Re: Andy: another possible inclusion into the UK O
 

ISTAR: is the term for a group of units: "Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance". ISTAR platoons are normally Mounted in landrover's and scout units and snipers.

That's according to modern army TOE, as I showed in the army infantry training document I uploaded at some point. Which gives full listings of ALL modern UK infantry formations, from section's (and what weapons they carry), all the way up to regiment level, and the composition of the Companies).

LION:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/...ils/lion.shtml

Not to big I belive...

SOPHIE:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/...s/sophie.shtml
and her Laser Range finder:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/.../sophiel.shtml

Armoured Land Rover Defender's 90's/110's:
I've trialed the Armoured Landrover's and keeping them as a Utility vehicle works fine. I don't know about you, but I'd jump out of lanny if it was shot at..

However an Improvised APC class, in a unit listed as COIN patrol would work fine.
From the start of the NI troubles, with two scout squads, armed with small arms (And the Baton gun I worked out), two of those Improvised APC's. Also during the Iraq conflict a bicycle patrol (the UK has used them in the MND area).

To much bother? I'll do it happily. You can have the OOB Files to copy from and the icons by sat morning GMT.

Re: Andy: another possible inclusion into the UK O
 

Right, because I'm a nice guy...

The attached Zip file has the following stuff in it.

Trojan AVRE: Icons for both dessert and normal, and an LBM for it.

OOB file that has formations and units for armoured land rover's, the Units they'd carry and a bike patrol. Just cut and paste. There's also LBM's for those units (In the OOB. The units and formations are in slots around #999).

FMRAV: Normal and desert icons.

Note: All the icons are in BMP's, as I don't know what slots you want them in.

Re: Andy: another possible inclusion into the UK O
 

We'll see if that makes the 2.0 upgrade, as it is pretty much finalised, and then we will be moving on to WW2 development.

Cheers
Andy

More UK OOB Errata
 

The in game stormer HVM carries 12 missles, while according to this MOD site:

http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aad/aad_shvm.htm

it should have 20 (8 ready in launchers + another 12 inside the vehicle.

Or was this intentional to keep the cost down?

Ian

Re: More UK OOB Errata
 

We'll look into this

Thanks

Don

Re: More UK OOB Errata
 

I've also noticed that stormer has a radar fire controll.

From what I've read it has only thermal vision.

Re: More UK OOB Errata
 

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/starstreak/

- The stormer has a thermal "alerting system".

- Later versions will be netted into the rapier area defence system (ie will be cued by off-mount search radars)

In SP - many missile systems which use an off-mount radar are credited with the radar, as that is the only way the game will work. (e.g HAWK, SA-6, Rapier etc).

I'll decide if we dismount the radar and just use the thermal imager field to represent the 360 degree thermal search unit.

Cheers
Andy

Re: More UK OOB Errata
 

I was reading about the SA80 and saw this paragraph:
"One new Under slung Grenade Launcher (UGL), designed to be
mounted beneath the barrel of the IW, will be issued to each fire
team, replacing the Rifle Grenade General Service (RGGS) and 51mm
mortar ? significantly reducing the ammunition load the infantry
section carries, while enhancing its capabilities. The UGL will be able to
fire 40mm High Explosive (HE), smoke and illuminating rounds out to
a range of 350 m to destroy, obscure or indicate enemy positions."

I noticed that in the OOB that there is only a RGGS and no UGL. Is this an oversight?

Re: More UK OOB Errata
 

See the thread entitled "what the heck is an RGGS" in this sub-forum, or try the search funcion of this board and type in "rggs" as the key.

My answer at:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...ev=#Post369767

Cheers
Andy

Re: More UK OOB Errata - Andy
 

This may sound stupid but wanted to be sure.

Is the most up to date "official" OOB for UK included in the 2.0 or 2.5 patches?

Thanks.