield size (level 8, with only 200 aircraft), 'TWO' Air HQ's in hex, multiple RADAR sets, 55,000 supply (only requiring 11,000 supply),...and not in a malaria zone - fail their 'morale checks'? Why would a situation as above - that meets every possible criteria - why would all seven squadrons fail their two 'moral checks' and only manage 50% CAP.... instead of 70% CAP as assigned? I notice CVs never suffer this in the game. For that matter...hey, I was in the military - and I sure had to do what I was assigned to do - no matter how my 'morale' was at the time... I just don't get it. Point #1) What game mechanic is at work here? Point #2) Conceptually - morale checks to fly a mission is absurd; low morale would not keep pilots from flying (what...are they all on the sick list this morning? 30% of pilots with the duty today???) - it would only affect performance 'while carrying out' a mission. Any explanations of game mechanics here?... cynical minds would like to know. While you are right about doing what you were supposed to do , how many pilots suddely develop "head colds" , and other conditions that ground them. In my community we had a saying "no one gets grounded on a good-deal flight". Perhaps that what the moddeling attempts to re-create. Pilots returning due to "engine or mechanical" trouble. It's generally pretty easy to find something wrong with an airplane. That's were morale might come in. When a pilot really wants to go on a mission , he tends to overlook such things as "minor gripes" and if he doesn't want to go on a mission they become "major grounding gripes". Fliers are funny that way. Having been a staff officer in a US Army Aviation Brigade, I can assure you this. If a low importance mission, say a long formation training flight, were scheduled for Superbowl Sunday afternoon, you would find an extraordinary number of aircrews grounded becuase of cold-medications and a huge number of aircraft that were grounded for maintenance faults in the hours preceding kick-off.
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I have been inputting my orders for the campaign game first turn since July 4, 2009. I'm getting close. In another month or two, I might be able to run the turn!
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