The Space Battleship Yamato and supporting fighters

[Babalonian]

The Claw mothership is in need of a graphics update!  +1

[RTHolmes]

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[lengro]

Was a good day - way back - when Hitech forgot to disable the A51 hangar 

[SmokinLoon]

 Was wondering about this.  I read somewhere that the Japanese history books had left out a lot of things that happened in the 1930's and 1940's.  Anyone know where to get an English translation of a Japanese history book?
  I recently re-read 'Flags of Our Fathers'.  The movie version was quite different from the book.  Anyway, it got me to thinking about the history thing.

  Sorry is off this serious topic.

One of my history profs in college taught English in Japan for a few years and married a Japanese woman.  He stated multiple times in both history and poli-sci classes that the Japanese make no mention of anything between the dates of Pearl Harbor and the dropping of the bombs.  None.  All the Japanese text books mention is "combat" at Pearl Harbor, then a quite lengthy section on the atom bombs.  The text books portray the history as if the Japanese were the victims of warfare.  No mention of the campaigns in Manchuria/Korea/mainland Asia, the Bataan Death March, Wake Island, Kamikazes, or WWII in general.

In contrast, the Germans evidently study up on Hitler, the Brown Shirts, National Socialism, etc etc, and are taught all the bad things associated with them.     

[dirtdart]

+1 on the Yamato, we need more Japanese ships here

Im not really on the US planes but ok, what Varitech? im in for the VF-1S with the superpack to hunt down pickers/high monkeys:

General characteristics
Maximum speed    Mach 2.71 at 10,000 m
Mach 3.87 at 30,000+ m
Armaments    External GU-11 55 mm gunpod
1–4 Mauler RÖV-20 anti-aircraft laser cannons
Four pivoting hardpoints under the wings
Propulsion    2x Shinnakasu Heavy Industry/P&W/Roice FF-2001 thermonuclear reaction turbine engines[1]
Power    11,500 kgf /650 MW each
Mass    13,250 kg (empty)
Length    14.23 m (fighter mode)
11.3 m (GERWALK mode)
4 m (battroid mode)
Width    14.78 m (fully extended)
8.25 m (swept)
7.3 m (battroid mode)
Height    3.84 m (fighter mode)
8.7 m (GERWALK mode)
12.68 m (battroid mode)


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It saw action from the start of the war to the end so it can be added 

This also became the transformer "jet fire" if you recall. I still have a plastic one somewhere in a box. I would trade a kid for the metal toy of this.... Lol only the rich kids had it back in the day.

Ranger... Both robotech and starazers are/were on Netflix. I used to love how the Yamato would always be on the verge of disaster until they fired the wave motion gun. The climatic music as the system charged.... Will the charge in time or is the Yamato goin down ......  Lol.

[davidwales]

ok ok i get the point , i wont waste any more time trying to improve gameplay , seems all you who read the bb are tared with the same brush apart from a few positive players who are very impartial and only want fair play ,

some of the best readers of this forum are

evz              guncrasher           mano


rob                debrody              chilli

tec                grumpy               that guy who has a pilot flying a cargo plane on his sig (cnt think of his name)

im a dot         blood scout          and a few more which names escape


matt             flatirion


the rest of you just love ripping threads apart and making a mockery of the bb

ill look in time too time and itll be the same few players mocking the interlectual as my self and others ive mentioned , i think its jealousy, they dont like progression , and if they where alive during wilbur wrights day , we could still not have a machine in which we call a aircraft, as they would say "itll never work" ,  " only birds can fly" , what a spam idea , you must be trolling , etc etc etc, its the same stuff , no improvement just rip it up and start again basicly 

[FLS]

Did not see squadron strength. It is Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1, which was prototype that never saw production, and had only 1 built. It did however lead to the development of the TIE Avenger.

Maybe as a perked variant?

Edit: Off topic but it would be cool if the energy weapon beams matched the country colors.

[RTHolmes]

... itll be the same few players mocking the interlectual ...

priceless

[dirtdart]

ok ok i get the point , i wont waste any more time trying to improve gameplay....the rest of you just love ripping threads apart and making a mockery of the bb

Davidwales, to be fair, the worst of the flamers (they know who they are) have frankly not engaged you for whatever reason and you have been spared their wrath.  Your points on systems and gameplay do not meet the basic criteria for inclusion on the BBs.  I would suggest you seek out the criteria for wishlist first, then once you understand it, find something that meets the criteria, research it on the BBs.  If it has not been asked for in the past, or at least within the last few years, then run with it.  Just be aware that there are some serious Aviation and WWII historians on these pages.

FLS, man it would be cool if tracers did that, much less lasers.  I think the Tie fighter might have stability issues in the atmosphere.  I have not seen Tie fighters in a stall fight.  

[guncrasher]

because of their shape tie fighters would be very slow in the lower atmosphere.  I believe they are mainly used as high alt fighters in the thin air above 100k, so they would all be rooks .  the x and y wing fighters on the other hand would be useful to hunt those pesky 262's that annoy the crap out of me.


semp

[dirtdart]

Hmm...

AT-AT could replace KT.

Snowspeeder could replace IL-2

[davidwales]

well i reported you all to skuzzy as you are being flamboint , not like me, i said to skuzzy all i was hoping as if a few of you took me seriously to make the game a bit more interesting without to much expence as htc has not got  a bottomless pocket, to make all these different aircraft you all wish for , you have to look at the most basic ideas , not so much art work , and reconfig of aircrft mods etc , my ideas were genuine , i messed up once with the stupid flying wing , but you should not have cruisified me for that, all i was doing was trying to make it a better htc 4 u , i wont be posting any more ideas , so some of you will be glad , but like i said to skuzzy you will always moan , and it must be a total nightmare , choosing a correct idea from the bb with all the hissing cats and total petty feuds , and nastyness you guys generate, i just hope you all learn by your mistakes , thank you so much for nothing ,and i hope things settle down in your petty brains  

[Babalonian]

Davidwales, to be fair, the worst of the flamers (they know who they are) have frankly not engaged you for whatever reason and you have been spared their wrath.  Your points on systems and gameplay do not meet the basic criteria for inclusion on the BBs.  I would suggest you seek out the criteria for wishlist first, then once you understand it, find something that meets the criteria, research it on the BBs.  If it has not been asked for in the past, or at least within the last few years, then run with it.  Just be aware that there are some serious Aviation and WWII historians on these pages.

FLS, man it would be cool if tracers did that, much less lasers.  I think the Tie fighter might have stability issues in the atmosphere.  I have not seen Tie fighters in a stall fight. 

Most have been straight-up nice.   

well i reported you all to skuzzy as you are being flamboint , not like me, i said to skuzzy all i was hoping as if a few of you took me seriously to make the game a bit more interesting without to much expence as htc has not got  a bottomless pocket, to make all these different aircraft you all wish for , you have to look at the most basic ideas , not so much art work , and reconfig of aircrft mods etc , my ideas were genuine , i messed up once with the stupid flying wing , but you should not have cruisified me for that, all i was doing was trying to make it a better htc 4 u , i wont be posting any more ideas , so some of you will be glad , but like i said to skuzzy you will always moan , and it must be a total nightmare , choosing a correct idea from the bb with all the hissing cats and total petty feuds , and nastyness you guys generate, i just hope you all learn by your mistakes , thank you so much for nothing ,and i hope things settle down in your petty brains   

Bold words with much weight invested behind them from somebody that couldn't even bother reading our forum's posting rules stickied at the top of each forum.  I'd be careful whos living room rug you're relieving yourself on here, especialy since, as it is being repeatedly pointed out to you, we're being relatively nice, helpful and outgoing twords you.  But here, *tosses a bigger stick with a sharper point*, go ahead.  He loves babysitting.

[AHTbolt]

Y "TOUCHDOWN"!!!!!!!!

[Tupac]

 

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