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Offline Tracerfi

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Offline bustr

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Re: Mine fields
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2012, 06:31:51 PM »
How about laying mines around the map room to kill troops that only disable tank treds and blow tires? An M3 could deliver you to the map room and you walk around dropping mines. Then you mount back into your M3 and leave the area if you don't step on a mine.

Are they dangerous to the layers countrymen as well as the enemy?

How long do they live after you drop them?

Could a just about to be captured airfeild be salted with mines to make your capture a pyirric victory? Hitech would probably set them to dissapear at the moment of capture.

What would be the maximum saturation of mines to a localised area like the grassy area around the town's map room?

Can you drop a bomb(s) or shoot HE to clear out a suspected mine feild?

Would freindlies be able to see the mines?

Would your enemies have some way to detect the mines?

Can a Storch drop mines after landing?

At the moment a single M3 resupplying the town ack is a major cloitus interruptus to our well laid hubris for taking towns. Mines would make you guys cry if their delivery in any way can be exploited as a last moment offensive action. Can you see some dweeb sneaking onto your airfeild and salting a few around a rearming pad if Hitech allows aircraft tires to set them off? Think of the screeching in here if Fester got caught rearming with 300 262 kills. That would be one for the accomplishments list though. *Sapper Master* - your mines destroyed 5 rearming fighters, or stopped 10 troops. Then instead of a star next to your ID you get a:

HOST: (sm)DweebMeister landed 10 kills in a Jeep of Mines Are Us.

This kind of nonsense might be just the thing you need when you don't feel like flying. Can you see a vTard hoard of jeeps rushing a town and your Vbase spawn and laying out tank mines everywhere between the town, spawn and airfeild just befor their NOE pops up and levels the town? I mean if FBDred can bum rush a town with a hoard of M3 and M18. Just think of the bum rushing with mine delivery. Dweeby yes but, you don't have to be Dr7 in a tank or INK in a fighter to get kills. Just dweeby and foolhardy enough to up an M3 or Jeep over and over again. I watch jeeps all the time bumrush onto vbases and not get hit by ack or manned fire.

This is a great idea but, we are not ready for all of it's player ingenious permutations of gameyness.
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Re: Mine fields
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2013, 02:25:30 PM »
as long as mines were invisable to everyone.
and each side had engineers to both drop and detect mines.
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