Fatigue Points?

[Gunhawk]

How do "fatigue points" affect pilots?

Thanks

Gunhawk

[bartbert]

The effects are somewhat lengthy depending on whether it is a leader, a wingman, or a bomber, but a good rule of thumb is that every 9 points of fatigue constitutes an additional fatigue level.

At each successive level, a pilot/aircraft will lose 1 point from the airframe rating. So if your pilot had 20 fatigue points, that would be Level 2. If his aircraft normally took 7 points of damage to destroy, it would now only require 5 points.

In addition, each level of fatigue beyond level 1 will also impose a penalty on Performance, Horsepower or Bursts (for leaders). For example, at level 2, there's a -1 Performance. At level 3 there is a -1 Burst (in addition to the -1 Performance), and so on. Wingmen similarly suffer degradation to their offensive and defensive ratings.

It gets fairly ugly pretty fast. The moral of the story is don't fly fatigued pilots if you can help it.

[Gunhawk]

Thanks Bart.

[Strider]

When playing 'Local Game', how do you rest pilots?

It looks like only Leaders receive Fatigue?

I see there is a skill to reduce fatigue.

[Dan Verssen]

Strider,

Local games work just like online games for purposes of Fatigue, fly your other pilots for that nation for a couple missions and your resting pilots will recover.

Right, only Leaders get Fatigue in non-Campaign games. In Campaign games, both Leaders and Wingmen get fatigue.

Right, Iron Nerves will reduce the FPs a pilot gains from a mission. Other skills in the future will also affect FPs.

[Strider]

Got ya. Thanks for the info.

I really like this game. Y'all did good

Now if I can just figure out how to explain to the old Battleaxe that I need a few bucks

[Dan Verssen]

Strider,

Thank you!

Maybe try explaining to her that the graceful movements of the aircraft remind you of her grace. That the sound of the gun fire reminds you of her lovely voice. That the entire time you are playing, you are thinking about what a wonderful person she is...