Merlin suggestion for al basrah

~XHW~Flamestorm · Post by **~XHW~Flamestorm** » 2008-02-06 00:45

a Merlin/chopper should be the optione to show THE WHOLE TEAM where he saw a spawnpoint or a weapon chache. so the role of the merlin would be more important than ever like in real life the troops need the choppers for knowing where enemys are and where their targets are. i hope it will be come with next release it would make game play support a lot.
(sorry for bad english i am noob at this^^)

Post by **Rudd** » 2008-02-06 01:09

No problem m8, I like this suggestion.

But It would probably be better if the commander could mark the caches, so a SL in the merlin could tell him where they are and he can relay the info- like most reports in this game.

Anderson29 · Post by **Anderson29** » 2008-02-06 03:44

i like the idea....though i think al basra should just have another chopper for that role like the little bird...or a kiowa or british equevalent if they ever make one...give em some sort of rockets or just machine gun fire not both. that way the main role of this chopper is scouting and can also be used for a little bit of support if needed... i know when we did missions we rarly went any where without at least a kiowa or a uav.

~XHW~Flamestorm · Post by **~XHW~Flamestorm** » 2008-02-06 12:40

yeah i like the idea of the littlebird would great. a squad can drop out into the city this is very usefull for the british.

Post by **Mosquill** » 2008-02-06 13:12

Anderson29 wrote:i like the idea....though i think al basra should just have another chopper for that role like the little bird...or a kiowa or british equevalent if they ever make one...give em some sort of rockets or just machine gun fire not both. that way the main role of this chopper is scouting and can also be used for a little bit of support if needed... i know when we did missions we rarly went any where without at least a kiowa or a uav.

Armed littlebird? at Al Basra? lol, then a single little bird with a good pilot would be able to destroy pretty much all caches in less then 10 minutes.

<1sk>Headshot · Post by **<1sk>Headshot** » 2008-02-06 13:23

Mosquill wrote:Armed littlebird? at Al Basra? lol, then a single little bird with a good pilot would be able to destroy pretty much all caches in less then 10 minutes.

Then every player who isn't mildly retarded could pick up a PKM, technical or any other weapon and shoot him out the sky..

Post by **Mosquill** » 2008-02-06 16:41

H3eadshot wrote:Then every player who isn't mildly retarded could pick up a PKM, technical or any other weapon and shoot him out the sky..

I don't agree, as a pilot myself I know how hard it is to shoot down a little bird with a light mg. Yes, it happens a lot to noob pilots who can barely land their choppers, but as soon as you start firing at the little bird with a good pilot inside, he'll take evasive maneuvers and leave your line of sight within a few seconds. Then he'll probably make a rocket-run at your position, leaving you few chances for survival.

Anyway, the caches are too open, if all of them could be hidden inside the buildings or basements or something like that, then, I think, adding some littlebirds would be really great.

And the Merling suggestions is good in my opinion. But then Merlins would be used as scout choppers, and it's not really their role.

markonymous · Post by **markonymous** » 2008-02-06 19:19

Mosquill wrote:I don't agree, as a pilot myself I know how hard it is to shoot down a little bird with a light mg. Yes, it happens a lot to noob pilots who can barely land their choppers, but as soon as you start firing at the little bird with a good pilot inside, he'll take evasive maneuvers and leave your line of sight within a few seconds. Then he'll probably make a rocket-run at your position, leaving you few chances for survival.

anyone with half a brain waits for the right moment to fire... you wait until the chopper is in the position where maneuvering will be hard for example when strafing then kill it. Done it several times only takes a few shots.

ralfidude · Post by **ralfidude** » 2008-02-06 21:02

actually since the change of flight avionics the littlebird is not so fast anymore. IE i was on kashan and in order to get out f the way of a tank blasting guns and shlls into me was to go high and dive down and pick up speed, but as soon as i tilted all the way or partially down the way it flew was slow, faster than ussual but not the same as it before. So outrunning a PKM would be tricky. I wold personally dive down in between the streets but that just makes the insurgents go crazy and they get all trigger happy on u... so its bullocks. BUT the DEVS have already discussed the issue of littlebirds at albrashar and it will not be put there because the British army does not use them. The merlin stays... as well as the merlin glitch... unfortunately... but the initial idea to let ur team know where the enemy is is great, however you should have a mic as it is and you would pass on the information to them through VOIP like a real pilot does. All about communication.

Post by **Mosquill** » 2008-02-07 09:42

markonymous wrote:anyone with half a brain waits for the right moment to fire... you wait until the chopper is in the position where maneuvering will be hard for example when strafing then kill it. Done it several times only takes a few shots.

Good pilots don't strafe in hostile envirement. Good pilots can perform maneuvers at any moment in combat situation. It is alway hard to shoot down a good pilot. Not every pilot is a good one. Discussing this is offtopic.

Burlock · Post by **Burlock** » 2008-02-07 11:05

fastropes is what the merlin needs (joke couldent help it, im sad and this is just a cry for help)

Anderson29 · Post by **Anderson29** » 2008-02-09 05:46

Mosquill wrote:Armed littlebird? at Al Basra? lol, then a single little bird with a good pilot would be able to destroy pretty much all caches in less then 10 minutes.

well i can tell u for a fact that hellfire rockets is how we got rid of many caches in iraq...and many insurgent strong holds,

Death_dx · Post by **Death_dx** » 2008-02-09 06:01

If you're worried about littlebird using hydras on caches, just give it miniguns only. More importantly why would the British have a littlebird?

SGT.JOKER · Post by **SGT.JOKER** » 2008-02-09 06:19

Mosquill wrote:I don't agree, as a pilot myself I know how hard it is to shoot down a little bird with a light mg. Yes, it happens a lot to noob pilots who can barely land their choppers, but as soon as you start firing at the little bird with a good pilot inside, he'll take evasive maneuvers and leave your line of sight within a few seconds. Then he'll probably make a rocket-run at your position, leaving you few chances for survival.

yeah...theres this magical thing called an SA7...
that, and 1 or 2 technicals could take out a little bird with or without a good pilot since its such lightly armoured

and as for the merlin suggestion, its a decent suggestion that I think is a good idea

~XHW~Flamestorm · Post by **~XHW~Flamestorm** » 2008-02-09 19:26

no weapon for the littlebird only seats! its a support and sight role not a attack and defend what you need cause moste chaches you not found with little bird maybe you can sight it with it

Post by **Mosquill** » 2008-02-09 21:02

SGT.JOKER wrote:yeah...theres this magical thing called an SA7...
that, and 1 or 2 technicals could take out a little bird with or without a good pilot since its such lightly armoured

Yes of course, whatever you say.
Oh and btw that magical thing does not locks on littlebirds.

Pariel · Post by **Pariel** » 2008-02-09 21:42

Which is silly, but the case none the less.

The bottomline is that the Brits don't have Littlebirds, so there will not be one on Al Basrah.

~XHW~Flamestorm · Post by **~XHW~Flamestorm** » 2008-02-10 01:14

but if usmc fights with uk?! if you read already suggestions you would know that mixed factions like usmc/uk will come and we/i hope it will be so an i want the forklift back on basrah at the airport PLS

darkNight · Post by **darkNight** » 2008-02-10 01:26

Yeah. Good idea we need a littlebird in Al Basrah! Always asked myself whatfor the brits need that big Merlin over there... there is no better target for any Insurgent noob hehe

Snowno · Post by **Snowno** » 2008-02-10 01:38

On the Training Mod for PR, you can fly a Littlebird on Al Basrah.
And trust me, it fits so perfectly there.