Kamikaze / suicide planes

[Brewsky]

Well. What. Would you like to plan on making a Zero crash into your enemies HQ as part of the doctrine? That would be SO awesome.

[vengefulnoob]

This isn't a doctrine suggestion, though that might be interesting for a pacific mod

[Brewsky]

But you could only use that ability if you were like down to a certain amount of resources maybe. Something like that.

[vengefulnoob]

Maybe u get it after u get zero fighter support? Cos once the maps lost their aces they used kamekaze

[AnEvilGuy]

The Hitler youth with panzerfuasts were to drive into the Russian tanks...
apparently their bosses were unaware that the the tank had machine guns.

[Brewsky]

We weren't talking about the Hitler Youth... We were talking about suicide planes and kamikaze attacks...

[TheAllMihtyOne]

well we did also mention dogs...

[vengefulnoob]

Hitler youth didn't ride into tanks: some had panzerfausts along side of handlebars: unless they rammed the tank with the wheel turned to the side then the thing can't really move... Can it?

Besides, they got killed before they used the fausts so how does it matter?

[greyreth]

suicide planes... suicide tanks... suicide Goliaths...
I'd love to drive a King Kangaroo, are you planning to implement any? That's wicked of you to have King Tigers without King Kangaroos...(

[Hammerstein]

Look up the Sonderkommando Elbe. These guys had the balls to ram their planes into American bombers

[stryker]

Look up the Sonderkommando Elbe. These guys had the balls to ram their planes into American bombers

Wow thanks for that tip.  I'd not read anything about these guys before.  Desperate measures for sure.

And yet the return on investment wasn't there imo (very low success rate for the aircraft and men dedicated to this).  Perhaps it was because, unlike the Japanese, this wasn't a suicide mission...just extremely high risk!

[Pauly3]

Look up the Sonderkommando Elbe. These guys had the balls to ram their planes into American bombers

This is not balls anymore this is just letting young, brave guys die so that evil fat guys with ugly beards can enjoy the world war a bit longer

[Cranialwizard]

I really wish I had a replay of this but my old CPU crapped:(

When I played COH, long before I had a good CPU and internet access, I noticed that I was using airbourne planes (American) but they never did their job correctly. I began to send in snipers to find out why, and I found a nice Flak 88 and a barn house HQ. I was like Oh fuck this thing is gonna die.

So I withdrew the sniper. I sent in a scout plane, it didn't even get near the map when I heard the engine cut out on it.

I was preparing a bomber when I began to see enemy territory. I was like WTF DUDE THEY SHOT IT.

To my surprise,  about 2 seconds later, the plane came crashing down into the HQ, killing the fully healthed building INSTANTLY, and after it had blown the shit out of the building, a large hunk of burning metal hit the flak, killing the crew and nearly destroying the gun.

Best 50 ammo used. Ever.

[Paciat]

Soviets were known of ramming enemy planes in 1941, when the red airforce was mostly obsolete.

About 200 "taran" (ramming) attacks were made by Soviets between the beginning of Operation Barbarossa and the middle of 1943.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramming
Its funny that theres a whole topic about ramming.

[comrade2012]

One time, me and my friend made a bunch of flak 88's. The other play kept trying to call in bombing runs on us, and we just kept shooting them down.

What really sucked, was that some of the crashing airplanes crashed into our 88's. It was funny.