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by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:27 pm
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by Atkemri » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:36 pm
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Should this between me and you start off with me trying to/finding you downed pilots that ejected during your attack?
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by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:37 pm
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by Tawwassen » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:41 pm
Valgora wrote:The United Remnants of America wrote:That's a terrible idea.
Remember, if you need a reason like "magic" to make something realistic happen, that means it's unrealistic. Cannon on aircraft are last-ditch weapons because the technology exists to keep the pilots safer and further away from cannon rounds.
So you want fighter jets to be boring?
And of course it was unrealistic. Modern fighters have no soul.
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by Tawwassen » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:42 pm
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by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:52 pm
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by Zhouran » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:59 pm
Tawwassen wrote:I'm afraid I'm going to have to say no still, fighters are fighters, and magic is just too unrealistic for me
Valgora wrote:So you want fighter jets to be boring?
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:08 pm
Zhouran wrote:Tawwassen wrote:I'm afraid I'm going to have to say no still, fighters are fighters, and magic is just too unrealistic for me
Being an aviation enthusiast, mixing fighter jets with magic is a big no-no. I prefer realistic aerial warfare.
Anyway, Tawwassen, what's your nation's main goal in this war?Valgora wrote:So you want fighter jets to be boring?
Aerial warfare ain't boring, atleast for me. It's just rather quick paced since it's basically supersonic metal birds flying and turning while launching missiles at each other.
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by The United Remnants of America » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:16 pm
Valgora wrote:Zhouran wrote:Being an aviation enthusiast, mixing fighter jets with magic is a big no-no. I prefer realistic aerial warfare.
Anyway, Tawwassen, what's your nation's main goal in this war?
Aerial warfare ain't boring, atleast for me. It's just rather quick paced since it's basically supersonic metal birds flying and turning while launching missiles at each other.
Yes, it's boring.
If it was jet fighters having to go between supersonic and subsonic speeds to actually dogfight, that would be fucking awesome.
It'll be like WWII, except with modern gen 4 fighters.
But instead it's:
*keeps aiming thingy on aircraft that only the radar sees*
*pushes button*
*missile fire*
*enemy dot disappears*
"Oh how fun. ... Such wow. ... Yay."
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:22 pm
The United Remnants of America wrote:Valgora wrote:
Yes, it's boring.
If it was jet fighters having to go between supersonic and subsonic speeds to actually dogfight, that would be fucking awesome.
It'll be like WWII, except with modern gen 4 fighters.
But instead it's:
*keeps aiming thingy on aircraft that only the radar sees*
*pushes button*
*missile fire*
*enemy dot disappears*
"Oh how fun. ... Such wow. ... Yay."
.... I think if you find MT boring, you shouldn't be in MT.
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by The United Remnants of America » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:40 pm
Valgora wrote:The United Remnants of America wrote:
.... I think if you find MT boring, you shouldn't be in MT.
I didn't say MT is boring.
I'm just saying that modern fighter jets have no soul.
Also, this ain't to argue for magic. This is to spread the gospel of Bismarck from YouTube.
"I have the standard rule that jets have no soul."
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:40 pm
The United Remnants of America wrote:Valgora wrote:
I didn't say MT is boring.
I'm just saying that modern fighter jets have no soul.
Also, this ain't to argue for magic. This is to spread the gospel of Bismarck from YouTube.
"I have the standard rule that jets have no soul."
That statement is completely lost on me.
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by The United Remnants of America » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:41 pm
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:48 pm
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by Serpenteum » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:54 pm
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:59 pm
Serpenteum wrote:off topic from magic, should my Blue Brigades go behind enemy lines and flank or land on enemy ships?
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by Common Territories » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:14 pm
Valgora wrote:Tawwassen wrote:I think using magic would be a bit OP, given the rest of us (I think) aren't magical in any way.
One of the reason why I want to is because I've been planning on using it as an excuse to make stealth aircraft and air-to-air missiles harder to use. Which then means actual dogfighting with modern jets, thus providing soul to modern military aircraft.
by Zhouran » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:32 pm
Valgora wrote:Yes, it's boring.
If it was jet fighters having to go between supersonic and subsonic speeds to actually dogfight, that would be fucking awesome.
It'll be like WWII, except with modern gen 4 fighters.
But instead it's:
*keeps aiming thingy on aircraft that only the radar sees*
*pushes button*
*missile fire*
*enemy dot disappears*
"Oh how fun. ... Such wow. ... Yay."
Common Territories wrote:I don't have enough fingers to display how many people never bring AWACS
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:45 pm
Common Territories wrote:Valgora wrote:
One of the reason why I want to is because I've been planning on using it as an excuse to make stealth aircraft and air-to-air missiles harder to use. Which then means actual dogfighting with modern jets, thus providing soul to modern military aircraft.
Just to begin with, I was shared this RP thread and felt I need to make a point here.
To be perfectly honest, someone so ignorant of modern aerial warfare shouldn't be talking as if it's boring, especially if they don't have any clue how it's actually conducted. You make it sound like it's driving through LA traffic at rush-hour, or browsing through shopping ads, which it isn't. Though lets say you do and your... point-by-point statements earlier are 100% factually correct (how fast flying machines armed with weapons taking on other fast moving flying machines with weapons is boring is fucking lost on me too, but lets go with it for a moment). If it's so boring for technology to be different in MT that you rely on magic to "negate stealth and missile technology" (you know, instead of learning how to in an MT fashion), why are you writing in an MT thread? Why don't YOU use WW2 fighters since you love primitive dogfighting so much? Why is it fair for everyone else that you get to use some form of magic in an MT thread?
Lets cut to brass tax here. This is an MT thread. Regardless how the OP wants to handle it, there SHOULD BE ("should" being the key word here) a limitation on people in other tech fields taking part. Segregation of the techs is for the greater good of everyone involved in standard practice; as cancer as it would be for me personally to see another mix tech thread, that would be up to any OP to make-up if they indeed wanted that atmosphere here (to each their own as they say). But that's not the case here. As you can see on the title, it says "MT" for a reason.
You wanting to negate stealth technology and missiles to "force dogfights" is a load of hogwash that stems from either two things: You want the advantage in a war thread against technology you're unfamiliar with, or, you're ignorant/apathetic of modern technology to the point where you desire WW2 style warfare in MT environments (why WW2 people feel they need to be in MT is beyond me still...). Personally, im leaning towards the latter judging by your comments about modern fighter jets "not having soul"... I mean, just to branch off for a second, what the fuck is that even supposed to mean? "It has no soul because it doesn't have speed limitations, no propellers, and you don't use machine guns to kill other planes!"? Or is it simply you want to relive dogfights of over the Pacific like this was 1944? Honestly, whichever it is (im personally leaning towards you just wanting MT tech to emulate WW2 era technology, which is just plain foolish an idea), you've come to the wrong tech field if you want to use magic. Now dogfights can happen here, though I guess you're unaware they exist still in a certain fashion, but should they be common? Maybe, maybe not. Lets move on though.
Lets briefly cover the fact that yes, there are such things as dogfights still. In the event your BVR fails (typically two volleys of BVRAAMs), short range heat seekers are typically used. Now some cases of dogfights happening (like in Iraq for example) have jets flying within a mile of each other, or farther, or closer. There are plenty of examples of jets, using missiles mind you, that get into heated dogfights. For example, the latest US fighter shootdown of a Syrian warplane took multiple missiles because the earlier ones missed (not so point and click now is it?). Although BVR is the norm now, it's not nearly as mundane as you labeled it to be since 99% of RPers here don't know how to properly write such aerial warfare; you're gonna have plenty of people who are totally ignorant of technology and modern practices found in modern air combat - I don't have enough fingers to display how many people never bring AWACS or who bring some form of WW2 tech to the fight. I don't think you're giving MT warfare a chance here tbh; you're cutting it the short straw because technology itself has changed and it's not wild west shoot shoot bang bang to kill a modern jet fighter.
Personally, I see this argument as being like going to two different restaurants: you prefer going to Outback (WW2 warfare) and I prefer going to Red Lobster (MT). Granted Red Lobster is a fucking dump now compared to a decade ago, my point is is that we're seeking the same stuff but in different flavors. Just because you aren't down with endless shrimp doesn't mean it doesn't have soul. I find the very fact you say modern jet fighters have no soul to be the most ignorant and unfounded statement I've seen in a while.
Okay. Rant over. Though I'll stick around a little bit if anyone wants to talk
Zhouran wrote:Valgora wrote:Yes, it's boring.
If it was jet fighters having to go between supersonic and subsonic speeds to actually dogfight, that would be fucking awesome.
It'll be like WWII, except with modern gen 4 fighters.
But instead it's:
*keeps aiming thingy on aircraft that only the radar sees*
*pushes button*
*missile fire*
*enemy dot disappears*
"Oh how fun. ... Such wow. ... Yay."
War isn't a game. It's not meant to be "fun" (except if you're a sociopath/psychopath). Plus I hate cheesy dogfights. The sight of fighter jets doing cartoonish maneuvers is silly and only fit for video games, anime, and cheesy Chinese action films.
Anyway, results and lessons learned from conflict dictate the evolution of weapons and military technology. For example, American aerospace designers of the 1950s thought dogfight was a thing of the past, so they started designing high-speed interceptors armed only with missiles (or nuclear-armed unguided rockets for those tasked with defense against Soviet bombers). Lessons from Vietnam showed that missiles are not entirely reliable since the tech at the time was still young so American aerospace designers re-added the on-board cannon back rather than have the aircraft carry a separate gun pod. Since missile and avionics tech has evolved following Vietnam, the chance of a dogfight between two fighter jets is rather slim, and most likely it would be either a minute-long duel in which the victor fires a short burst of cannon fire and take down the enemy, or a few second duel in which each pilot launches a WVR AAM at each other and pray that their missile hits.
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by The United Remnants of America » Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:08 pm
by Valgora » Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:20 pm
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by Zhouran » Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:45 pm
Valgora wrote:Cheesy dogfights? What's cheesy about dogfights?[/spoiler]
The United Remnants of America wrote:The second you forget about logistics like AWACS and refueling is the second I win the war.
by Common Territories » Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:00 pm
I was just asking if I could use magic. I didn't say I wanted to be the only one. I would expect that if one person uses magic, then someone else will.
Do you not think it would be cool if fast moving flying machines had to dogfight with cannons to take out other fast moving flying machines?
Why do you think A-10s are cool? It's because of the gun. Obviously. And how rugged it is.
I've already said I'm not arguing for magic. I dropped magic when the OP said no.
Similar to when I completely dropped hypersonic missiles in the other one (they've been tested, but are not expected until 2018-2019 I think) and when I reduced the number of railguns; which are around and stuff, but I won't be using any on my ships.
But what do you have against mixing techs?
To me, that sounds cool as hell.
I've completely forgot about AWACS. And refueling. I bet a lot of people forget about refueling; of course, it would depend on the range and how long the aircraft are in the air.
I don't want to bring WWII tech to the fight. I'm talking about WWII tactics and dogfighting.
There's a reason why flying in War Thunder is fun.
Imagine if generation 4 aircraft had to shoot shoot bang bang (or any other variation of the sort) to kill another gen 4 fighter.
Wouldn't that be awesome. Of course, put shoot shoot bang bang with almost anything and it can make it sound awesome.
I've bet you've heard stupider and more ignorant stuff before.
And I'm pretty sure that I've said things that are more stupid than this.
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