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Title: napalm
Post by: EzzyDuzIt on March 02, 2006, 10:08:32 PM: NAPALM!!!:t i think this should have a place in AH 2. it was used in iwojima and okinawa. it could be made so buildings hit with it are on fire for 15 seconds before exploding. it could also be good against troops. so what do other people think?
Title: napalm
Post by: Krusty on March 02, 2006, 10:15:43 PM: napalm is an anti personnel weapon, meant to eliminate foot soldiers in hidden/entrenched places.

AH has no hidden places, it has no entrenched places and it has no foot soldiers. Napalm = nonentity.
Title: napalm
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 02, 2006, 10:18:54 PM: napalm has been requested before and all that fire might kill frame rates
Title: napalm
Post by: Scherf on March 02, 2006, 10:19:31 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Krusty
napalm is an anti personnel weapon, meant to eliminate foot soldiers in hidden/entrenched places.

AH has no hidden places, it has no entrenched places and it has no foot soldiers. Napalm = nonentity.

Well, Mossies did use it against parked aircraft and airfield buildings, but with no parked aircraft ...
Title: napalm
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on March 02, 2006, 10:23:33 PM: Napalm is also useful against GV's. We do have ground troops. They are dropped on towns, and they are housed in huts on bases. Hell, model the effects of fire on a carrier. A lot of ships burned, and the fire caused explosions that sank them. Napalm on wood flight decks has possibilities.
Title: napalm
Post by: Krusty on March 02, 2006, 10:27:46 PM: well if you can get napalm to the troops being dropped on a town, you can just as easily strafe them :P
Title: napalm
Post by: SMIDSY on March 02, 2006, 11:07:23 PM: napalm+tank=pressure cooker. it also melts tracks and overheats engines like a giant molotov coctail.

case in point, brazen bull, a hollow metal bull that was placed over a fire and a man put inside it to be executed.
Title: napalm
Post by: dizman on March 03, 2006, 07:20:51 PM: Didn't the B-29's drop napalm down on the Japanese houses and towns? Wooden houses + napalm = no more town. Good for anti tank too.
Title: napalm
Post by: EzzyDuzIt on March 03, 2006, 10:59:44 PM: the b-29's didn't drop napalm on japan. what they dropped was like a cluster bomb that had a bunch of incenderary sticks in them. can't remeber what they were called though.
Title: napalm
Post by: Saxman on March 04, 2006, 12:44:04 AM: Firebombs
Title: napalm
Post by: SMIDSY on March 04, 2006, 12:17:51 PM: i think they were M-79 or M-17 incindiary bombs. but actually those were filled with napalm, so yes, B-29s did drop napalm.
Title: napalm
Post by: Tails on March 04, 2006, 12:21:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Saxman
Firebombs

Yup. White Phosphorous incendiaries. Dont even need a fuse for it either, the impact spreads the WP from the ruptured case, which ignites on contact with air. Or you give it an air-bursting fuse and spread the WP over a small area.
Title: napalm
Post by: SMIDSY on March 04, 2006, 02:04:21 PM: fun fact: White Phosphorous was used in artillery shells and anti-aircraft shells in the war :aok
Title: napalm
Post by: Pooh21 on March 04, 2006, 10:45:06 PM: Napalm fun for the whole family
Title: napalm
Post by: Saxman on March 05, 2006, 01:56:31 AM: Imagine the fun of turning the mass of M16s and Ostwinds that up on capped bases when someone doesn't kill the VH so the remaining defenders can hide in an umbrella of uber-ack into a raging inferno of fiery death. WOO!