Gigant

[DarkEye]

What about giving the ability to drop tanks from the air? AFAIK the russians have done this (obviously not with the crew inside, though)...

[fdiron]

PZVG, that "malta turkey shoot" consisted of German JU52s, not Gigants.  An interesting side note about that is that B25s were used as fighters during this battle and shot down a few JU52s

[qts]

Well, my thoughts were along the lines of the player having a taste of both worlds - flying to the target, then launching himself in a tank.

Just as hangars take time to respawn, so should a Gigant.

[Jekyll]

Perfect solution qts.. make the Gigant kind of a 'mobile field'.

Take off in the Gigant, fly to where you want to go, and once on the ground and stopped, spawn either a tank, halftrack or troop carrying vehicle, driven by the original pilot of the 323.

With radar blindness below 500 feet, I think we'd see a lot of use of the 323.  How about a long range, below radar formation attack on an enemy's city?  Suddenly deliver a bunch of armor behind enemy lines to cause all kinds of disruption?

[Jigster]

Pz38 isn't a bad idea at all. With that tank body is a HORDE of variants  
Of course there's the tank destroyer versions such as the Marder, then there's the ones that sport close support guns, the original Flakpanzer with a 20mm gun, and the improvised version with the 37mm gun. And of course the Flamethrower version  

The disembarkment of whatever units the Gigant is carrying is the hard part. Since it such a big target and will be useless after unloading, the pilot should be able to drive what he has unloaded. But, there should be a capability to carry a driver, in the case of a scenario...or due to the weight of the M-16. It weighs about 9 tons. Therefore the Gigant would be capable of carrying 2   and somebody would need to drive the other.

But regardless of the detail's I'd like to see it  

- Jig

[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 06-13-2000).]

[pzvg]

Fdiron, must be 2 turkey shoots then 'cuz the guncamera film i've seen shows gigants, not "tante Ju"  

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[B-Town]

why don't we simply just map a change of vehicle key? Then we can just have the pilot and the other guy who ever he might be jump from the Aircraft to the tank and drive off. You should also be able to decide who you want to fly + where. To load a tank onto the Aircraft you should have to physically drive it onto the aircraft. It should also be rigged out to drop troops as well as M16's panzers and ammunition and fuel for the panzers that we can airdrop from both the Big Bird and the Gooney Birds.

What you think?

[qts]

I think this is pretty good!

[Jigster]

With the re-arming points coming in 1.03 I think it should be implemented where, if nothing else, the C-47 can deliver ammo for either the Panzer or M-16. Perhaps something along the lines where the C-47 pilot types something like .rearm handle which would designate to whom the supplies go. Then, like a troop drop, the pilot would land or drop the troops who would procede to the vehicle and rearm it.

- Jig

[B-Town]

Jigster,
You genius  

[Ghosth]

Actually I'd been hopeing for a rearm, refuel truck along those same lines. However, nothing wrong with the idea, it's a sweet one!

Especially if those 10 troops could refuel 4 or 5 panzers or M16's. Then you have the potential for a really large convoy wtih resupply. Even better if you want to spend the time waiting if they can also repair damage! All guns, engine, etc should of course be disabled while doing so with perhaps a 5 min per damaged object wait for the driver????

[eskimo]

Great Idea!

eskimo

[brady]

 ok,would be cool to have

      Brady

  Of course a JU 52 would be to

[-duma-]

This would be hilarious   The main gun of a panzer could probably take out an airborne one of these from 3k in AH.. I want!  

[Jigster]

My gawd could you imagine the frame hit this thing would cause?!  

- Jig

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[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 11-19-2000).]