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Offline Rob52240

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Half Baked Idea
« on: June 01, 2012, 02:42:27 PM »
I learned from James May's Man Lab on bootleg innernets TV that German bombs used a 'clockwork' mechanism to arm, and many were set to go off a while after they hit the ground.

I think it would be interesting to see them use a time fuse instead of distance fuse in game and add a longer delay to a small % of the ones that land in a town.

I think he said the delay could be up to 72 hours during the war.
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2012, 02:43:34 PM »
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2012, 03:59:58 PM »
you need to get together with Tortilla on his thread: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,334167.0.html
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2012, 05:39:33 PM »
     I wonder how loud you'd be after spawning 3 days after a raid and exploding on the runway with no warning.
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2012, 05:46:45 PM »
You effectively shut down the runway with a few guys with different delays for their bombs, dropped at the runway spawn. Lots of coordination needed but it can and probably will be done.

  the game is concentrated on combat, not on shaking the screen.

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2012, 05:47:53 PM »
So you are just about to take a base away from the vBoys. You notice they all fly over to the town popup and drop bombs that don't explode. Ok they were under 800 feet. You get the base and move on to the next fight. 20 minutes after you leave, the whole town blows up, white flag, and a lone vBoy drives his just spawned in M3 with troops to the map room.

So next week they get the idea to do that with bombers. So they carpet bomb your feild and town with a bomber hoard 3 or 4 passes and everyone laughs at their obvious poor bombing skills. 30 minutes later your feild and town suddely go up in smoke and a lone vBoy tools his M3 into town and takes your feild.

Suddenly 3 squads get the bright idea of flying only bombers acorss 5 or 6 feilds doing the same thing. 2 hours later all those feilds go up in smoke.

I like it......
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2012, 05:50:23 PM »
Thing about delay fuses -- you still have to travel X distance to arm them. Wouldn't change anything. Not needed in this game. Learn to bomb properly!

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2012, 08:56:49 PM »
and a lone vBoy drives his just spawned in M3 with troops to the map room.
 

psst i would so use a SDK for this not a M3

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2012, 10:06:27 PM »
THe idea was to actually have like 1 bomb per sortie not go off immediately, to keep it historically accurate.
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2012, 10:15:31 PM »
have you played Aces High...

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2012, 10:26:36 PM »
I think they were more of the cluster bomb type. Their main purpose was to shut down airfields and prevent crews from filling in bomb craters (I think).

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2012, 12:23:21 PM »
have you played Aces High...

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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2012, 01:05:47 PM »
I think they were more of the cluster bomb type. Their main purpose was to shut down airfields and prevent crews from filling in bomb craters (I think).

The idea was to take out folks on the ground after they came out of the bunkers.  And once the brits got wise to this and started to defuse them special bombs were used to kill the bomb squads.

I'll find the segment on youtube.
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Re: Half Baked Idea
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2012, 07:05:18 PM »
dang thats a awesome show why don't i get bbc dang time warner no NFL network and no BBC i wish i had another choice freaking bull that is