Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 In fact, there is only one thing i hate more, and that would be AAVs spawning into the enemies LOS during ATGM-ambush type scenarios. Nothing like a 20+ KIA catastrophic kill to brighten your morning after a sleepless night! I know there's no point to this, just letting everyone know that i'd rather get hit in the nads with a spiked baseball bat than ever have to see another ugly, offensive, fully loaded behemoth of an AAV ever again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Lucky you! I just brought my spiked baseball bat to work today. Please lean forward a little... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Lucky you! I just brought my spiked baseball bat to work today. Please lean forward a little... As long as you promise to eradicate AAVs from my life, I am totally down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietrich Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 *winces* What, your guys never ran low on ammo, so that they then said: "Thank goodness for those AAVs and all the extra ammo they're carryin', or else we'd be SOL"? AAVs spawning into enemy LOS isn't the AAVs' problem; it's the fault of the scenario designer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcrof Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I feel your pain! A platoon of my fully loaded AAV's appeared 200m away from 3 T-72s 4 survivors, game over :eek: Maybe scenario designers could add 100m to the back of the map which has no LOS to the battlefield where reinforcements could appear. Then you could choose to bring them on/unload them or not! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietrich Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Only 200m away?! Sheesh, at that distance you don't even have time to pop smoke before the AP shells arrive. *sigh* Sounds like a bit of poor scenario design. Of course, in that situation, M1s are the pretty much the only Blue vehicles that would be able to not get more or less instantly knocked out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 *winces* What, your guys never ran low on ammo, so that they then said: "Thank goodness for those AAVs and all the extra ammo they're carryin', or else we'd be SOL"? That's rarely an issue for me. When it comes to Marine infantry combat (especially urban), I always load up (upon debarkation) my rifle squads with a couple thousand rounds of 5.56, and enough 40 mike mike for those six-packs to make it rain all day. Even when I am only using them to run supplies to infantry in areas i consider safe, i still can't help but feel that they are more of a liability than a support tool. They can be knocked out by RPG, .50 cal, hand grenades, the crew will likely bail if you manage to terrorize it with enough small arms. I don't feel that they are safe unless there is literally a mountain between them and the action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I've got to admit though AAVs can be deathraps for a lot of men at once I've not had as much trouble with them as I thought I would. Probably because I DO think of them as death traps and prefer to send my pixel troops on loooong slow walks across the map instead of quick one way rides. Its hard to kill two squads together in an AAV if you don't put two squads together in an AAV! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I've learned that the best AAV is an empty one Disembark the passengers, send them forward, and keep the AAVs well back so their armaments can do something before they get turned into Swiss cheese. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 oh, oh, my favorite is when you are disembarking a full AAV and it gets hit by a shell/missile/RPG/9mm, and half the occupants are killed on their way out, and you're thinking, "awesome", and then the ammo/fuel/embalming fluid detonates, causing a huge secondary explosion that kills everyone who survived the initial blast, and then you think, "Is it my birfday or sumfink? It feels like it must be my birfday." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 and also, what is this? Some sort of miclic-ish device on an AAV? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan8325 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Try playing as the Syrians and watching your BMP's get chewed up by 40mm grenades, while at the same time not being able to see anything until either the crew bails out or the BMP blows up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secondbrooks Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 oh, oh, my favorite is when you are disembarking a full AAV and it gets hit by a shell/missile/RPG/9mm, and half the occupants are killed on their way out, and you're thinking, "awesome", and then the ammo/fuel/embalming fluid detonates, causing a huge secondary explosion that kills everyone who survived the initial blast, and then you think, "Is it my birfday or sumfink? It feels like it must be my birfday." My personal favorite was to lead attack past knocked out BMP-3. And while my men got next to it. *KABOOM*, they got pinned (and handful lost their lives) and by that remained close to this particular BMP-3... which then kept blowing up on regular basis for few minutes. I believe my feelings were pretty much as "happy" as yours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 We told you guys that fighting with the Marines would be pretty different from fighting with the Army. AAV is not an IFV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secondbrooks Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 We told you guys that fighting with the Marines would be pretty different from fighting with the Army. AAV is not an IFV. Yup. I use them as very competent vehicle borne IEDs. Fast at enemy positions (preferably in cover of smoke) and let enemy do the rest. :cool: Ps. Well i've not really used it yet like that. As i just figured it out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 We told you guys that fighting with the Marines would be pretty different from fighting with the Army. AAV is not an IFV. I'm not quite so sure if that is the problem. People might be mistaking it to the similar looking and sounding A7V Sturmpanzer. A7V: crew 18 armour 50-20 mm mass 30 t AAV-7: crew 3+25 armour 45 mm mass 22 t So can you blame anyone for using AAV like a Sturmpanzer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerfest Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I always think of Star Wars Sandcrawlers when I see AAVs! http://www.battlefront.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=217&stc=1&d=1232401072 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpheart23 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 They both look like a bread box. Mmmmmm........sourdough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietrich Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Try playing as the Syrians and watching your BMP's get chewed up by 40mm grenades, while at the same time not being able to see anything until either the crew bails out or the BMP blows up. Or better yet, watch your BMPs get chewed by regular ol' hand grenades. O.o We told you guys that fighting with the Marines would be pretty different from fighting with the Army. AAV is not an IFV. Not that the Stryker is much better as far as survivability. The Stryker has the advantage of being of lower profile and of lesser passenger capacity, so fewer guys buy the farm when an RPG comes calling. heh ...Sandcrawlers! Utinni! lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Is it just me, or does the EAAK on AAVs look deceptively like ERA boxes? That's actually what i thought it was when i first saw it. BIG mistake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lampshade111 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I must say I am not very fond of the AAVs either. The things seem to be a massive explosion on tracks waiting to happen. Enemy RPG gunners also seem a bit too good at hitting the thing. I thought those panels on the side were ERA? I guess that explains my somewhat higher expectations. Wish I had the EFV or whatever eventually replaces the AAVP-7A1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanker15 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Would it kill the USMC budget to but some kind of thermal camera on it too?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. J-sun Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 If you want supplies join the army, marines make do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 Would it kill the USMC budget to but some kind of thermal camera on it too?! Unfortunately the Marine Corps' budget consists of the Commandant's piggy bank that he got for Christmas last year. Just enough scrap left in there to buy a couple rounds of ammo per Marine to fight with for another month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homo ferricus Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 Enemy RPG gunners also seem a bit too good at hitting the thing. That's probably because an AAV is bigger than the broadside of a barn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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