Add banshee crew chief

[vernal estuary]

Essentially something I've noticed when playing basher pilot is more often than not I need to or wanna go in to insert or extract the team and act as the mobile ccp I am but because regularly we have stragler ai it means I can't cause I take fire and can't fight back.

Additionally regularly we wanna casevac using the rescue hook but I can't because I do not have someone back here who can handle winch ops.

So really I'm asking for one more slot to be added so there can be a banshee crewcheif who handles that stuff. It would also make stuff easier like dropping a crate cause It means I can land and the crew cheif can handle that and I can stay in the aircraft ready to bugout if stuff gets hairy.

Another possible use for it is someone who could be dedicated to driving the mev, as regularly banshee has to lose a member in the field to get the mev back for restart or trek back and forth licking up and dropping off the mev so someone who's handling that and keeping it mobile repaired and where it needs to be would also be quite helpful.

And on the realism front. While the mev is not so. It is completely realistic to have a crewcheif on a mini gun as the current doctrine for pj's is 2 birds one lands and drops a team the other stays up ready to lay down pain if the team on the ground needs it so having a crewcheif who can lay down suppressing or covering fire at a hot lz allowing banshee to get into or out of a masscas with casualties would be realistic

Anyway thoose are my thoughts on that

[potent basin]

As good as this sounds, I don't think they'll add it if they won't add in 2 more slots for a security detail for banshee

[latent heron]

If it was just one crew chief slot for the winch and ops, I would do it so fucking fast

[vernal estuary]

Essentially it adds another support tole and the banshee pilot slot is then like the rest of the stalker slots which is 2 slot

[vernal estuary]

additionally it solves a more logistical problem that i see banshee running into, alongside allows much better utilisation of the pavehawk

[subtle stump]

Since the ability to perform closed reductions was removed the pavehawk imo should no longer be a priority. Not having the MEV in the field as a mobile ccp is a major disadvantage.

[round swift]

The Pavehawk is also a mobile CCP

[subtle stump]

When is the last time you have seen the pavehawk land near the front lines?

[round swift]

Yesterday

[subtle stump]

During combat?

[round swift]

Yeah, they had taken a point and then the pavehawk landed, we PAKed people and we were on our mary way

[subtle stump]

That isn’t the front lines

[round swift]

wether it does that depends on the banshee TL and Pilot

[round swift]

Yeah, because the Pavehawk isn't cheap

[subtle stump]

Lol, exactly. MEV is way more useful

[round swift]

Well maybe if the Pavehawk was a battalion asset more people would land near the front lines

And it would be more useful

But that's a different discussion

[subtle stump]

Never going to happen and pilots would get strikes if they operated the pavehawk like that

[final yew]

Just because a vehicle is battalion asset, doesn't mean you should operate it with the mindset that it is expendable.

[round swift]

It wouldn't be expendable, people just wouldn't be super scared of loosing it

[final yew]

But you should be scared of loosing it. If the pilot gets used to making mistakes or loosing birds as banshee, they will play with the same mindset as Stalker where assets are mostly not battalion provided

[dawn acorn]

Totally agree with Helping here, having played Banshee everyday since we’ve had the Pavehawk back I can say we and the rest of platoon would benefit from having a Crew Chief Slot which could potentially man the winch and Mini guns

[neon mango]

Also as it currently stands with SOP, Nobody but Banshee Pilot can slot in Co-pilot. Adding a Banshee Crew chief would also allow the pavehawk to have a co-pilot.

I more want it to be a battalion asset so we don't have to pull our hair out with every 1-6 that says banshee can't have a pavehawk when this one inevitably gets lost

[potent basin]

It's been brought up before

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But idk if it will be added

Plus battalion Asset's get taken away after a little bit don't they?

[dawn acorn]

Think the admins said if we wanted it to be a battalion asset it would need to replace one of the existing ones

[potent basin]

They give us one Transport heli and I think (My opinion) they would take that away for the Pavehawk if they did add it in

To help balance it cause it's either one of the other in the CS's eyes I think

[vernal estuary]

the trasport heli would stay

transport and logistics over assets

[potent basin]

And that's the thing. That's probably why they won't or don't add it as a battalion asset

[neon mango]

every time we bring up basnshee it keeps going to the pavehawk becoming a batallion asset. anyways, lets add a crewchief role so we can have a co-pilot/gunner for the pavehawk or dedicated driver for the mev. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[potent chasm]

Dedicated mev driver sounds boring af.

Crew chief would prolly need stalker perms

[neon mango]

yes

[dawn acorn]

100%, I’m not for that at all..

[hazy fractal]

Give crew chief

[potent basin]

Ask Barret or Beans

[left pendant]

Sorry, no crew chief...we dont want any grey area funny business by having crew chief (gunner). Maybe we'll consider it later but there is no need for one right now