Unit class question

Mobhack · #1 October 25th, 2006, 11:35 AM

If it for your own OB - then do as you wish, but remeber to check what happens if the AI gets any.

The fact that most light observation helos have no armament is because they typically don't - they are there to spot, (and in the next release will be arty spotter specialists as well)- not to get into combat.

Cheers
Andy

thatguy96 · #2 October 25th, 2006, 03:24 PM

Alright, good to know. The more I think, and with the fact that for my OOB set I've removed all air force air craft from the US Army OOB and placed them in a seperate one, that it might be better suited as a strike aircraft anyhow, because of how ARA was employed.

Heh, just a really slow strike aircraft.

Marek_Tucan · #3 October 25th, 2006, 05:56 PM

Wow! That's a good news

Looking forward to see Kiowa Scouts peeping over the hills and calling in a rain of shells

@Thatguy: just got the same idea with Hind helicopters for Afghanistan, they were often employed with 100kg or even larger bombs (up to 10 FAB-100 if the location was lowland)... Most likely will get them into some COIN class.

thatguy96 · #4 October 25th, 2006, 10:07 PM

Yeah, but I'm wondering if it might be better suited to an attack helo class. My Vietnam pack turned into a sort of total conversion, so I still have the strike aircraft class and both the bomber classes free. I might use them for things.

Also, how is this shift in the benefits of the Light Helo class going to affect nations which don't use unarmed scout helos anymore? The most glaring instance of this to me is the US. The OH-58D is the primary unit in this role currently, and is not fielded in an unarmed configuration. Are OOB designers simply going to create a fictional unarmed OH-58D as a light helo and armed OH-58Ds as light attack helos?

DRG · #5 October 26th, 2006, 03:52 PM

If you look at the OOB you'd see the answer to your question

There's already a unit in the US OOB that falls into that catigory ( U-296 ) so no, we won't have to create one as it's already been created and been there for years and there are already FOUR OH-58D's in the OOB as light attack Helos.

Don

thatguy96 · #6 October 26th, 2006, 07:56 PM

I had meant create one in terms of how it exists in reality, for purposes of gameplay and AI functionality. I did not know the unarmed OH-58D existed, but this makes sense because both the USA and USMC OOBs both have formations for these helos that go from 1946-2020. I was merely talking about real life employment, and so as you've said, you've already created this unit for this functionality, though in reality it doesn't really exist in the US Army TO&E.