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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Hazard69 on April 14, 2006, 02:40:19 AM

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: Hazard69 on April 14, 2006, 02:40:19 AM

I suggest allowing the Jeep to tow.........
1. A mannable flak cannon. Serious lack of mannable FLAK (not ack) guns at airfields. Cannon cannot be fired when in tow, takes about 10sec to detach and then can be fired by someone who has joined the player, or by the player himself (position 3 etc.) like in the bombers. Difference would be that if the player himself mans the flak the Jeep stands still near it.

2. Mobile artillery cannon, similar setup to the flak cannon (10 sec detach to fire etc.) but with the manual, land and sea gun modes available to ship guns and shore batteries. Also if the player detaches the artillery gun, and stays in driver position and drives around then he can use the gun to call in an artillery barrage. He can use the "click on the map" method to call in the initial spotting rounds and then type in corrections, (e.g. .fire 20N 50W) etc. and then when hes happy with where the spotting round lands, he can call in a barrage (a additional key map perhaps?) which will bring down 20 or so HE rounds in a closely packed group (one after the other).......
Both Jeep and the cannon can be destroyed easily (20mms) if Jeep gets killed the player automatically goes to the cannon(s) and vice versa.


Just my 2 cents......

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: Schutt on April 14, 2006, 06:11:47 AM

Towable Equippment for the jeeps would be cool... could detatch/attach it.

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: stickpig on April 14, 2006, 07:06:09 AM

why not just drive an Ostwind out of the hanger?

I guess I'm missing your point here:confused:

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: hubsonfire on April 14, 2006, 12:24:22 PM

Flak- "puffy ack".

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: JMFJ on April 14, 2006, 12:37:02 PM

Excellent Idea, although it wouldn't be going 65 the jeep would still get out to usefull position in half the time it would take in a ostwind.  secondary weapon bonus?

I like it.:aok

JMFJ

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: BlueJ1 on April 14, 2006, 12:56:36 PM

To add to that. You can use perks to get more fire control equipment for the towables.

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: MOSQ on April 14, 2006, 06:51:38 PM

The M-3 would be a far better tow vehicle for artillery and AA guns than a Jeep.

Title: Making Jeeps more useful....
Post by: Rino on April 15, 2006, 04:59:58 AM

Quote

Originally posted by hubsonfire
Flak- "puffy ack".

     Just a small point, in NO way could a jeep tow a puffy ack caliber
weapon.  The only guns I've ever seen towed by jeeps were 75mm pack
howitzers and a 37mm AT gun.  Oops, and a quad 50 in band of brothers ;)