Karnak's v1.12 unit wish list

[Seeker]

Whish list...

I wish that when I see the "25% fuel only" message, and I press "OK"; that it meant OK and that the setting was accepted.

It's immensly frustrating when trying to up base defense, especialy if your normal ride is set to 100% fuel and ordinance...


I'd also like some way of equalising Vox volume. Some guys whisper, and then the next almost blows the speakers out. So I'd like to set an upper threshold, or even better (please!) a way to squelch range channel

And another thing....

a "side" MOTD in the SEA to help with the information flow to walk ons.

[LLv34_Snefens]

Hazed, that's not a satisfactory solution.
The barbettes could cover 70 degree's up/down (so 35 degree's down i guess) and 40 degrees to each side. If you can only aim at what you can see from the rear seat, fighters can just come up on low six where you should be able to see them, but can't.

Brady's suggestion with two gun positions is a more workable solution to me. Maybe a compromise. Position 2 would put you in rear cockpit, with an "ad-hoc" sight like you suggest. If the enemy planes fly to where you can't see him from there, you can jump to pos 3 or 4 that i located directly at the barbette. If you want you can do all the gunning from here of course, and when you point to a direction that both guns can fire, backwards, they should.

It's a little cumbersome, but anything to get the Me410 in AH

[Pepe]

I want a Buff...

A very small Buff....


A Buffalo (and an I-16 too)


Cheers,

[gatso]

I like Karnak's original choices for aircraft, but I'd remove the Sd.Kfz.234/2 Puma and maybe even the t34 (sorry! but no AA!) and stick in the ki.44 and Fairey Firefly or a buff; Tu2 or H8K2!

Gatso

[crowbaby]

Oh, I know it's immature to have a wishlist, but i can't help chipping in my opinions.

Ki-84 - (and Ki-44 in the following release?)

H8K2 - It's beautiful, it's a Nipponee heavy bomber (looks to be a better bomber than the Lanc), it lands on water, what more could you ask for?

SM79 or Cant Z1007 - I don't know enough to say between these two, it would be nice to have an Italian bomber in scenarios, from the BoB to North Africa.

Pe-2 - Not only accounting for the bulk of Soviet bomber production from 1942-45, but they even made a 400+mph intercept version, one of the greats.

I-16 - nimble early war plane for variety on the Eastern front, or maybe do the I-15bis to keep the biplane nuts happy.

Mig-3 - a very fast, high alt early war fighter.

If we must have more U.S. planes:

F2A - The Brewster! With a Finnish skin. I think the case has been well made for this little plane.

P-38F - First really decent P-38 (combat flaps and 1,225 HP engines) I can't help wanting to fly my favourite plane more in the CT and scenarios.

P-39 - probably the D model (maybe Q aswell?). Default as a lendlease Soviet plane, we can always reskin it.


Oh, that's 9 already. Hmmm, for Germany, i find it hard to pick anything really new to the planeset that actually flew reliably in any quantity before the war was effectively over.

The Me-410 or He 219 would be nice interceptors, and they're both beautiful planes.

The ill fated He 177 heavy bomber,  or the Ju 188, Do 17 and Do 217, even the He 111 all have a case to be made for them.

Maybe just model the Ju 52 as an alternative to the Goon.

I think what's more likely, though, is that HTC will focus on specific conflicts to fill out areas of the planeset, as they've done with the BoB and early Pac.

[thrila]

Spitfire LF IX/XVI (with clipped wings) - of the 5,500 spit IXs built nearly all were LF, it was also the RAF's mainstay fighter of '43 and '44.


Bristol Beaufighter- a great early attack fighter that saw service in just about every theatre the RAF were in, 5,562 Beaufighters were built.  It looks really cool too.


Sea hurricane - performs exactly the same as the regular hurri's (no strengthening to the gear was required)  but would be nice to fly hurris from Cv's.  All that's needed is modelling the arrestor hook and we have a sea hurri Ia and IIc.

[Dr Zhivago]

B-239
Ki-84
Mig-3
P-39

[Duedel]

1. Me 410
2. Mig 3
3. KI-84
4. P-39

[ZePolarBear]

Tough question.  Not having access to HT's roadmap I would have to kind of guess and think that HT has to look at the following trade-offs:

a) A plane/veh that can be used in multiple arena's (i.e historical significance /useability/ survivability)
b) Planes/veh for which all needed data is available and relatively accurate.
c) Planes/veh that either compliment the current AH environments or will flesh out future additions ( mission arena, more Sea battle, ground war etc etc)
d) re-use of current code base as much as possible.

That being said we basically have 2 groups that have lobbied hard for a plane, the japanese guys and the finns.

So I guess first would be the Ki-84 and Buffalo (2 versions, american and finn.....kinda like the F4F and FM2).

The Ki-84 and Finn version of the Buffalo could both survive the MA and these planes open interesting possibilities for both CT and scenario staff.  Are both planes carrier capable???

From a jabo-ing/buffing point of view I don't think we are going to see anything new till strat takes on a much greater significance.  Most buffs will not survive in the MA and there are "reasonable" substitutes for scenario's.  We now have heavy bombers, medium bombers, ground attack, dive bombers and torpedo bombers.  I think in this area we will hopefully see a fleshing out of the current set with more loadout options/versions....i.e JU-87G, FW-f8, Ju-88 etc.  The Emily would be nice but I don't see this till both Strat and the Sea War facet of the game are fleshed out.

For the ground war, we have a heavy tank, medium tank and light tanks/armoured cars, as well as AA.  In this area the facet I see lacking any representive is artillery, both guns and rockets.  A self propelled piece would be nice as well as the Katyusha (sp?) rocket launcher.  Would provide a nice facet to the ground war for both MA and scenarios which are hopefully going in the general direction of Nieman.  Once all the facets of ground war are in place, then flesh out the variation in each category.  One thing that will need to be figured out for this is how to provide proper fire control for indirect artillery in terms of zeroing in.  I know we have Land Mode for sea guns, would need something similiar for  the arty.

Sea stuff.....fuhgheddaboutit, at least for a couple of versions.

There, hopefully this wish list is somewhat realistic.

ZPB

[paulieb]

P-40K !!! (how many here knew I was going to say that? )

[frank3]

Originally posted by Karnak
I-16-24: Ki.84-I-Ko Hayate "Frank": Very good mass produced late war Japanese fighter

I like that one, let's ask HT

[whgates3]

Ki-84 was an IJAAF fighter - i'm pretty sure it was never used from carriers...i know Brewster was carrier capable, but have never read of it being used off a carrier on combat ops (would love to if someone has a link for me)...[pause]...it seem brewsters w/ 804 & 805 worked off of HMS Eagle in the mediteranea in 1941

[Karnak]

Ki.84 never flew off of a carrier so far as I know.  It certainly never flew off a carrier as a combat op, but it may have as a delivery method.  I know that P-47s and Spitfire Mk XIVs both flew off of carriers as a delivery method, and were combat ready when they did as they were flying into an active area.


I really want the H8K2 and B-29A, but I have difficulty justifying that request due to the ammount of work that a big bomber takes HTC to do.  He177A-5 wouldn't be a bad thing, but falls in the same category in my mind.  Requesting one of those is like requesting four or five tanks and single engined aircraft.

The next bombers I'd like would be out of this list, but on no particular time schedule:

B-25B Mitchell: For scenarios so that the Japanese could have an early war bomber that they could catch opposing them

G4M2 "Betty": For scenarios so that the US could have an early war bomber that they could catch opposing them

Ju188A-2: So that the Germans would have a well defended bomber with a good payload and good speed

Pe-2FT: So that the Soviets could have an actual bomber

Tu-2S: So that the Soviets could have an actual bomber

Wellington Mk III: For scenarios so that the Germans could have an early war bomber that they could catch opposing them

[icemaw]

I want every plane that flew operational sorties in wwII.
 

P.S. Hitech take your time I can wait I know you will get to every one eventually. The more time that gets put into them the better they will be.


Hail HITECH  
Hail Aces High.
=S=
For with out them we would be stuck with that piece of crap wwIIonline. Or some other wanna be that couldent hold a candle to HT and AH.

 You have the best relax youll get the rest.

[Jester]

AIRCRAFT:
KI-84 FRANK
PE-2 or TU-2
HE-177

ARMOR:
Fix vehicle bug so players can jump to all positions as in bomber a/c
Armor Bugs fixed on Tiger I
T-34/76 (You can stick an a/a gun on anything.)
T-34/85 (Make it a perk tank, as well as the Tiger)