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Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: SirLoin on April 11, 2005, 07:51:11 AM

What ya guys think?

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: BBinder on April 11, 2005, 10:15:44 AM

yeah sounds good also i think there should be some repair pads where u can select what u want to be repaired quickly ie quick patch up on oil line

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: BlueJ1 on April 11, 2005, 02:14:31 PM

I like SirLoin's idear.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: mars01 on April 11, 2005, 02:22:55 PM

Definitely!!!!

Title: Re: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Kegger26 on April 11, 2005, 02:34:16 PM

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Originally posted by SirLoin
What ya guys think?

No..I dont want your F4U-1 of death not having to fly all the way home to re-arm. That is unfair.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: moot on April 12, 2005, 12:56:10 AM

vbases carried avgas?
Ordnance?

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 12, 2005, 01:26:05 AM

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Originally posted by moot
vbases carried avgas?
Ordnance?

Didnt know they had V Bases in WWII:p

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Cobra412 on April 12, 2005, 02:43:38 AM

I'm sure someone could do research on FARPs during WWII. I'd assume they'd be more of a forward operating base with limited equipment. I highly doubt that something simliar to FARPs wasn't used to some extent. I bet some of our history buffs on the Pacific theatre could give more info. That would have been the area that would have the need to use such a thing. I'm sure the MAW used them to some extent during all the island hopping.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Howitzer on April 12, 2005, 09:22:44 AM

But you can land at a vbase.  All the gas is the same in AH... I think it would be useful.  If anything put one at least for the GVs.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Schutt on April 12, 2005, 09:28:26 AM

Sure, so the GV guys can camp rearm pads too :aok

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Kweassa on April 12, 2005, 10:50:40 AM

Only if they are destroyable.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: RTO on April 12, 2005, 12:12:10 PM

I like the idea of getting planes repaired without having to tower.  You know the rudder or aileron repaired as you sit in the hangar maybe a repair hangar added for the work.  Then you could fly off again and "Charlie Mike".  Have a wait time established for the type of repair you need.  Not everything being repairable either,  like NO engine replacement or oil leak etc...

   Rearm pads at V-bases I'm in favor of, they are at airfields so why not.  Some ammo is common between vehicles and planes so why couldn't you land at a vbase and get some 50 cal linked or 20mm linked.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: mars01 on April 12, 2005, 12:48:03 PM

Repair idea is good too, could be another way to use perks.

Destroyable, that would be lame.  Maybe if it was tied to the hanger???

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: Seagoon on April 12, 2005, 03:27:34 PM

Yeah, I understand .50 cal was hard to come by at US Forward bases.
:D

Seriously though, I do understand the point. A Vehicle base might have plenty of .50 cal and .303 ammo, but they would not have new barrels for the fighters, new 20mm on up Ammo, or high octane aircraft fuel. Not to mention some of the specialized fitters tools or the fitters trained in putting the stuff in.

Pilots didn't just pull up to the pump and self-serve.

I do however sincerely appreciate the 30 second NASCAR pit-crew reloads.

- SEAGOON

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: MOIL on April 12, 2005, 04:56:34 PM

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Originally posted by Schutt
Sure, so the GV guys can camp rearm pads too :aok

Which would serve what purpose ?

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: dedalos on April 13, 2005, 08:30:15 AM

I am sure that if a plane managed to land at a "VH" in WWII, slightly damaged, out of fuel, or out of ammo, they did not just throw it away.  Asuuming that this is not a WWII sim but a game based on fighting, I don't see why rearming or even making small repairs would hurt the game.  You may even get some air cover over a VH if people don't have to waste 10 minutes or more of their lives getting there and back.

Title: Add Re-Arm Pads to VH Bases
Post by: moot on April 13, 2005, 11:40:34 PM

re: repair Pyro or HT already replied "no".