Is it possible....?

[Tazz69]

I was in a CV battle the other night and thought, Why couldn't HCT have single cruisers to control in the game with out the CV? We have CV groups with 1 cruiser, 2 cruisers, and with and without destroyer escorts. So is it possible for HTC to have a say a battle cruiser or 1 big battle ship that can be deployed? It can be used to find and destroy other CV groups or to just roam an area off an enemy shore and hit the bases or towns. Battle ship were very much important during the second world war, as I'm sure you already know. What I would like to see is a single battle ship that we can control like we do the CV group. We sometimes have a single CV afloat. Why not a single battle ship? I can already hear some guys saying that AH2 is a flying game dedicated to aircraft, but, we have such a diversity of gv's and aircraft and everything else that was a machine during the second world war, which I think makes this game that much more fun to play, so why not a tweak to our CV battles.



Tazz69, CO
69th FG ~Rampant Lions~

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[Krusty]

The amount of data to process and transmit every time you so much as think about moving makes it not possible, or possibly it was the code structure as well made it totally impossible. HTC said as much in a previous convention. It would take a re-write of the code to accomodate free-form ships, and further I think it's a bad idea (personally) as it would only lead to abuse of the system. You don't drive ships. They have hundreds of people onboard. To try and model such an element in a game would really require a purpose-built game (like Silent Hunter) rather than a "plane" in a flight sim.

[Templar]

Not arguing any technical points here, but it would be interesting to see a battleship alone or with destroyer escorts (similar to a CV) and working as a Surface Action Group (SAG).  Under player control (similar to CV groups) the SAG could conduct shore bombardments, hunter-killer missions (scenario-Hood vs Bismark) against other ships or act as a mobile flak screen for friendly coastal area bases. Under enemy or even computer (like the trains) control, the SAG could be a fun target for pilots to attack, especially for certain scenarios (scenarios-Pearl Harbor or Repulse and Prince of Wales vs Japanese Naval Aviation etc etc). 

[SpencAce]

not saying that it would not be fun to have that happen but , ya, it would be extremely hard to program it,, actually krusty explains it flawlessy