m3 without troops.. you missed the point

[Arlo]

This may be an opportunity to experiment with all kinds of things ....

.....like.....

Troops on motorcycles!

Troops on ice!

Ice!

Troop trains!

Troop tunnels!

Jet-pack troops!

Capture by dog pack!

[Volron]

This may be an opportunity to experiment with all kinds of things ....

.....like.....

Troops on motorcycles!

Troops on ice!

Ice!

Troop trains!

Troop tunnels!

Jet-pack troops!

Capture by dog pack!

You forgot:

Moon Troops!

Moonraker Laser FTW!

[bustr]

I know, when the field supply box goes poof, the Swedish bikini team pops up with magic wands and runs all around the place fixing things. And they replace the troops so we can watch them all run to the map room. When there, they first line up on top doing the Macarena and blow kisses, then one at a time hop down and run in. Now I will leave it to your imagination how they will act as paratroopers.

[Mister Fork]

Here's the difference - troopers get little respect for their Hogwarts skills to magically fix a base, like bustr said, with their elderwood wands.  Paratroopers get absolutely no respect for their ability to jump out of a perfectly fine airplane (except the pilot may be a bit nuts) and then clean the enemy drunks out of the map room (which also double's as our O-club in case you didn't know) and then make it their own, even putting up their own flag on the pole.  Magic I tell ya.  Magic.

 

[scott66]

I took 47 with sdk it's a little different kinda driving..m3 will roll over anything just about my sdk wouldn't even jump a curb in town strange I must say..I had to take actual roads in town to map room.. My Peterbilt can roll over the curbs in town but not a military vehicle... Bit odd. . Still works tho.. Now about vulching.. If you vulch me cause you are actually trying to take the base then nothing I could say war is war all is fare and such... But if you want to fight at MY base and let me up then you will have your fight but however... If you make a pass at me just when I get my wheels up and my auto ack takes you out Don't snivle to me about hiding in my ack... Don't forget you are at a enemy's base and if you engage me before I can climb out and away from auto ack then that's on you and I'll tell you this... If they're are 15 of you and 5 of us and all my guys got three people on there 6 then auto ack is my equalizer.. But generally I'll head towards the water or away from AA so my base won't steal my kills... As an attacker you choose when to engage give be a min to get clear and it's on

[Oldman731]

And sorry, I don't believe there are so many players who came to AH just to drive the iconic M3, and nothing else.

In your comprehensive records, do you have the date that AH introduced the M3?  Seems to me that the world got along just fine before that happened.

- oldman

[Arlo]

Here's a thread from 2000:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,2706.msg34412.html#msg34412

[Devil 505]

Troops on ice!

[100Coogn]

What if this is only a psychological experiment and we are the test subjects... 
You know, just to see who freaks the first/most...

Coogan   

[Lusche]

In your comprehensive records, do you have the date that AH introduced the M3?  Seems to me that the world got along just fine before that happened.

- oldman

M3 was introduced with the first vehicles, in tour 5.

However, just to clarify, my point wasn't along the line of "get out of GV", "stop running supps" or something like that. It's the notion that people quit the game just because they have to drive the troops in something else (while the gameplay mechanics have stayed just the same), the extremely emotional reaction about the m3 that really puzzles me.


But then, I still did not get any anwer on my questions about that, neither here nor in game (just more rage).

[Lusche]

What if this is only a psychological experiment and we are the test subjects... 
You know, just to see who freaks the first/most...

Wait until HT disables supplies instead of troops in part two of this experiment... 

[Randy1]

Wait until HT disables supplies instead of troops in part two of this experiment... 

I have given up on base captures for the most part since the m3 removal.  I was ranked number 2nd tour before last with 23 captures by m3 and 6 by goons. 

This tour, I am trying to master air combat by being the best vulcher and picker like most of the current high ranked fighter pilot players.  It is boring but it takes very little planning, setup and skill. 

[Lusche]

I have given up on base captures for the most part since the m3 removal.

Why? Bases are still being captured, and not only by air.

  I was ranked number 2nd tour before last with 23 captures by m3 and 6 by goons. 

The change is the same for all of us. No reason you could not repeat that rank this tour again.

[viking73]

Most of this can be corrected by reducing what supplies do for a town...say by half. But if we're honest with ourselves it's up to the attacking country to look out for M3s. Do need to reduce the area that supplies take. Make them drive all the way into town.

[Lusche]

A very early stats check 4 days into the new tour:

There is almost no measurable change in the capturing department yet. There's a very tiny increasy in bomber captures - They are at 19% so far, but that's still well inside the usual range of previous months. I also can't spot an unusual decrease of overall rate of base captures, played hours/capture is also still in the same range it has been all during 2017.

So far, the SdKfz didn't cause any significant changes.

Stay tuned!