cassh Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Animal Magic Mine Dogs Artillery & Infantry Gun Horse Teams & Limbers Pack Mules & Mountain Guns Techie Ammo Resupply Casualty Evac Camo Levels - 1 day emplaced verse 10 days etc Monty's Moonlight Temporary Military Bridging (Pontoons/Bailey placed by designer - ribbon bridges deployable in game) Landing and assault craft Napalm Trip Flares Different coloured tracer WP grenades Differentiation between WP and chemical smoke rounds Glider Dodads for illustrating LZs Decoy Tanks/AFV/Trucks/AT Guns etc Mine Plows, Rollers and Flails Rhinos & Hedgecutters That'll do... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 AVLBs would be pretty cool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomm Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Tactical nukes would be totally sweet! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Originally posted by Rollstoy: Tactical nukes would be totally sweet! But completely beyond the scope of the game. You can already model the important effects now simply by pressing Command-Q. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Ruddy Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I want a dinosaur. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gpig Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 ... and throwing your computer out on the lawn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Forget nukes, I think BFC had said once that even MLRS rocket fire may be outside the scope of the game! The resulting cluster bomb footprint just covers too wide an area to be at all useful in a game of this scale. Like B24 strategic bombing raids were outside of the scope in CMx1. One of these days BFC's going to come out with space Lobsters Sci-Fi game based on the CMx2 engine. And I hope they throw caution to the wind on that title, throw in the most outrageous ideas that they'd never include in a historical game. What would be a Space Lobster equivalent to the Sturmtiger? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 The Thor. It's in DropTeam already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 uhh...things to consider for the present: different colored tracer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaska. Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I want molten TNT to be modelled. :mad: :mad: :mad: You know it makes sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I like the whole list, save for the mine dogs. I'll never buy a game with exploding dogs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 the rounds in the "ready rack" on AFV's 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Recovering ditched AFVs by extension, ARRVs 'Funnies' - assault engineering. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassh Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 The mine dog is not in great taste - I saw a Russian general explaining the tactic on some TV programme years ago. He said in a cold matter of fact and monosyllabic way the following terse statement:- "Dog run out to tank. No tank, no dog." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I want a pony. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassh Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Get in line - Dan Quayle is first according to comedian Will Durst - George Bush wanted a strong economy, Ronald Reagan wanted an impenetrable defense and Dan Quayle wanted a pony. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by flamingknives: Recovering ditched AFVs...Do you have any information on how often that was done in the context represented by a SM battle? I am aware that the Germans sometimes did that kind of thing, but I can't put any numbers on it. I don't think the Allies did it much. Seems like people would wait until the shooting stopped, figuring "why lose a tank and an ARV too?" Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan_gigante Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by aka_tom_w: the rounds in the "ready rack" on AFV's YES 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by flamingknives: Recovering ditched AFVs...Do you have any information on how often that was done in the context represented by a SM battle? I am aware that the Germans sometimes did that kind of thing, but I can't put any numbers on it. I don't think the Allies did it much. Seems like people would wait until the shooting stopped, figuring "why lose a tank and an ARV too?" Michael </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassh Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 flamingknives - Applied logic - I like that a lot. the most compelling argument I can think of is the existance of armoured recovery unitsOf course! They're armoured for a reason - otherwise they'd just need to be a beefy tractor type thing. A compelling argument indeed! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Ruddy Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I still want a dinosaur. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmath Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I would like to use Fooby the kamikaze watermelon from the Demented Cartoon Movie. Of course, like a lot of thing (to not say everything ), it is out of scope of CM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by cassh: flamingknives - Applied logic...But incomplete factuality. </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />the most compelling argument I can think of is the existance of armoured recovery unitsOf course! They're armoured for a reason - otherwise they'd just need to be a beefy tractor type thing.</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 There's plenty of stories from Iraq of vehicles being recovered - often by other vehicles in the troop but sometimes by specialised ARVs. It could be a focus of a battle or a side issue, but recovering vehicles to deny them to the enemy is pretty important. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Recovery of aircraft is done in combat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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