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Offline GhostII

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Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« on: May 23, 2011, 06:22:05 PM »
Mabe if ww1 arena isnt really cookin, they should add bombers such as the Gotha, and Mk 1 tanks.

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 09:30:44 PM »
Mabe if ww1 arena isnt really cookin, they should add bombers such as the Gotha, and Mk 1 tanks.

Tanks would be pointless at 3 MPH you would want to spawn 20 feet from what ever you wanted to shoot at just so you wont get bored driving. Bombers on the other hand. :aok

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 10:22:15 PM »
Bombers on the other hand. :aok


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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 12:28:53 AM »
Tanks were for breaking through the trench lines. IE: Infantry support.

Tanks did not fight tanks.

There is no infantry to support.

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 01:11:34 AM »
are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 01:12:35 AM »
The tanks were stuck in the mud.  I demand mud in the WW1 arena! :)
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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 03:53:38 AM »
I demand french planes  :furious
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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2011, 07:48:52 AM »
Handley Page anyone?  :aok

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2011, 02:40:34 PM »
I demand french planes  :furious

The French did have bombers that instead of dropping fletchettes, until proper bombs were made they launched artillery shells.

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2011, 05:58:06 PM »
The French did have bombers that instead of dropping fletchettes, until proper bombs were made they launched artillery shells.
didn't they drop hand grenades and dynamite first?
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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2011, 06:00:45 PM »
I remember from somewhere that before the ideas of bombs on a fighter, they did that. Dove down with one hand out the cockpit holding a gernade. Like <50 feet they dropped it.

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2011, 06:01:40 PM »
didn't they drop hand grenades and dynamite first?

I never heard that. All I heard was that the French used artillery until they made "proper" bombs.

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2011, 06:28:47 PM »
I never heard that. All I heard was that the French used artillery until they made "proper" bombs.
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i've found references to times when dynamite was dropped out of balloons and aircraft...first time recorded was 1849 in venice, didn't end well for the guy in the balloon...wasn't a common thing to do...nor was it safe.  :lol
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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2011, 07:10:15 PM »
Tanks were for breaking through the trench lines. IE: Infantry support.
Tanks did not fight tanks.

How about making "trenches" then?

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Re: Where are the bombers and Mk1 tanks in ww1?
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2011, 07:46:30 PM »
How about making "trenches" then?

we do have trenches, it's in the middle of the map.

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