AAV - Armored Assault Vehicle http://www.arma2.com/tracked-military-vehicles_en.html It's basically a APC 2.0, with a better chassis, armor, and allows more people to mount it's turrets. Because it allows more people to mount up on it, the driver cannot use any guns, but can install machine guns/rockets for the passengers to use. Seats: 5 Mounts: 2 (1 Mounted Turret, 1 normal mount) Pros: More armored up, and can provide supplies to nearby tanks. Very balanced and good handling as it can climb up slopes better (uses tank traction). Can resupply passengers. Can survive mines better with it's under plating (25% less damage from mines). Cons: More expensive (cost as much as a medium tank), requires research in the medium chassis. Slower than a APC (by 15%). Seats less people than APCs. Can't spawn players remotely, unless it's within a vicinity of a barrack (50 meters). Equips: MG/Rocket on it's mounted turret. Can use armor. Can use engines.
lol apc mkIIS. but then again. the fact that they can't spawn infantry remotely will either make them obsolete or give them a very conditional.
tanks that require teamwork to be operated don't work. There is no such thing on the internet, you'll just see people switching seats. Other games have proven this and there is no sense in trying it as well.
So your saying Battlefield 2 and 2142 has no teamwork? I've played matches in those games where people really worked as a team, especially when it comes to vehicles. In BF2, some maps requires transportation since they are huge, so transport choppers and APCs are important to get people to move forward. It's true that only in public servers, people don't rely on team work so often, but when they do, it's actually pretty effective. And if they are putting the Grenadier suggestion (rpg/mortar does hull damage), which can change the vehicle combat system quite a lot, so all vehicles either needs a boost in hp, or have more vehicles with variations of them. Armored Assault Vehicles are basically a stripped out medium tanks, that's refitted with APCs equipments. You see those in some games from time to time, because they don't fit in the role of a 4 wheeled APC, as they use traction to get around. Uploaded a pic of it, which looks very tough and solid. EDIT: This isn't a tank, but a armored assault vehicle, and an amphibious one btw (based on picture).
Its a good idea of a revamp of the APC Mk2 but seriously? 50m spawn within baracks. Thats TINY Just keep it normal able to spawn remotely. If its costing as much as a med tank these things aint gonna be rushin in same way. If u want to APC rush ud use Mk.1s and maybe 1 or 2 Mk.2 (the suggested) lol
If you want a game to require teamwork for vehicle combat you need to do that from the beginning. The established playerbase of Empires will reject this change because it is quite a gameplay divergence from what they are used to, from the game they like to play. If you want something like this you need to do it from the start, when you first start pulling in a playerbase, so you get players with the teamwork-oriented mindset you NEED for this to play well. This idea will NEVER be compatible with the playerbase of the EmpiresMod we know. At the most, a few individuals will like it. But the playerbase as a whole will never embrace it.
