Low rank Scout helo ideas

[sharp kelp]

We could get 2 Infantrymen + 2 Lynchpin/Kingpin pods
Alternatively, on the nose, we could get a scout camera, where it will OPTICALLY scan for threats to up to 5km+, remember, OPTICAL, meaning it can't scan through walls

Additionally, we can also get a gunship loadout with chainguns, probably? 2 Chainguns + rockets/AGM

[sharp kelp]

so, whatcha y'all think?

[magic vortex]

I think that wouldn't realistically be useful, even at tier 0.

[sharp kelp]

so the whole idea you mean?
could've guessed

[magic vortex]

Much as I adore Little Birds, in a modern mechanized context they're just flying pinatas - seriously, they're too small to even have meaningful countermeasures, and a single .50 or a 7.62 minigun is like half their payload gone. In the context of NO, where soft targets don't really exist, that's an exercise in frustration

because you're taking up pretty dang slow player sorties to kill maybe four ground units, if you really load it down with 4x AGM-48 (stretch), or rescue two pilots, or cap an exclusively empty target

[sharp kelp]

Well, this whole idea is coming from a guy who mains helicopters, so it may be a bit biased, and i'm truly sorry for that
Perhaps, along with the CAS plane, mitch will figure something out
or maybe perhaps I like Black Hawk Down and forget what timeframe it was set in

[magic vortex]

Nah, don't apologize for putting your ideas out. Rejection is as valuable as acceptance, in that regard. As another heli stan, it's just gonna suck to play.

[sharp kelp]

Well I'd want to make a useful idea, I completely forget that one of the nicknames for this thing is "Flying Egg" tiny and underarmored and underarmed
Eh, i'm sure we'll get something like it anyway for on observation chopper

[magic vortex]

I suspect we'll get something like a Fire Scout drone at some point after limited pilots, personally

[sharp kelp]

whatever the case, my idea is not good enough, case closed, everyone go home

[summer dove]

Time to necro the kiowa bit