Post by SWO_Daddy on Apr 16, 2020 5:40:19 GMT
I've seen Custom AAAF cards in the past that used the Pilot Quality of "Legendary" in the past, but I've never really done much with them or seriously considered their implications. The hard reality of the game as it stands is the Allies have far more options in late war games, in the form of very high quality planes, than the Axis do. The Germans do have a very good plane in the Africa Corps Ace, but aside from that, they have little that can really match up well with monsters like the P-38 Ace or the Marine Corsair. One way to resolve that could be to introduce a "Legendary" Pilot Quality and keep it to just the Axis.
If the records are to be believed, German and Japanese pilots at the very top of their craft scored significantly more victories than their Allied counterparts. At least in part, it can be attributed to Axis practice of not pulling the best pilots off the front line and sending them home to train other pilots, which turned out to be one of the strengths of the Allied aviation programs. Some of these very large kill counts have been subject to a lot of scrutiny over the years, so its pretty easy to argue that a "Legendary" status for them might be an exaggeration. I don't disagree, but I wanted to explore the concept.
Gaining a Attack Bonus over all other pilots, including Aces, would be pretty valuable, so this shouldn't be a cheap card. I'm not even sure if this is something I'd ever want to print, but I do want to play around with the concept in a few games. At the risk of being declared nuts...
If the records are to be believed, German and Japanese pilots at the very top of their craft scored significantly more victories than their Allied counterparts. At least in part, it can be attributed to Axis practice of not pulling the best pilots off the front line and sending them home to train other pilots, which turned out to be one of the strengths of the Allied aviation programs. Some of these very large kill counts have been subject to a lot of scrutiny over the years, so its pretty easy to argue that a "Legendary" status for them might be an exaggeration. I don't disagree, but I wanted to explore the concept.
Gaining a Attack Bonus over all other pilots, including Aces, would be pretty valuable, so this shouldn't be a cheap card. I'm not even sure if this is something I'd ever want to print, but I do want to play around with the concept in a few games. At the risk of being declared nuts...
