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Title: Trains...
Post by: 321BAR on May 23, 2011, 01:03:24 PM
Amass the countryside with them... :cry


We're not the 20th FG "LOCO BUSTERS" for nothing you know! :furious
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: MachFly on May 23, 2011, 01:16:24 PM
We have squads that specialize in fighters, bombers, GVs, jabo, ships, gunners, and now we have a squad that specializes in taking out trains?   :neener:


+1 For the trains
And since BAR made the thread +1 for M18
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: 321BAR on May 23, 2011, 01:30:33 PM
We have squads that specialize in fighters, bombers, GVs, jabo, ships, gunners, and now we have a squad that specializes in taking out trains?   :neener:


+1 For the trains
And since BAR made the thread +1 for M18
:rofl <S> mach
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Debrody on May 23, 2011, 01:51:15 PM
I think we have trains...  they are just very rare.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: PFactorDave on May 23, 2011, 01:55:41 PM
I think we have trains...  they are just very rare.

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a train in game. 
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Pigslilspaz on May 23, 2011, 02:06:56 PM
They only were near strats, and now since the strats are in the back...
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: MachFly on May 23, 2011, 06:51:13 PM
:rofl <S> mach

<S>
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Babalonian on May 23, 2011, 07:17:44 PM
Trains seem nothing more than a waste of server processing and downloadable client content in the game these days, a real shame since of the three convoy types in-game they offer the greatest challenge to a single or group of players looking to do some convoy-seeking and destroying.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: EagleDNY on May 23, 2011, 07:38:09 PM
+1 to bringing them back.   When I first started AH, I accidentally ran over a train at low altitude and got a hail of ack for my trouble. 
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: JOACH1M on May 23, 2011, 07:51:09 PM
Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: skorpion on May 23, 2011, 08:26:16 PM
Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid
:noid i have :noid
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: DERK13 on May 23, 2011, 09:05:58 PM
+1 to the trains, and when you add them, add strategic bombing to aceshigh! Chooo chooo!
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Meatwad on May 23, 2011, 09:36:44 PM
Ever took an M-8 and just sat on a long bridge waiting for a train to show up? Think thats fun, try it with an LVT-4.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: ImADot on May 23, 2011, 09:44:50 PM
Trains did not leave; they are still there.  As pointed out, they are the supply mechanism for strats.  When we had single strats all around the map, it seemed like they were all over the place.  The new mega-citystrat is typically supplied by just one train, and the HQ by another.  So, we actually do have fewer trains which are farther behind enemy lines, but we do still have trains.

The guideline for building maps is that strats are supplied by trains and bases are supplied by truck convoys (some coastal bases can be supplied by barges).  I'm not sure what would happen if some mapmaker used trains for some of the bases, just to have more trains to hunt...
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: B-17 on May 23, 2011, 10:33:49 PM
good idea. and i thought that they resupplied 1 or 2 towns too?

Bar, the trains are moving the sheep around! :old:   There is alot of trains by strats, but I haven't seen te sheep stations yet... :noid

i still dont get whats with the sheep. :o help!!!

Ever took an M-8 and just sat on a long bridge waiting for a train to show up? Think thats fun, try it with an LVT-4.

ive stood in front of one with my pilot and his handgun.  :D bad idea.  :(

as to the actual idea...  :aok +1
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: icepac on May 23, 2011, 10:56:05 PM
If you don't destroy every single car of the train, it just respawns a mile down the track and eventually reaches it destination.

I sent someone here a film of it and he confirmed it.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: JOACH1M on May 23, 2011, 10:57:40 PM
I seen a train carrying m18 turrets and hulls :noid maybe your wish will come true :x
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: B-17 on May 23, 2011, 11:09:33 PM
I'm not sure what would happen if some mapmaker used trains for some of the bases, just to have more trains to hunt...

do you think the demand is great enough for something like that to happen?
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: ImADot on May 24, 2011, 08:34:51 AM
do you think the demand is great enough for something like that to happen?

I'm not sure.  Shooting trucks is safer, since they don't have auto-ack like trains do.  I can't think of any reason a map maker couldn't choose the convoy type for a base to be a train - it's one of three choices we have (train, convoy, barge).
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: iron650 on May 24, 2011, 02:43:18 PM
I'm not sure.  Shooting trucks is safer, since they don't have auto-ack like trains do.  I can't think of any reason a map maker couldn't choose the convoy type for a base to be a train - it's one of three choices we have (train, convoy, barge).

easy ways to stop trucks: hit the tires with the hull/coaxial mg, or wait until it might hit a hill.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: 321BAR on May 24, 2011, 03:37:55 PM
i know trains are there. but since when was it fun to fly 45 minutes NOE just to kill a train near an enemy base and over a damn city full of ack?
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Penguin on May 24, 2011, 09:21:28 PM
good idea. and i thought that they resupplied 1 or 2 towns too?

i still dont get whats with the sheep. :o help!!!

ive stood in front of one with my pilot and his handgun.  :D bad idea.  :(

as to the actual idea...  :aok +1

It's a beastiality joke.  Some people in this world get their sick kicks by having sex with sheep.  This is more common in rural areas where women can be few, but sheep are plenty.

-Penguin
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: PFactorDave on May 24, 2011, 09:27:05 PM
This is more common in rural areas where women can be few, but sheep are plenty.[/b]

Maybe the sheep are just better looking...
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Plawranc on May 25, 2011, 12:38:11 AM
Loool, everyone from AVA knows about Flossy (not aces high flossy)  :devil
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Pigslilspaz on May 25, 2011, 02:36:01 AM
It's a beastiality joke.  Some people in this world get their sick kicks by having sex with sheep.  This is more common in rural areas where women can be few, but sheep are plenty.

-Penguin

Troll harder, you obviously haven't been playing long enough to know that to a cartoon pilot, a sheep is fine too.
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Old Sport on May 25, 2011, 06:14:02 AM
i know trains are there. but since when was it fun to fly 45 minutes NOE just to kill a train near an enemy base and over a damn city full of ack?

While they're at it, add an occasional staff car out in the countryside that, if destroyed, would delay rebuild time to some small degree. They could probably just stretch the jeep chassis a bit and just put a body on it.

(http://www.historicrail.com/Image.po?pn=0R91455&size=large)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zu-DKjmLnoA/SHDsJ0AM49I/AAAAAAAACf4/Z27Knifv9l4/s400/290448-R1-04-5_005.jpg)

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWyZqVws3QvXDS70eXkZ_PA0w--IkszP7JUBloh6YC3z3l1dnC)

Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: iron650 on May 25, 2011, 06:43:29 AM
They could probably just stretch the jeep chassis a bit and just put a body on it.


A body on it?  :O
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Meatwad on May 25, 2011, 06:53:51 AM
It's a beastiality joke.  Some people in this world get their sick kicks by having sex with sheep.  This is more common in rural areas where women can be few, but sheep are plenty.

-Penguin

Its not actually that bad.........
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: 321BAR on May 25, 2011, 08:55:09 AM
so much for a wishlist thread......


maybe i should go back to M-18s? :noid
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Volron on May 25, 2011, 10:16:24 AM
Oh I'd LOVE to see more trains.  BUT, if they add Rail Yards to that, oh the fun to be had... :x
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Penguin on May 25, 2011, 03:41:55 PM
Its not actually that bad.........

Oh.  Oh my. :confused:

-Penguin
Title: Re: Trains...
Post by: Babalonian on May 25, 2011, 06:57:55 PM
so much for a wishlist thread......


maybe i should go back to M-18s? :noid

Looks like you don't have any other choice to me...  :noid