Why dont the combine have a hevy wepon

[Drudge]

Well why dont the combine have a hevy wep like a RPG they might have the energy ball on the rifle but it is not gonna do much damage to a Buggy or an airboat in the near future the rebels might build their own Tanks ect. and i dont think that an energy ball will make any difference a RPG is more mobile than a strider smaller and can pack a punch if used properly.

 

[Shodan]

Suppression laser cannon thingy?

Headcrab launcher?

APCs with RPGs and machine guns?

Those are pretty heavy.

 

[Salad22]

I think they had enough actually

Don't forget gunships too, those bastards

Anyway they had thanks and APS's, with help by these they took over the city and won probably the 7- hour war because of them.

How would you continue your adventure if they destroyed your airboat and buggy?

 

[Drudge]

Headcrab launcher needs to know where to hit so does the Suppression laser it cannot hit mutiple units if the rebels attack with numbers i think the combine need to exxel (if i spelt it right) their wepons it is easy to take out APC with a RPG of a hunter chopper cannon they need a mobile hevy wepon what is the altenative to a RPG

 

[$kelet0r]

to balance the game - duh

 

[Sulkdodds]

in the near future the rebels might build their own Tanks

This just made me spit out my drink of water.

The Combine have APCs with rocket launchers, giant lasers, gunships and oh wait a second, STRIDERS. They can go anyway, they're really fast due to long legs and they'll beat any tank hands down.

Now I am going to go and build a tank.

 

[Drudge]

Striders have a big shell on top and are unprotected at the bottom nowdays tank shells rip past the armour and explode inside the rebels might of found a old Tank depo the war lasted 7 houres so i guess that some Militery wep should be intact

 

[Sulkdodds]

Fine sure. But Striders are massively more mobile then tanks, a lot harder to hit (not just a smaller profile - they buck and bob as they move). A tank pilot would find it very hard to actually hit a strider before the strider hit the tank with its massive distortion boomy thingy. Plus, if the strider got close enough, the tank's cannon barrel wouldn't even elevate high enough!

 

[Drudge]

it all done with automatic computers all you have to do is elavate it to where it gonna hit plus a tank can shoot miles unlike the strider what can only fire the cannon at close range i never seen a strider soot at me from a distance.
if that dont work send out the missels

 

[63]

Ok seriously... why the hell are you guys speculating about a strider taking on a tank... it's not gonna happen...

Although, I have very strong feelings that in Aftermath the rebels will be in control of a very large rabbit named Harold the Talking Snowmobile.

 

[Sulkdodds]

No it's not. It's not like they can just built a tank out of spare parts...but I am bored.

it all done with automatic computers all you have to do is elavate it to where it gonna hit plus a tank can shoot miles unlike the strider what can only fire the cannon at close range i never seen a strider soot at me from a distance.

No, you don't understand. The barrel is NOT physically capable of elevating to the height required to actually shoot at a Strider. It can't aim high enough.

The issue is not with computer targetting or anything like that. At close-ish range a Strider could move faster than a tank could actually turn its turret.

You also never face any Striders at long range in HL to know how long the effective range of their cannon is.

And you forget: THE COMBINE ALREADY TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD AND ALL THE TANKS ON THE PLANET COULDN'T STOP THEM.

 

[Drudge]

you never know wat if the rebels found a tank or 2 or a hole garrason of em they operate outside the city limt

 

[Sulkdodds]

THE COMBINE ALREADY TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD AND ALL THE TANKS ON THE PLANET COULDN'T STOP THEM.

...yeah.

EDIT: Why am I bothering with this anyway?

 

[$kelet0r]

you never know wat if the rebels found a tank or 2 or a hole garrason of em they operate outside the city limt

lol they'd run out of gas before they reached a city
dont think gas stations are all that profitable on combine controlled earth :E

 

[Drudge]

but it would batter them cuz it would be a new tatic from the rebels and you never know they might of found a SCUD launcher since it is in russha (i guess)
in the game a few well placed RPG shots could kill it why not a shell from a longer distance ?

 

[63]

It's not set in Russia. Oh yeah, even if they did find a mobile scud launcher they wouldnt know how to aim, arm, or fire the damn thing

Someone make this thready go lock now

 

[Shodan]

...yeah.

EDIT: Why am I bothering with this anyway?

Men have died arguing with noobs, don't go there.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Where's Samon where you need him? Oh wait, doesn't mod this forum.

but it would batter them cuz it would be a new tatic from the rebels and you never know they might of found a SCUD launcher since it is in russha (i guess)
in the game a few well placed RPG shots could kill it why not a shell from a longer distance ?

Scud = implausible.

It didn't take 'a few' RPG shots to destroy a Strider. It took around 10. Laser-guided!

Sure, if a tank shell actually hit a Strider, it'd do a lot of damage. But a Strider would be incredibly hard to hit with an unguided dumb-fire weapon.

Also, the Combine already won so we can only assume that striders win vs tanks.

EDIT:

Men have died arguing with noobs, don't go there.

Good point. I'm going to stop now.

 

[Drudge]

and a tank can go up to 60mph and the turret is capabile of moveing quite fast

 

[Drudge]

The combine only won cuz breen stepped in and told the human forces to surrender that is why He got the power cuz he is a turncoat oh and the combine where spawnin out xen not cuz that wiped out the armed forces

 

[Sulkdodds]

In the words of Devvo:

englishplzkthxbye

 

[Drudge]

thats hard for me cuz i am english Britian Rules

 

[Sui]

In the 7 hour war, I'm willing to bet there were more human tanks than combine striders. The war laster 7 hours. Striders win.

 

[Drudge]

But how did the combine get to earth in the first place wasnt the satilite sent up to space to close the rift? (we will find that out after this post)

 

[Sulkdodds]

Well, if it was, it obviously didn't work.

Combine won already. Our tanks can't have been all that great.

 

[Drudge]

i think that it was a situation where the goverment stabbed the soldiers in the back and surrendered

 

[63]

I'm really confused as to what everyone is talking about at this point... First it was tanks, then scuds, then satelites, and now the governent?

 

[Drudge]

If i remember in black mesa east eli tells you a short thingy bout 7 hourer war if you look at the bord with the neaws stuff

 

[Sulkdodds]

Argh. I need to stop. But I can't. It's like an addiction. ;(

i think that it was a situation where the goverment stabbed the soldiers in the back and surrendered

Erm yeah. Except if you're right about tanks owning striders, it would go like this:

BREEN: Hey guys. I'm stabbing you in the back. We're surrendering to the Combine.
ARMY: Why? We're winning! Those stupid striders are no match for our tanks!
BREEN: Because. I'm evil. Muhahaha.
ARMY: Oh well. I guess we'll just have to go along with you then. We surrender!

 

[Drudge]

ok their might of been a lot more striders plus they could spawn anywhere they liked

 

[63]

I don't remember any striders materializing in HL2

 

[Epsi]

Although, in the 7 Hour War, the Combine did have more than just striders, there were some of the other synths too, as well as gunships and such. For one, the gunships have a cannon like the strider's main cannon on their underbelly, you just rarely/never get it fired at you in the game. They could just fly directly over a tank, and boom.

 

[Drudge]

in the 7 hourer war they were spawnin cuz the cididel puts up shield to block xen creatures from comeing in i guess

 

[Drudge]

We did have fighter jets and a well placed missle and a cooked gunship i think we could of won but xen creatures after xen creatures outnumbered us.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I don't remember any striders materializing in HL2

Now THAT would be cool.

Although, in the 7 Hour War, the Combine did have more than just striders, there were some of the other synths too, as well as gunships and such. For one, the gunships have a cannon like the strider's main cannon on their underbelly, you just rarely/never get it fired at you in the game. They could just fly directly over a tank, and boom.

Yeah, point. Still, I doubt a few outdated cobbled-together tanks would be any use against the Combine at all. I still reckon that a strider would always (or at least usualyl) beat a tank out a sheer manouverabily (sp?), superior technology and firepower.

 

[Drudge]

im also makeing a map bout the daly routines of a combine meto police how they live ect but the best thing bout hl2 is the bit where you are not shootin people up for me it is when you are in a bace doing normal routines.

Back to this i bet that a soldier could take on a vontagaunt any day.

 

[63]

im also makeing a map bout the daly routines of a combine meto police how they live ect but the best thing bout hl2 is the bit where you are not shootin people up for me it is when you are in a bace doing normal routines.

Back to this i bet that a soldier could take on a vontagaunt any day.

Screens plz.

 

[Bob_Marley]

Yeah, point. Still, I doubt a few outdated cobbled-together tanks would be any use against the Combine at all. I still reckon that a strider would always (or at least usualyl) beat a tank out a sheer manouverabily (sp?), superior technology and firepower.

Exactly. The only real chace the rebels would have of taking down a strider with tanks would be to ambush it and blow it to hell before it could react. however, if they're gunna use this plan they might as well use infantry armed with RPGs/LAWs/etc because in dense terrian they would be more manuverable and could make more and better use of cover and concealment and you can get more infantry armed with RPGs into the target area and thus have a better chance of taking the strider down due to the greater number of weapons being used against it. Also, Multiple people firing at the strider from different directions would mean that the force would have greater dedundency than a few tanks that, after they have fired, are all too visible and would easily be destroyed by the striders weapons system(s)

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Ok seriously... why the hell are you guys speculating about a strider taking on a tank... it's not gonna happen...

Although, I have very strong feelings that in Aftermath the rebels will be in control of a very large rabbit named Harold the Talking Snowmobile.

so u had that dream too eh!

 

[Dog--]

lol they'd run out of gas before they reached a city
dont think gas stations are all that profitable on combine controlled earth :E

They would have enough gas, think of all the gas barrels around (red explody barrels), IN YOUR FACE!