Author Topic: Make strat harder to kill...please!!! (Read 531 times)

nazgulAX · « **on:** December 04, 2005, 10:30:26 PM »

Can something be done about the ease of killing all strat at a base.
I understand that strating bases is part of the game, and can save a base from being captured, but it's starting to get out of hand latley. Why should 1 guy that sneaks out of a fight in an LA7, typh, or whatever be able to totaly strat a base by themselves?( or at least kill all troops or ord in 2 passes)
It's the easiest to kill, and takes the longest to come back up.
I'm not saying it should be impossable to kill it, but should be harder than it is...If you want it down, earn it. Take up some eggs and a few guys just like if you wanted the hangers down.
2k of ord or equivalent should be needed...not 1 burst of 20mm.
Maybe mannable 88's at bases would help a bit too.
I've started to see the 3 sector wide strat killers all to often, and it's almost always an LA, typh, niki or other all cannon plane that swoops in, makes 2 passes and flys off( or tries to get a vulch or 2).
I think it would make the game a little better if 1 plane was not able to control the ability to wage war in a whole area.
Just a thought.....

Baine · « **Reply #1 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:02:45 PM »

It's a lost cause.
It's a real problem. Lots of people have complained and nothing has been done.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #2 on:** December 05, 2005, 06:25:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Baine
It's a lost cause.
It's a real problem. Lots of people have complained and nothing has been done.

something was done about it.
the FH's stay down a shorter period and fuel is only porkable to 75%.

thats about all that should be done about it.

Strafing down all the strat at a base isnt exactly an easy task.
Auto ack usually ends up getting ya at some point.

And it is the only deterrant against the hordewarriors.
If they made it harder it would only benifit the horde because they could pork your base at will while the few defenders couldnt respond in any kind of meaningful way

Leave it as it is

Booz · « **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2005, 06:36:13 PM »

And for those of us that do hang around to defend and kill porkers, it's free food!!

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #4 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:34:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Booz
And for those of us that do hang around to defend and kill porkers, it's free food!!

there ya go
"Free" has always been my favorite brand:aok

Stang · « **Reply #5 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:40:08 PM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Strafing down all the strat at a base isnt exactly an easy task.
Auto ack usually ends up getting ya at some point.

Are you kidding me? One la7 tard can easily take out the troops without dying. Ord is a little more difficult, but troop porking is a joke.

Morpheus · « **Reply #6 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:50:23 PM »

That being said stang, troop porking is sometimes the only way to slow down and or stop an advancing horde.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #7 on:** December 05, 2005, 08:01:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Stang
Are you kidding me? One la7 tard can easily take out the troops without dying. Ord is a little more difficult, but troop porking is a joke.

Oh yea. you can take down 1 thing.I do it while not all the time, alot
I ment its difficult for one person to kill all the strat.

On small bases I can often kill ord in one pass depending on what plane Im in.

I onlyh very very rarely fly La7s as they are only slightly less dweebish then spits

Wolf14 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2005, 08:32:47 PM »

I'd like to see a split-up of troops and supplies.

gnubee · « **Reply #9 on:** December 05, 2005, 11:07:38 PM »

Morph is right... when the bad guys have superior numbers a little gorilla-jabo action is the only way to buy time.

And besides... its a fun mission to run. aGHOST and I have had a lot of good times skimming the trees in P-47's... if you're caught in a Jug at that alt you're SOL, cause you cant duck and run. But if you get it into the field you can really tear it up. And maybe if you're lucky, you can make it home.

Does it suck to have to fly a goon 50 miles for a field capture? You bet it does... but when it's 150 vs 130 vs 75 you aren't left with much of an option (yes i know the numbers have been better lately).

PS-
IMHO the Jug and the Mossie are the best for the Job...

nazgulAX · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2005, 10:16:39 AM »

I agree, making troops and supplies as their own bunkers might help the situation. As far as stopping the horde....If you can't get 2 or 3 guys to up jabo and kill the strat, insted of 1 guy in a cannon plane, then you should lose the base.
If the whole game is going to be based on always being totaly even all of the time then you might as well have the server assign you a country based on numbers when you log on.
The crying and whining about being "horded" is really getting old.
"the bishnit, or rookbish, nitrook, are hording us"....lol...get over it, it's going to happen.
I would like to see HT post a log at the end of each month that shows what countires, and on what map, each war was won. Then we could see if one country is really wining all the time. If it turns out thats the case....we can make up some new rule that will negate them being better or more organized....:-P

Sketch · « **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2005, 11:14:30 AM »

Taking down strats is easy as heck as well as AAA guns. Grab a Mossie or 110 with the heavy ammo load out, a couple drop tanks and roll.... a full tank on a mossie has like and hour of flying time... you can get a ways in an hour, especially below dar! You could get almost all the troops in a 4-5 sector area and that makes it a waste because then you spend 3 hours running resupply to just get troops up again. Strats are way too easy to be taken out. 2k of eggs should be needed to take out Ord and Troops.