Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Boxman on December 01, 2009, 11:59:41 PM
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HOw cool would it be....if for a certain perk price you could take up a "captured" enemy bomber. The icon would show up to the opposition as their own color.
I don't think it's too far-fetched as this really happened in the war.
Perk price....about double the ME262.
You would show as friendly icon color to your team and the enemy.
As a little touch; the American bombers could have German markings and vice versa (just on the skins).
What say you all?
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Would not have happened in WWII effectively enough, and theres no use for it in-game, everybody would just start shootin' at their friendly bombers just to see if its a 00ber S3cR3T CaptUr3d BomB3r
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Actually, it would lead to a lot of people saying hello to their friendly bobmbers to see if they get a reply.
Imagine the havoc!
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and if they dont get an answer?
Give me one good reason why this is needed in the game.
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Randomness.
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I sed 'GOOD' reason.
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I would park that buff next to runway and shoot everybody that ups. :devil, no need to vulch anymore.
semp
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HOw cool would it be....
Everyone should have stopped reading right there as they knew it would probably be another worthless wishlist request. But all well, its called the "Wishlish" isnt it.
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Correct. Keep on wishin boxman.
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horrible idea
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It was done more frequently than most would be aware of...
Check out some of the skins they were painted in, the German P-51 was quite cool.
Strip
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I think it would be fun. :lol
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It was done more frequently than most would be aware of...
Check out some of the skins they were painted in, the German P-51 was quite cool.
Strip
These were not flown in combat. They were flown to various units to introduce them to the enemy.
The most the LW did was fly a few captured bombers alongside US formations and radio their position in to their own fighter bases, but even US bombers became wary of strange bombers moving into formation with them.
I repeat: horrible idea.
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Eh...its the wish list.
Fyi...the Germans had a captured P-38 they tried to shoot down a few bombers with.
Strip
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Eh...its the wish list.
Fyi...the Germans had a captured P-38 they tried to shoot down a few bombers with.
Strip
The Italians had it and the local fuel essentially ruined the engines etc. It didn't fly much. And as Krusty said, the captured bombers were not flown on bombing raids, but were used for training purposes
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The Italians had it and the local fuel essentially ruined the engines etcs
The fuel ruined the engines? :rofl :rofl :rofl That must have been bad fuel!
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This is an awesome idea! But the one thing to tip you off, is that the country alias is still the same, and you would still see the plane name instead of the player name. Hence, if you were a bishop, you would see a green plane marked as P-51, but with a rook marking. Not too hard to tell if someone is a spy, unless you are quite dense. And radar flashes as well, but the dot is green.
I love this Idea + 100
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The fuel ruined the engines? :rofl :rofl :rofl That must have been bad fuel!
Not quite.. Just different.
For example, the LW fuel was based off of (oddly enough) coal. Still gave them wonderful performance when they needed it, but it behaved differently at different settings than allied fuel did... So using it in US planes might not work as well. Nor would using allied fuel in LW planes, sometimes.
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the captured bombers were not flown on bombing raids, but were used for training purposes
I haven't heard of any captured bombers being flown on bombing missions by the LW, but they weren't used just for training as some were flown operationally in other sorts of missions.
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For training purposes as were the Allied fighters they got thier hands on too.
Although KG-200 claims to have used some of the B-17s they had for covert
ops - resupply, reconn and minor para droppings behind enemy lines.
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Oh the horror. No...
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Doh! Darn double posts...
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Talk about something that would let people game the game...wide open door there.
Then again, how would you "capture" a plane in AH? Jump out of you're plane, sneak up to a plane on the runway, shoot the pilot and jump in? Sounds like a lot of useless work for not much of anything useful.
Sorry, the audience has voted...here's a consolation prize for you... :joystick: :neener:
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No, it would just be a hanger option at a very high perk price.
Oh, well, atg least they listened to me about empty fuel tanks not streaming fuel...... :neener: