Small-yield-tactical-nuke recoilless gun for the Cricket

[stable dew]

Give a fulfilling reason to use the cricket in late-game by adding the option to arm it with up to two recoilless guns (one under each wing) that fires a small-yield tactical nuke for when a larger yield is overkill (such as wiping out a convoy in a single blow)

[rough steppe]

chicane too

[modest sorrel]

Large yield is never overkill

[umbral dragon]

we cant just put a Davy Crockett on a plane and expect the accuracy to be greater than a few hundred meters MOA

[marsh wolf]

of course we can this is nuclear option we cn do anything

[leaden estuary]

I feel like Cricket needs some Nuclear armaments, I feel very discriminated when I am flying my prop into the fight and seeing my friends blowing everything up with nukes. Like, I wanna do that too! Maybe on a smaller scale for sure, but still! Maybe 0.2-0.5 kt bombs? Davy crockets sound fun.

Although, there are questions about economy, in a sense that all nukes take the same amount of nuke resource from the pool regardless of their power. I feel that needs to change, but... that's a different topic.

[languid urchin]

One for each hard point would be badass

[grave crest]

the most beautiful part is that it doesn't MATTER how accurate it is. Its a f*cking nuclear bomb. what a W.

[umbral dragon]

the Davy Crockett was 20 tons, of TNT at most it would destroy a vehicle if it was 50m away @grave crest

[grave crest]

OP says convoy eliminator. evidently something larger than a davy crocket.

[bitter mantle]

ok so basically what you are saying is just slap two nuclear PIATs on the bottom of each wing on the cricket

[languid urchin]

you could have 50KT rocket assisted unguided tactical nuclear bombs

that would do a little bit damage to a convoy

[marsh wolf]

You mean 5?

[languid urchin]

uh...... suurrrrreeee.....

[marsh wolf]

Yeah 50 is more than an ALND

[languid urchin]

a what now

[languid urchin]

or maybe 1.5KT, or 2KT, 5KT at most

[marsh wolf]

Darkreach only nuclear cruise missile, its a 20kt

[chrome ledge]

5+ million warhead ✅
100k guidance kit ❌
why would you do this

[languid urchin]

I don't get it...

[chrome ledge]

why would you spend so much money on a warhead and not give it a guidance system

[languid urchin]

IDK, game balance, and it's a nuke, and it would be cooler as we don't have any unguided weapons, and it's a nuke, and it would have a ballistic computer so you can aim it somewhat accurately applying for lead and range drop before you fire it

[bitter mantle]

well it would kinda be impractical

wouldn't you have to get close to fire the nuclear PIAT?(I'm gonna call it that from now on, if you don't mind), like close enough that you would be within in the blast zone of the nuclear bomb?

[supple solstice]

meters * minute of arc? I dont quite understand the unit

[umbral dragon]

MOA is basicallt how inaccurate something is from the intended target

[supple solstice]

source for that? MOA is a military measure of how accurately something can be adjusted
namely how many MOA the minimum adjustment is

[umbral dragon]

How do you expect me to have a source, everyone says MOA, im not google or wikipedia

[supple solstice]

I think you are using it wrong because of how everyone uses it. MOA is not how accurate something is but how small the minimum adjustment is. I did check wikipedia and didnt find any other meanings so pretty sure you are misusing the unit

[supple solstice]

For example, if the point of impact is 3 inches high and 1.5 inches left of the point of aim at 100 yards (which for instance could be measured by using a spotting scope with a calibrated reticle, or a target delineated for such purposes), the scope needs to be adjusted 3 MOA down, and 1.5 MOA right. Such adjustments are trivial when the scope's adjustment dials have a MOA scale printed on them, and even figuring the right number of clicks is relatively easy on scopes that click in fractions of MOA. This makes zeroing and adjustments much easier:
wikipedia. im just asking because the unit makes zero sense

MOA is a unit of angle sometimes used to describe inaccuracy, not a word that means "inaccuracy of something"

anyway thats enough ERRRRRRRRRRRRRM AKSHAULLY from me you may continue

[orchid blade]

Cricket suggestions be normal challenge

[grave crest]

medusa having access to this would be awesome

[hardy niche]

The thing with using nukes in a tiny and slow prop pusher plane is that uh

[languid urchin]

here are two ideas for nuclear armament for the cricket, a low pressure recoilless rifle firing a low velocity spin stabilised 30T tactical nuclear projectile, and a larger 100T unguided rocket assisted nuclear bomb, both get a aim assist when you lock on to a target that gives you where to shoot it that accounts for wind, lead, range, speed ECT

[chrome ledge]

its way too big for the medusa to carry

[obtuse reef]

While an extremely small medium range nuclear warhead would be cool...

Yea it'd be cool

[obtuse reef]

I'm not sure if you can have fins on a recoilless if it doesn't have a discarding sabot, since you need there to be minimal forward leaks when you fire, otherwise you may bleed even more energy than a recoilless usually would

[untold quartz]

Lowkey just want nuclear equipped cricket because I think a game mode where both sides see which one can send the other back to the Stone Age first via nuke cricket would be really fun

[gritty marlin]

They could be retracted within the body or foldable

[rough steppe]

can we put a mininuke on the chicane too

[marsh wolf]

1MT nukes for chicane on april 1 please

[nimble atlas]

Gigaton bomb at the end of the round

[rough steppe]

Maybe a chicane or slow aircraft nuclear weapon could be a mini-cruise missile or rocket boosted glide bomb

That lets them fire it from a reasonable distance away from the blast with enough precision to hit with their super expensive warhead.

[full grail]

how would it escape the blast wave? or is it arched from a distance?

[bleak iron]

from a distance likely

[cunning cove]

Also, where is the attraction of playing the nuclear option during a round?

I think a nuclear suicide jet would be more appropriate. Usable once, followed by success and exclusion from the round (you get kicked). I bet hundreds, thousands of players would rather **** everyone on the server once than make progress.

[languid urchin]

It's a smaller bomb, and it would rather be a projectile, or bigger rocket assisted bomb, so you don't need to be too close to the target

[vale aurora]

dont need precision all that much when dealing with simple nuclear bombs

[fathom iron]

This is incredibly stupid and impractical...which is why I want 4 on each wing and 2 firing backwards at the SPAAG I missed XD.

Sometimes you just want a Wunderwaffe to shoot at the cluster of enemies that have been a wall for the past 20 minutes and 4 respawns.