None of the ingredients for a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster? lame!

(Interesting, a gin and tonic is apparently lethal... yet a random combination of several spirits and juices scored higher...)

It works until someone sets them up in a bunker, blocking exiting or entrance

Indeed. That was something of a favourite trick in Desert Combat... drop sandbags on the stairs in a building. Shoot people in relative safety from the top floor, knowing no-one can climb the stairs to face you.

Like so many ideas... nice in theory... but again, technical limitations .

This thread brings back great memories of the sandbags in early versions of Desert Combat for BF1942. They had so many bugs it was unbelievable, but that didn't stop them being fun.... *sigh*

Anyway, it's a nice idea, but I can't see how it would work too well in FH2. Perhaps a special pick up kit that has a sandbag or two? But that's a lot of work.. for not much cover. I doubt too many sandbags were moved around during combat in real life.

This would be a terrible idea. As it stands already, AT/AA guns are massively vulnerable to tanks, planes and arty, and already take a good minute to repair as it is. And in that time, you can usually expect a plane or tank to return anyway, usually scoring an easy kill. And that's assuming an arty bombardment hasn't destroyed several guns/mg's/radios all at once... damage that would take a number of engineers many minutes to repair.

As it stands now, manning AT/AA guns is about the worst job in the game. You spend half your time repairing things (speaking of which, anyone ever seen anyone get more than 2 repair points?), and the other half generally being slaughtered by planes/tanks/arty. Why would you want to make it even more unbearable?

In FH1 those Japanese AT riflenades were quite effective and it was easy to kill Shermans with them.

As well as one shot planes, which always pissed off pilots. And best of all, they would damage any ship. Enough of them could sink a carrier. I remember once an American destroyer beaching next to the last Japanese flag to bombard it... within 5 minutes it had been AT rifle naded to hell. In large enough numbers it could take out tanks fairly well, as well as easily destroy jeeps, AT guns and whatnot.

Ah... most flexible FH kit ever

The PTRD could penetrate 40MM of armor.The panzer III and IV during the early eastren front had 30MM of side armor

To be fair, that PTRD penetration distance was for under 100 metres range under ideal conditions, and I've seen it listed as 35mm just as often. And considering how little damage it would do even if it did penetrate.. you could hardly call it an effective AT weapon.

That's not to say it wasn't a good weapon. Against armoured vehicles or light tanks you could really do some damage. But then hey... why develop a decent infantry AT weapon when you instead are pumping out tens of thousands of IL2's, arty and tanks?

Give me the eastern front before the pacific! Far more interesting and varied... besides... without the large ship support that the engine had in BF1942... most of the fun of the pacific is drained away instantly. It was those huge fleet on fleet battles that made the pacific so much fun in FH1.