Quote:
Originally Posted by csThor
Quite frankly:
No single pilot could exert as much influence on the flow of battle to change the outcome. Especially not when the most influential factors that affected the outcome have nothing to do with pilot performance.
|
maybe not, but having gamers sit behind a pc monitor and recreating the battle in 2010 is very different from beaming somebody back in time and having some new pilot step into another pilot's place during 1940
there are several ways you could radically affect the outcome of the BoB with the 20/20 hindsight we have now
i'd even say that with 100 dedicated flightsimmers working together (which already happens on some large il2 campaign servers we have now), you could tip the balance in germany's favour by for ex:
- knowing where churchill is in the south of england at a given time and day, and carpet bombing that are. his death will affect British moral significantly
- wiping out all British radar installations as a sustained push, blinding British fighter command (which the germans never did and they kept underestimating the importance of British radar up until the end)
- keeping the bomber attacks focused on southern airfields and radar installations, and not switching to civilian targets like london.
that should be enough to tip the balance
so yes, one flightsimmer couldnt make a difference, but 100 organised ones could (combined with being able to task bombers/fighters for their side in the game campaign settings)