another diving heavy fix idea

[indy007]

barrage balloons! sprinkle them around bases, towns, & factories. they wouldn't be too terribly difficult to shoot down I'd imagine, but they may just have the intended effect of reducing/eliminating the number of people who abuse the buff's airframe =P

http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/barrage_balloon.html


pros:

Obvious discouragement for large planes dive bombing. Switching to a turret and shooting at them in a dive is easier said than done.

Obvious discouragement for low level bombing.

Would provide defenders a few more seconds to start mounting an attack.

They were moored to wagons with winches, so altitude could be adjustable.

Would keep a furball off of a base & reduce vulching until the enemy cap shoots them down. (maybe that's a con...)


cons:

Would make landing & short takeoffs kind of scary if friendly collisions were on.

Would need friendly collisions on to keep people from dragging enemies straight through the balloons & wires.



I think the pro's outweigh the cons... or I could be completely misguided.

[Tilt]

It was the ballon wires which were the deterent...

[indy007]

Yeah I realise that much, that's I'm asking for the whole contraption. Hell, there's even a story of a Ju88 stalling on top of a balloon, falling off upside down, recovering, and flying home.