AH2 What Youd Like To See

[Magoo]

A Commonwealth Boomerang. Just because the name sounds cool. I mean really - if the Italians can get 2 planes in AH, why not the Aussies? (rimshot) Of course that was a Pac plane so...

But seriously:

A P39 with Russian markings

Ditto on the realistic bailing (but without the "rifle")

Visual damage on your plane

A perked P47M

Different color icons for each country in the ME (my monitor is too small and my eyes are too bad to deal with the current system)

A korean arena with appropriate types of jet fighters and the B29 (of course if you did the B29, you'd have to also put it in the Melee arena and perk it)

Having your plane decked out in squad colors/markings sounds really cool. Of course every time a new scheme is added you will have to do a new download before entering the game, although it would be relatively small. I wonder how much of a bandwidth hit it would be when the info on what skin to put on the plane that your about to see has to be communicated to your front end via your internet connection? would the engineering investment in this be worth the effort?  conversely, I think having this feature would certainly attract some customers for AH2. I vote yes unless it causes even minor connection issues.

Magoo

[acepilot2]

oops on that rifle thing.  Anyways, if any of you have played the original warbirds, you could fire this colt 45 you had.  Basically what I mean is just be able to do anything but stand around after bailouts.  Maybe it will be possible to be a paratrooper, but i am going too far with that considering the fact that this is a game focused around planes, not soldiers.

[Devourer]

How about Tigers that dont withstand 5000lbs of ordinance or all the ack on the field shooting at them. I'm pretty sure tigers werent that strong in real life. I dont even think a modern tank could withstand that punishment.

Also, ground targets should be more realistic. For example, a 40mm AP round should take out a fuel tank or an ammo bunker in 1 or 2 hits. I think it takes about 12 hits currently, thats more than a third of the Hurricane MK2D's ammo loadout.

[Defeater]

Martin Baker MB-3 or MB-5...
Dewoitine D-520...
Heinkel He-111...

[keyapaha]

humm lets see how about these.

 a6m3
 Ki 43
 Ki 44
 Ki 45
 Ki 84
 Ki 100
 Ki 102
 G4M "Betty"
 H8K "Emily"

 Hope thats not too much too ask.

 But I think these 3 are a must G4M,Ki84,and Ki102

 We need some late war punch for the Japanese Plane Set.

[plumbob]

I would like to see the massive Tupolev ANT-6/TB-3 bomber.

It first flew in 1925 and then later modified to carrying a whopping 11000lbs (5000kg) of bombs!!! Nearly 2x the 6000lbs bomb load of the B-17!

It was slow but quite well armed with 4 rear firing guns in 2 pods and 2 forward firing guns in one pod.  The TB-3 flew some of the  bombing raids on berlin in 1941-1942 before being withdrawn from the front lines and relegated to a transport role.

Information according to Great book of Bombers by Jon Lake; Copyright 2002

[BenDover]

Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
Oh...and an aluminium skinned Mossie

wern't they all made of wood?

[arjay]

1. BF110 and JU88 night fighters with a short range radar around the aircraft no bombs and good guns.
      http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7404/planes.htm

2. Search lights for citys and factorys that come on when bombers get in ack range at night.

3. V1 flying bombs drones and kamakases drones that can be used in missons.      http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/WWII/v1/v1_info/vi_info.htm

4. JU52, USN sea plane, and a IJN sea plane

5. 2 IDs your name ID and your buff ID When in a b17 or lanc. your buff ID would show up like the "Memphis Belle"

[plumbob]

I'd also like to see destroyable functionality on CV's, like taking out guns etc.

[ChuBBs]

Yak9k  with the 45mm cannon!

[minus]

more GVs plz

[joeblogs]

Lets get rid of the little silicon guy who always thinks driving an entire taskforce into a defended port is a good idea...

-Blogs

Originally posted by minus
more GVs plz

[johnross2007]

Well (and I know this doesn't have to do with flight) I would like to see units of ground units (mechanised or not) holding and attacking positions, including airfields. One person can control a unit of soldiers from 20 to 100. This would mean a new way of capturing airfields. also these units could be controlled as CV's currently are. You could tell them to defend an airfield or area. I know this makes it sound more like a strategy game but of it like this.

1) Different groups of players will come to AH2 and give HTC more income.
2)A very imortant role of the plane was to destroy ground units. This will make strafing more fun and, unlike the sheep, they will actually die.

Also cities will gain even more importance as recruits for these units will come from cities. Also they will support I'm guessing 4 or 5 units with food and war material. So by bombing a city it will hurt your oponents abilty to field units, and by capturing the city you can field more units, but probably only 1 or 2 as they tend not to fully cooperate.
also imagine units of 20 or so Tigers attacking, or a true artillery barrage on a airfield. The possibilties are endless, and the game will be that much more realistic.
I now this is so new it would take forever to implement, but doesn't it sound fun?


Other than that, could we not have hangers control if we takeoff in that plane or not? can we have them like in an area and u tazi from their to the airstrip, so strafing those planes is also a good idea.

I would appreciate ideas added to this, and constructive arguements. (not "man that idea sucks")

Edit:
This new strategy form will also allow the use of a fluid front.
Also imagine bombing raids on these large groups. You might just annihalate it.
Also you the A.I. can respond to attacks and attack in a realistic strategy. each one knows what to do. Check out http://www.totalwar.com
they can be outfitted separately, some assualt, anti-tank, and even a few snipers(maybe)
also instead of one man controling one unit, he can be in charge of multiple units, adding up to around 5,000 troops I guess, and deploy them as that person sees fit.
I am getting some of my ideas from Medieval: Total  War btw.
Just imagine (anyone who's played MTW) units of soldiers exchanging gunfire in a hilly area with a moderate amount of trees, and Stuka screams divng down dropping it's bombing and shooting the enemy units.
also one man could aim far away artillery and really lay down some fire on your pour enemy soldiers or town.

[senna]

I would like to see improved graphics. I plan to play AH again and by then the graphics will prob be much improved. As for planes, I would like to have a turbo charged FW-190 A6 with proper sea level top speed and can still go zoomzoom at 20k, etc...

But then the A6 is a wish, hehe.

[acepilot2]

I would like to see some cool secret german planes/weapons.  The Go229 (forget what it is called i think its something like that) would be fun to fly around, along with some of the other american and german jets. (of course they would all cost perk)  For the allied planes, i would like to see a p-80, which was supposed to be released in the war, but it ended before it could be.