Destroyers

[ramzey]

couple days its walking over my head

how about destroyers in AH2?
working like bombers, where somone can join as a gunner
naval battles could be nice too
what is agains this idea?

[XrightyX]

I think they've got destroyers--just go join a CV group.  You can even man the guns with your buddies.

Now a little Bismark or Tripitz--THAT would be fun.  I think Fester had some of these running around in one of his maps.  Either that or their hardness was such that they stayed around long after the rest of the battle group was dead.

[Nilsen]

Would be nice, but im afraid that if to many new types of platforms are introduced that the focus of the game is shifted to much.

[rshubert]

Originally posted by XrightyX
I think they've got destroyers--just go join a CV group.  You can even man the guns with your buddies.

Now a little Bismark or Tripitz--THAT would be fun.  I think Fester had some of these running around in one of his maps.  Either that or their hardness was such that they stayed around long after the rest of the battle group was dead.

The 5" guns on the DDs are not manned, just the ones on the CA and the CV.  It would be nice to be able to use a destroyer or dd group to do bombardment, or maybe a CA group.  We did that in the okinawa scenario, and even launched LVTs from the CA groups.  It worked fine.

Having said that, I think Ramzey wants to have individually-controllable DDs, chosen by the players, like we do planes or PT boats.  I see no problem with that, from a gameplay standpoint, other than the fact that the darn things are so SLOW in a fast-paced environment like AH.  Crossing one grid square (actually a bit more) in an hour would make for boring gameplay, IMHO.  The spawn points would need to be carefully planned, I guess



shubie

[Mister Fork]

Yep, as do I, Destroyers would be a very EASY and simple item to add. Two player manable, one controls the ships (steers with speed) and the other can man the guns (or both).

Gonna need it when we get our subs!