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<blockquote data-quote="whisper_jeff" data-source="post: 1463804" data-attributes="member: 6370"><p>First, thanks for the compliments - I'm really happy with the book.</p><p></p><p>Second, as for the Longbow being able to take out a Comanche with one missle, on average - this is something I asked David and Rich to get as accurate as possible. Unfortunately, the real world military stage isn't as "fun" as the game stage - one shot can often completely mess a vehicle up... The days of the long dogfights where "the whole nine yards" are emptied into opponent aircraft are over and gone. Also, keep in mind, being reduced to zero Hit Points does not mean a vehicle is <strong>destroyed</strong> - it just means it has been disabled.</p><p></p><p>One great story Rich related to me is a tale of an M1 Abrams that was disabled (I believe the tank tread was blown off, but don't quote me on that) and the tank battalion couldn't waste time effecting repairs to get the vehicle back up to operational status - they had other, more important things to do... Well, rather than leave a functional tank sitting on the battlefied, the entire battalion of tanks opened fire on the Abrams so that it couldn't be used by the enemy. Well, despite numerous hits from a battalion of main battle tank guns, the core of the Abrams was still intact. The outside of the tank was messed up, but the inner core was still intact - the vehicle was not <strong>destroyed</strong> - it was just <em>really</em> disabled. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Anyhow, yes, a Comanche could be disabled with one Longbow. The Comanche, however, was designed to slip into position, without being seen so that it can fire first and thus not worry about return fire...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whisper_jeff, post: 1463804, member: 6370"] First, thanks for the compliments - I'm really happy with the book. Second, as for the Longbow being able to take out a Comanche with one missle, on average - this is something I asked David and Rich to get as accurate as possible. Unfortunately, the real world military stage isn't as "fun" as the game stage - one shot can often completely mess a vehicle up... The days of the long dogfights where "the whole nine yards" are emptied into opponent aircraft are over and gone. Also, keep in mind, being reduced to zero Hit Points does not mean a vehicle is [b]destroyed[/b] - it just means it has been disabled. One great story Rich related to me is a tale of an M1 Abrams that was disabled (I believe the tank tread was blown off, but don't quote me on that) and the tank battalion couldn't waste time effecting repairs to get the vehicle back up to operational status - they had other, more important things to do... Well, rather than leave a functional tank sitting on the battlefied, the entire battalion of tanks opened fire on the Abrams so that it couldn't be used by the enemy. Well, despite numerous hits from a battalion of main battle tank guns, the core of the Abrams was still intact. The outside of the tank was messed up, but the inner core was still intact - the vehicle was not [b]destroyed[/b] - it was just [i]really[/i] disabled. :) Anyhow, yes, a Comanche could be disabled with one Longbow. The Comanche, however, was designed to slip into position, without being seen so that it can fire first and thus not worry about return fire... [/QUOTE]
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