So, we got towed radars and fuel tanks. And Recently have gotten the multi vehicle mechanic.
What would your guys thoughts be if we got towed equipment that acted like a multi vehicle?
Heres an Example for the usa: a select vehicle group (lets say medium vehicles) would be allowed to bring 1 towed piece of equipment to battle. This could be an anti air system like the M45 Quadmount, a anti armor weapon like the 3-inch Gun M5, or artillery like the 105 mm Howitzer.
During the battle, if the medium tank dies. The towed equipment does not get destroyed along with it.
Instead, the player can respawn in something else like a heavy/light/TD and still hop into the towed equipment until its actively destroyed.
(Few rules: The player can only bring/deploy one towed object at a time. A.i. (If any) would act sub par, only aiming at the enemy if their within a certain distance and hitting random spots. {Any kills from a.i. would be worth 1/4 of a player controlled kill}
Now lets assume that the maps are decent and gaijin can properly implement it like this.
Would this be something you’d like to see?
This would be strange to implement, but it might work…
It would be difficult to decide which vehicles would get towed equipment, both for historical reasons and balance. There would be a lot of arguing over if certain equipment could be towed by a certain vehicle even if it never was by doctrine. Adding this equipment to existing vehicles could also be extremely difficult as they could shift battle ratings. Some nations might have a very limited selection of vehicles that have towing capability and nations with subtrees would be a difficult topic with mixing towed equipment from one country with a towing vehicle from another.
I could see 2 ways of this being added; the equipment would be researched separate from the vehicles and have their own battle ratings, although this doesn’t solve the subtree issue, or an entirely new class of vehicles could be added just for towing: utility vehicles.
Players have been asking for thinks like Willys MBs with .50 mounts for a while but an unarmed jeep towing a howitzer would make more sense in the game. This could also open the door for more utility and cargo helicopters to be added with the same purpose, possibly in a lower BR than most other attack helicopters.
All in all an interesting idea that brings up a lot of questions!
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