Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: indy007 on October 22, 2004, 10:46:01 AM
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barrage balloons! sprinkle them around bases, towns, & factories. they wouldn't be too terribly difficult to shoot down I'd imagine, but they may just have the intended effect of reducing/eliminating the number of people who abuse the buff's airframe =P
http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/barrage_balloon.html
pros:
Obvious discouragement for large planes dive bombing. Switching to a turret and shooting at them in a dive is easier said than done.
Obvious discouragement for low level bombing.
Would provide defenders a few more seconds to start mounting an attack.
They were moored to wagons with winches, so altitude could be adjustable.
Would keep a furball off of a base & reduce vulching until the enemy cap shoots them down. (maybe that's a con...)
cons:
Would make landing & short takeoffs kind of scary if friendly collisions were on.
Would need friendly collisions on to keep people from dragging enemies straight through the balloons & wires.
I think the pro's outweigh the cons... or I could be completely misguided.
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It was the ballon wires which were the deterent...
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Yeah I realise that much, that's I'm asking for the whole contraption. Hell, there's even a story of a Ju88 stalling on top of a balloon, falling off upside down, recovering, and flying home.