Aces High Help - Gameplay

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Gameplay
Strategic system
- Strategic targets
- Checking status

Gameplay An Aces High Terrain

Capturing territory through the use of air, land and sea power is the team objective in Aces High. The arena terrain is divided into three countries (Bishop, Knight, and Rook), with each country starting with an equal number of fields, towns, cities, task groups, and a single headquarters for each country. All countries have an equal amount of territory at the beginning of a war.

Capturing territory

Territory is gained by capturing fields. A field consists of an airfield, vehicle field or port, and an adjacent town. The town is normally situated 2-3 miles from the field or port and controls the ownership of the field.

When enough buildings in the town have been destroyed, a white surrender flag will be flown in the town center. While the white flag is flown, 10 troops must be delivered to the command bunker (a.ka. map room) via one of the troop carriers to capture the field. After the tenth troop safely makes it into the bunker, a system message will appear in the message buffer announcing the captured field number and the capturing country.

Trains, convoys, and barges

Trains, convoys, and barges are built into the terrain. Each train, convoy, or barge has a source point and a destination point, and each can be damaged or destroyed while traveling from point to point. Trains, convoys, and barges automatically respawn every ten minutes.

Destroying a train, convoy or barge will add an additional 7 minutes of downtime to any destroyed field or strategic resource that it supplies.(See table below)

Once a train, convoy, or barge has successfully reached it's destination, a new supply convoy spawns.

Supply drops

The C-47, LVT(A)-2, SdKfz 251 and M-3 have the capability to drop supplies on a damaged field or strategic resource to shorten the downtime. These object supplies will repair all resupplyable objects in a one mile radius from the point where the supplies land. The supplies are selected as a loadout option in the hangar and .25 perk points are awarded to the player who dropped the supplies for each object that is affected by the resupply. You cannot resupply the field from which you started your sortie. Field supplies must be flown or driven in from another field.

Field Supplies remove 10 minutes of downtime from destroyed objects at airfields and 4 minutes of downtime from destroyed factories.

A vehicle supply type is also available to repair and supply vehicles with ordnance. When these supplies are dropped, any friendly vehicle within a half mile radius receives a Load Supplies button on their screen. Clicking this button will use the supplies to both repair and rearm their vehicle. If the supplies are unused, they vanish after 15 minutes. Vehicle supplies will not replenish troops or supplies.

Winning the War

The parameters for winning the war can vary, depending on the configuration of the terrain. You can find the current requirements by right clicking on the clipboard map and selecting country status from the menu.

At that time, the arena is reset, a different terrain is rotated in with the country territories randomly set, and a perk point bonus is awarded to players that have been in the winning country for a minimum of 12 hours prior to the end of the war.

Strategic system

The basic categories of strategy targets in Aces High include field targets, strategic resources, city buildings, and supply targets.

The field targets affect availability of field items such as planes, fuel, ammo, etc. Every tower has a chalkboard displaying the field number and the current status of the field targets.

Strategic resources affect the downtime of the field objects they control. (E.G. ammo bunkers at a field will stay down longer if the ammo factory has already been damaged or destroyed.)

The city targets are the buildings within a city and they affect the downtime of town & HQ buildings.

The supply targets are the trains, convoys, and barges that resupply damaged fields and factories.

Each country has a single Headquarters. Destroying the HQ will take down all radar coverage in that country.

Strategic targets

Target type	Target	Destroy with	Downtime	Effect	Supplier	Can be resupplied	Short ID
Field	Map room	10 troops	N/A	Captures field	N/A	No	MPR
	Guns	1 100 lb	30 minutes+*	Kills field ack	AAA factory	Yes	GNG GNA BAH
	Radar	1 250 lb	30 minutes+*	Kills field radar in a 12.5 mile radius	Radar factory	Yes	RDR
	Ammo	1 250 lb	30 minutes+*	Reduces bomb/rocket loadout to zero	Ammo factory	Yes	AMB
	Fuel	1 250 lb	30 minutes+*	Reduces maximum allowed fuel load	Fuel refinery	Yes	FUB
	Barracks	1 250 lb	30 minutes+*	Reduces troop loadout to zero	Training facility	Yes	BAB
	Fighter hangar	3 1000 lb	15 mins	Disables fighters at the field	N/A	No	FTH
	Bomber hangar	3 1000 lb	15 mins	Disables bombers at the field	N/A	No	BMH
	Vehicle hangar	3 1000 lb	15 mins	Disables vehicles at the field	N/A	No	VHH
	Shore battery	4 1000 lb	15 mins	Disables shore battery at the field	N/A	No	BAA
	Town building	1 250 lb	30 mins +*	Kills town building to allow for field capture	City	Yes	TWN
Strategic Resources	HQ	37 1000 lb	45 mins +*	Kills all radar for a country	City	Yes	HQT
	AAA factory	1 250 lb	3 hours	Extends downtime of field guns	N/A	Yes	AAF
	Radar factory	1 250 lb	3 hours	Loads supplies for field radar	N/A	Yes	RDF
	Ammo factory	1 250 lb	3 hours	Extends downtime of ammo at fields	N/A	Yes	AMF
	Fuel refinery	1 250 lb	3 hours	Extends downtime of fuel tanks at fields	N/A	Yes	FUF
	Training facility	1 250 lb	3 hours	Extends downtime of barracks at fields	N/A	Yes	BAF
	City building	1 250 lb	3 hours	Extends downtime of town buildings	N/A	Yes *	CIT
Supply	Train	1 100 lb	N/A	Adds 7 minutes downtime to object it supplies	N/A	N/A	TRN
	Convoy	½ 100 lb	N/A	Adds 7 minutes downtime to object it supplies	N/A	N/A	CNV
	Barge	½ 100 lb	N/A	Adds 7 minutes downtime to object it supplies	N/A	N/A	BAR
Ships	Primary ship	8 1000 lb	5 min	Sinks task group, respawns at port	N/A	No	FFF
Ships	Other ships	2 1000 lb	1 hour	Sinks ship	N/A	No	SHP
Special Types	Barrier	N/A	N/A	Barrier	N/A	N/A	BRR
Special Types	Structure	1 250 lb	45 minutes	An object any country can destroy	N/A	No	STR

*Each object's downtime is increased based upon the % of its controlling strategic resource destroyed up to a maximum of 2 hours when the entire resource type is destroyed.

Checking Status

In Aces High, the status of any field may be checked by right-clicking on the clipboard map and selecting "Field Status" from the menu. The clipboard's swing out page will show the status of the field nearest your click point. While the swing out page is showing, you may check the status of any field by highlighting that field in the list.

Fuel Availability at the Field
The plane fuel loads available at a field is determined by the percentage of fuel tanks that have been destroyed at the field. The rebuild time depends on what percentage of the fuel refinery was down at the time the fuel tanks were destroyed.

Ordnance Availability at the Field
Ordnance available for aircraft, vehicles and/or boats at the field is determined by the percentage of ammo bunkers that have been destroyed at the field. The rebuild time depends on what percentage of the ammo factory was down at the time the ammo bunkers were destroyed.

Radar Availability at the Field
The rebuild time of a destroyed radar at a field is determined by the percentage of the radar factory that was down at the time the radar was destroyed.

Troop Availability at the Field
Troops must be available for loading on troop transports such as the C-47, M-3 and LVT-2. The rebuild time of destroyed barracks at a field is determined by the percentage of the training facility that was down at the time the barracks were destroyed.

Model Availability at the Field
Fighters, bombers, vehicles and boats must be available for use at a field. Airplanes, vehicles and boats become unavailable when their hangars are destroyed.

City Damage Status
The city damage status indicates the percentage of objects destroyed in a city complex, which then affects the downtime of town buildings.

Refinery Damage Status
The refinery damage status indicates the percentage of damage to a country's fuel refineries, which affects the downtime of the field fuel tanks.

Ammunition Factory Damage Status
The ammunition factory damage status indicates the percentage of damage to a country's ammunition factories, which affects the downtime of the ordnance available at the fields.

Radar Factory Damage Status
The radar factory damage status indicates the percentage of damage to a country's radar factories, which affects the downtime of radar at the fields.

Training Barracks Damage Status
The training barracks damage status indicates the percentage of damage to a country's training barracks, which then affects the downtime of troops available at the fields.

Ack Factory Damage Status
The ack factory damage status indicates the percentage of damage to a country's ack factories, which affects the down time of field ack.

HQ Status
Enemy and Friendly Cnt refers to sector counters, or the red or green squares in the map sectors, for friendlies and enemies. If a country's HQ is destroyed, then all radar and sector counters for that country are disabled. As the HQ becomes damaged the radar components are destroyed in this order: friendly counters, enemy counter, friendly radar and enemy radar.