Mexico and Venezuela

[jnr0104]

Has anyone made OOb for the mexican and venezuelan armies,those with a few maps could make for some interesting senarios and campaigns

[thatguy96]

Mexico is on my "to do" list, but I have no idea when I'll get around to it. You can rest assured that when I get around to it, I will either create a new thread in the TO&E portion of the forum, or add it to this thread, or both.

[c_of_red]

Mexico doesn't have an army as we think of it. They use their troops as police, so they have little in the way of heavy weapons. It's not like they need an army to invade America and there is nothing else around for them to invade.
Venezuela is buying weapons as fast as they can be loaded on the ship. They use them to arm FRAC and other terrs, so it's not like they are going to be fighting another nation directly any time soon.
The Monroe Doctrine worked out pretty well, all things considered.

[Skirmisher]

It's not really worth wrecking an official OOB just to represent those two countries. If one must make these nations, better to just redo Green to include the new units.

[thatguy96]

Skirmisher said:
It's not really worth wrecking an official OOB just to represent those two countries. If one must make these nations, better to just redo Green to include the new units.

I don't know if I'd consider it "wrecking" official OOBs to make those two nations. Red and Green are official OOBs too, and are the ones I most often use for the smaller nations, many of which are 1946-2020. Sri Lanka, however, will be a replacement for Pakistan because it most closely matches the dates there, and its the issue with Singapore as well.

Furthermore, with the OOB manager, it really doesn't have to be "wrecking," because when you're done you can just restore the defaults. If you've gone further and installed a picklist, well, you can just set up a dual install to have a new selection of nations. Seems pretty flexible to me.

[Skirmisher]

I can certainly see your perspective on this. But I think, why tear up a completed offical OOB just to create a country with a handfull of units? Yes Green is offical but it's also a general OOB. And as Don and Andy have stated many times, OOB work is never done.
The only benifet I can see is your way you'd get the offical flag for that nation. I'm not big on picklists as I usually purchase for the AI.

When I play the AI I take an inferior army and let the AI have a superior one. Also giving the AI much more to spend of course.

[cbreedon]

thatguy96 said:
Mexico is on my "to do" list, but I have no idea when I'll get around to it. You can rest assured that when I get around to it, I will either create a new thread in the TO&E portion of the forum, or add it to this thread, or both.

I for one look forward to your Mexico OOB

[thatguy96]

cbreedon said:
I for one look forward to your Mexico OOB

I appreciate that and I also appreciate the 30 people who downloaded the Haiti OOB (or the one guy who downloaded it 30 times ...I believe its somewhere in between). I unfortunately can't tell you when I'll get around to it. I haven't started it.

I'm currently working on Sri Lanka and hoping to find some information on JVP and LTTE organization to add to it to make it possible to have it not just fight itself when you play it. The basic OOB is pretty much done. It will be for Pakistan, even though Sri Lanka was independent before that. I would use India, but I figured that some might want to play Sri Lanka/IPKF scenarios.

[PlasmaKrab]

cbreedon said:I for one look forward to your Mexico OOB

Same here!
Though on my side I'd be more directly interested in the Venezuela OOB. Paired with a similar Colombian OOB, this could be the occasion for interesting scenarios.

[jnr0104]

Didn't mean to start a war! Just thinking about sending the mississippi national guard down to kick Fatboy's *** in Venezuela.thought it might be fun. Guess to make it fair ,if someone would do an oob for the boy scouts they could go to mexico.