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Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: Cuba on March 29, 2007, 05:39:27 AM

Designated L for "liason", it was also used as an artillery spotter and observation aircraft.  Top Speed: 93 MPH.  Armament: None.   It was the military version of the orginial Piper Cub.

Now I know it will never happen, but I think it would be fun to tool around in one at the cruising speed of 75 MPH spotting enemy GVs for friendly tanks.  They could make it available to fly from the Vehicle Bases.

Edit-----

I just thought of something.  Give it negative ENY so if you shot it down, you lose perk points.

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: TexMurphy on March 29, 2007, 06:38:47 AM

I want P40´s from GV Bases.. ;)

But yeah would be nice to fly spotter in tank towns... see it as the Jeep of the skies...

Tex

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: hubsonfire on March 29, 2007, 09:43:45 AM

Maybe fly one of the other 80 planes?

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: TankBstr on March 29, 2007, 01:32:16 PM

Now if you put some smoke rockets on there, a la O-1 Bird Dog, well, now you've hooked me.  707 sounds like a foreward air controller already - let him loose in one of those things, and boy, look out!

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: tedrbr on March 29, 2007, 01:54:24 PM

Pass.

I've been known to play spotter for GV's..... but I like to shoot at them too.

IL-2, Hurri-D, Ki-61 (fast, cannon, 2 big bombs), Ki-67 (single plane, Puff the Magic Dragon time!), 110, Fw 190A8, Yak 9T, JU-87, Mossie, Boston, A-20, B-26, C-47 with Veh Sups,..... all kinds of planes good for that kind of mission.

An observation plane in this game would just be bait for cherry-pickers to make use of.

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: Pyro on March 29, 2007, 02:18:35 PM

But those other planes can't do slow and low like a good liaison plane plus they're big targets.  I wouldn't be so sure that they would be easy kills for all the other planes.  I bet a good pilot could generate augers more often than he would get shot down.  I'd still rather see something with at least a gun on it like a Storch or Lysander.  Got to have smoke markers too.

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: Ball on March 29, 2007, 02:23:27 PM

Storch would be fantastic.

Alternatively you could add a "SOE troop" to the Lysander, perk it, and make it so the one troop only needed to get into town in order to capture :)

Title: Something Completely Different: Piper L4 Grasshopper
Post by: Kweassa on March 29, 2007, 02:27:55 PM

We already have locusts in the game.... they move in hordes.