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Rookee

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« on: October 02, 1999, 09:58:00 PM »
 The other half of this forum's name is vehicles.  Does that mean we can look forward to driveable tanks / jeeps / flak cannons and the like?  Imagine sneaking in half a dozen flak panzers to the nme's runway...OH THE GRIEF!

 Please expound on these possibilities.....
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Offline Windle

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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 1999, 12:32:00 AM »
Probably not drivable but definately as targets none the less.   If I remember correctly these items, as well as trains, ships, etc. will be added in AI form to increase the strategic element of gameplay.  It will also justify the use of cool new planes like the Hawker Tempest, Il-2 Sturmovik, various dive bombers, and (hopefully) PBY's and the sort for rescue and intelligence operations.

Personally it gives me a woody imagining where Aces High is going to be by next Summer  

 

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Offline Jekyll

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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 1999, 01:06:00 AM »
ANYTHING gives you a woody Windle  

You've spent too much time in F4U's!
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Offline Pyro

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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 1999, 03:32:00 PM »
Yeah we'll have some tanks and other vehicles that you'll be able to mess around with when you want to take a break from flying.



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Bad Omen

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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 1999, 06:52:00 PM »
Pyro, when you need some data on tanks or other WWII vehicle stuff, drop me a line, I got a ton of stuff.
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 1999, 10:45:00 PM »
RE:  Tanks in AH

Well and good.  I remember back in the ancient DOS days of AW how much fun it was to drive flakpanzers and T34s to nme airfields  .  And I would LOVE to fly Typhoons and Tempests.  If making vehicles increases the odds of getting these planes in the game, then fire up the tank factory  .

HOWEVER, I don't think they'd be playable on the current beta map.  First off, the mountains look completely impassable to infantry, let alone tanks.  More importantly, tanks are very slow compared to planes.  With 1 airfield per 25 mile square, you're talking an hour or so just to drive from 1 field to another.  It's bad enough in AW with 10-15 mile separation = 20-30 minutes travel time even on the new ETO map.

So IMHO, if we have player-controlled tanks, we'd need a map with a "front lines" area on the border between countries.  In this area, there'd be tank garages so tankers could get into fights with each other quickly, and then the frontier airfields would be fairly close to this area, so tanks could reach them in a reasonable time.

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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 1999, 12:45:00 AM »
There'll be a bunch of vehicle bases scattered around the terrain that will minimize driving distances and let countries occupy a lot of territory.



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roblex

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« Reply #7 on: October 05, 1999, 06:56:00 AM »
Bullet, not a flame  , but you need to bear in mind that this map was thrown together just to give the beta somewhere to be and to demonstrate what was possible. I am sure there will be more vehicle friendly maps later.

Rob

BTW no disrespect to the creator of the map creator ( name escapes me!) who built this terrain by hand pixel by pixel just for us to play with  
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Offline Sascha JG 77

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« Reply #8 on: October 05, 1999, 07:24:00 AM »
And please don't forget to implement some german tanks while you're at it. I want Überpanzers like the Tiger or Königstiger. Give them T-34s a run for their rubles.  


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Offline Flathat

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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 1999, 08:33:00 AM »
Trainnnss, ohhh yesss, precioussss.

And some P-40s for blowing them up with. >

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Offline jonnyg

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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 1999, 06:35:00 PM »
Another Sad Tolkien junkie  

<just as sad for knowing the reference>  
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val

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« Reply #11 on: October 05, 1999, 06:37:00 PM »
I sure hope you Tolkien nuts still have all 10 fingers :-)

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Six-pk

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« Reply #12 on: October 05, 1999, 08:47:00 PM »
   
So Pyro what vehicles do you think we will have?
Btw I know this is a stupid question but can we can drive, fire i.e. move to the comanders seat, drivers set, and gunners seat? Or just the comanders seat and control the whole vehicle?

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« Reply #13 on: October 06, 1999, 09:20:00 AM »
If you guys would like to check out some of the tanks that I've worked on check out the site below. I do WW II re-enacments with an Armored unit. All the Vehicles ar privately owned. And yes the are all real    


 http://users.snip.net/~timvb/4tharmor.html
     

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« Reply #14 on: October 07, 1999, 12:46:00 PM »
Hay Pyro,
My grandfather flew typhoons,tempests & spitfires (as well as many others) in combat during WWII for the RAF. Because of this I get to spend a whole pile of time around them and I have access to a lot of data (including an actual WWII aircraft performance book) and I can get you pictures of any part of the aircraft you want. If you need anything then I am here.


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