hopefully everyone can recognize one of these objects.
if anyone remembers, these BF1942 objects were littered all over the maps, every control point had one, they probably saved your lives more times then you could care to count.
there are so many ways to acquire ammunition in PR, riflemen, support, APCs, transport helos, jeeps. one thing every one of these things has in common, they all move. if your base is under attack, these things are the first to go. APCs drive off to farm infantry, jeeps rush off to the nearest CP, support troops sprint to the frontline, transport helos crash into the side of a mountain.
so when your 2 man squad is stuck in the base pinned and bleeding what are you going to do? in reality you would head to the armory and grab ammo, if you're bleeding you would go to a infirmary.
there are a few advantages and disadvantages to this issue
Pros
- the ammo source that won't drive away
- the medic who knows how to do his job
- realistic addition to bases/outposts
- creates choke points inside of choke points
- adds strategic locations
- Discourages use of Medics during defense operations
- too much survivability?
"this building is tall and gives our riflemen an advantage"
or
"this building has an ammo crate we can dig in here and last for a while"
a solution to squads boarding up in a house with an ammo/med crate would be to make them destructible, a well placed grenade from a squad outside would cut the teams med/ammo supply.
this would also add to the insurgency gamemode, besides the ammo caches, we could have smaller, slower ammo boxes that would allow insurgents to congregate in certain areas, almost like an insurgent stronghold, full of RPGs and lots of ammo it would pose a great threat to any coalition infantry squad, much like in real life.
these don't have to be insta-reload or insta-heal boxes, but if we had something along the lines of an armory base battles could become somewhat more interesting.
hit the barbed wire in the VCP? no need to DIE, over a little accident, just stroll on over to the medical crate in the bunker and grab some morphine!
run out of rockets in your deserted military base? walk on over to the armory and grab some more.
soldiers should have the advantage of supply when they are on their own turf.
thanks for reading!
