A Plea for the C47

[Jekyll]

At present, the C47 has one role, and one role only, to play in Aces High - to ferry the paratroopers necessary to capture enemy fields.

But what if we increased the avaiable loadouts for the C47?

1.  If a field's ammo supplies had been hit, a C47 could ferry stores of ammo from a nearby friendly field,

2.  If drop tanks were not available, C 47 could ferry replacements,

3.  If fuel supplies were low, a C47 could ferry drums of fuel,

4.  If the acks had been hit, we could assume that it was only the ack gunners who had been killed (rather than the gun itself destroyed).  A c47 could ferry in replacement trained gunners

5.  If we ever get radar stations at fields, and the base radar was hit, a C47 could ferry in replacement radar parts

The present system of a 30 minute down time on targets hit at an airfield seems just about perfect, but let's allow the C47 to be more than just a 'drunk transport' - let's give it a role to play in the logistics of airfields.

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[weazel]

 Some waist guns would be nice as well.

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[This message has been edited by weazel (edited 11-09-1999).]

[leonid]

Actually, how about six 7.62mm 'miniguns', all shooting out one side?  Oops, wrong war  

[aircat]

4. If the acks had been hit, we could assume that it was only the ack gunners who had been killed (rather than the gun itself destroyed). A c47 could ferry in replacement trained gunners

hmmmmmm...... have you ever seen pretty much anything after a 500 lb bomb was dropped on it? me neither. but could ferry in say 3 guns and personel to be replaced. I would like to see planes that actualy was used in these rolls though .. true cargo planes.

[Jekyll]

Ahh aircat.. of course if you drop a 500 pounder directly on an ack you would no doubt destroy the gun, but at the moment you can miss by a fair distance and still nail the ack.

Some of the large German ack guns had 11 guys controlling them.  We could certainly frag them with a near miss

And sure, dedicated cargo planes are ultimately the way to go.. but who would want a cargo plane modelled in preference to their favourite fighter/bomber????

As an aside, most if not all C47's were fitted with glider towing hooks.  Now there's something I'd love to see.. a fleet of C47's towing Waco gliders full of ground assault troops  

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[funked]

Jekyll, even if you don't frag them with that near miss, they might be slowed down by the fact that they can't hear a thing, they have blood running out of every orfice of their body, and they are scared to death.  Most people would just stay down.

[Duckwing6]

See here goes the old AW idea to supplie fields with the C47   i like it !
DW6

[Mark Luper]

I love the idea Jekyl, am a proponenet of it too. I think the current 47 could do the job well enough for our purposes. I would also like to stipulate that these be flown by players and not have any AI flown supply planes. I would like to see the downtime at a field cut down or instantly regenerated if the proper supplies were flown in.


MarkAT

[Swoosh]

My first question is where would the supplies come from?  

If the gooney borrows them from a well supplied field, the loaning field would have eventually regenerate new supplies.  This could lead to a minor problem of the gooney landing back at the same field one borrowed the supplies from originally.

Or would Goonies just magically start out at any field with a cargo hold full of goodies?  This leads to the same problem as in the first example...

Just a couple thoughts.

[Jekyll]

I don't see a problem there Swoosh.  Say F7's ammo has been depleted.  You could launch a C47 from f8 to replenish.  If F8's ammo had also been depleted previously, then it would either not be available as a loadout, or the amount of ammo you could ferry would be reduced.

I mean, at present, lets assume you have 1000 guys online... 999 Bishops and 1 Rook.  If all the bishops launched from the same undamaged field, would that reduce that field's ammo or fuel supplies?  I don't think that is modelled at present.

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