Note: The screenshot attached is from a live game. This suggestion is not about adding additional airfields. This suggestion is to give an alternate version that would exist concurrently with current versions where america spawns to the north. No additional airfields are being added in this suggestion. If the screenshot is unfamiliar to you - it’s from prop tiers. Thank you.
Hello!
Presently, the “Denmark” map found in Air Simulator Battles Enduring Confrontation has the Allied Team spawning on the southern half of the map, while axis spawns in the north-west and occasionally on the little islands just north of the big allied landmass to the south-east.
During World War 2 brackets (BRs 1.0-6.0), Allied nations had much wider access to carrier-capable aircraft (either through domestic designs or US lend-lease). There is a whole plethora of USN fighters and strike craft which are found in the US tech Tree, UK tech tree. Although USSR lacks carrier capable aircraft itself, it is often found on the axis side during simulator battles. While not strictly allies due to German occupation, France also frequently makes appearance on the allied side and they have access to USN fighters for carrier operations.
Contrast this with the canonical axis team - Germany, always on axis team regardless of lobby, has no carrier-capable options presently implemented. Italy is much the same. Japan alone carries the axis team for carrier-capability, and there are lobbies where Japan is on Allied side and instead USSR replaces it and thus completely removes axis carrier-capabilities.
This is normally fine.
However, Denmark is a highly asymmetric map as previously stated.
Please forgive the low quality of the attached image, but it should still convey the issue quite well. In this image, Blue is Axis and Red is Allies.
As visible in this image, Blue/North Team only has airfields without adequate cover and defences to act as forward bases thus making the aircraft carrier pivotal in providing players a quick and reliable means of contesting the airspace of the south-eastern landmass.
Whereas Red/South Team has access to the frontline (red-blue line with the red arrow) without having to cross a significantly large body of water if they do not wish to spawn on highly vulnerable airfields.
While one would readily argue that the present Enduring Confrontation objective design is not well suited for highly asymmetric map design, such commentary is beyond the scope of this work.
Instead, in this suggestion I would like to introduce a second, mirrored copy of Denmark to the options available for Simulator Battles Enduring Conforntation.
All this suggestion involves, to put it shortly, is to take Denmark, invert the spawn location of the “Always U.S” team (colloqially referred to as “Blue Team” or “Allies”) so they spawn on the North side and consequently invert the spawn location of the “Always Germany” team (colloqially referred to as “Red team” or “axis”) so they spawn on the south side. Differentiate this Denmark through simply calling it “Mirrored Denmark” or perhaps a fancier name at discretion of developers.
And of course, swap the A.I bombers and attackers and survey plane spawn lists to their inverse as well.
Beyond the gameplay options such would pleasantly offer simulator players and thus introduce much desired variety for minimal development work, having a variant where Allies spawn on the Northern side of Denmark would also offer a somewhat more historically plausible Alternate History scenario, given liberation efforts in Norway to the North and Berlin proper being to the south.
- Yes
- No
Note: The screenshot attached is from a live game. This suggestion is not about adding additional airfields. This suggestion is to give an alternate version that would exist concurrently with current versions where america spawns to the north. No additional airfields are being added in this suggestion. If the screenshot is unfamiliar to you - it’s from prop tiers. Thank you.
