'No Airpower Mode'

[lukasdietrich]

First off, I would like to say that I am really looking forward to RTW2.  I played the first for close to 500 hours.  I am not a visible person on these boards but a big fan of the game.
Second, I am really looking forward to the role and impact of aircraft on naval warfare.  

My suggestion however would be that there will be times in the next 500 to 1000 hours of RTW2 game time that I would like to have a game save where I only have surface battles.  I am not suggesting this for the initial release.  But perhaps an idea for a future update.
I am sure 80% of my games I will want aircraft, airbases and CVs but I will still have to have RTW 1 installed for those times I want pure surface ships to rule the waves for the entirety of the game.

It would be nice to have a simple option when starting a new game to switch off air power and play the game as if aircraft never existed.
All other technologies would fire as normal, just no aircraft.   

Perhaps I am the only one who feels this way.
Or perhaps its not as easy as I make it out to be and aircraft are now so embedded into the game and AI they cannot be removed with a simple option.

In any event I am really looking forward to Friday the 17th!

Does anyone else feel the way I do?
Or am I just odd?  I am sure my wife would agree with the second option 

[kelseyeek]

I've been hoping it's a tech-quirk option, where heavier-than-air aviation never really develops the payload capacity to manage heavy bombing. And so aircraft would serve primarily as short-range scouts. It'd be fun to explore what a mid-century surface warfare fleet would look like if carriers weren't nearly so dominant, or hadn't evolved at all.

[williammiller]

We've discussed that option, but not sure if it would be added or not later on. You can set aerial tech stuff to very slow progressions and delay it quite a bit I think.

[yemo]

Yes, it would be great if we could have a more detailed say in creating alternate history scenarios, beyond the random "varied tech".

Would also make for some interesting youtube (and thus marketing) videos.

[lukasdietrich]

May 14, 2019 16:07:09 GMT -6 williammiller said:

We've discussed that option, but not sure if it would be added or not later on. You can set aerial tech stuff to very slow progressions and delay it quite a bit I think.

Thank you, this is all I ask that it be considered for a future update if possible.  

[brucesim2003]

It would be great if no airpower was an option.

And a no submarine mode