Tank Riders - Red Army

[sislimak]

I thing it would be great.

[tom23456]

i thing it would be too

[sislimak]

and how it could suggest the creators of the game?

[DonDigsMinecraft]

Penals with flamethrowers riding on a KV? I like that.

[R2zi3l]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's such an obvious tactic once you think about it, I wonder how relic missed it

[Commissar Red]

No make bomb-dogs before tankriders please! Anyway...Russians did ride on their tanks yes, but they also got off early enough, before being fired upon. Also the whole embark/disembark system in this game is so unsmooth I doubt it would actually add antyhing ingame.

[lungenfoto]

You need to suggest on official forum and also look on coh2.org.

Been suggested back in the old forum, before redesign, and not sure why it didn't take off, but worth re-suggesting it. My original idea was that units on the tank could be shuttled by tank, and dismount to support. That might be over powering in certain situations, so perhaps why its not been implemented.

[tom23456]

I wanna see tow trucks for artillery

[sislimak]

could someone suggest it on the forum?

[Victor]

Tank desant infantry - infantry riding on tanks - was a Russian combined arms tactic. Some Russian infantry units tankodesantniki were trained to work with tanks in this manner. Once the firing started or at the time of assault, the infantry jumped off. A World War 2 Eastern Front squad-level RTS should have this ability for the Russians. The Wehrmacht had infantry riding on tanks, but this tactic was more widely used by the Russians. Tank desant was part of Russian military doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_desant

Here is an interesting COH video showing a possible implementation of tank desant. I don't think that infantry would stay on the tank once the firing started. The infantry would be too vulnerable. The top of a tank is provides bad cover against machine gun fire and incoming AT rounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjdjja-JAQ&list=PLW5Kb_Q-NI3VgfLJs48yUON0UBksEtFmz&index=2

This picture shows the infantry jumping off the tanks and advancing.
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6136/sovietpressing1944dy2.jpg

[Schindler's Fist™]

Originally posted by Commissar Red:

No make bomb-dogs before tankriders please!

Yeah that's what we need, bombs that run back towards their masters before exploding and killing them

[Cookie]

they will never do that. its will be good for soviets. why will they give good things to the soviets?

[sislimak]

so it is possible that the Soviets will ride on tanks?

[lungenfoto]

Originally posted by Victor:

..A World War 2 Eastern Front squad-level RTS should have this ability for the Russians. The Wehrmacht had infantry riding on tanks, but this tactic was more widely used by the Russians. Tank desant was part of Russian military doctrine...

Fair point but by same measure there should also be way to link tank and infantry following behind since this was fairly common practice also. I would like to see both in game, all it takes is people to suggest it and support the suggestion on official forum and coh2.org

[76561198123182455]

Originally posted by ID.007:

they will never do that. its will be good for soviets. why will they give good things to the soviets?

Didnt you know? The soviets lost WW2 against germans.

Wait, thats not right. Ups, i was reading from Relic history books. Sory, my mistake.

[akaeskim0]

Originally posted by tom23456:

I wanna see tow trucks for artillery

yes.