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Trains...
« on: May 23, 2011, 01:03:24 PM »
Amass the countryside with them... :cry


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Re: Trains...
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 01:16:24 PM »
We have squads that specialize in fighters, bombers, GVs, jabo, ships, gunners, and now we have a squad that specializes in taking out trains?   :neener:


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Re: Trains...
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 01:30:33 PM »
We have squads that specialize in fighters, bombers, GVs, jabo, ships, gunners, and now we have a squad that specializes in taking out trains?   :neener:


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Re: Trains...
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 01:51:15 PM »
I think we have trains...  they are just very rare.
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 01:55:41 PM »
I think we have trains...  they are just very rare.

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a train in game. 

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Re: Trains...
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 02:06:56 PM »
They only were near strats, and now since the strats are in the back...

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Re: Trains...
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2011, 06:51:13 PM »
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 07:17:44 PM »
Trains seem nothing more than a waste of server processing and downloadable client content in the game these days, a real shame since of the three convoy types in-game they offer the greatest challenge to a single or group of players looking to do some convoy-seeking and destroying.
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 07:38:09 PM »
+1 to bringing them back.   When I first started AH, I accidentally ran over a train at low altitude and got a hail of ack for my trouble. 

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Re: Trains...
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 07:51:09 PM »
Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2011, 08:26:16 PM »
Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2011, 09:05:58 PM »
+1 to the trains, and when you add them, add strategic bombing to aceshigh! Chooo chooo!

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Re: Trains...
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2011, 09:36:44 PM »
Ever took an M-8 and just sat on a long bridge waiting for a train to show up? Think thats fun, try it with an LVT-4.
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2011, 09:44:50 PM »
Trains did not leave; they are still there.  As pointed out, they are the supply mechanism for strats.  When we had single strats all around the map, it seemed like they were all over the place.  The new mega-citystrat is typically supplied by just one train, and the HQ by another.  So, we actually do have fewer trains which are farther behind enemy lines, but we do still have trains.

The guideline for building maps is that strats are supplied by trains and bases are supplied by truck convoys (some coastal bases can be supplied by barges).  I'm not sure what would happen if some mapmaker used trains for some of the bases, just to have more trains to hunt...
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Re: Trains...
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2011, 10:33:49 PM »
good idea. and i thought that they resupplied 1 or 2 towns too?

Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid

i still dont get whats with the sheep. :o help!!!

Ever took an M-8 and just sat on a long bridge waiting for a train to show up? Think thats fun, try it with an LVT-4.

ive stood in front of one with my pilot and his handgun.  :D bad idea.  :(

as to the actual idea...  :aok +1