Parachute Bombs

[tedrbr]

Originally posted by OdinGrunherze

My only real concern is that 88mm machine guns don't start appearing everywhere, LOL!!!
 

Been discussed.  FlaK36 could carry a small perk price.  They might fire around 15 to 20 rounds per minute.  
Figure it would have two modes: travel mode, no shooty shooty, and a delay to firing mode.  5 to 30 seconds.  A dug in and sandbagged and camouflaged 88mm AA may be a little more defended than one in travel mode, or a little harder to spot if camo, hence the longer deployment times.  
But it would be a weak target once spotted.  Easy to kill.  

88mm German FlaK36 thread

[Sketch]

Originally posted by CFYA
Why no special ord?

Since when is a incendiary bomb special? They only used 40 bazillion or so.

Whats the defition of special?

Anything none GP?

 So is '40 bazillion' just a rough guess or spot on...

I am not sure all of what HTC's choice of 'special' is, but from what we have in the game, yeah anything not general purpose.

[tedrbr]

Special ords really don't have much place in the game as it is now, IMHO.

There was some discussion a while ago about what a AH-3 might be like if it went to broadband only (for much larger throughput of information).

You could model Armies, similar to the Task Groups now.  Or visual front lines between contested bases.   Troop movements, marshalling yards, ammo dumps, fuel depots, more convoys and trains and barges, supply ships for anti shipping operations, communications centers, more population centers of various sizes, roads, rivers, destructible bridges,.... Lot's of eye candy and tactical and strategic targets for attack planes, JABOS, and bombers.

Some of these could make using more types of munitions playable.  Parafrags, perked ord system with Fritz-X or Henschel Hs 293 or tallboys, skip bombing modeled, and so forth.

I just can't see a game that's been around as long as AHII going into big changes like that.  I'd expect smaller, incremental changes and enhancements.  
If there is ever an AH-3, then possibly.

[VooWho]

Originally posted by Sketch
Could you spell it out for me.

it out for me.

I...T.....O...U...T.....F...O ...R.....M...E.

it out for me.

[Nilsen]

Gimme mannable 88s at factories so the milkrunners gets something to think about

Same control system as the 5" on the ships, but a lower rate of fire.

[Sketch]

Originally posted by VooWho
it out for me.

I...T.....O...U...T.....F...O ...R.....M...E.

it out for me.

Thanks!!  

[stephen]

Only if we get manned 88mm flaks first. Then you're all welcome to try that low-level frag bombing to your heart's content. We'll be waiting down here with our 88mm flak guns ready.


Otherwise, them puny field ack or 50cal M-16, 37mm Ostard flak, just doesn't cut enough firepower to stop a 3-man buff formation that just ignore ack fire and spray the airfield with bombs before getting shot down by fighters.

So, first give us the 88s. Then you're welcome to have whatever bombs you please, perhaps with the exception of the n00kies.

Kweasa...



thats how you hijack a thread, dismiss someone elses opinion and impliment your own.
I dont care what you say para's and skip bombs would be a fun addition to the game.

[OdinGrunherze]

Hopefully, in the future, the AH game will become a more rounded experience... With a more detailed interaction between air and ground...
After playing the "game" a little more, I realize that there isn't much point to special munitions... Simply because there are no Targets to use them on... I imagine that things will improve over time.... Broadband maybe???
I hope so!!!!
Yes, I have had just a little exp in the Military too... LOL, just a little!!!
Velos, Silens, Morte....

OG

[OdinGrunherze]

HaHaHa, I spelled Ord(i)nance wrong... I guess that I've been a civvie too long...Ya know, its a shame that HTC can't use some of the other game engines that are out there... There are some excellent systems that simulate, armored combat, naval combat, on and on.... It would be soooo sweet to have the (full boogie) WW2 combat experience...
People would flock to this sim over from all others... Probably have copywrite problems doing it tho.... Mores the pity!!!!
But HTC has the best flight sim that I have seen yet....No doubt!!!!
Hope for the future

OG

[VooWho]

Last night I had a dream that HTC gave us the 88mm and it was bugged and it was pwnding ever plane in the game. It didn't have an arch with the round so you could hit targets very easy at 25k. Then when I watched the plane come down, it was an IAF F-16 with a wing missing and then the textures turned into FS2004 and then I had guys chasing me in Jeeps, and I had an AK-101 and then the textures turned into Ghost Recon 2 and then I had to defend the 88mm in the middle of the map. It was a wierd dream, but I liked it.

[Wes14]

[OdinGrunherze]

Wow man, that sounds like an old episode of the twilight zone....
I trust that you defended with tremendous skill and tons of class....
And died like an Ocha in full bloom!!!! Right???
Actually, I was thinking of a game called Panzer Front for old playstation. Man, it is the BEST tank sim.... At least as far as the vehicles, weapons, and terrian go..... It would be KILLER if the Skies were filled with AH air power....

OG

[WolfSnipe]

yea and smoke bombs in bombers would help GVs get cover with bunch of smoke to cover the field:furious

[VooWho]

Now is time to get a spotter plane, with smoke rockets to mark targets for bombers, ground attackers, and gvs. Did they have smoke rockets back in WW2 to mark spots? I know Moss would go ahead of Lanc, fly real low and mark targets with white smoke. (I think)

[OdinGrunherze]

Wow, I thought this thread was dead.......

OG