Just an idea or maybe not!

[Zecristo]

Flamethrowers are known to have a huge psychological impact on soldiers confronting them and, by some strong reactions to my ingame use of them, they may also have it when playing E. T. .
Adding to that an episode when Ricardus taught me ingame I was throwing a smoke grenade the wrong way and seeing an “Hints and trick!” topic started by Libby I had one of my brainstorms.

Why not start a topic on the “ Ingame Tactical Use of Flamethrowers”, in which everyone can state his/her serious views on how/when/where to use/not use the wretched thing.
I think all views other than just “It’s a laaame gun” or “It’s sooo cool” sort of thing would be in order.
The idea is to combine different views from various people replying the topic to produce a written “User Manual” for the weapon in question.

Of course, why stop here if we can make it for every other weapon in the game, and for that matters we can make it for “Player Classes” too. I’,m thinking of starting an “Ingame Tactical Use of Medic Skills” topic, as it is my favourite class.

In this way, we would create written manuals about ingame Weapons and Classes Skills usage, thus obtaining a tool to help learning from each other and teaching newcomers.

The idea may also have the potential, should the “top brass” so finds, to be used in a somewhat reversed way. Having newcomers writing on those subjects (a sort of written test or composition) as one more tool to assess the way they think about the game.

Of course there may be a serious disadvantage. As the forum is mostly open to people outside the clan our “Manuals” would be exposed to viewing by almost everyone.
Unless they were posted in an “clanmember” area. But that would also limit the number of contributions.

Well, it’s just an idea. Think about it and state your views.

Yours: Zecristo O Messias Dos Ateus

[agentorange4]

I agree with that totaly. there are right and wrong ways to use every weapon from the pistol's to panzers.

as to what you were saying about views on tactical uses for Flamethrowers i think that the best suit indoor enviroments (pretty obvious) as their range is not that great and the visibility of the user decreases to a rather poor performance wich will more than likely result in death if a fire fight breaks out

These weapons deployed as a defence inside the bank and other such areas can provide a rather lethal. As the area of movement is limited to corridoors and small rooms, with the FT's range problem isn't so much so. Not only do they not have to reload but have a great advantage of being able to fire round corners (to some degree) and lay down some pretty effective supressing fire. Although speed is reduced to that what seems like snail pace. Only down side I find is watching out for team members. But if they are experienced, then they should keep check on their positions and not get to close

These are only my views, I have plenty of them too in regards to other weapons and game play and would be happy to share them. This is the side of gameing that I always have had a soft spot for. I like to think of it as Training and learning. The Army doesn't just send out every new recruit straight away, they have to undergo a rigorous amount of physical and mental training, getting to grips with their equipment and how to use it effectively; I look at this as the same (in a way, just less work!)

[ironman]

Very good idea, that is why we have a (shielded) war room categorie ;D