Radio operator skills
Ability to order smoke to cover the battlefield when another player calls in artillery, and the ability to call in artillery when another player calls in an airstrike.
Plus one airstrike per player. Sometimes airstrikes are so frequent that a side with half the players having a communications team completely dominates the game, especially in the Pacific and Tunisia. And anti-aircraft guns have too short range to effectively cover the battlefield.
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How about just make them all have inpendent cooldown. So a squad can call airstrike, artilary and smoke at the same time
No no. Rather, I mean that three players on a given team can simultaneously. That one air attack, the second artillery fire, and the third can put up a wall of smoke at the same time. And you won’t have to wait to put smoke because the bombers haven’t done their job yet.
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The issue here is that its too much firepower raining down at once, when there is no counter for 2 out of the 3.
The bombers you can shoot down with one or two players, but artillery and smoke screen don’t have any way to stop them.
Defenders would get fried instantly just because of a couple guys with radio squads.
In addition, smoke at the same time as bomber run could too easily block the view of AA players. Far too OP.
Oh no. Because whether you use fire or smoke you will have your cooldawn as well as a long cooldawn after using planes. So you won’t spam.
And simultaneously striking an artillery attack and placing a smoke screen is not very OP because both smoke and white phosphorus are double-edged weapons.
In fact, I’m also wondering if they shouldn’t bring back friendly fire on artillery and airstrikes. Someone will say “but why” and so that the players would not have the opportunity to unpunished artillery strikes on their own positions. Because it’s really funny when it rains bombs and players run into each other’s points to the accompaniment of “free bird”.
Yes, it is, you just haven’t seen enough smoke yet probably to realize it is all.
White Phosphorous is, but well placed smoke is not.
HaHa, hell no. We have enough problems with players WP, Molotov, Flamethrower, etc killing teammates indiscriminately, we don’t need airstrikes to do it too.