Car Bombing and the Alternatives

[Ping]

 IMO this tactic has got to be the lowest a person can sink to.
 Drive over to M3s on the field with a Buff and take out everyone with a bomb drop.
 Flying around at 50-100 feet and search out ground vehicles inb to the field. Who cares if you kill yourself in the process.
 What are some of the alternatives?
 Time or distance to allow the bombs to arm themselves? Both would solve the Buff tactic of taking out attacking fighters by dropping their eggs while sitting at the spawn point on rwy.
 Distance would still allow low level bomb drops that are potentially lethal to self because you would have horizontal travel as well.
 Am I the only one ticked off by this tactic?
Anyone else out there with suggestions?

[Sturm]

Nope altitude armed bombs is what is needed in here.  I agree I am still trying to get my first base capture and have dies 4 times now within inches of HQ.  Ticks me off i know that

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JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Westy]

What are some of the alternatives?

 Simple. Kill the hangars AND kill the ammo bunkers. They can't car bomb without the bomb even if they can spawn.
 
 -Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 03-20-2001).]

[GRUNHERZ]

Disable bombs on the ground, simple.

[AKDejaVu]

The mechanism to prevent this from happening is already there.  Its just that the people complaining refuse to acknowledge it.

Take out the ammo bunkers and this will not happen.  

Someone de-acked the field... it doesn't take much more to take out two ammo bunkers.

AKDejaVu

[AKDejaVu]

BTW, not taking down hangars or ammo bunkers is a tradeoff.  You get to use the base immediately, but you run the risk of spawning planes.

Basically, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

AKDejaVu

[juzz]

It's unrealistic anyway because most of those US bombs had a little prop that had to turn like 150 times to even arm the bomb...

[sling322]

 

Originally posted by juzz:
It's unrealistic anyway because most of those US bombs had a little prop that had to turn like 150 times to even arm the bomb...

Yeah well its unrealistic for 10 troops from 1 M3 to capture a base also, so what?

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Sling322
Fat Drunk Bastards

[Tac]

They are GOOD troops  

[Raubvogel]

Regardless of what the "Just take out the ammo bunkers" crowd has to say, bombs should be disabled on the ground. It is a gaming loophole and it should be fixed. The more things like this that are left unfixed and accepted, the more this program moves toward the arcade end of the spectrum.

[sling322]

LOL Tac....a buncha Rambo's out there taking on a whole base.  

[AKDejaVu]

Raub, Pyro once told me to spawn and instantly drop bombs to kill a plane that was parked on the runway vulching.

AKDejaVu

[gatt]

 

Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
The mechanism to prevent this from happening is already there.  Its just that the people complaining refuse to acknowledge it. Take out the ammo bunkers and this will not happen.

Pyro once told me to spawn and instantly drop bombs to kill a plane that was parked on the runway vulching.

You have to read AKDejaVu's two posts togheter and you'll understand that probably AH has to satisfy the Quake crowd as well