If WW1 were added...

[Debonair]

i never realized the siemens schuckert d-iv was a V-strutter.
i wonder if it had the same diving problems that other V-strut planes (Albatros & Nieuports) had.
too bad teh old wing-with-wires board is gone
as for it being the 262 of WWI, there were faster fighters (Ansaldos, SE5) and more heavily armed ones (Sopwith Dolphins zOMG quad 0.303 = pwnage!!!).

[Meatwad]

I want me an airship

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Meatwad
Id like to see HT fly around the arena in Snoopy's doghouse guns a blazing

Then I could finally make a movie to go with my song Snoopy vs the Red Baron!


And I want an Airship. One that can recover scout fighters. And yes, this was done.

[SMIDSY]

as long as the pilot model has a silk scarf. otherwise it would be completely uncivilized *sips tea*.

[Major Biggles]

might be fun to charge perks to carry more ammo belts for the guns

and HT could model zeppelins just like carriers, but with a better control system, perhaps even when you take command of one you can get into the bridge if we got airships, HT could probably take the 'flight model' from them, and alter it for use by submarines, which would be very cool

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Major Biggles
might be fun to charge perks to carry more ammo belts for the guns

and HT could model zeppelins just like carriers, but with a better control system, perhaps even when you take command of one you can get into the bridge if we got airships, HT could probably take the 'flight model' from them, and alter it for use by submarines, which would be very cool

Player flown, highly perked. To make it worth while for every friendly plane recovered you get like.... .80% of his perk points. No one can take it from you like a CV, there are some maching guns mounted for defense, plus all of your scout fighters... and people would launch from them because that way you can launch friendly fighters at 10k above everyone else! They have the E advantage the minute they take off! Plus, it would be wicked aweseome to land on a Zeppelin, and to land the zeppelin itself! But first we would need to model those aircraft which had the little hook to latch on.

[Major Biggles]

been playing crimson skies have we reynolds???

zeppelins weren't like big aircraft carriers, they were recon platforms, and sometimes carried a few bombs. would be fun to strfe em with tracer rounds though, big fireball

[Schutt]

If i had been engineer back than id construct a huge zeppelin with a pass through hangar in the middle where planes can land and take off in for refuling. Get them already some alt on take off .

Can anchor the zeppelin hanging in the wind and connect a 4 km fuel hose from the ground to pump up fuel....

[Major Biggles]

hehe, it would have been cool would have been hard to keep the thing in the air though, and one lucky shot punching through the gas bags would bring an entire squadron to the ground, so i think they made the right choice

[1895]

Originally posted by MiloMorai
Agh, the J8A (aka Gladiator) and P11c are not WW1 era a/c.

I would start with a/c from 1916.

Nice WW1 site, http://www.wwiaviation.com/toc.shtml

Dammit, I thought atleast one of you wouldn't notice. 1937,1939 should still count

[EagleDNY]

Sign me up - I'm a Triplane flyer from way back.  Either Sopwith's or Fokker's!

If you aint got 3 wings, somebody stole 2!

EagleDNY
$.02

[SMIDSY]

Originally posted by Major Biggles
might be fun to charge perks to carry more ammo belts for the guns

and HT could model zeppelins just like carriers, but with a better control system, perhaps even when you take command of one you can get into the bridge if we got airships, HT could probably take the 'flight model' from them, and alter it for use by submarines, which would be very cool

if by "better control system" you mean the ability to steer it in real time rather than setting courses, then i think you are on to something.

[Major Biggles]

Originally posted by SMIDSY
if by "better control system" you mean the ability to steer it in real time rather than setting courses, then i think you are on to something.

steer it in real time, control alt and speed, that sorta stuff.

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Major Biggles
been playing crimson skies have we reynolds???

zeppelins weren't like big aircraft carriers, they were recon platforms, and sometimes carried a few bombs. would be fun to strfe em with tracer rounds though, big fireball

Yeah, I know, but we havnt limited the number of AC that can launch/recover from our CVs now, so why limit them on the Zepplin. I know they only carried 2-4, maybe 6 at most, but knowing the way on-line video games work, they would be unlimited if this were done.

[SMIDSY]

Originally posted by Major Biggles
hehe, it would have been cool would have been hard to keep the thing in the air though, and one lucky shot punching through the gas bags would bring an entire squadron to the ground, so i think they made the right choice

you are mistaken, their only role was bombing. and they were harder to shoot down than is commonly assumed. in the early part of the war, nobody had incindiary bullets, so they were just shooting lead into the bags which did practically nothing. and once incindiary bullets were used more, the zeps still had a higher cieling than any fighters. the germans were a lot of things, but stupid wasnt one of them.



PS
WWI airships did NOT carry any aircraft EVER, so you dont have to worry about coding plane limits.