artillary is very nice idea and each tea will have 2 peices at the supply tent a player should go and pickup 15 round and then sit in a artillery peice and bring up the map click on a sector and say fire in the hole at G5 if you can prevent griefing. no iron sights and i like the idea of abommibaltoast that one round would be fired every 3.3 seconds so yea i hope the producers can come up with something and hope there is artillery

rpgs would be nice to blow holes in sniper nests in maps like hallway also if arty was a barrage that you select the area on the grid on hallway people could just aim into the hallway and block it off to the enemy (not like anyone uses it anymore it just gets mega griefed then a large tunnel system is made)

rpgs, or LAW , tanks, choppers, bombers, fighters , ships , jeeps , more weps. player controlled turrents

I wish I could get Forgotten Hope working on my Vista system... alas, I digress.

or even something like this?

I can't see it winning any wars, or even any battles. A single blockbuster bomb would make pretty short work of it. Hell drop an earthquake bomb near it in the desert and it would vanish without a trace.

Of course, everyone knows that isn't as fun as parachuting a whole bunch of commandoes on top of it to break in and blow it up from inside...

@Tehpwnzer you mean something kind of like this? http://imgur.com/a/esHvc

Actually, I was browsing the internet of cool unfinished or in testing stages of designs and this is one of them: http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/mauspic/ratte100.jpg It's called the "ratte" it's about 20 times larger than the maus (from what it looks) and it's 1,000 metric tons and can run using 20 small naval engines or 2 U boat engines (< holy shit!) It's speed is 40km/h which is very fast for a super heavy tank (more of a fucking hotel!)

The real design has 2 massive 28 inch naval guns on a huge over 20 foot in diameter turret. with 2 flak 88 guns in the front, then in the back it has 4 smaller naval guns on 2 seperate turrets. If albert speer wasn't such a douche the Germans would've won the war :D anything allied that could destroy that would have to be very close and anything within 300m of that thing will be destroyed.

Say whaaaaaaaaa? make him invest more in the Luftwaffe, rail mounted guns are awesome but bombers can deliver similar payloads a lot more effectively.

The gun should be the gustav :D

I suggest reading the entire wiki page, The size of the shell is fucking crazy.
AND IT takes 3 days to set up the GUN ITSELF

I want to go back in time and make hitler make 30 of these >:D

The Gustav: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

DPB D:

I would love it if, like someone suggested (too lazy to look :P) the artillery could fire explosive rounds, or Gas rounds. I was thinking the explosive rounds have a fair splash and impact damage, but are intended for more "anti-building" use, while the gas could do, like, say, 5 HP damage every 2 seconds that you stand in it, plus an additional 5 seconds' worth of damage when you get out, and the gas cloud should be large and remain for a while.

To prevent griefing, just not allow shooting at the grid columns A nd B for blue, G and H for green. Maybe even one column furthur if necessary.
Also, It could play a sound like the airstrike sirens during WWI and II that would prompt people in that square to take cover or something.

Additionally, you could get ammo from the enemy base

Jesus Christ I just realized this is almost forty thousand posts later, and the original post had just barely cleared 1k.
It's like watching your child grow, it makes me proud.

Do you mean like the chemical canister and the flag, or all the regular weapons in CBFD where you can only hold one at a time?

It's a fair point about not wanting to read all of it, it got pretty in-depth, but I tried to
get everything summed up in one post here. It should give you a good 'cliff notes' version.

Ok i didnt want to read this all but i think that( to reload it u must go get ammo from the hq but like in conkers bad fur day you can only hold it nothing else and when u die it just deletes it self ???? just an idea

i think mortars would be cool, really i do not see a big problem with them.

Will mortars be stationary?
and will it have bullet drop?

According to wikipedia mortars are

-man portable over any terrain
-able to be fired from trenches
-pretty sweet in general

Not bad, but could the mortar be operated using the Grid-based targeting system?

Then you could only set it up on a flat 3x3 area.

What if you could only set it up on a flat 3x3 area?

I love that Russian guy. He sounds all Slavic and stuff, but uses awesome sentence structure.

I was thinking of something that would take the place of the SMG or the rifle, with ammo working the same way. It'd be like a trebuchet in Age of Empires II, in that it takes a while to set up before you can fire it and you have to pack it back up before you can move again.

Mortar IRL

I could agree to that. One mortar per team. Just don't know how the ammo would work. Perhaps collected from various areas of the map or earned from kills or intel collection?

Mortars, anyone? You could have a mortar guy with a mortar launcher and a pistol. Then most of the needs for "artillery" would be met, and most of the complexities of having a powerful multi-user weapon system would be avoided.

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What I'm saying is that if they run back out of range, we could do advaces towards them. Eventually you could just isolate them to one area with your foxholes underground.

Not if the artillery range is only about 2/3rds of the map width as suggested.

What I'm saying is that if they run back out of range, we could do advaces towards them. Eventually you could just isolate them to one area with your foxholes underground.

Who said anything about them being 'held down' though? If they knew their intel had been captured they'd probably be on the move anyway.

So Toast, you're against the grid fire, I'm guessing? your post is a bit vague about what you do and don't like.