What are your favorite units in the game?

[PlasmaKrab]

And how do you simulate tanks and howitzers tied on the deck?

The question remains: are they really up to using that kind of thing in real combat conditions, are they experimenting for further dedicated shipborne systems (e.g. using the landlubbers' stabilization technology), or is that just a propaganda quirk to frighten the hell out of the Taiwanese?

Or as far as the game is concerned, just take any old LC unit and stuff it full with any old vehicle-based weapons if you like!
I tend to do the same with infantry weapons in some landing scenarios, to account for crewmen, grunts, MPs or just anyone giving some support (rifles, MGs, grenades, mines, rarely LAWs and MANPADS) during the beaching.

[Mustang]

PlasmaKrab said:

The question remains: are they really up to using that kind of thing in real combat conditions, are they experimenting for further dedicated shipborne systems (e.g. using the landlubbers' stabilization technology), or is that just a propaganda quirk to frighten the hell out of the Taiwanese?

It looks to me like just another prototype. It'd be terribly unsurvivable in combat (no anti-missile defenses, and when anything substantial hits this big floating target all of the howitzers and the ship sink). But I'm going to include it anyway just because it's cool.

Or as far as the game is concerned, just take any old LC unit and stuff it full with any old vehicle-based weapons if you like!

They have plently of generic "ship" icons in the game. Have you ever looked at a Support Ship or Ammo Ship? I'll take one of those, load all the weapons mounts with BM-21s, and put it offshore somewhere as an auxiliary unit for the campaign. The Ammo Ship class might be a good idea to pick, as something carrying that many rockets is bound to be very volatile and ready to explode.

[PlasmaKrab]

Mustang said:
The Ammo Ship class might be a good idea to pick, as something carrying that many rockets is bound to be very volatile and ready to explode.

Look at the NVA "Support ship" f.e., it uses the ammo ship icon in the LCG class, and I think that's the best to use. Ammo carrier class would give it an unrealistic ability to resupply other units, and you have other ways of making it unsurviveable.

[Mustang]

No, I just like the explosion it makes. And it would likely be carrying lots of small arms reserves anyway, as the crew would be firing howitzers, machine guns, and other army ammunition.

[Nerfix]

Buratino, SU-25 with FAE and Schmel infantry...hmmm, notice a pattern?