What if you could spawn in a tank like the m22 or the tetrarch in a large plane with a buddy
so like if you and your buddy wanted to you could spawn in and drop off the tank,
I bet there would be some goofy situations that would happen
OR
if you want it a different and more reasonable way you could spawn in a plane drop your load then your
plane would self destruct or maybe ai back to base and then you’d play in your light tank.
ether way would be fun!
How is this realistic?
How much? Much possible, examples are:
BMD Platform, Sprut Platform, M551 Sheridan, T92 LT, Wiesel Platform, M113 Platform (all of them or few), ELC Bis are vehicles that can be deployed by the air and maybe the other light platforms with adequate preparation for it.
This could be a way for introducing some new mechanic in a kind of large scale match in a huge map where you can be transported and deployed in a designated position in the map, following the same idea of the Helicopter Combat mode where you have front lines for the ground AI, using this logic this can determinate where you can and where you can’t deploy.
Yes! I’d love this to be added!! This would be so cool!!
Some tanks like the M22, M551, BMD-4 and ASU-57 were designed to be dropped by planes.
They are known as airborne assault vehicles and in some cases it is even possible for a crew to be inside the vehicle while it is being dropped.
We would need to have transport aircraft and very specific bomber variants in the game first for sich a mechanic to be possible tho
What vehicles in-game can drop them?
Just listed them.
I’m imagining how cancerous would be a horde of M22 deploying from the air. And I was thinking about the transport aircraft, if this would be planned to be added I was considering some kind of invulnerability for shells, just visual damage until the player deploys, working same as spawn protection.
He was asking about the planes that would be capable of dropping the tanks
Oh, my bad, but I don’t think we have currently in-game.
Could work as a kill streak (like drone or nuke). For lower tier, once u spawned in an AI bomber would tow u and once reach the battlefield the glider would detach to let you glide to wherever u want to go. Higher tier (8.0 and above), a C-130 could do the same thing but u have to select where u wanna drop using the map like arty. Would be broken as hell tho so maybe limit it to half of the map only and only in open area?
Would be cool to see LAPES ig and an M56 dropped down from the sky tho.
Well the M22 historically couldn’t be landed intact but had to be flown in with its turret in another plane. On an airfield. Also your buddy would have to sacrifice a spawn of a glider to land your Tetrarch. Not super practical game wise.
It would be fun if air droppable vehicles could spawn anywhere on the map. But it should be random locations, just like IRL. So you might spawn in a building or in a boulder.
ooo thats a good idea have an ai drop you to apoximate spot and I imagined it would be somthing like a kill streak( but thank you for putting it into words), but I feel that it shouldn’t be as limited as just to your side of the map because when you are in the air you are an easy target and easily spoted so having even more downsides to a light tank that could get to the same spots on your side of the map pretty quick, thats seems too much
Thing is not every nation have an airdrop able tank so i envision it as if u have a tank that can be airdropped u piloted the plane from the airfield and once u are near the drop zone can let AI take over and have a marker where u gonna drop. Something like bombing in arcade with the bomb marker. Sorry if this sound a bit confusing.
I only limited it to halves of the map since u can probly land near the enemy spawn and basically spawn camp them at the start (pretty op ngl), plus most cap point are at the middle of the map anyway so it would be a massive advantage for the team that have them.
+1 for this, maybe have a limit on which maps it can be done on and have a limit to how many can do it per match so we dont get a squadron of m22s spawncamping /make it so you cant drop near spawns like with arty.
WTH ,this is not World of Warplanes .
that is a better idea to have you pilot the plane till you get to the drop zone,
Know what I didn’t think of that, I forgot how mean warthunder players can be by spawn camping :(,
Less CoD killstreaks the better.
Also
A) if vehicle would need to be dropped by physical plane, most maps are not exactly large enough for this to work. At top tier it would be practically impossible to land unscathed and unmolested by AA, at lower tiers you wouldnt be able to actually land undetected.
B) if you would simply spawn randomly on a map, i absolutely oppose this idea. Imagine you spawned AA, find position on map behind friendly lines only for a light tank to spawn on top of you out of nowhere and kill you.
All and all absolutely terrible idea, not to mention that some nations dont even have air droppable vehicles and absolute waste of resources that could be used elswhere.
Just saying, who’s your main?