Please, give us this HT!

[1K3]

woooooot!

that's a good tank destroyer and AH needs that for its GV actions.

"UP" vote

[BUG_EAF322]

i dont even fly those

[MOIL]

Or whatever you fly. From the sig I'm guessing P38's of some sort, kewl fly what ya like.
Ok, furball's 24/7 in Spit's, Nik's and whatever the Twin Engine Devils fly.
Still would be mighty boring after hour 2 or so.

[Kweassa]

6 guys attacking an airfield than 20 guys up that flak crap what a fun.

The idea is only good when there is a limit to the numbers upping.

I hate gv dweebs and they should all be clustered.

 So strap on a bomb and go kill the VH when you want to vulch.

 Instead of wait for a free vulch meal to be served where others work their prettythang off to deack and deVH fields, while the casual vulcher just drops in and reaps what he did not sow.

 Quite simple, ain't it?

[MOIL]

Bug:
"The idea is only good when there is a limit to the numbers upping"
Although when you show up TO AN ENEMY FIELD with 3 times the amount of planes than ground guns, it's Ok:aok
When a plane arrives at an ENEMY field they should be met with heavy AA fire, that's the way it was in WW2. More planes were downed by AA fire in WW2 than another A/C.

[moot]

Don't rock the craddle too hard guys

[MOIL]

Originally posted by moot
Don't rock the craddle too hard guys

You're right;)

[Schaden]

88mm flak would be fine - BUT make it so you have to set the range for it to explode before firing - no proximity automatic shots.

I think a range of crew served - towed vehicles would be great, 20mm, 20mm quad, 37mm, 40mm, 75mm, 88mm.

[SkyTex]

I think it is an execlent idea. atm all i spend GV perks on is tigers, which are atleast somewhat useful. but i'd like to have a varity in perked gv's added. also AP rounds added to the LTVA4. we could vastly increase the ground war from simple tank to tank into artilery, tanks, flaks, m16's, and mabey troops? i would think letting out 10 troops from an m3, they'd all run up to the nme tanks/other weapons, and shoot thier guns at em. give em some different guns than the service pistol though.

in basic though, we need more GV's, and more types of them. I love trading long range shots with whichever ltar i target out, but i'd much rather some sort of forward observer be implemented and i kill him from 2-3 miles out

[SuperDud]

I would go for it, BUT like furball said make it arm at a certain alt or make it fairly easy to kill. I can see it now, you fight and kill a guy near his airfeild. He knows he can't beat you so he jumps into one of these bad boyz in a lame attempt for revenge. Just like CV guys who do it with the 5"ers.

[EagleDNY]

We've got a discussion going over in the gameplay forum on a similiar issue - I suggested the quick & dirty solution of replacing the 37mm manned ack at airfields with the single 5" guns already modeled on the carriers.  My thinking was that this was a change that would be simple to implement, yet accomplish the goal of giving land bases some sort of real ack threat.

I do like this idea of having towed 88mms available, although I think these would have to be perked to around 1/2 the value of a Tiger.  

Also - does anyone have any historical info on 88mm fusing & ammo?  I'd be interested to know if they had proximity fusing for these, and what the armor penetration was vs tanks.

EagleDNY

[Klum25th]

All I know is that 88mm kicked butt. I herd they could kill T-34 from 2,000m away and a T-34 couldnt even shoot them back cuz the 88mm could shoot father than most tanks in its days.

[TDeacon]

I can see that GV guys might enjoy this, but am concerned about proliferation of additional puffy acks.  

Perhaps just limit it to shooting at GVs (assume the crew stripped off the AA fire control equipment as occured in N. Africa).  

Also note that setup time for something like this is probably significant.

[EagleDNY]

Here's a link to a story detailing early use of American radar-proximity fuses.  All I can say is, after reading this, we shouldn't whine anymore about the ack being "too accurate" -

http://www.smecc.org/shooting_down_the_v-1.htm

EagleDNY

[Pongo]

That thing would rule the battle field!
until a gloster gladiator showed up and strafed it dead in one pass.
It would be good to have something in the game that an m3 can easily kill though.