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Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: BGBMAW on June 18, 2002, 01:54:13 PM
I would love to see a pilot after having to relieve himself of his burning plane to be able to use his colt 45...

I ran up to a nme Flak yesterday while he was trying to save his base.....

He didnt even see me..I got real close....I would of love to hop on tank and open hatch..and let loose w/ my 45:)...

This would also give a little more usefulness of the Turret Machine
(Strafe nme pilots runnen to ur GV..lolo)   guns on the GV's//...dam thos things are useless most of the time:)


Atleast kill him..maybe even take over command of GV!!!..lollol


Hi Jak a GV..that is funny.....

I dont want to take resources from the Air War..but if this is somthen somwhat easy...It would ad some suprise to game..


Ill sit inside map room w/ 45 waitn for troops...well atleat ill get8 of them ?..what i have 8 rounds in colt1911??

lolo

Love, BiGB

BGBMAW  1st Marine Air Wing
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: muckmaw on June 18, 2002, 02:10:11 PM
2 words:

Hand Grenades.
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: BGBMAW on June 18, 2002, 02:23:15 PM
lol muck but pilots didnt carry those ..I think...

BiGB
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Pooh21 on June 18, 2002, 02:42:58 PM
P-47s had an incendiary grenade in them, according to Robert Johnson in his book. Maybe some other US planes as well. I'd love to a an incendiary grenade next time Im near a Flak, take that you open top fantasy tank!
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: BGBMAW on June 18, 2002, 02:49:06 PM
lolol

Love BiGB
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Fatty on June 18, 2002, 02:55:43 PM
Every bailed pilot I've shot has been carrying explosives.
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: keyapaha on June 18, 2002, 03:25:24 PM
yup that would be nice to fight on after u bail.


   i remember a ju88 sortie i flew a spit got on my 6 and we shot each other down we landed in the water a bout 50yrds apart we ran at each other to finish the fight but all we could do is dance:D
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: mason22 on June 18, 2002, 03:35:27 PM
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Originally posted by Fatty
Every bailed pilot I've shot has been carrying explosives.


ROFL....yup.
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Post by: Sabre on June 18, 2002, 03:42:58 PM
Over the four years I was playing WB I only managed to hit a plane once with the '45, while hanging in my chute.  What did it do?  It made him real mad.  He came back around and shot me in my chute:eek:  Some people take being shot at sooooo personally.
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Wlfgng on June 18, 2002, 04:44:02 PM
like shooting a bear with bb's... baaaad idea
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: SpinDoc1 on June 18, 2002, 06:01:25 PM
A while back, Preon1, (a squadmate), and I had a discussion about this. He and I came to the conclusion that one day, HTC might just add a "first-person shooter" element to the game. I don't know the level of programming involved, but I too would like to see the ability to run at troops heading to the maproom. Or how about being able to join the C-47 as a 'gunner' (paratrooper) and be able to storm your way past the other players defending the maproom. Would definitely put a use to those tank machine guns too... Good luck HTC, thanks in advance...

Jason
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Preon1 on June 18, 2002, 06:41:00 PM
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Originally posted by DaLadyzMon
A while back, Preon1, (a squadmate), and I had a discussion about this. He and I came to the conclusion that one day, HTC might just add a "first-person shooter" element to the game. I don't know the level of programming involved, but I too would like to see the ability to run at troops heading to the maproom. Or how about being able to join the C-47 as a 'gunner' (paratrooper) and be able to storm your way past the other players defending the maproom. Would definitely put a use to those tank machine guns too... Good luck HTC, thanks in advance...

Jason


hee hee...  imagine the last ditch effort at base defense when a ton of people run out of the town and tower with rifles and some grenades to defend the base from an enemy infantry assault.  Imagine the strafe fest from the air!!! :D
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: wolf37 on June 18, 2002, 11:05:59 PM
If you check back a few months, maybe four month, not really sure hopw long ago. But in the HTC update info forum, you will find where they said something about bringing in ground troops.

Where as you could be a paratrooper and storm the map room, or you could be a defender at the map rom. I also beleive it said that the fight could take place inside the map room, as where you had to run down hall ways to make the capture and could fight there. now I have not look back to see what it said exacty, but it was some thing along this line if I am right.

It would be best to go back and check for your self what it says. get all the right info and not what I can remember from then.

either way, it should be fun when it all comes together.
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Post by: UnDeth on June 19, 2002, 02:23:54 AM
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Originally posted by keyapaha
yup that would be nice to fight on after u bail.


   i remember a ju88 sortie i flew a spit got on my 6 and we shot each other down we landed in the water a bout 50yrds apart we ran at each other to finish the fight but all we could do is dance:D



LOL.  That was me Key, in the JU88.  That was funny as hell. By the way, have any of you looked at yourselves up close?  We're all UGLY as hell.

UnDeth
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Post by: trec1maw on June 19, 2002, 06:16:28 AM
yeah and that new info also talked about adding player controlled subs:)
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Post by: straffo on June 19, 2002, 06:51:53 AM
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Originally posted by Pooh21
P-47s had an incendiary grenade in them, according to Robert Johnson in his book. Maybe some other US planes as well. I'd love to a an incendiary grenade next time Im near a Flak, take that you open top fantasy tank!


This grenade was suposed to be used to destroy a crash landed plane no ?
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Wilbus on June 19, 2002, 07:15:51 AM
Believe so Straffo, several planes had this, 190's and 109's too. Think most planes had some self destruction when you ditched.
Title: What Wolf37 is referring to is...
Post by: Sabre on June 19, 2002, 08:17:29 AM
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HITECH: On ground warfare, what I envision at some point is a first-person shooter run as a secondary item to base capture. What I’m sort of envisioning in the end is something that would run along the lines of a C-47 dropping a spawn point at the [enemy base’s] map room. The map room now is expanded to a full, underground bunker-warfare, first-person shooter. The defender always gets to spawn in the bunker. The attackers, now for the next thirty minutes, they can spawn people in the bunker, and there’s this big, first-person shooter war happening underground to do an actual [base] capture.

SABRE: So your going to take it basically all the way down to the individual with a rifle and some hand grenades?

HITECH: Absolutely! What I’ve figured out is, there are four aspects to combat. You’ve got fighter planes, you’ve got ground vehicles, you’ve got bombers, and you have infantry. None of the four people, none of the four aspects want to go fight each other. Vehicles want to fight with vehicles; bombers want to go bomb stuff; fighters don’t want to mess with bombers; bombers don’t want to mess with fighters; and infantry don’t want to mess with anybody…they just want to go fight the other infantry. What you do is provide a mechanism in the game that makes that happen.


From my interview with HiTech at last year's Con...
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Post by: Turbot on June 19, 2002, 08:29:42 AM
On Discovery Channel back when I was watching a show - I think about the Battle of Midway.  They had those pilot's on here and there telling stories of thier encounters....  Well there was this one pilot who claims to have finished off a zero (got him smoking or some such) with his 45 sidearm.

I'll see if I can find the story - someone bound to have written about it.  

(not finding anything on this in a fast Google search)
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Post by: Wilbus on June 19, 2002, 08:46:50 AM
I want to mess with bombers, they're fun to shoot at :D
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Post by: VWE001 on June 19, 2002, 09:25:52 AM
I'd like a Bazooka for my infantry...

Oh and a mortar...

And a flame thrower!

And a sniper rifle, with secondary fire as a zoom feature on the scope...

 :D :D
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Ripsnort on June 19, 2002, 10:14:11 AM
I can see it now....
(http://zapper.invasionworks.com/smilies/allied-hev-kill.gif)
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: zipity on June 19, 2002, 09:02:49 PM
As I recall when you bail and run around on the ground in AH, you are carrying a rifle.  With a rifle and a grenade, wouldn't it be fun to take over on of the con fields ack guns and let loose.

It would also be nice to have a better designed chute, although they probably didn't have these in wwII but a precision chute that would allow you to fly a bit instead of just falling straight down.  Hehehe...land on the back of a lower altitude plane and shoot the pilot.

One serious request, give me a quick release on that chute so when I accidentally open it at 10k I don't have to float for 20 minutes.  Quick release the main chute then open a secondary chute at a lower altitude to make it more challenging for chute killers.  :)
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: J_A_B on June 19, 2002, 09:28:58 PM
Pilots of Japanese planes should get a sword instead of a gun.

J_A_B
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: cobra427 on June 19, 2002, 10:32:59 PM
i think there should be planes set on the fields so if u bail u can steal a plane .... and if u get back to your base that plane will be avalable at that field ...... like say u dropped out of a c47 as a paratrooper u steal a plane and head for home ...... or HTC could add a side arm like u guys said but u could choose what kind of gun....bazooka :D  ....... or whatever ........ and maby some other equipment ...... but what would be really cool is what i think the brits used ... maby it was US ........ troop planes dropped troops and a minibike ..........  then there where suicide gliders ........ or htc could add the ability to make new fields by dropping troops and supplys ...... well thats just off the top of my head
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: BGBMAW on June 20, 2002, 12:39:21 PM
Ok some of yu guyd goin to far.....Giving choices of arms is not whgat i want....1911 Colt i s only gun u get ..o r what ever the axis countries carried....

But i Do like my idea..llol

MiNI Bikes!!!! Oh My God.....ho wabout a razor scooter..Or please give me a skaetboard..I saw a empty pool behind  Rook HQ i want to skate....

LMFAo



Love, BiGB......
xoxo
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: Steven on June 20, 2002, 01:14:44 PM
"This is my weapon, this is my gun.  This is for fighting, this is for fun."
Title: Pilots w/ guns..
Post by: krazyhorse on June 20, 2002, 02:12:45 PM
shucks i, i'd be happy with a pack a smokes, a chocolate bar , and a flask for my trip down after bailing:D
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Post by: Nefarious on June 20, 2002, 11:59:00 PM
i read some where the IL2 rear gunners used to carry hand Grenades and lob them at pursuing Focke-Wulf's.
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Post by: cajun on June 21, 2002, 12:29:12 AM
This would be a great idea.

I'd love to be able to raid a map room and all, but I think we should still have AI troops as well (but the AI troops would not fire) or lower it to like 2-3 ppl to capture a map.  Cuz on the H2H you could never finish a war! And it would be somewhat hard in the MA as well.

But it should only be like a 30 cal with a max of 15-20 rounds.
Though this may encourage chute shooting, it allready seems to be a popular sport and what else u gonna do for 10 mins gliding down? :D

Would be funny to see all the players spawning just to bail out and act as AA guns when being vulched!