Satchels............

[Fraizinger]

Over the last few days i have been playing RO. I love using the Sapper (i forget the German name for it). The sapper is the one with the pack of C4 and the PPSH/MP40.

Anyways I put a satchel on a tank today and the tank just drove away. I thought to my self, why dont they stick to the tanks. In WW2 they uses stickey bombs. Why dont we have the advantage to stick it to a tank. If stickey bombs dont work let us have the option to press our attach bayonet key( i belive it is the alt fire button) to place on the tank, then we have to right click to pull the cord.

 

[Psycho_Sam]

Yeah its Saper in Russian and Sto

 

[Fraizinger]

i know its not alt+fire, i think its called in your cofiguration. but i tried throwing it on the top.. it didnt work

 

[[CoR]MiccyNarc]

Yeah its Saper in Russian and Sto

 

[Artem]

I like this idea.

 

[SiFi]

Just a nitpick, but a satchel isn't filled with c4, as far as I know.

 

[Drude]

Over the last few days i have been playing RO. I love using the Sapper (i forget the German name for it). The sapper is the one with the pack of C4 and the PPSH/MP40.

Anyways I put a satchel on a tank today and the tank just drove away. I thought to my self, why dont they stick to the tanks. In WW2 they uses stickey bombs. Why dont we have the advantage to stick it to a tank. If stickey bombs dont work let us have the option to press our attach bayonet key( i belive it is the alt fire button) to place on the tank, then we have to right click to pull the cord.

C4 is post ww2 explosive.

And only americaners lowered to use those sock made "sticky bombs", lol. (Well I have to admit they did work well)

 

[MkH^]

Can't comment on the starter post, but the satchel charges are way overpowered against heavy tanks. Sure it could destroy the engine, optics or other sensitive parts, but apart from the concussion effect, I doubt it would hurt the crew. Shaped charges were developed for a reason.

 

[Felix Ostheim]

Can't you throw the satchel onto the tank behind the turret?

 

[WickedPenguin]

You can throw satchels on tanks and make them "stick". You just have to time it right and use a combination jump/throw to get the height necessary to plop them on the rear engine deck.

 

[immutablyme]

Can't you throw the satchel onto the tank behind the turret?

In the original RO I was tasked to defend a tower ... alone! I had two satchel charges and I sat huddled behind cover as two German tanks rolled up to the base of the tower to take the objective. Because they didn't need to enter the tower, or even exit the tanks, they could just sit there as the objective meter scrolled by. I knew I had to do something but my options were low.

I risked peeking out the window and down the side of the tower and was overjoyed to see that they had parked right next to each other. So, I dropped a satchel on top of each tank and ducked back inside.

Both tanks blew and all four soldiers were blown sky high.

Suffice it to say, there was a alot of WTFs going around.

Anyway, my point is that sometimes you need to be creative about how to use the satchel charges. I sneak up and pop them under a tank, I've put them on top, I've dropped them inside half-tracks, I've even used them to create a sufficient distraction to get a squad of men to a position undetected.

But if I were to offer an alternative to the satchel, I'd say that perhaps when you choose the engineer class you could select from a list of explosive types. For instance, you could select dynamite for more calculated detonations, satchel charges, mines, etc.

 

[[5.SS]Strother]

You want the bomb to stick? How lazy can you be? It's a satchel charge, no where in the discription does it say a sticky charge. If somehow you did put something sticky to it and attached it to the tank the weight of the satchel would probably make it fall off. Now maybe if somehow you ducttaped a large magnet to your satchel charge, then it might stick.

 

[Phoenix-D]

Can't comment on the starter post, but the satchel charges are way overpowered against heavy tanks. Sure it could destroy the engine, optics or other sensitive parts, but apart from the concussion effect, I doubt it would hurt the crew. Shaped charges were developed for a reason.

They were, yes. So you could kill tanks with gun-fired shells and smaller rockets/grenades.

On the other hand there is something to be said for using a ridiclous amount of explosives; the satchel charge in RO is what, 10kg? Any modern shaped charge is going to be a lot lighter than that, and most satchel attacks hit the weakest-armored points of the tank.

 

[Meadow]

I'd like to see proper shaped charge weapons like the Hoddhadung and RDG-43. Zimmerit making them not work would also be nice.

 

[Fraizinger]

I have tryed to throw satchels ontop and under tanks, but there is some kind of blocker that makes it just fall on the ground behind the tank. Maby if stickey bombs dont work make it so you can place the charge on the tank, but if the tank moves in a certain direction it will fall off.

 

[LordKhaine]

On the other hand there is something to be said for using a ridiclous amount of explosives; the satchel charge in RO is what, 10kg? Any modern shaped charge is going to be a lot lighter than that, and most satchel attacks hit the weakest-armored points of the tank.

Unshaped explosives really don't have as much power against tanks as the amount of explosive would imply. Sure the top armour was thin, but the unshaped explosive placed on top of the tank would explode upwards away from the tanks top. And damaging/destroying an engine is unlikely to violently blow up a heavy tank killing all inside.. like it does ingame consistantly.

 

[[5.SS]Strother]

The sapper roll in games is really overused. Like the above post says they are almost useless against tanks unless you want to knock off the track or unless you lay one on the ground and the tank rolls over top of it.