TNT/JEEP=BOOM

[stealth]

I would like to be able to drop TNT out of jeeps. Enough TNT for 2 jeeps to be able to knock out a radar or town building. Just having TNT to set up on targets would be very tactical for this game. More people would drive those jeeps. Just 1 .50 cal and 2 boxes of supps and 3 troops Isn't enough. Of course this is all just my fantasy to react "The Rat Patrol", from the 1960s T.V. show.

Now I got my bomb suit on. Tell me what you think.

[Tyrannis]

cool idea, but how are you going to get through all the ack to get to said radar tower, etc? then of course you'd have to have a 5-10 sec wait period while you "arm" said tnt


it would be a cool idea tho for bridges/etc. blow a bridge when a trains over it and you get a train kill.

or better yet, use it against tanks. sneak up behind a tank, plant enough tnt to blow it up. or atleast take out a track.

[EskimoJoe]

How will you detonate it?

With a electronic remote control?

I think not...

[Crythos]

This game has loads off potential for viable valid little things to be added, if HT had the resources of say Blizzard I am sure he would poke a few in.

[Furball]

Need a perk SAS jeep.



http://www.m201.com/sasjeep.htm

The jeeps were heavily armed with combinations of both Browning and Vickers K machine guns. The ex-aircraft Vickers weapons were generally mounted in pairs and a total of up to five machine guns were carried on some vehicles. The effectiveness of this armament firing a mix of ball, armour-piercing and tracer shells can be judged from one assault on an airfield where 12 aircraft were destroyed in a five minute raid. With all guns blazing a single SAS jeep could deliver an impressive 5000 rounds per minute! The net result was that over 400 aircraft had been destroyed on the ground by November 1942. Stirling was finally captured in 1943 but escaped four times before being sent to Colditz where he spent the rest of the war.

[Pigslilspaz]

all for an SAS jeep as long as we can deathstar it.

[Tyrannis]

Need a perk SAS jeep.

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http://www.m201.com/sasjeep.htm

werent vickers .303? and arent those .50 cals mounted on the front? why would they make the weaker vickers the anti-aircraft gun and the .50 the forward firing? seems to make more sence if you switch the two.

[Pigslilspaz]

werent vickers .303? and arent those .50 cals mounted on the front? why would they make the weaker vickers the anti-aircraft gun and the .50 the forward firing? seems to make more sence if you switch the two.

they wern't anti-air, it was ALL ground attack.

[Tyrannis]

they wern't anti-air, it was ALL ground attack.

oh, sorry. i read "ex-aircraft" and thought it said anti-aircraft. stupid me. 

[stealth]

Well just detonate it like this. Get wire, a TNT charger to blow it up that's attached to the jeep. Should only take 5-15 seconds to set the TNT up and blow it. Eskimo haven't you ever seen "The Rat Patrol" or the movie "Saving Private Ryan" that's how they blew TNT up back then. The other way you could have the TNT is you know have a timer on it. The TNT on a jeep would be able to get to a target quick and fast and boom.

Yes it would be difficult for a jeep to dodge ack. Any ideas what to do with that. I mean the jeeps die pretty easy. I think HTC should do something about it. Again this is just my little fantasy to be "The Rat Patrol" on Aceshigh.

These jeeps would be used to blow tanks, town buildings, man acks, radar you name it. Maybe even the HQ. Have a little area inside the HQ for a jeep to go in. Blow it from the inside you know. The possibilities are endless with TNT. Besides every single problem in the world can be solved with the right amount of explosives.

[fuzeman]

How many Jeeps and TNT would you need to equal the explosive power of a nOOk?   

[M0nkey_Man]

every single problem in the world can be solved with the right amount of explosives.

very true

[EskimoJoe]

Well just detonate it like this. Get wire, a TNT charger to blow it up that's attached to the jeep. Should only take 5-15 seconds to set the TNT up and blow it. <snip>
 The other way you could have the TNT is you know have a timer on it.

I thought about it before posting. Where would the wire be held? How much would there be? What happens when you run out of length? Will detonation problems be modeled?

A timer I hadn't thought about. Did they have timed-TNT back in the day? What would the time be set at? How would one defuse or get rid of said explosive without harming friendly buildings?

I simply don't think TNT thrown out the side of a jeep is a currently feasible idea in Aces High. Maybe when infantry is added in 20 years, but until then...

[guncrasher]

I was once talking to an old guy who had a jeep with a .50 mounted on it.  he explained to us how the gunner had to be carefull when shooting so as not to flip the jeep over specially if the jeep was moving. imagine what would happen to a moving jeep with all those guns firing to the side.

semp

[stealth]

I thought about it before posting. Where would the wire be held? How much would there be? What happens when you run out of length? Will detonation problems be modeled?

A timer I hadn't thought about. Did they have timed-TNT back in the day? What would the time be set at? How would one defuse or get rid of said explosive without harming friendly buildings?

I simply don't think TNT thrown out the side of a jeep is a currently feasible idea in Aces High. Maybe when infantry is added in 20 years, but until then...

Have a role of wire which should be around a couple hundred feet. Have the timer set to what ever you want it to be. I was thinking drop the TNT like a supply box drive slowly with the wire attached to it and boom. However this idea is completely useless without some more targets such as bridges and so on.