More Strat Suggestions.

[Pongo]

Darkeye
The whole thing is unrealistic. But it all works as a game..The ability to shut down a field from the air would require a totaly rebuilt ack, administration and terrain control system. If we had that we would not be capturing fields, We would be supporting the infantry as they take and hold ground...
Maybe some day that will happen, but until then bases have to remain open unless we want toad to shut down rooks or nights with one unaposed buff sortie.

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Pongo

[Minotaur]

HTC;

My thoughts and ideas about field capture.

• BUFF bombs, way too accurate.  1 bomb, 1 ack from any alt, too easy...   3 or 4 bombs then field has no ack defense.  Make ack harder to hit from high / med alt.  Get rid of the LGB's.  Make it so BUFF must "Bracket" the target with pickled drops to insure a kill.
• A JABO role.  Put troops and/or light armored vehicles in and around fields.  These units can not be seen by BUFF's norden sight.  Akin to "Mini Acks", their purpose would be solely to defend the base against para drops.  Shooting only the troopers.  These units would have to be strafed or attacked with explosive ordinance from low alt JABO before a field could be captured.  I do not mean the "Respawn Respawn Respawn" player kind of units.  They should be fixed position, but the position should be random when the base comes up each time.
• C-47 re-supply, IMO is a bad idea. You can barely get players to fly C-47's to capture fields now.  Some like the boring C-47 flights better than ACM or BSU (Blowing Stuff Up), but most do not.
• Attacking fuel tanks limits fuel in all planes.  Add in the feature of attacking ammo bunkers restricts the quantity for fighter or BUFF gun ammo loads as well as BUFF bomb loads.  This requires that ammo bunkers be BUNKERS, requiring muliple "direct" bomb hits.  Another good JABO role.

I do like the idea of a base closing for a few minutes to allow a C-47 to get in.  I don't like the the idea of closing a base for longer periods.  HT is right, the low level furball and vulchfest is fun.

EoR (End of Rant)  Thanks!    

Mino

[This message has been edited by Minotaur (edited 02-04-2000).]

[Sharky]

Hi All,

Seems the crux of this problem is Buffs.  I think the biggest problem is that it is to easy to fly a bomber sortie.  First it seems easier to get a B-17 to 30K than a Mustang.  Second, with the laser Norden a single Buff can kill all the base's defenses with a couple of passes.

I suggest that some sort of inaccuracy be built into the Norden.  The object of this would be to require the use of a salvo of 3-4 bombs to ensure a hit on the target.  Additionally the targets should be a little harder to kill.  I'd like to see something like a 100 lber would have to hit dead center to kill an ack but a 500 lber could be off a little and still kill it and a 1000 lber could be a little further off and still get the kill.  Also add blast effects.  For instance you drop a 500 lber close to the barracks and it does some damage but does not destroy it, but if you had dropped 3 500lbers even though they were slightly off the combined effect of the blasts would destroy the barracks.  That sort of thing.

Sharky

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You can run, but you just die tired.

[214CaveJ]

Just a couple of thoughts about a few things posted

Bomber guns on the ground:  Kill the ammo bunkers.  If ordinence is disabled at a field the bombers can't launch (look at our destruction of nit ammo factory and all ammo bunkers at fields the other night.  saw NO bombers for about an hour)  This just adds another element to capturing a field that's contested if the defending force starts sitting there with bombers.  Drop the ammo bunkers, then drop a bomb on the "ackstars"

The strategy system.
The model is already capable of making pilots so frustrated they want to log off.  I've watched numbers in a country drop when The Wrecking Crew has been on a full scale strategic campain.