Landing a GV successfully

[niccxx]

How do you do it. I rolled out in a tiger a couple nights ago. After 1 kill and 1 assist things quieted down so I rolled back to the spawn and when I ended sortie it said I was shot down and that I also ditched. 23 points lost. I asked someone later and was told to get as close to the spawn, cut the engine and hope for the best. Since then I've ended sortie without moving or starting my engine and it still says I ditched. Is this a bug?

Also, unrelated. Since the patch update, my text box is starts half way up my screen on the left side instead of the bottom. This sprawls text out to the center of my screen and interferes with gameplay. How do I change this? There doesn't seem to be any good help files on this website to answer most of my questions. The beginner's guide only covers about 10% of my questions. I like the game and even like most of the recent updates, but after 10+ years, the support structure for this is extremely lacking.

Thanks for all replys.
~Nicc

[Rolex]

Hiya niccxx,

There does appear to be a bug in landing vehicles successfully.

The tilde key (`/~) next to the 1 key toggles the text buffer expansion. It'll revert back to 3 lines. You can find all keyboard commands in game by bringing up the clipboard and going to Options>Controls>Map Keyboard.

The help section is very detailed. It's located here. Click on a topic on the left menu.

You can also check the trainers page in my signature below.

[DoubleEagle]

I agree the support manuals available for the game are...well....what support manuals?  There really isn't any.

Go look at the training material and you find lots of stuff that will now be out of date, as we have a WASD control scheme for vehicles.  It still says to drive a tank, start engine with the E key, then push your stick forward.

Also, I will be damned if I can find ANYWHERE on the site where it tells you how to capture an enemy base.  I recently restarted my account, and in the main arena there where a lot of guys talking about flags going white, but I didn't even know the flags in the town would change color.  I am still used to the days when we fought over the airbases directly, and all you really needed was to kill the AAA so the paratroopers would survive to bum rush into the map bunker.  Killing hangars was a good tactic to keep the enemy from spawning and prevent kamikaze runs to strafe the paratroopers.

[BaldEagl]

You can successfully land a GV anywhere on the map as long as there are no enemys within 5500 yards.  If there are you get a ditch/death.  I always go for 6000 yards to be safe.

As Rolex said use the ~ key to toggle between limited and expanded text buffers.  You can left click on the buffer and drag it to wherever you want on your screen.

To capture an enemy airfield all the auto ack in the town near the field have to be down as well as enough buildings to turn the flag in the middle of town all white, then ten troops need to enter the maproom in town (next to the flag) uninjured.  To capture an enemy GV base or Port you only have to take down the auto ack and get ten uninjured troops into the maproom but most times you'll want to kill the manned guns too and possibly even the VH(s) to keep people from killing your troops.

[Rolex]

The new method for vehicles was just released. We'll change the training information soon. The information is posted on the arena message for everyone to see, so people aren't wandering around in the dark about it.

[DoubleEagle]

I would love to know more as that bit about base capture is interesting, but doesn't actually clearly answer some of what I want to know.

This is a post about Ground Vehicles, though.

[Lusche]

How do you do it. I rolled out in a tiger a couple nights ago. After 1 kill and 1 assist things quieted down so I rolled back to the spawn and when I ended sortie it said I was shot down and that I also ditched. 23 points lost. I asked someone later and was told to get as close to the spawn, cut the engine and hope for the best. Since then I've ended sortie without moving or starting my engine and it still says I ditched. Is this a bug?

I want to emphasize again that the spawn has no influence on mission endings at all. It's all about distance to closest enemy (as already being pointed out in this thread). Rolling back to the spawn can even be counterproductive, as that's one of the places most likely to have any enemies around. Better get totally away from both spawn and enemy base.




Territory status is determined by ownership of the nearest base. This includes CV's. Spawn points do not matter.

[SkiMan]

Can't get any clearer than that! Thanks Lusche

[BaldEagl]

Lusche missed something.    You can land successfully no matter if you are damaged or not or if there are enemys about or not at any time on the concrete or pavement at any friendly base.

Oops.  Nevermind.  It was me who missed it on his chart.   

[Volron]

My question on this is, why would it say uninjured troops?  Is it even POSSIBLE to injure them?

[crazyivan]

Lusche missed something.    You can land successfully no matter if you are damaged or not or if there are enemys about or not at any time on the concrete or pavement at any friendly base.

Oops.  Nevermind.  It was me who missed it on his chart.  

Do NOT question thy chart!!  pavement is always good, just make sure you're not rocking in neutral @#@%#%.

from what understand 5k away from enemy, except eny territory?

[AWwrgwy]

from what understand 5k away from enemy, except eny territory?

Anywhere....

Even the middle of an Enemy airfield.

I like 6k just for a margin of error.


wrongway

[crazyivan]

Anywhere....

Even the middle of an Enemy airfield.

I like 6k just for a margin of error.


wrongway

Yes troll, I said except enemy territory!

[AWwrgwy]

Yes troll, I said except enemy territory!

But this is not true.

You can land safely in enemy territory, on an enemy airbase if you like, on or off concrete if you like, as long as no enemy is within 6k of you.

 

It's not the where, because it can be anywhere. It's all about where the enemy is if you are not in friendly territory on concrete, which is the only where "always".

wrongway

[SHawk]

But this is not true.

You can land safely in enemy territory, on an enemy airbase if you like, on or off concrete if you like, as long as no enemy is within 6k of you.

 

It's not the where, because it can be anywhere. It's all about where the enemy is if you are not in friendly territory on concrete, which is the only where "always".

wrongway

Still not completely true, Lets say any plane injured your tank in any way, even if you show no damage or have re-supplied your damaged tank, and then flies away. You have no one within 6K of you and end mission, the plane gets your kill if he hasn't ended mission yet. At least that's my experience. Now if he lands before you end, you can then get a successful landing.