new idea: dogs and siberian army

I have an idea for the use of soviet dogs. the fact is that they were used to blow up tanks, retrive wounded soldiers, lay comunication wires, etc. So here it goes: in one of the doctrine trees put something like unleash dog squads. once chosen the anti - tank squad can get only one dog after upgrading in armory "sgt." to the squad. in the war the "sucide" dog could take out a tank but for game purpose lets say it takes out 75% of the tanks life. also when you get the medic truck to set down dogs can retrive wounded men just like medic bunkers.
also I have thought of a unique squad to bring in off map: the siberian army. men in skies and in white camo with rifles upgrade to smg. In fact they were to fight the japs but once the japs atacked hawaii they were called to defend moscow.
this is my idea of unique units for the soviets and maybe someone can help shaping it.
sorry for my bad english.

Miracle dogs are here to save the day!
I have a soft spot for dogs, and I'd hate to see one blown to bits just to destroy a panzer, besides, is there any dog animation?

Yes!!!! Skis on summer maps and normandy :)

like the siberian part, but not the skiis because not all maps have snow. But other than that would be a cool off map unit with some unique abilities possibly.

About the dogs, would like the idea of having a call in dog squad, but no anti tank or medic dogs. But having a squad of a few dogs and some handlers would be cool. There is no dog animation, or model, or probably anything, so that would probly have to be developed...

Like the general ideas, could use some work though  ;D

ok, I forgot the animation for the dogs, I was thinking more about the unique unit than the mod. and the skis i mentioned was only to picture the high mobility of the siberian army.
I only wanted something difrent than to play like in cheat mod:  sniper ace who has invisibility like the invisible man, runs like Flash, has the vision of super man, hits a bullseye like wild bill, takes out tanks like in saving pvt Ryan.
once you got this guy and lets say 2 sniper squads + comrade with guards all you do is sit back and see how they shoot everything that moves, and if they come in with pure armor you blow them to bits along with half the map with the arty ability.

;D

Last edited February 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM by DrCashpor

The dogs weren't even used as a real weapon - it was just a crazy experiment that didn't even work. Besides the idea is kind of sick IMO. It'd be like asking the devs to put in bats strapped with incendiary explosives that the Americans "used" - yeah they were used to the same extent as Soviet AT dogs..virtually non-existent.

Its not a new idea. I read about dog goliats 3 weaks ago.
The real problem is with dog models and skins. You cant just redo a US soldier. You need to put a lot of work in this concept.
Too much work.

Too complicated and not relevant enough. I'd rather see Black Sea marines than out of place siberian troops and dog squads...

Petaco wrote:
In fact they were to fight the japs but once the japs atacked hawaii they were called to defend moscow.

As you said they won over the japanese in 1940 (border fights).
Then Japanese signed a non-agresion pact. When Germany attacked Soviets these troops were called to fight nazi forces (probably in july-august 1941).
They started a counter offensive in on 6 december 1941. One day before Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour!

DrCashpor wrote:

So true.
This would make the mod just rediculous.

Dogs? NO WAY.

this is such a troll thread



in before lock...

Well the Idea of Medic dogs is excellent and quite needed, and for those of you saying strapping explosives to dogs was mean , brush up on the Vietnam war, they'd strap explosives to KIDS and send them to the American bases.