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Title: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: earl1937 on March 02, 2013, 08:50:16 AM
 :airplane: How about a squadron of PT boats attacking the 3 ships docked at the ports, with damage points awarded for tarpedo strikes! Of course you would have to activiate the guns on the ships for defensive purpose's, plus you would have to be able to have gun positions on the docked ships occupied by AH players. Think it would be great fun and something new and different to do! Just think, no DAR, as PT boats doesn't generate DAR, would be great for "sneak" attacks.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: kvuo75 on March 02, 2013, 08:54:33 AM
:airplane: How about a squadron of PT boats attacking the 3 ships docked at the ports, with damage points awarded for tarpedo strikes! Of course you would have to activiate the guns on the ships for defensive purpose's, plus you would have to be able to have gun positions on the docked ships occupied by AH players. Think it would be great fun and something new and different to do! Just think, no DAR, as PT boats doesn't generate DAR, would be great for "sneak" attacks.

ptboats would be dead meat
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: Triton28 on March 02, 2013, 08:58:52 AM
We need PT-109's.  With a little JFK figure on the deck.  PT's would be unstoppable.   :old:

Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: earl1937 on March 02, 2013, 09:03:28 AM
ptboats would be dead meat

:airplane:  Do you mean you would actually patrol Ports in hopes of intercepting a PT boat? Good, that would be one less fighter attacking my bomber mission!
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: kvuo75 on March 02, 2013, 09:09:01 AM
:airplane:  Do you mean you would actually patrol Ports in hopes of intercepting a PT boat? Good, that would be one less fighter attacking my bomber mission!

no, i'd do like i do now.. sit in the tower looking for flashing bases, when i spotted ptboats, i'd jump in a gun and blow them all up. :)

all i'd need is one 37mm, they wouldn't get within 2 miles of the base.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: The Fugitive on March 02, 2013, 09:41:55 AM
No I think a PT boat raid could work on a port. Mission tend to have a good number of players. With the rockets and guns on PT they could get in and race by taking out guns and hangers as they buzz thru. Maybe a plane or two to "explain" the flashing base to give the PTs time to get in close. Sounds like fun! I picture 3-4 boats in line approuching from the north and south at the same time followed by a second or maybe third wave, LVT with troops, decoy plane drop the landside guns..... hmmmm interesting.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: kvuo75 on March 02, 2013, 09:45:39 AM
No I think a PT boat raid could work on a port. Mission tend to have a good number of players. With the rockets and guns on PT they could get in and race by taking out guns and hangers as they buzz thru. Maybe a plane or two to "explain" the flashing base to give the PTs time to get in close. Sounds like fun! I picture 3-4 boats in line approuching from the north and south at the same time followed by a second or maybe third wave, LVT with troops, decoy plane drop the landside guns..... hmmmm interesting.

I dunno.. from what I've seen so far of ptboats attacking shoreline bases from cv's or pt spawns, they are not very effective. the rockets are hard to hit with at any good distance, and the best gun is on the back deck.  they are sitting ducks if they get within range of a manned gun.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: earl1937 on March 02, 2013, 09:48:13 AM
No I think a PT boat raid could work on a port. Mission tend to have a good number of players. With the rockets and guns on PT they could get in and race by taking out guns and hangers as they buzz thru. Maybe a plane or two to "explain" the flashing base to give the PTs time to get in close. Sounds like fun! I picture 3-4 boats in line approaching from the north and south at the same time followed by a second or maybe third wave, LVT with troops, decoy plane drop the landside guns..... hmmmm interesting.
:airplane: Thanks for the comment! Some of us post things in here trying to improve the game, some just like to shoot holes in anything posted! Yours is a great explanation of a crude idea which I had.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: Lab Rat 3947 on March 03, 2013, 04:43:49 AM
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No I think a PT boat raid could work on a port. Mission tend to have a good number of players. With the rockets and guns on PT they could get in and race by taking out guns and hangers as they buzz thru. Maybe a plane or two to "explain" the flashing base to give the PTs time to get in close. Sounds like fun! I picture 3-4 boats in line approuching from the north and south at the same time followed by a second or maybe third wave, LVT with troops, decoy plane drop the landside guns..... hmmmm interesting.

Sounds like more strafing targets to me    :old:

+1
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: RngFndr on March 03, 2013, 05:59:39 AM
With Destroyers instead of PT's???
Big +1
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: icepac on March 03, 2013, 09:12:17 AM
You can take out shore batteries with the PT boat if you land most of your rockets and 40mm.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: Rob52240 on March 03, 2013, 03:18:33 PM
PT boats are lacking purpose in the current game.

They can be fun though if you don't mind getting massacred a bit.

I posted this PT Boat mission and had a squaddie stir up an airfield and then drag the interceptors over to the PT spawn.  It was a lot of fun but we all got massacred after we massacred the defenders.

Turn volume down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50YF_J8ku64
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: Plawranc on March 06, 2013, 12:57:57 AM
We need PT-109's.  With a little JFK figure on the deck.  PT's would be unstoppable.   :old:




Shore batteries are placed on grassy knolls....

what are you asking for... a bullet magnet?
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: Rob52240 on March 06, 2013, 12:11:05 PM

Shore batteries are placed on grassy knolls....

what are you asking for... a bullet magnet?

shore batteries are on rocky knolls.  And strangely not available in triple A.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: tunnelrat on March 06, 2013, 04:21:11 PM
shore batteries are on rocky knolls.  And strangely not available in triple A.

A quad 40 on top of the shore batteries would be hooters macbooby.
Title: Re: Port Strike with PT boats
Post by: 68EZPkns on March 06, 2013, 10:39:15 PM
Forget PTs,give us DE's.