I know what I'm after is essentially impossible to do, certainly with anything approaching precision, but does anyone know of a system to compare aircraft for a CRT or something similar for an operational-level wargame or to back up alt. history scenarios?
Many years ago I built up a CRT based on giving different aircraft types points in the usual way, but it was hard to gauge whether it was accurate even when I added correction factors to allow for height advantage, etc. It became even harder when trying to assess how aircraft of different generations would fair, such as a Gladiator against a Zero. And on top of that there is the huge factor of training.
While we can have opinions and gut based calls on the way such a CRT should work and the ratings and factors involved, it would be much better to find information based more on statisical analysis. I don't have any relevant games and can't find any that may have what I'm interested in.
Does anyone know where anything of this nature can be found? In the alternative, are there any guides to kill ratios that aren't fairly simplistic and which don't come from eras when combat was pretty one sided? I think the USAAF data, for example, shows that the B24 had an outstanding kill ratio which indicates that they can be very misleading.
Many years ago I built up a CRT based on giving different aircraft types points in the usual way, but it was hard to gauge whether it was accurate even when I added correction factors to allow for height advantage, etc. It became even harder when trying to assess how aircraft of different generations would fair, such as a Gladiator against a Zero. And on top of that there is the huge factor of training.
While we can have opinions and gut based calls on the way such a CRT should work and the ratings and factors involved, it would be much better to find information based more on statisical analysis. I don't have any relevant games and can't find any that may have what I'm interested in.
Does anyone know where anything of this nature can be found? In the alternative, are there any guides to kill ratios that aren't fairly simplistic and which don't come from eras when combat was pretty one sided? I think the USAAF data, for example, shows that the B24 had an outstanding kill ratio which indicates that they can be very misleading.