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Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Ripsnort on July 11, 2001, 11:43:00 AM

Lets get a JU152, or a C54, or something different...by doing this, there should be no shortage of goonie drivers if you give us/them some choices..

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: brady on July 11, 2001, 12:26:00 PM

YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES PLEASE!

   Their are a number of cool transports that would do nicely, and some would be real easy for HTC to do like the Tabby the Japanese vershion of the C 47 licenced and produced in Japan(it was also a little faster than a C 47), they put GUNS on thier transport, imagine just having even one 13mm MG to defend your plane my god would that be cool  :)

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Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Karnak on July 11, 2001, 12:42:00 PM

How about an H8K4 "Emily" transport?  :D

5 20mm cannon and 64 troops.  :D

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Staga on July 11, 2001, 12:54:00 PM

Ju-290/390 or -252 would be nice thought easiest to made could be copy of C-47,Lisunov Li-2, with dorsal turret with one mg and AFAIR one mg in each side of plane   :)

Anyway Ju-290 was capable to transport troops and haul bombs (at least 1500kg).

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Staga on July 11, 2001, 01:04:00 PM

hmm why stop here while best is yet to come: Me-323  :D

Waffentraeger (Weapons Carrier) with 11*20mm MG151 + 4*13mm MG131
Oh and Hetzer or Marder inside of it of course  ;)


 (http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/lrg1355.jpg)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: minus on July 11, 2001, 01:10:00 PM

me323 or condor plzzz  left the ju52 for the time when nothing alse to due

AH goes original
  ;)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: MiG Eater on July 11, 2001, 01:36:00 PM

This is a great idea but would be easier to justify if transport pilots had more missions than simply dropping troops.

MiG

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Wmaker on July 11, 2001, 04:24:00 PM

Douglas DC-2 in Finnsh Air Force markings, thank you!   :)

 (http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/douglas.gif)

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 (http://koti.mbnet.fi/~paulusk/Lelv34.jpg)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: xHaMmeRx on July 11, 2001, 05:44:00 PM

Quote

Originally posted by MiG Eater:
This is a great idea but would be easier to justify if transport pilots had more missions than simply dropping troops.

MiG

I like it... resupply missions.  Ammo down at a base? A couple of transports could re-supply. Radar down? A transport could fly in spare parts for repair. We could have perk transports... Constellations capable of carrying the load of 2 or 3 C-47s.  The possibilities are interesting.

HaMmeR

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: CJ on July 12, 2001, 12:42:00 AM

The C-46 Commando would be a great addition.  Not too different, but at least it would allow a choice, and maybe some redundant troops in case a few "don't make it" since it's cargo capacity would be greater than the c47's.

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: CJ on July 12, 2001, 12:45:00 AM

Let's try this one more time...


The C-46 Commando would be a great addition. Not too different, but at least it would allow a choice, and maybe some redundant troops in case a few "don't make it" since it's cargo capacity would be greater than the c47's.

Also, what about the Lockheed Lodestar for the speed freaks out there!

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: brady on July 12, 2001, 06:28:00 AM

How about somthing that is NOT US just to add a little collor :)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Tac on July 12, 2001, 07:07:00 AM

The Japanese 64-troop carrying one mentioned above would be great AND the Me-323  would be AWESOME if gv players could "roll" their GV's inside the plane and have some other player transport them to the battlezone!!!

The idea of using them planes to ferry cargo to shorten base rebuild time has been discussed in other threads.. I dont know why AH doesnt have this option, it would so enchance the game with so little effort  :)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on July 12, 2001, 02:30:00 PM

Same idea as TAC, ur VH is dead at your base, if you can sneack in your big nosed cargo, you can drop/roll a couple of FPs from ur belly. Up to people to man them, else they stay to be destroyed by Jabos. :D

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: -lynx- on July 13, 2001, 05:16:00 AM

I think Brady and Staga got the best solution - Japaneese and Russian versions of DC-3 are soooo easy to do. Add a Ju-52 (c'mon guys, get real - Me323?  :rolleyes: ) and we have transport planes for all fronts  :)

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Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Staga on July 13, 2001, 05:56:00 AM

btw Lisunov was about 20-30mph slower than C-47 so it could be nice trade-off:
With C-47 you get more speed w/out defensive armament but in Li-2 less speed but few light mg's to defend your plane.

Anyway Me-323 could bring some new possibilities in gameplay like carrying vehicles to distant enemy bases...

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Replicant on July 13, 2001, 06:57:00 PM

Ju52 or the Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle.  This plane was used in a variety of different tasks - bomber, target tug, transport, troop carrier, etc....  It was also used by many allied countries including Britain, France, Soviet Union etc.

  (http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/bomber/albemarle/albe_pic.jpg)  

Also  http://www.marketgarden.com/new/aircraft/albemanle.htm (http://www.marketgarden.com/new/aircraft/albemanle.htm)

Regards

Nexx

BTW  Whichever plane you chose I think it would still only carry 10 troops... remember that a real C47 could carry around 25 - 30 troops.

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Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: Fishu on July 15, 2001, 09:11:00 AM

Before any yankee C's, wouldn't Ju52 be ideal addition  :)

Title: How about another alternative to the C47?
Post by: brady on July 15, 2001, 09:24:00 AM

(http://www.douglasdc3.com/japl2d/1.jpg)


The JU 52 would be cool no doubt, but the Tabby with it's slightly better spead than the C47 and better defensive arament( one 13mm Type 2 and two 7.7mm Type 92MG's.487 of them being built.)than the JU 52 would be very nice indead.

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