Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: GRUNHERZ on November 01, 2000, 11:38:00 AM
-
Hi
Does anyone have an idea of how carriers and other big ships wil be dealt with when they come out? Will there be a limit to the number of carriers for each country? Or battleships? Who will decide where the carriers go?
thanks GRUNHERZ
-
No concrete answers from me but as far as who controls the carriers? I'd speculate <Marx Brothers style winky winky eyebrows> that any main arenas will be pre-programmed by HTC, with any changes in how they are used coming community input after thier use for some time.
In scenarios I believe the CM and CO's of the respective sides will have "command" of the CV fleets and where they sail.
-Westy
-
I could tell you what they were thinking in regards to those questions at the time of the con...but then I would have to shoot ya... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
------------------
MarkAT
"It is not the critic who counts,
it is the man in the arena..."
Teddy Roosevelt
-
I heard that since the Germans never had an operational carrier, there will be no German planes in 1.05.
-
Funked (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
not exact ! the ex former Czeskoslovakian AVia B 534 was tested and used for training like mini carier planes not very sucesful but it was a atempt to try it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
-
Funked-- sincere question... wasn't there a 109.. maybe based on the E3 model? that was modified with a wooden tail and an arrestor hook for carrier ops?
I am probably mistaken.
-SW
-
Yes SW, it was called the Bf 109T.
There was also a ship-borne Stuka, the Ju 87C.
Of course they never finished the carrier. So the Luftwaffles will clearly be banned from AH 1.05, in the name of historical accuracy.
-
Hehee, Funked you agitator you! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
------------------
(http://www.user.shentel.net/vonz/afrik.jpg)
[This message has been edited by Afrika9 (edited 11-01-2000).]
-
Yup..
Germans had an Carrier plane Willy worked over one of the me109s for this duty.
Of coarse when the carriers come out,i will spent 90% of my time in a PT boat trying to sink em (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Dog out...
-
ME-109-T's. The equivalent to 109E's maybe F's. They would be Main Arena dog meat - even for PT boats (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
-Westy.
-
The italians had planes modified for naval operations from ships did they not?
SKurj
-
A "205" with a tail hook??? I am SO there! ;-)
Tell more! Anyone have pictures?
-Westy
-
Don't forget the He-112 V12 which was being tested for carrier use (And reportedly outflew the comparable 109 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) ).
Oh, and don't forget, Wildcats were used in Operation Torch. Too bad 1.05 won't be out in time for the North Afrika scenario. I know 1.05 is Hellcats, not Wildcats, but if Tiffy's can be beaufighters...)
SD
-
Hi
Wardog will you be the first PTdweeb? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
j/k hehe
thanks GRUNHERZ
-
The F-18, F-14 and every navy fighter up til those were all based on the Fw-190 you know.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
------------------
Rickenbacker (Ricken)
-ISAF-
the Independent Swedish Air Force
-
Call me crazy but I thought that the He111 could carry torpedos. Anyone else remember? I know it carried V1s and the radio controlled bombs (name eludes me at the moment, I think Freisler?) but I could have sworn I saw pictures of the plane carrying torpedos.
------------------
Meine Schwester hat keine kartoffel salat? Du bist eine lustige Buba!!!
-
Originally posted by funked:
I heard that since the Germans never had an operational carrier, there will be no German planes in 1.05.
Screw that, I don't care it this thing ever made it to sea or not........it was contructed and THE DARKSIDE DEMANDS to have it!!
She's kinda ugly, but hey it floats...wait a sec, so do turds......Nevermind all that gimme a AXIS AIRCRAFT CARRIER!!
(http://www.unsere-luftwaffe.de/archiv/bord/graf/3.jpg)
Check Here for more info:Graf Zeppelin (http://www.unsere-luftwaffe.de/archiv/bord/graf/index.htm) and More Graf Zeppelin (http://www.unsere-luftwaffe.de/archiv/bord/graf/zeppelin.htm)
My! What a Big Plane you have Grandma[/i]
(http://www.unsere-luftwaffe.de/archiv/bord/graf/t-2_jg11.gif)
------------------
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant"
-WW1 German ACE Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
<< MILENKO >> (http://pages.hotbot.com/games/davekirk/milenko.html)
ACES HIGH ASSASSINS Website (http://www.cybrtyme.com/personal/hblair/mainpage.htm)
WB/AH ASSASSINS Website (http://members.xoom.com/rowgue/assassins.html)
-
The latest Pyro news update says that the control scheme for the carrier is not as a helmsman. You go to the map and set waypoints for the fleet.
If multiple guys each set waypoints for the ship, the fleet listens to the guy with the higher rank (must be the new scoring/perk plane rank thingy).
Also, the first post about 1.05 by Pyro on the news board said "supply convoys" as well as carrier groups. Also Seaplane tenders and PT boat tenders. I'm guessing here, but logic tells me that these convoys are not for looks, but rather the mobile bases you can spawn PT boats, seaplanes (which is moot, since there is no seaplane...yet), and LVT aka Amtracks (amphibious tracked vehicles).
These supply convoys are the "army bases" of the water. Complete wiht a troop delivery vehicle.
Hans.
-
Man o man, cant wait for the island hopping map. Or two task forces rolling into another. Now that would be awsome!
------------------
Retreat hell!! We're just attacking in another direction!
-
If the way points are based on system point ranking, mutiny should be modeled too.
I hate to think we're gonna be at the whims of the scorepotatos (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) (I bet base capture/ bombing becomes a much more saught after thing)
- Jig
-
funked... that's fair but harsh. I think that We should allow the 109T in the game. They could simply add 1000 lbs to the 109E... Oops, no 109e.. Ok, 2,000 lbs to the 109F and cut the range 25%... Of course, since the germs had no carrier they would have to take off from land 900 miles from the fight. Is it true that all ac carriers were based on the FW 190?
lazs
-
(http://www.unsere-luftwaffe.de/archiv/bord/graf/5.jpg)
StooooOOooooka! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
-
Hmm westy... A slower, heavier stook with an inline, water cooled engine flying over water? Sure. Maybe the sirens would scare off the enemy?
lazs
-
I never meant to appear to say I wanted to fly it! "Stuka" is synonymous with "Target" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
-Westy