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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: ToeTag on November 21, 2009, 09:14:01 AM

Title: Open top vehicles
Post by: ToeTag on November 21, 2009, 09:14:01 AM

Any open topped vehicle running troops should not be able to give the troops protection from straffing aircraft.  As it is now they have the same damage model as the GV that is carring them until they exit the GV.  I made several passes on M3's and LVT's and get the engine smoking and so on but ten little troops go free.  Any chance?

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Oleg on November 21, 2009, 10:25:40 AM

How it differ from c-47?

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Simba on November 21, 2009, 12:34:34 PM

Canvas, it not quite so stiff as aluminium, Oleg. And the blood, it should go all over the landscape when open-top vehicle hit, but it stay inside C-47 until the big door, it open.

 ;)

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Karnak on November 21, 2009, 01:04:16 PM

Saburo Sakai described a G4M 'Betty' landing after a mission with blood dribbling out of the many bullet holes in the fuselage.  Only the engineer was still uninjured and he'd flown it back, erratically mind you, and the pilot, the only other survivor, woke up just in time to land it.

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: ToeTag on November 21, 2009, 01:58:50 PM

Quote from: Oleg on November 21, 2009, 10:25:40 AM

How it differ from c-47?

You can get a pilot wound in a c47 right?

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Oleg on November 21, 2009, 02:49:07 PM

Quote from: ToeTag on November 21, 2009, 01:58:50 PM

You can get a pilot wound in a c47 right?

And it affect troops... how?

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Simba on November 21, 2009, 05:33:12 PM

The troops start bailing out early when the pilot dies.

 :cool:

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Banshee7 on November 21, 2009, 07:34:27 PM

Logically speaking, if you strafed an open top vehicle, wouldn't it kill the troops inside since they have no protection?

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Simba on November 21, 2009, 08:53:56 PM

Logically, yes, but we're talking AH Wonderland here, Banshee, where the men are indestructible until their transport gets wiped out. All except the driver, of course.

<hunkers down in the back of the jeep and falls asleep>

 :cool:

Title: Re: Open top vehicles
Post by: Spikes on November 22, 2009, 08:52:45 AM

Personally I've never gotten a PW in a C47...usually die first.