Most Underrated JTS Series! Modern Campaigns!

[Elxaime]

I agree MC is amazing and fun. However a knotty issue seems to often plague it in PBEM, which is the use of helicopters. In the early days of the series, players would often complain how opponents would have helicopters roaming hundreds of hexes in the rear, not bothering to refuel or rearm, but causing havoc nonetheless by spotting for airstrikes or using their lower, diminished (e.g. unfueled, low ammo) combat values to still savage soft targets in T mode. Then the designers invented the FARP concept to keep helicopters tied to some sort of supply network. Not sure FARPs are still in there, I think the concept was abandoned. At any rate, scenarios like Bolt from the Blue seemed to have resolved the issue by making anti-air (SAM and point defense) values more lethal. Roaming around with your helicopter and bumping into enemy units, especially large infantry battalions, can cause crippling losses to the choppers.

I am curious what you think about the current modeling of helicopters? I am tempted to get back into MC PBEM, but I dread the memories of the old arguments about helicopters, which sank a number of matches.