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Title: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: valdals on July 09, 2008, 07:13:39 AM
the germans fielded the puma and a late war version with a 75mm gun. the m3 had a varient with a 75mm howizer on it. plus some german 251 series tanks had the 75mm anti tank gun. these would make a fast moving vehicle for taking v-bases and have the ability to kill heavy armor. the m8 is a good vehicle but severly under gunned.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: SKYGUNS on July 09, 2008, 07:34:39 AM
for recon i want the harley with and a shotgun seat with a mounted MG, same thing with the germans
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Post by: Captfish on July 09, 2008, 10:35:06 AM
we need the SdKfz 2. the motorcycle with a track. They used one in "Saving Private Ryan"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SdKfz_2

just through two troops with MG's in the back
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: USRanger on July 09, 2008, 10:42:59 AM
M-8 works :aok
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: uptown on July 09, 2008, 10:48:44 AM
M-8 works :aok

That's a roger! :aok
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Post by: Rollins on July 09, 2008, 11:43:18 AM
M-8 works :aok

Yup!  Keep 'er fast and firin'  ;)
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Post by: Saxman on July 09, 2008, 12:18:58 PM
M-8 works :aok

Works against me well enough. Put an AP round from a Sherman square in the turret on an M8 once and didn't even faze him. He fired back and single-pinged my frontal armor.

Thus why I stay out of vehicles. I'm convinced I could be in a Tiger and a Jeep could single-ping me in the front armor from 5000yds out with the .50 or whatever machine gun it has AFTER I put four rounds of may main gun into him and all direct hits.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Oleg on July 09, 2008, 01:20:12 PM
we need the SdKfz 2. the motorcycle with a track.

Screw the ugly thing, we need real motorcycle :rock

http://www.battlegroupsouth.com/images/CUR2sm.jpg
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Iron_Cross on July 09, 2008, 01:21:45 PM
M-8, iz da bomb!!!!1!!!11eleventyone 

The 37mm gun on it will track anything.  Witch is what you should be doing with it rather than trying to take on the armor.  A tracked tank is useless in an attack.  You should be going for the "soft" kill with it.

I have used the strength of the M-8 against much larger opponents.  One time I found the main avenue of attack  into a VB I was defending.  I hid behind a hill, and let them pass.  One to the turret back, and one to the engine compartment at point blank range, problem solved.  Four disabled Panzers and a dead M-3.  I then boogied it on out of there and set up another ambush. 
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Iron_Cross on July 09, 2008, 01:54:38 PM
Screw the ugly thing, we need real motorcycle :rock

http://www.battlegroupsouth.com/images/CUR2sm.jpg

Ya know, you can get a new one here, cheaper than a Harley. http://www.imz-ural.com/gearup/ (http://www.imz-ural.com/gearup/)

Sure it's Russian, but it is still a BMW R-71 at heart. :D
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: BigPlay on July 09, 2008, 03:12:53 PM
the germans fielded the puma and a late war version with a 75mm gun. the m3 had a varient with a 75mm howizer on it. plus some german 251 series tanks had the 75mm anti tank gun. these would make a fast moving vehicle for taking v-bases and have the ability to kill heavy armor. the m8 is a good vehicle but severly under gunned.

That would be a nice adddition.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Furball on July 09, 2008, 03:22:12 PM
M-10 Achilles with the 17pdr or M-18.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: bobtom on July 09, 2008, 03:31:52 PM
M-8 works :aok

agreed
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: TUXC on July 09, 2008, 06:49:22 PM
Puma

(http://www.theeasternfront.co.uk/Graphics/sdkfz234.jpg)


http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_vehicles_adv.php?op=getvehicles&vehiclesX=85
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Post by: kennyhayes on July 09, 2008, 07:06:07 PM
after we have a back to the future remake  wwith tom hanks and wilson
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Tempest3 on July 09, 2008, 08:31:35 PM
I think the M-18 would be great. 60mph with a 76mm gun. There was also the further developedM36 which had a 90mm...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m18-hellcat.htm
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: E25280 on July 09, 2008, 08:41:02 PM
the germans fielded the puma and a late war version with a 75mm gun. the m3 had a varient with a 75mm howizer on it. plus some german 251 series tanks had the 75mm anti tank gun. these would make a fast moving vehicle for taking v-bases and have the ability to kill heavy armor. the m8 is a good vehicle but severly under gunned.
AFAIK, the only version that was referred to as the "Puma" was equipped with a 50mm AT gun, not the 75mm gun. 

The version with the 75 was open topped and the gun was fixed, i.e. no turret.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: SmokinLoon on July 09, 2008, 09:30:41 PM
Stop and look at the scale of things we have now.  If it is fast, it dies quickly (M8).  If it is slow, it takes longer to bust up (Tiger).  If we add in anything fast WITH a powerful gun for one shot kills... let it be the M18 tank destoyer.  But mind you, the armor of the M18 wasnt enough to go toe to toe with another tank in a slug fest.  The M18 was all about shootin'-n-scootin'.

There must be a trade off, otherwise the balance of the Force will shift already well balanced GV realm in towards the raelm of the Spit16.  Do we want to have each and every gv battle involve a single gv (the all powerful M18)???  I think not.  Balance.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Furball on July 10, 2008, 02:30:04 AM
I think the M-18 would be a pretty good balance, because it has an open turret... and usually there are a lot of aircraft overhead to turn the crew in the turret to mush  :D
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: h338 on July 10, 2008, 05:51:09 AM
i like the harley idea myself...just for the fun of jumping it and severing the drivers body into 28 pieces as it flips down a hill   :rofl
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: valdals on July 10, 2008, 07:24:54 AM
AFAIK, the only version that was referred to as the "Puma" was equipped with a 50mm AT gun, not the 75mm gun. 

The version with the 75 was open topped and the gun was fixed, i.e. no turret.
thats the one i was talking about. i know the puma had a 50mm. thanks anyway for your input.
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Post by: flyboy96 on July 10, 2008, 08:09:25 PM
I'm confused now,which is it the M10 Wolverine or is it the M10 Achilles?
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Post by: Ack-Ack on July 10, 2008, 08:18:28 PM
The Achilles was a modified M-10, just like the Firefly was a modified Sherman.


ack-ack
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: flyboy96 on July 10, 2008, 08:40:42 PM
Oh,thanks ack-ack
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Guppy35 on July 10, 2008, 11:56:14 PM
the germans fielded the puma and a late war version with a 75mm gun. the m3 had a varient with a 75mm howizer on it. plus some german 251 series tanks had the 75mm anti tank gun. these would make a fast moving vehicle for taking v-bases and have the ability to kill heavy armor. the m8 is a good vehicle but severly under gunned.

I'd suggest a B25H.  75mm gun and a lot faster then any ground vehicles :)
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: stephen on July 11, 2008, 12:25:49 AM
Yeh but 50mm's in a german armord car seems a solid addition, and boy what a good time it would be almost holding parity with a Panzer, though the Hellcat makes me slobber a bit at the corners of me mouth, it seems a bit off-topic to suggest here since it really isnt a scout vehicle...


So whatever version of that german dune buggy suits me...Do I smell update>? :D
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Tempest3 on July 27, 2008, 02:21:49 PM
Um...
The B-25H is already in the game. I don't know if that was your point or not but just thought it sounded a little odd.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: NEARY on July 28, 2008, 01:06:52 PM
we need a jeep/tiger
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: Becinhu on July 29, 2008, 10:48:40 AM
3 hits in the back of the turret with a m-8 equals dead panzer. A couple of got m-8 drivers can completely change a gv battle since you spend time looking for the fast movers than are disabling tanks the heavies get a chance to set up better.
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: JHerne on July 29, 2008, 11:30:22 AM
M3/M5 Stuarts were used as scouts, and the Panzer III 'Luchs' was an effective recon tank. If you're looking for firepower and speed, but not much armor, look at the M24 Chaffee.

Pumas were effective vehicles, but never produced in enough numbers to matter.

As long as players try to kill Tigers with Wirbelwinds or M8s, there will never be 'balance' in this game. During WW2, Sherman tanks would gang up on a Tiger to kill it, that was the only way to effectively remove it from the battlefield. No M8 commander, even one with marginal sanity, would put his M8 up against an AFV.  But...this is a game...and death isn't permanent, just a respawn.

Jeff
Title: Re: we need a fast moving scout vehicle with a potent main gun.
Post by: SKYGUNS on July 29, 2008, 01:56:58 PM
M3/M5 Stuarts were used as scouts, and the Panzer III 'Luchs' was an effective recon tank. If you're looking for firepower and speed, but not much armor, look at the M24 Chaffee.

Pumas were effective vehicles, but never produced in enough numbers to matter.

As long as players try to kill Tigers with Wirbelwinds or M8s, there will never be 'balance' in this game. During WW2, Sherman tanks would gang up on a Tiger to kill it, that was the only way to effectively remove it from the battlefield. No M8 commander, even one with marginal sanity, would put his M8 up against an AFV.  But...this is a game...and death isn't permanent, just a respawn.

Jeff


Good, i like those tanks...    :aok
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Post by: BigPlay on July 29, 2008, 05:36:22 PM
M-8 works :aok

yea but it doesnt have a 75mm gun. It would add another fast moving gv that can kill a tank with one shot not to mention town teardowns