Buttoning Armoured Vehicles
Posted: 2008-11-25 12:36
I couldn't find anything similar by searching, but this has probably been suggested before.
Infantry (in particular machine guns) should be able to fire on the cameras or vision slits of armoured vehicles to obscure their vision and reduce their combat effectiveness temporarily.
Basically the way I envision it working would be to create a tiny area of a different material where the camera is on the model that issues more smoke or sparks when shot so that sustained fire on it would make a small smoke or spark screen that would be difficult to see through. Gunner and driver would probably have different vision points.
It is important to note that this will not allow infantry to engage armour except in very special circumstances (section machine gunner buttons enemy APC, friendly scout/sapper/engi plants mines), but will allow sections a degree of defense against marauding armour when the kits are stolen or lost, and will allow good infantry to assist friendly armour in some situations. Good crews will be able to counter this by spotting for one another (driver has the gunner adjust fire until he hits while buttoned) because buttoning both the driver and gunner will be very difficult at the best of times. Moreover, keeping a vehicle buttoned would require continuous fire, which would be incredibly difficult to co-ordinate with a squad. The rewards would be ample for good squads.
In return, coaxial machine guns would/should regain their accuracy back to 0.7 levels so we can move away from Forgotten Hope levels of co-ax AIDS without disrupting the Armour/Infantry balance.
Possible Problem: The cameras on tanks etc might need to be moved to locations that correlate with surface points of the model more closely and predictably (some of them need to be moved anyway, like the T90 that gets blocked when your gunner faces backwards).
Infantry (in particular machine guns) should be able to fire on the cameras or vision slits of armoured vehicles to obscure their vision and reduce their combat effectiveness temporarily.
Basically the way I envision it working would be to create a tiny area of a different material where the camera is on the model that issues more smoke or sparks when shot so that sustained fire on it would make a small smoke or spark screen that would be difficult to see through. Gunner and driver would probably have different vision points.
It is important to note that this will not allow infantry to engage armour except in very special circumstances (section machine gunner buttons enemy APC, friendly scout/sapper/engi plants mines), but will allow sections a degree of defense against marauding armour when the kits are stolen or lost, and will allow good infantry to assist friendly armour in some situations. Good crews will be able to counter this by spotting for one another (driver has the gunner adjust fire until he hits while buttoned) because buttoning both the driver and gunner will be very difficult at the best of times. Moreover, keeping a vehicle buttoned would require continuous fire, which would be incredibly difficult to co-ordinate with a squad. The rewards would be ample for good squads.
In return, coaxial machine guns would/should regain their accuracy back to 0.7 levels so we can move away from Forgotten Hope levels of co-ax AIDS without disrupting the Armour/Infantry balance.
Possible Problem: The cameras on tanks etc might need to be moved to locations that correlate with surface points of the model more closely and predictably (some of them need to be moved anyway, like the T90 that gets blocked when your gunner faces backwards).