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RE: basic BtR gameplay questions for vets
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:42 am
by TechSgt
Hard Sarge;
I "finally" noticed the Garfield Heights.
Just a little distance away in Dayton you have an excellent source for USAAF information at Wright-Patterson.
When I was in Columbus, 1980's, going to school -- scarlett & gray -- I became a "friend of the museum". At the time, it was a couple of bucks and you gained access to research material.
RE: basic BtR gameplay questions for vets
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:55 am
by TechSgt
ORIGINAL: kaybayray
Other Topics: Hard Sarge and Swift as well as many others have provided a lot of great insight on this thread as well as many others on this forum. I spend a lot of time reading through them to glean some understanding. I also try to read some historical information because this game is pretty well put together and has (IMO) a good level of accuracy. However I have found that the areas that are the most troubeling for me are Timing, Strike Force Management, Strike Operational Doctrine.
Kaybay;
This part about historical information is one of those things about this game that fascinates me.
I will read something in a book about the European Airwar and then I give it a try in the game! It's amazing that what worked in 1943 - 1945, seems to work in TOH.
Maybe, I should say, "It gives the impression of working in TOH".
Try Freeman's, "Eight AF War Manual". There is alot of tidbits for the Allies.
TS
RE: basic BtR gameplay questions for vets
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:49 am
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: TechSgt
Hard Sarge;
I "finally" noticed the Garfield Heights.
Just a little distance away in Dayton you have an excellent source for USAAF information at Wright-Patterson.
When I was in Columbus, 1980's, going to school -- scarlett & gray -- I became a "friend of the museum". At the time, it was a couple of bucks and you gained access to research material.
I am ashamed to say, I have only been there once, when I was alot younger
(I remember they were slick, they had a FW 190 hanging from the ceiling, and you all but had to walk under it to open the door to the next room, so of course your eyes are pretty much glued to the 190, open the door and there is a P-47 sitting there, right in your face, and what a shock, the size of that beast, and of course, they drive (or did) that fact home to you, I can tell ya, the 190 didn't look small, until you opened the door and seen the JUG sitting there)
will have to do some checking, I would love to get into some of there records (I have been that way, long before getting into this stuff)