Strange Soviet OOB omission

[Mobhack]

It is not a snowmobile since its not any sort of an all-terrain vehicle.

Aerosans can only travel on their skis on wide-open smooth packed ice or snow. They simply cannot move on any other terrain type, or go into any sort of foliage, buildings, cross ditches or broken terrain of any sort whatsoever. So only good on snow maps.

I have no idea what the turning radius would be either - probably similar to a dragsters ... And I don't think they dealt with hills very well, either.

They existed on the fringe of a lunatic fringe for a few years in a country that actually could make some limited use of the things in the relatively long winter season. They don't exist now - and for good reason.

So it would be of extremely limited use for the 1 and 1/2 human human players that might ever use them, and would give the AI fits if it even could be sanely coded to use them - so for human use only. And it would be a nasty little project needing plenty of intricate coding for next to no benefit. Not going to happen, basically.

Andy

[iln82]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Aerosans can only travel on their skis on wide-open smooth packed ice or snow. They simply cannot move on any other terrain type, or go into any sort of foliage, buildings, cross ditches or broken terrain of any sort whatsoever. So only good on snow maps.

Well I know all that. What I didn't realise was that it would need a new class all of its own.

Originally Posted by Mobhack

so for human use only.Andy

I was talking about player use only but I didn't make that clear. I never expected that the AI would be programmed to use them. Anyway thanks for the insight. Seems that it's a case of lots of trouble for very little gain...