Will the Tempest get rockets?

[Kurfurst]

1 hour ago, J3Hetzer said:

Kind of how it was for the real guys though, wasn't it? And if their primary goal amidst all that predictable boredom was survival, maybe our 'solution' is persona play.

 

Sort of, that was basically the early Kanalkampf phase in the BOB, but there were other factors like the general numerical superiority especially near its own bases in France of the LW and the RAF’s goal to conserve fighters, so the dynamism and asymmetry was there to dictate different task and scenarios (such as uneven,  or even unwinnable engagements, disadvantageous tactical situations).

 

In a balanced MP environment much of this is missing, there are but a given number of people online, who all have a fairly good idea where / when an attack will come, so tactical considerations will be made more or less in a sterile environment and it makes it somewhat predictable.

 

Say, what if one side has set to have twice as many players, but has to defend multiple areas, whereas the other has to attack just one or two successfully - it will change and vary the tactics. What if one side has to take risky, unfavourable engagements, but wins if it can simply avoid getting shot down? What if one side has better planes, but the other has more players and planes, but also has tasks to perform that puts it into tactical disadvantage - another tactical scenario. Its easy to see how this leads to more an perhaps more interesting scenarios where each side has roughly the same number of players, roughly the same type of planes and attacks the same amount and type of targets, because that will sooner or later just generate the same tactics on both sides.

 

Anyway, it’s a bit off topic but I find it interesting how asymmetrical balance creates scenarios as opposed to symmetrical balance.

[Megalax]

On 10/18/2019 at 3:17 AM, Hanu said:

 

As there is already static object for Typhoon in Mission Editor, I'm somewhat hopeful... ?

 

I didnt believe it at first, but then I had to open up Mission Editor to see for myself. Sure enough, there it was.

 

[EAF19_Marsh]

On 10/18/2019 at 12:30 PM, VO101Kurfurst said:

Anyway, it’s a bit off topic but I find it interesting how asymmetrical balance creates scenarios as opposed to symmetrical balance.

 

Very true: ‘symmetrical aerial engagements’ are a minority of historical

encounters in WW2 (more common in WW1 over France). I do not recall many on- or off-line efforts that have managed to achieve this. Mind you, flying a Lagg-3 against F-4s never feels terribly symmetrical at the best of times...

[Pict]

3 hours ago, EAF19_Marsh said:

Mind you, flying a Lagg-3 against F-4s never feels terribly symmetrical at the best of times...

 

Indeed...deflection shots with the rockets can be tricky 

 

[Feathered_IV]

- Well what about dwoptanks then??

 

- Oh yes, that's a good one!

 

[Georgio]

On 10/12/2019 at 9:50 AM, Feri1976feca1229 said:

I found this one! The rocket wasn't typical in Tempest, I think.

 

 

They're not rocket rails but underslung drying racks...

[polisheagle1939]

I never realized that the Tempest was never fitted with rockets. I thought it did ground duty just like the previous Typhoon. I was hoping to get a Typhoon substitute when I heard that the Tempest was announced. I remember footage on the Thames Television show World at War of Typhoon rocket attacks. 

[HBPencil]

On 10/24/2019 at 12:20 AM, Feathered_IV said:

- Well what about dwoptanks then??

Welease the wockets!