If AH was set in a different era to WW2?

[J318]

Originally posted by mechanic
World War I! and I want a Sopwith Camel, with Biggles, Algy and Ginger as my wingmen.  
 

BIGGLES FLEW A TIGER MOTH!

If there were to be a WW1 AH, you gotta have a Zeppelin just to keep us bomber buffs happy lol

[FT_Animal]

IMO, WWI is fun, the planes are slow enough to do just about anything in them.

But I always saw WWI as a thing no one really took seriously, just had a lot of fun dinking around.

WWI would be a wasted trip. It would never get the use to justify it's building it or servers.

Maybe if HTC has everything under control someday and are bored and built a small WWI arena with ac it would be fun. But I'd rather watch them go the direction they're going. EVen Jets have a hard tiem competing with WWII prop planes. Jets would be much easier to justify, they go from past to current. ;-)

One problem is HTC and AH is billed as a WWII co\sim. There would definately have to be some realistic advertising and long term planning to get a different era to take off *right*.

F-80+ and MiGs are just crazy high octain fun. I will say after dogfighting in jets for a while, rackin up kills in a prop plane seems to come at will. ;-) for me anyway. With jets your thinking is MUCH faster, faster decisions, SA goes through the roof, then when you hit props your thinking slows down and better decisions flow like melted butter.

Blah blah blah...

Remember to turn off the light when you leave.
gnight

[RTStuka]

Originally posted by Raptor01
I would say Vietnam would be 2ND best (next to WW2). And people say that with missiles it would be too easy, but its not as simple as they think. SAMs would be hell though.
Anything with today's setup wouldnt work all that well. "There is a bogey 30 miles south of us, heading to intercept. WHAT THE! CHECK 6!" Then on Channel 1 you see "YOU STEALTH DWEEB!"

 I have to agree, I think if we got too far into modern technology we would have problems, Imagine how big in size the maps would have to be to account for how much ground jets can cover in no time at all. I think a modern day version would be fun but it would take alot to really make it worth playing, as stated SAMs would not be a big plus.

[mechanic]

Originally posted by J318
BIGGLES FLEW A TIGER MOTH!

If there were to be a WW1 AH, you gotta have a Zeppelin just to keep us bomber buffs happy lol

I might reference you to Biggles of the fighter squadron, Biggles goes to war, Biggels in France to say but a few that he flew camels in...

but im sure he flew a tiger moth sometimes too.

moths were mainly used for recon in ww1 if at all, and biggles was definitely a full blown fighter pilot.

[J318]

Actually the Tigermoth was the RAF's WW2 trainer. Some were fitted top fly remote control as drones.

[Widewing]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Korea would be awesome.

Yes, it would be awesome. The plane set would be fairly extensive too.

Four versions of the F-86 (A, D, E and F)
Two versions of the MiG-15 (Standard and Bis)
Three versions of the F-84 (D, E and G)
F-80C
Two versions of the F9F (-3,-5)
Three versions of the F2H (-2,-3,4)
P-51D
F4U-4B
F4U-5
F4U-5N
F7F-3N
Sea Fury
Meteor F.8
Seafire FR Mk.47
F-82F and G
A-26B
B-29A
F3D-2 SkyKnight
Yak-7
Yak-9P
La-9
La-11
IL-10 Updated Sturmovik
AD-1 Skyraider (Monster Jabo)
C-47
UF-1 (SAR amphibian)


And about another two dozen I didn't list including helicopters.

Could be great fun... But I suspect that it would never draw the numbers required to justify the dollars and time required to get it online. Not to mention HTC's limited staff is already up to their ears working on getting AH2 updated and expanded.

Nonetheless... I would certainly play.

My regards,

Widewing

[airbumba]

Originally posted by mechanic
LMAO

i only just realised that your avatar is you (or someone) standing in the biggest freakin' dumper truck in the world!

Airbumba for president of the world!

nice one!  

bat/mech

..oops missed this post.

Yah Mech thats me in a big prettythang loader,35cu. yard bucket, lol.
Was largest in North America at the time , in 1995.

If I sold everything I own, I could afford a tire change, maybe.


Bumba for pres!! ya, FREE BEER!!!!

[Halo]

Great plane list, Widewing.  Add the tanks and other gv's and Aces Korea would be one heck of an ultimate pre-missile battle.  

Aces Korea is even worth developing before Aces High III, Tour of Duty II, and Aces Low (WWI).

[GRUNHERZ]

Korea scenarioo could be done on the cheap by just adding a later model F86 and a Mig15bis for fighters and of course the B29 which could have a place in AH WW2 timefrime.  P51, Yak9U, La7, Me262, Spit 14 and Tempest would fill in nicely for the older props and the meteor. F84 and F80 would be less important for our purposes iMO.

[wklink]

Originally posted by APDrone


A war that never happened.  1930 - 1935  Last of the biplanes and fixed gear monoplanes battling it out..

Where the.. get this ..

Brewster Buffalo is a perk plane!!:rofl

Love the concept, it would be translatable to the AH2 game world with no major modifications and would certainly be interesting to play.  Have it start in 1930 up until the Spanish Civil war.  I-16s vs Gladiators vs He 51's.  Just imagine the turn and burn possibilities.  

Jets woud be great but the problem would be getting the A/A, A/G and SAM missles to work correctly.  The would almost have to be an AI driven missle and I don't know if the game engine could support such a thing without a major overhaul.  I think that killed AW Vietnam more than anything else.  A modern jet sim would be hard enough to code for offline use (look at the problems Strike Fighters and LOMAC have had) but for online only I can imagine it would be a nightmare, especially with some of the player visibility limits and the coding changes needed.

WW1 is fine but it never really caught on that much with Dawn of Aces.  It was fun but it didn't generate the following related to the work put into the game.

[parker00]

Korea

I don't mean to go off topic, but how from the pictures above did you not shoot your prop off? Just wondering because the guns look like they shoot straight through the prop.

[gunnss]

Originally posted by parker00
Korea

I don't mean to go off topic, but how from the pictures above did you not shoot your prop off? Just wondering because the guns look like they shoot straight through the prop.

Mine,.....

Early in WWI all weapons were mounted above the wing or were hand held then the Axis invented the interrupter gear, basicly a cam mounted on the propeller shaft that prevented the weapon from discharging when the prop blade was lined up with said weapon.

Eventually the  Central powers lost an AC where the alliance could get it and thtechnology became wide spread....
Of note are all the WWII AC that fire through the prop, 109s, 190s, Laggs, ect,ect,ect....

Gunns

[Halo]

Jets woud be great but the problem would be getting the A/A, A/G and SAM missles to work correctly. The would almost have to be an AI driven missle and I don't know if the game engine could support such a thing without a major overhaul. I think that killed AW Vietnam more than anything else. A modern jet sim would be hard enough to code for offline use (look at the problems Strike Fighters and LOMAC have had) but for online only I can imagine it would be a nightmare, especially with some of the player visibility limits and the coding changes needed.  

That's why we're basically talking Korea High, last of the airplane fights without missiles, ground or air.