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[FireBlade]

I love the The Paladin Mark II idea, AND the mobile superweapon

[00 Nobody]

its been done with hero infantry so why not tanks, right? (the unit limit)

[sath]

but isn't the

Linear tank

R21-Topo-im thingy

and the SCUD truck

super weapons in their own right, only with drastically reduced firepower and infinite build capacity?

[00 Nobody]

yeah, but they get killed in like 3 hits, even when they're elite. Also, they're so weak versus air units and fast ground units (aka humvee or rocket buggy) they ususally cant do much. Good players know how to take them down. Of course the linear tank can hit fast ground units, but only 1 at a time, so send in maybe 4 humvees and it'll go down.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

But that's the beauty of it. Every unit has a strength, in these case several very strong strengths, and they all have a weakness. Seriously, it is soooo annoying watching an entire column of Linear tanks take out an entire GLA base, move on to the Tank General next-door and get totally decimated by a single Iron Dragon bomber. As you can probably tell, i'm speaking from experience here .
And hummers... they really are the bane of all SCUD launchers.

[00 Nobody]

the truth. So does anyone like the map im making? From what you've seen of it during the updates.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

It looks pretty damn good. I for one look forward to playing it.

[00 Nobody]

thx. Its gotten much more work than any other map I've made. Half of the custom stuff some people might want added into PR lol.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

A whole half of it? That's gonna have to be one bigass map.

xD your sig says "Let your Pie flow"

[00 Nobody]

lol. it is a pretty big map already. the file size is already greater than that of any map i've made, and I'm still working on it.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

o_O
That is big.

[00 Nobody]

Got a neat little idea. How about a special tank that has 2 cannons on seperate turrets.

One of them would be an artillery cannon, the other one a regular tank cannon. You could give it a flash-bang/machine gun type weaponry switch, so you could have 1 turret firing while the other remains at rest. Another thing to do would to make it so that the artillery cannon (which i envision being behind and above the regular tank cannon) is a turret, similar to the avenger turret. That way, it would auto-fire at targets in range, and the other cannon could be controlled manually. I think this would be an excellent weapon for the Tank General, instead of the regular T-89 cannon he has. It could still be upgraded with autoloaders, too.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Dude, that is indeed a rather neat idea. The T-89 is somewhat lacking in usefullness.

[00 Nobody]

For the following reasons:

1. It's slow
2. It's very succeptable to enemy fire of any kind
3. It fires rather slowly, even if it IS a more powerful shell
4. It costs more than it's worth unless you get the Autoloader upgrade, which is rather expensive.
5. It's underused until very late in the game, and even then the player only gets a few of them.


My idea is better in these ways:

1. Its faster
2. It can actually pose a threat on the battlefield to things other than stationary structures
3. It can take more damage
4. It would be well worth the price (I expect it would be around $2500)
5. It can fire off its cannon on the go (depending on which one is decided as a turret unit. The tank cannon should be that one, because you want to order targets for artillery, but also an automatic-aim artillery gun would be nice too).

[Agent Donavon]

anybody here of a striker kind of like a moblie apc and bradley mix but with a very mean additude and go almost any where/yes U.S. army has this in iraq/also for china how about giveing them some real credit like that still have gatling guns while the gla have rockets for base defense, and the stinger thing for gla*havent played zero hour in such a long time * one shot should be able to take out a jet unless it is going at hypersonic speeds

[00 Nobody]

this is a video game, and the mod sets it in the future even further than it already was. It doesnt have to be realistic, and by no means should it be that. If it were realistic, it wouldnt be as fun. For example: Tanks taking down infantry in one shot, therefore taking away the actual use of infantry (missile soldiers), tanks would die in 2-3 shots, and the Raptor would be Air-Air, not All-purpose. I have Heatseeker for the Wii, which is all about realism, and sure, its fun, but its still a video game. It has guns on the raptors and missiles arent super-long range, but jets are givin realistc payloads. The raptor has very weak bombs, SRAAMS and ARAAMS. In PR, raptors have 4 missiles or 2 JDAMS, which is not too realistic. The thing about PR is thus: Its a video game, so dont freak out when it's not realistic.

[Bob]

anybody here of a striker kind of like a moblie apc and bradley mix but with a very mean additude and go almost any where/yes U.S. army has this in iraq/also for china how about giveing them some real credit like that still have gatling guns while the gla have rockets for base defense, and the stinger thing for gla*havent played zero hour in such a long time * one shot should be able to take out a jet unless it is going at hypersonic speeds

Strikers and LAV's are good ideas for PR. I've seen other mods use both successfully. I did make the suggestion along time ago that the superweapon general might be a great choice for a Marine Corp LAV25, but VG never took off with that idea.

Lately though, I've been looking at the Marine Corp's new toy in development, the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle:
http://www.globalsec...ground/aaav.htm

This mother is impressive. Here's a couple of quotes describing this puppy:

'... The Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) represents the signature mission of the USMC. A truly amphibious vehicle that will replace the USMC's aging current system and provide the capability to maneuver, combat loaded with a Marine rifle squad, at 20-25 knots in the water and maneuver cross country with agility and mobility equal or greater than that of the M1 Main Battle Tank (MBT). The AAAV will virtually revolutionize every facet of USMC combat operations. ...'

'... Two platform variants are under development: the personnel variant (EFV(P)), which will be armed with a 30 mm cannon and a 7.62 mm machinegun and is intended to transport 17 combat-equipped Marines and a three-man crew; and a command and control variant (EFV©) which will transport a commander and staff. ...'

This one has not been in any other mod, so I'm wondering out loud to myself, if perhaps this would have ever made it into the mod? ... had the mod continued that is.

[Tigs2006]

They showed that vehicle on FutureWeapons on Discovery Channel and it was awsome. Very cool show. Watch it sometime, it is on every monday night.

[Bob]

Me got no cable anymore...

[00 Nobody]

dang that sucks