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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:37 AM

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Default Re: Modern US OOB

OK. Here are the US Army/USMC oobs.

Off the top of my head, here are the changes:

1. Adjusted Stryker MGS ammo loadouts to better reflect modern doctrine. CS variants have 12 HE, 3 Sabot, 3 HEAT. Default is 6 HE, 3 Sabot, 9 HEAT.

2. Added M1130 Stryker command vehicle.

3. Added M1134 Stryker Fire Support Vehicle.

4. Added M1127 Stryker recon vehicle (MG and GL variants)

5. Gave M1134 and M1127s GSR capability to simulate their being equipped with the LRAS3 long range scout surveillance system. It's a pretty nifty system, and simple thermal sights don't do it justice.

6. Added/renamed some of the humvees, and gave most of the TOW carriers M240s or M249s, as most humvees mount one of these two weapons when they also mount the TOW system. I may have uparmored a couple versions too.

7. Added some modern USAF aircraft with GBU-39 SDB loadouts. The SDBs are the big new thing - basically guided 250lb bombs specifically designed to kill little targets like tanks and bunkers. Most aircraft can carry many of them, but I think the most I made available was 6 on an F-15E and A-10C. I didn't include B-1Bs, B-52s or B-2s with SDBs, even though those aircraft carry them all operationally.

8. Renamed all relevant "Lt Mech" units to "Stryker" since they're called Stryker units.

9. Stryker engineer platoon now has M1132 ESVs instead of infantry carriers.

10. Stryker infantry companies reorganized with two M1130 CVs, a sniper team, and a fire support element with an M1134 and a forward observer.

11. Fixed M1129 Stryker Mortar Carrier's graphic. It was originally a turreted 120mm graphic, should just be an open mortar hatch.

12. Adjusted other strike element loadouts to reflect more realistic modern payloads. In most cases I either added extra weapons or swapped "dumb" bombs for guided bombs, as per current operations. Aircraft rarely go to war with unguided weapons anymore - even in Iraq JDAMs, SDBs and whatnot are the norm.

13. Swapped M8/OICW for M4A1 Sopmod, M249 Para and M320 grenade launchers. Just cosmetic, didn't change any weapon data (I don't think).

As for the USMC...

1. Renamed/adjusted the humvee patrol units to be elements of a MEU's combined anti-armor team (CAAT).

2. Added/renamed some of the humvees, and gave most of the TOW carriers M240s or M249s, as most humvees mount one of these two weapons when they also mount the TOW system. I may have uparmored a couple versions too.

3. Reclassified the V-22 as a "medium" helicopter, putting it on par with the UH-1N/Y and CH-46, where it should be.

4. Fixed the CH-53D/E. For some reason they weren't even showing up in any of my pick lists and weren't classified as heavy helicopters, whereas the MH-53s (USAF rescue helicopters and/or Navy minesweepers) were.

5. Limited OH-58s to the '82-89 time period, when occasionally Army helicopters flew off of Navy ships during the Iran-Iraq War. The USMC never flew the Kiowa.

6. Adjusted some of the Cobra helicopters - one of the variants only had a 20mm cannon for armament, which I didn't understand, and I also made an effort to distinguish the variants (AH-1T/W/Z/etc)

7. Swapped M8/OICW small arms with M16A4s... just cosmetic changes.

I'd like to make some more adjustments in the future, especially to the Marines. The M1A1 FEP Abrams should be in there, and some more tweaking here and there. There are helicopters that have thermal imaging for no particularly good reason, as far as I can tell (CH-46Es don't have FLIR AFAIK).

A warning - I didn't adjust any point values for anything.
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