Manned MGs

[Devonai]

This is a very good idea and I would love to see it implemented.  Tying the ability to spawn to the barracks and limiting the number of spawn points makes sense.

Imagine the humiliation of being downed by a D3A tail gun, but on the ground.  Cool!

[Seagoon]

How would it be kept to sensible numbers?  Maybe limited by 'no more than X on the field at a time' (like field guns now), till the source object (barracks) are destroyed.

Making it a kill would of course limit it, but aside from that Moot, I'm not sure it needs to be limited. After all, there are no limits to the number of Wirbies that can be spawned from a working VH. Also we are talking about rifle caliber MGs, so even if you were to spawn 8 on the field, we still only have the cumulative destructive power of a Spit 1, and since the guns aren't calibrated and firing at the same target, its actually much less potent than that. We are really just talking about oil/coolant hits, control surface damage, pilot wounds, and a few more holes in the fuselage - which is what happened in reality. It was rare that pilots strafing defended military targets didn't come home with at least a hole or two in the airframe.

This is mostly just to add historicity to field defense, give the barracks actual value in field defense, and make it just slightly more difficult to totally silence the ground defense at an airfield.

- SEAGOON   

[kvuo75]

I was just thinkin.. wouldn't work too good at a vbase, troopies would never make it into maproom with 8000 .30's shootin at em


Or, I guess you'd just have to pork barracks.. Then the vbase needs to be resupplied before rolling on next base up line...  hmmm

Guess it would work.. would definately change that aspect of the game..

[spit16nooby]

I remember reading one of Churchill's books and it said that they had light AA guns for 1-3000 feet medium guns(the ones we have I would guess) from 3-7k and heavy flak for any thing higher.  Those numbers might be off but you get the point.  I think it would be nice to have some smaller caliber guns on the base but if the medium guns are knocked out the light ones will stop working too.  If it was different taking bases would be too hard.

[angelsandair]

I remember reading one of Churchill's books and it said that they had light AA guns for 1-3000 feet medium guns(the ones we have I would guess) from 3-7k and heavy flak for any thing higher.  Those numbers might be off but you get the point.  I think it would be nice to have some smaller caliber guns on the base but if the medium guns are knocked out the light ones will stop working too.  If it was different taking bases would be too hard.

Not really, Just put in about 8 or 10 .303 machine guns or 5-10 .50 caliber (single barreled) guns. Couldn't do too much. 

[moot]

Making it a kill would of course limit it, but aside from that Moot, I'm not sure it needs to be limited. After all, there are no limits to the number of Wirbies that can be spawned from a working VH. Also we are talking about rifle caliber MGs, so even if you were to spawn 8 on the field, we still only have the cumulative destructive power of a Spit 1, and since the guns aren't calibrated and firing at the same target, its actually much less potent than that. We are really just talking about oil/coolant hits, control surface damage, pilot wounds, and a few more holes in the fuselage - which is what happened in reality. It was rare that pilots strafing defended military targets didn't come home with at least a hole or two in the airframe.

This is mostly just to add historicity to field defense, give the barracks actual value in field defense, and make it just slightly more difficult to totally silence the ground defense at an airfield.

- SEAGOON  

Sounds good, I guess

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

It has my support. 

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