Is he going to be scary?
Not that scary
They fired at long intervals and were very conspicuous when firing.
And players have the ability to use mortars and aircraft to destroy them regardless of the terrain.
Definitely not. Throwing 
from behind the hill is extremely toxic. And doesn’t contribute to interesting game experience in any way.
But we already have mortars for the same purpose, this function would just make the flakbus more versatility.
He’s just a bigger mortar that takes longer to reload
In any case, it would be more useful than having him killed by a high-explosive shell or having a shell hit the plane directly.
There are not many scenarios where it can be used, and most of the open capture points have a certain degree of explosion-proof zones.
Not to mention basically only idiots don’t prevent campers
From a practical perspective, increasing the use of such vehicles is beneficial to game freedom and tactics.
So we have self propelled anti-aircraft vehicle in a role of a light tank destroyer and you want to make it a SP mortar.
I have only one question: does it also float?
But we don’t have mortar trucks
Moreover, the mortar squad can almost be said to be the least cost-effective squad.
You misunderstood me, I want the flakbus to be less pathetic so I’m down for this.
I think he should have these two functions at the same time
Allows him to switch between different perspectives (standard tank perspective, mortar perspective)
More seriously though, if you want SP mortar take something based on SdKfz250 chassis for example.
This vehicles should get better AA capabilities as that’s how it was used. We don’t need magical mortar.
But the 88mm gun can indeed be used as an anti-aircraft gun
So you want magical universal truck that can serve as AA, TD and mortar.
At this point make it also a hovercraft and give it plazma ammo.
I don’t see “mortar” in this name.
If his turret angle allows
Why not?
Otherwise, why spend money to buy an 88 gun truck without protection?
Don’t forget that his shells need a direct hit to shoot down the plane
What is the difference between this and raising the angle of an anti-tank gun to shoot at an aircraft?
So howitzers are also AA guns? Because they also can aim upwards so they can shoot planes.
That’s not how this works. Guns and vehicles are designed with specific roles in mind and while technically they can do other things, they will most likely be very bad at them.
Tldr: magical universal weapons don’t exist.
Then maybe make it better at being AA gun? Like it was?
Instead of making up magical BS that has 0 reason to exist.
Like, everything?
No aiming devices for indirect fire. No ammunition for indirect fire. Probably too fast shells for indirect fire.
Well I want it to properly work as an AA since the round still bug
Increasing the application methods of this type of equipment will not have much impact on the balance of the game.
It can also increase players’ desire to buy
Not many people would want to buy an anti-aircraft truck that will be damaged by high-explosive bombs as soon as it appears and is very difficult to attack aircraft.
But everyone will definitely want to buy a general-purpose anti-aircraft truck that can use long-range mortars to attack enemy tanks and open areas.
Really? I’ve never heard of AA guns being used as mortars. Do you have some source for this so I can educate myself?
AA guns were literary designed to have fast shells with flat trajectory. Also ammo was fixed so you couldn’t change the amount of propellant.
This all is not ideal for indirect fire.
I’m confused.
Yeah, we already have mortars. Flakbus would be just better, just more toxic.
Nah, let mortars do their job.
they had different types of shells (many more than in enlisted) and the crews had standard artillery training also teaching them how to do indirect fire. the standard 88flak setup allowed for indirect fire, so using it was no problem at all despite not being optimized for it like normal mortars/howitzers.
on the eastern front, especially beginning and by the DAK 88s were often times used as mortars.
the main advantage of the german artillery troops was high quality training and adaptibility. especially the 88 was used against everything, as it was often times the only thing that could handle enemy bunkers, enemy tanks and heavily fortified positions, by mortaring them.
edit: this is exactly how you conduct warfare: you see what you have, and do the most with it. the avg enlisted noob on the other hand reads “muh AA gun” and then goes on tirades how it should only be allowed to shoot at planes in the game 
i dont mean you by this, but others who never stop posting that kind of nonsense
fun fact: when i was trained on panzerhaubitzen (self propelled 155mm L/52 howitzers) we obv learned how to use them as mortars, but you also had to learn what to do when stuff goes wrong. one situation are tanks rushing towards your position and blowing you up, in that case you need to lower the barrel as parallel to the ground as possible (which is hard to do but manageable if you drive up an elevated spot) and try to shoot directly at the enemy tank like youre a tank yourself. this is painfully slow and stressful, as the enemy tank will easily shot you 10 times in the process, but still possible with some luck or a good ambush. so even today artillery soldiers prepare for all types of situations, not only the most obv ones.
