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[naki27]

Seems to me like every car, tank, and train is driven by an old granny.  It would be nice to have the option to set a speed for all vehicles in FMB, like ships.

[Pursuivant]

+1

But remember, vehicles in the game often have to drive overland, or on dirt roads which realistically aren't much better than cattle trails. You can't drive fast under those conditions.

There's also the illusion that the vehicles are traveling slowly. Fast for a car (60 mph/100 kph) is stall speed for an airplane.

[Spinnetti]

+1

But remember, vehicles in the game often have to drive overland, or on dirt roads which realistically aren't much better than cattle trails. You can't drive fast under those conditions.

There's also the illusion that the vehicles are traveling slowly. Fast for a car (60 mph/100 kph) is stall speed for an airplane.

Good points... also, any vehicle from the air looks slow regardless of speed, and most military vehicles top out at less than 100kph on the best of roads. 40kph would more typically be "fast"

[crazyeddie]

Seems to me like every car, tank, and train is driven by an old granny.  It would be nice to have the option to set a speed for all vehicles in FMB, like ships.

And what's exactly is wrong with old grannies ... some of us have to make a living.  ???

[Pursuivant]

Low speeds for vehicles (ignoring the very good idea of variable speeds for vehicles) is also realistic because we're talking about 1930s and 1940s era technology.

Back then, 60 mph/100 kph was considered to be dangerously fast for anything other than a race car, both because of vehicle and road designs. High speed roads, and cars which can take advantage of them, are very much post-war inventions.

Another issue is that in a combat zone, often you want to be driving slower than you normally would so that you don't drive into an ambush, or run over a mine. Even in rear areas, partisans would sometimes lay mines or stretch piano wire across the road in order to decapitate people riding in open vehicles.

All that said, being able to set vehicle speeds would be great. Even better would be for vehicles to have slightly better AI. Currently, soft vehicles stop and the crew bails out. In many cases, it's more realistic for vehicle crew to engage attacking aircraft with machine guns mounted on the vehicle, or for small single vehicles, like jeeps or motorcycles, to hit the accelerator and run for cover.

[SAS~Malone]

iirc, there is/was some kind of .mis editing technique which allows you to make vehicles travel faster/slower, similar to what can be done for ships.
i read this somewhere, if i could just remember where....

[F22-Raptor-2006]

You can already control what speed they travel at... Ships and Planes definitely have their own speed values (limited by their top speed and minimum speed specifications). I don't think car columns do or groups of tanks but you can just open the mission file in notepad and edit it. You can make carriers go at 500kmh if you want...

[SAS~Malone]

yes, and i think vehicle columns are governed to the speed of the slowest vehicle in the column...

[F22-Raptor-2006]

yes, and i think vehicle columns are governed to the speed of the slowest vehicle in the column...

As far as the game's concerned I believe that should also be inside the mission file so it is possible to make columns go faster as well... just edit in notepad and don't modify the mission again in game.

[BT~Tarik]

And which line/number in the mis file gives the speed ? I see something like this for a carrier :

[Chiefs]
  0_Chief Ships.USSEssexCV9 1 0 3 1.0

and :

[0_Chief_Road]
  20000.00 25000.00 120.00 0 2 15.5
  4460.00 37580.00 120.00

is it the 120.00 ?