Polyakov posted:

...iran-iraq stuf...

Mycroft Holmes posted:

So, the upcoming French DLC for Battlefield 1 is going to add the St. Chamond tank. In reality, it was a lovely tank. I wonder if that will be reflected in gameplay.

Alchenar posted:

There are two rules about tanks:

1. Any tank is better than no tank.
2. Having no tank because yours broke down and caught fire 100km ago means you had a bad tank.

Video games typically get the first right and don't have a way to model the second.

SeanBeansShako posted:

A tank mechanic/engineering simulator would be appreciated at some point though!

SeanBeansShako posted:

A tank mechanic/engineering simulator would be appreciated at some point though!

JcDent posted:

Realistic WWI tanks would be horrible in a game that's not aimed at gamers, like that WWI aviation simulator goons played that had planes snapping wings constantly.

But you don't need to go that deep, either: as someone who played British tanks at Warthunder, I can say that realistic tank speeds alone would sink the game.

Nenonen posted:

My Summer Tank is a simulation of a Finnish tank crew who must keep their T-26 in driveable condition even though it keeps breaking down all the time, also you must drink beer and go to sauna to keep your mental and hygiene meters up and win duels to strip spares from Russian tanks

Nenonen posted:

My Summer Tank is a simulation of a Finnish tank crew who must keep their T-26 in driveable condition even though it keeps breaking down all the time, also you must drink beer and go to sauna to keep your mental and hygiene meters up and win duels to strip spares from Russian tanks

MrYenko posted:

I would play the gently caress out of this.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Sounds like my last game of Only War.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Sounds like my last game of Only War.

Tias posted:

Do it, you scoundrel! I'll play.

xthetenth posted:

I'd kill to play a game rather than run it.

spectralent posted:

Two problems: 1. I'm kind of running out of evenings at this point, and 2. I have bad enough anxiety running most stuff without running a military game for the milhist audience

Ensign Expendable posted:

Char B1 ter

JcDent posted:

like that WWI aviation simulator goons played that had planes snapping wings constantly.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Do you happen to remember the title? This sounds right up my alley.

FAUXTON posted:

Rise of Flight - it even modeled the engine running with a blip switch instead of a proper throttle so rest assured it's a real pain in the rear end to fly.

On the other hand you can cap people in the head with your revolver.

HEY GAIL posted:

is there a button to push to throw a brick out the cockpit at the other guy

FAUXTON posted:

If by brick you mean bullet

JcDent posted:

Nope, you can only do drive-bys.

With a plane.

On a plane.

With a revolver.

JcDent posted:

Nope, you can only do drive-bys.

With a plane.

On a plane.

With a revolver.

quote:

At that point, Francies was flying an unarmed Piper L-4 called Miss Me!?

"I named my plane Miss Me!? because I wanted the Germans to do that, the reason for the exclamation point," Francies explained. "But I also wanted someone back home to 'miss me,' so there was the question mark."

On April 11 Francies and his observer, Lieutenant William Martin, took part in Francies' 142nd mission and one of the most unusual aerial actions of the war. The 71st Battalion was now the closest American force to Berlin-48 miles. Out on an observation mission some 100 miles west of the capital city, Francies noticed a German motorcycle, with the customary sidecar, speeding along a road near some of the 5th Armored tanks. When he and Martin went in to take a closer look at the motorcycle, they also noticed a German Fieseler Fi-156 Storch artillery spotting plane about 700 feet above the trees.

Francies later wrote: "The German Storch, with an inverted 8 Argus engine, also a fabric job and faster and larger than the Miss Me!?, spotted us and we radioed, 'We are about to give combat.' But we had the advantage of altitude and dove, blasting away with our Colt .45s, trying to force the German plane into the fire of waiting tanks of the 5th. Instead, the German began circling."

Firing out the side doors with their Colts, the American crewmen emptied their guns into the enemy’s windshield, fuel tanks and right wing. Francies had to hold the stick between his knees while reloading. He later recalled, "The two planes were so close I could see the Germans' eyeballs, as big as eggs, as we peppered them."

After the Storch pilot made a low turn, the plane's right wing hit the ground, and the plane cartwheeled and came to rest in a pasture. Setting down nearby, the Americans ran to the downed plane.

The German pilot dived behind a huge pile of sugar beets to hide from them, but the observer, who had been hit in the foot, fell to the ground. When Francies removed the observer's boot, a .45 slug fell out.

Then Martin fired warning shots that brought the pilot to his feet, hands raised. Francies confiscated the pilot's wings and Luftwaffe shoulder insignia, as well as a Nazi battle flag.

"I never found out their names," Francies later recalled. "They could have been important, for all I know. We turned them over to our tankers about 15 minutes later after the injured man thanked me many times for bandaging his foot. I think they thought we would shoot them."

JcDent posted:

WWI/interwar aviation is a hell of a drug the best thing on earth

spectralent posted:

Two problems: 1. I'm kind of running out of evenings at this point, and 2. I have bad enough anxiety running most stuff without running a military game for the milhist audience

HEY GAIL posted:

JcDent posted:

Just... Why?