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I'd love to see such aircraft as the Buccaneer, the Etendard, the Lightning (the British one from the 60s), Jaguar and the Canberra
That is a good idea. I would be interested to see what your results you come up with.myrm wrote:My plan was to dig out my copy of Avalon Hill's Flight Leader, read the aircraft summary pages (all 5 of them) and then make my own stats based on those data. The availability was gonna be based on length of time in service and the number of nations exported to.
Hey, you got it! I will add them to the list.myrm wrote: I'd love to see such aircraft as the Buccaneer, the Etendard, the Lightning (the British one from the 60s), Jaguar and the Canberra
I do have a few more promotional planes to add so any requests will be happily entertained.Heckmac wrote:Any other teasers of planes in the expansion? A-4? F-18E/F?
These are definitely on the expansion list. In fact, Mark helped me finish the stats.Heckmac wrote:Obviously based on my interest in the Crusader, I'm a fan of the 60's era planes... F-105?
You're welcome! That one was a very popular request.Heckmac wrote:I did see the A-7 card, thanks for that!
Quite right Charlie. The planes are built to scale to a medium of performance. I actually did it based on what I considered to be a stable aircraft from each "generation", which went something like F-4 > F-15 > F-22. Then I could gauge performance, and measure it against the F-15.Charles Lewis wrote:One thing to keep in mind for those of you considering adding additional planes is that the plane stats are internally relative to each other. I'm not sure what the benchmark for MAS was (F-15, Jay?), but if you wander too far away from that, the stats get wonky. Frontline aircraft from the 60s are about as far as you can reasonably go. 50s vintage stuff is probably too far out of date.
It may need some testing but you should be ok as long as you establish a firm baseline. Personally I spent a lot of time looking at the F-4 (Navy) vs the MiG-21 to get the feel of the game right. I think the same will be true here.myrm wrote: Im hoping that that selection (at least some of the Marks produced for a given airframe) do fall into the sort of bracket where the stats don't go wonky
Could I ask which mark of the F4 was the baseline...mwaschak wrote:It may need some testing but you should be ok as long as you establish a firm baseline. Personally I spent a lot of time looking at the F-4 (Navy) vs the MiG-21 to get the feel of the game right. I think the same will be true here.myrm wrote: Im hoping that that selection (at least some of the Marks produced for a given airframe) do fall into the sort of bracket where the stats don't go wonky
I used the F-4C if I remember my notes correctly. There were actually a few versions of the F-4 when I was kicking around the original but decided to hold off on the rebuilds and variants.myrm wrote:
Could I ask which mark of the F4 was the baseline...
Hey, why notHeckmac wrote:One thing, promise me you will have a "Jane Fonda AAA" counter!