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Jathniel wrote:

slypie11 wrote:

Jathniel wrote:

Can't wait till we get some serious air power in this game.

Air power has always been the top of the food chain in war. The only AV that should be effective are forge guns, and tank mounted SAMs (guided missiles). Make the tanks sacrifice an anti-infanty gun in favor of a guided missile launcher and pray if they want to be good against jets and gunships.

Guys on foot should not be taking jets out with swarms. Gunships and dropships? Maybe. Jets? Hell no.

Just make the combat aircraft much more expensive than tanks, so they can't be spammed.

Considering the price they should cost... I'm not comfortable with a jet being called down via RDV... I don't trust those bastards.
Let me fly myself in.

Yes, guys on foot should be taking aircraft out with swarms. It's not like we need the lock on for tanks. Also, have you heard of a stinger missile? It's a handheld surface to air missile that is used today. So it is perfectly feasible for ground units to attack aircraft. If you don't like it, then don't fly.

lol stingers don't shoot down jets noob. stingers are meant to take down slow, low altitude aircraft like helicopters. or facilitate air-to-air combat between gunships.

A jet would get out of an IR stinger range in a matter of seconds.
Someone clearly played too much Battlefield...

Don't like jets? Then get a proper means besides a hand weapon to shoot one down.


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Oxskull Duncarino Shadow Company HQ 184	Posted - 2013.03.24 02:21:00 - [1] - Quote Jathniel wrote: slypie11 wrote: Jathniel wrote: Can't wait till we get some serious air power in this game. Air power has always been the top of the food chain in war. The only AV that should be effective are forge guns, and tank mounted SAMs (guided missiles). Make the tanks sacrifice an anti-infanty gun in favor of a guided missile launcher and pray if they want to be good against jets and gunships. Guys on foot should not be taking jets out with swarms. Gunships and dropships? Maybe. Jets? Hell no. Just make the combat aircraft much more expensive than tanks, so they can't be spammed. Considering the price they should cost... I'm not comfortable with a jet being called down via RDV... I don't trust those bastards. Let me fly myself in. Yes, guys on foot should be taking aircraft out with swarms. It's not like we need the lock on for tanks. Also, have you heard of a stinger missile? It's a handheld surface to air missile that is used today. So it is perfectly feasible for ground units to attack aircraft. If you don't like it, then don't fly. lol stingers don't shoot down jets noob. stingers are meant to take down slow, low altitude aircraft like helicopters. or facilitate air-to-air combat between gunships. A jet would get out of an IR stinger range in a matter of seconds. Someone clearly played too much Battlefield... Don't like jets? Then get a proper means besides a hand weapon to shoot one down. Really!!!! You think Stingers missile systems are meant for slow aircraft. Considering you have actual access to specs since you're posting ONLINE, you might want to look into the system. Maybe even get away from Wikipedia and look further afield It is very much an effective weapon against jets. It has a short range but nearly instantly hits Mach 2.5, more than enough to take out low, fast moving jets. It's ideal for infantry against a jet giving ground support, AND, it was used alot in short range air to air missile systems between fighter jets. Try to learn something about a subject before acting like a douche. Just because there have been improvements in short range SAMs and AAMs doesn't mean the old ones are crap either. They are still very much effective.
Oxskull Duncarino Shadow Company HQ 184	Posted - 2013.03.24 02:36:00 - [2] - Quote Bojo The Mighty wrote: Illuminaughty-696 wrote: Definitely need to get at least one example of each vehicle type and category (light, medium, heavy). There is no way to balance vehicles if all the types are not in. But all types are in. LAV=Light Dropship=Medium (think it used to be classified as light) HAV=Heavy Yeh, I'm looking forward to gunships. More targets for my forgegun As to light , medium and heavy, keep an eye ingame on the map legends discribtion and on the icons over the RDVs and dropships. The dropship is a light, the RDV is a medium, and we don't know what the heavy aircraft is yet.
Oxskull Duncarino Shadow Company HQ 184	Posted - 2013.03.24 02:45:00 - [3] - Quote slypie11 wrote: Lol proving my point before me Haha. I have to take back what I said about it having being used on fighter aircraft for AAMs as I can't find the aircraft. Kitten brain. But yeh, it's a very nice short range SAM.