Aircraft Rules... MK II

[Desertfox]

BPs wont be needed untill you get into the huge concrete WWII style bomber fields. And even then BP use is only warranted if you consider huge expanses of concrete to be related to heavy industry.

One other thing, Airship airfields (hangar sites) should count as regular airfield, as they probably already have more logistics in place than even a 1915 airfield.

[Sachmle]

I disagree - if that were the case, we'd also have BP costs associated with airships and airship hangers.

Agree.

Money, practicality, and the threat of divine retribution for power-gaming should be the limiting factors.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

BP is the ability of heavy industry to produce goods; if the components of an airstrip don't warrant a significant amount of products from heavy industry, there shouldn't be a BP charge.

Agree.

[P3D]

Perhaps we should also add air-deployed torpedoes to the torpedo tech tree (it is anything but trivial).
I can draw up a rules proposal.

[Borys]

Perhaps we should also add air-deployed torpedoes to the torpedo tech tree (it is anything but trivial).
I can draw up a rules proposal.

I think this is a good idea.

Borys

[Guinness]

This is not me saying this is a bad idea (because it isn't), but if we're adding air propelled torpedoes to the tech tree, we need to add other flying thing related stuff to it as well, including (probably):

Dive bombing
Armor Piercing bombs (maybe dependent on advanced shell tech?)
and quite a bit later high altitude bombing

There's probably also an argument for course predicting gunsights (which would also be an AA tech). And there will one day be the matter of airborne wireless.

All things to think about.

Our alternative is to link all those techs to historical equivalent aircraft before the become useful tech, which is more or less how I understood it until now...

[P3D]

There's a separate tech for torpedoes so it makes sense to make the distinction. Rest of aircraft ordnance are much less specialized so could be included in the a/c tech.

[The Rock Doctor]

I would prefer to have all aircraft-related technology contained in one tech tree.  The tech tree has too many branches as it is, and I'm inclined to prune it.

[maddox]

Word.

less rules, more play

[miketr]

How about we deal with the rules issues in one shot instead of running into confusion and chaos down the road? 

[The Rock Doctor]

Hence my "Time Out!" post.  Where problems exist, let's invest a couple of days in sorting them out so things go smoothly later.

[Tanthalas]

BP's are a way to limit the proliferation of airfields.  Otherwise, some people will build a gazillion airfields and build torpedo bombers by the 1000's.

whistles inocently (quick hide thw b-17s)