Gun Boating

[propyl]

had some requests for this so here it is. the HTH Gun boat episode.

www.hthclan.com/propyl/gunboat.wmv

6 engy's, 1 support, and one purrrday transport = lots of fun :D

[InfraRedPS]

If this is less than 10mins, can you please upload it to YouTube, I keep getting connection reset by server messages.

[[HT]Thaiphob]

im sure you mean Gun Ship!

[GunHappyBob]

nice vid. I've always said that the transport ship can be a very deadly weapon

[propyl]

Thaiphob;209063']im sure you mean Gun Ship!

oh no, i mean Transport aka the Gun Boat

[Kraxis]

Nice... I'm impressed. I have been looking to do the same, but it hasn't come to fruition. Lack of pilot and engies with SAAW.

A couple questions.
Did You swap places or something? I mean with two guys with basically only team-points I'm wondering how that happened. Or did You have one dedicated repair?

Also, why 6 engies? Two of them are fixed into the gunnerpositions, so why have them as engies? Wouldn't they be better as support or medic (one must assume the enemy will take potshots with infantryweapons)?

And I couldn't see if You tried Pilum or missile busting the vehicles (looked to me SAAWs to me).

[propyl]

I drove thus the 140 points for driver special ablity and driver kill assists
booker was support thus the 200+ in ammo and kill assists and a few kills from nades
burrito was on the front guns thus the 50 kills
dogface ran gun ship support to keep the enemy gun ships off of us 25 kills
scorpion, beav and bot provided the mines and the SAAW action.

the pilum shots are very hard due to the sway of the transport and trying to keep moving and not getting hit. it's easier to rain down motion mines on the enemy vehicles. no real need for the medic, about the only thing that will happen is a gun ship or titan gun will shoot one of the guys out of the sides so you cant really bring them back, they just respawn in.

[propyl]

If this is less than 10mins, can you please upload it to YouTube, I keep getting connection reset by server messages.


the YouTube version... lower res = poo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYHyWlM82nM

[Kraxis]

I drove thus the 140 points for driver special ablity and driver kill assists
booker was support thus the 200+ in ammo and kill assists and a few kills from nades
burrito was on the front guns thus the 50 kills
dogface ran gun ship support to keep the enemy gun ships off of us 25 kills
scorpion, beav and bot provided the mines and the SAAW action.

Fair enough... But why were you engy then? Wouldn't medic have served as well, but with the added bonus that if the guys did get hurt you would be there to help out? I mean as engy you wouldn't really do much, or am I missing something?

[Conv1ct]

Damn, thats pretty badass I never though of using motion mines that way. Genius work, nice movie. BTW didn't the Walkers give you guys problems. I find using AA stationary guns and the AA titan gun super easy to take down a transport. Hehe full transport would be one lucky bastard whoever took you guys down. Combat Badge with one shot...

[propyl]

if we all die then its a mad dash for a transport before some rammer gets the thing, or some dude that just wants to hop a ride and then ditch it. we had a guy ditch the thing with 6 of us on board today :(

[propyl]

Damn, thats pretty badass I never though of using motion mines that way. Genius work, nice movie. BTW didn't the Walkers give you guys problems. I find using AA stationary guns and the AA titan gun super easy to take down a transport. Hehe full transport would be one lucky bastard whoever took you guys down. Combat Badge with one shot...

That was a titan mode map, there are no walkers in that version. You're right the titan guns can work you over quick, we lost a few guys out of the side a few times to them, but when 4 engy's bust out the spanners the transport heals faster than those guns can take them down. You tend to stay clear of those guns when flying though. The Titans cant exactly chase you around the map. Dogface did a great job that round of keeping the gun ship busy and off of us with his gun ship. We managed to take out the rorsche's quite a few times before one of them got
us. As long as you can keep wrenching the thing while you're taking hits and avoid the EMP's you can keep it in the air. TV guided shots are honestly the worst thing you have to look out for. But man its hella funny to see a transport chasing a gunship around with 4 SAAW's firing and 2 main fwd guns.. lol its pretty funny. it's not the ultimate in pwnage or anything, but man it sure makes for some fun times.

[Kraxis]

Apparently not.

I have seen good pilots evade the stationary AAs pretty easily, and on Suez they are somewhat scarce compared to other maps. So that makes enough sense. And if the gunners know where they are, then it is the gunner that is dead. Further the Transport has some resistancy to the EMPs and hitting with the shots is not easy if the pilot evades the positions well enough.

The Titan guns are too easy to get below, so they are not much of a problem, especially not for a pilot who knows how to 'drop' out of the Titan. And with Engies onboard it will be repaired in no time.

The walkers I could imagine would be troublesome, but again, a good pilot would never bullrush the walker, but rather stay away a bit then move in when it is occupied (the gunners simply can't help themselves trying to get kills). Or something like that. And the AA gun is not strong enough to kill the Transport fast enough, especially not with engies onboard. It is decidedly an anti-gunship position in my mind.

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Oh, didn't notice the 2nd page. This was intended for the last post on page 1.

[Recon]

Dude, your video is awesome! the action with the mines and stuff was just AWESOME!!!!!!! Excellent work!

[Recon]

Yo, did you record your video with Fraps or did you record it with battledirector? Still, I know I said this already, but NICE WORK DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[propyl]

Yo, did you record your video with Fraps or did you record it with battledirector? Still, I know I said this already, but NICE WORK DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

heh thanks man. it was recorded with battle recorder and then i went back and viewed the br footage and used fraps to record the segments. i wish that game cam would work with punk buster as it is so much easier on my system than fraps. fraps tends to dump my frame rates right into the ground, plus to fraps that entire round would be probably somewhere between 10-20 gigs worth of raw avi footage.