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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: DMVIAGRA on October 30, 2011, 09:05:14 AM
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These things would be really cool for WWI arena, we need them because none of the planes carry bombs or anything of that jazz.
Barage balloons would be really cool.
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, we need them because none of the planes carry bombs or anything of that jazz.
Um most Do carry bombs! :O
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Um most Do carry bombs! :O
I don't see the Camel carrying bombs, soo....
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you mean after you edited your post from wwII to wwI?
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:salute zepplines would be kool, or lighter than air air ships. :aok
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:salute zepplines would be kool, or lighter than air air ships. :aok
Airships? They had flying task groups??? Get some alt on those things you can, wierd thing is, how would we get alt to shoot down the cvs?
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Barrage Balloons were used in WW2 also... mostly by the British if I am not mistaken.
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Airships? They had flying task groups??? Get some alt on those things you can, wierd thing is, how would we get alt to shoot down the cvs?
seems like i seen a documenty on blimbs being used for coastal patrol and carring some bombs for anti submaries. something was said about ww1 thats where zepplines came in. :salute :aok
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Take a look at some of the older threads on this topic.
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Maybe place the balloons only at the ports? Make it a bit more challenging to take a port when the CV isn't there. +1
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Nooooooooooooooooooo it's like trees on the water lol :P
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barrage balloons wouldn't stop level bombers, or dive bombers. It would just stop NOE strafers or low-angle bombers... Maybe. I think it might be cool, but overall as far as AH goes I don't think it would affect gameplay much. It would add depth, though.
It also wouldn't stop GVs :neener:
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and would only take 1 drunk guy going from base to base, yelling oh man look at those pretty things rise up.
semp
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I'd like to see a dogfight in a barrage balloon area. :eek:
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Rocket the balloons
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If we had night time I'd be all for it. Since we fight in the tropical tundra and have daylight all the time the balloons are too easily defeated to be of any real use.
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The whole purpose of barage balloons was to get the heavy steel cables used to anchor them into the air , to discourage the strafing and of important targets . So what would be the point in WWI arena ? No land targets to protect .
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The whole purpose of barage balloons was to get the heavy steel cables used to anchor them into the air , to discourage the strafing and of important targets . So what would be the point in WWI arena ? No land targets to protect .
If they were indestructible it would be a great anti-vulching tool, but that would be silly.
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:salute is there any info about how effective those barage balloons where?
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:salute is there any info about how effective those barage balloons where?
I seem to remember reading that they were used on the Normandy beaches by the brits who suffered far less from strafing etc. than the Americans who didn't use them.
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Russians also used them in the defence of Moscow. Blimps were raised to a height of just over 8000ft and some in tandem to 14000ft. Many had mines hanging off them as well such that a plane catchinga cable would not just suffer abrasion damage but may pull a mine which would explode on contact.
Since 1941 until the end of the Battle of Moscow, 120 German planes crashed due to impacts against the steel cables and 35 exploded in flight after detonating a hanging mine.
As a result of the large amount of casualties, the Luftwaffe sent fighters to shoot down the barrage balloons, but they were replaced so quickly and nazi planes used to receive such a heavy response by Soviet fighters and ground defenses, that finally switched to night bombings. The Soviet response to jeopardize the enemy bombers was to keep the barrage balloons in the air at night and lower them before dawn. The total number of blimps deployed was over 3.000 units, which were sent aloft more than 300.000 times during the war.
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deja vue http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,320360.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,320360.0.html)
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I seem to remember reading that they were used on the Normandy beaches by the brits who suffered far less from strafing etc. than the Americans who didn't use them.
Well, then there's also communications balloons, raising radio antenna way up, and meteorological balloons, because the weather was crap for so long it almost cancelled the invasion.
That doesn't make them barrage balloons, though.
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Would you be able to tell the difference from 10,000ft?
Even if I knew those balloons were barrage balloons, I still wouldn't fly within 1 mile of them.