Cold War 2020 mod: first release!

[MarkSheppard]

Plasma, is it possible to say, copy the US picklist .dat file into the slot for say El Salvador, and get the AI to pick like it's the US; if you wanted to replace El Salvador with a US style force?

[MarkSheppard]

Okay, for some talk about the cold war mod.

Laser PDW, I don't think they would be developed well enough to be deployed until the 2010s or 2020s, evne with Cold War Budgets. You have to do a lot of basic research, etc which goes along at the same pace whether or not it's funded heavily.

Upgunning the T-xx Series and Abrams series to 140mm would be a major undertaking; I would imagine a remote unmanned turret would be picked for simple expediency, as opposed to a major major major redesign of the turret to take the much larger gun.

I'd imagine that 140mm would be phased in in the 2000s; since a lot of countries like the US etc, have fairly recently only just jumped to 120mm and would like to get as much life out of the new guns before they need yet another jump in calibre.

[PlasmaKrab]

MarkSheppard said:
Plasma, is it possible to say, copy the US picklist .dat file into the slot for say El Salvador, and get the AI to pick like it's the US; if you wanted to replace El Salvador with a US style force?

Frankly, I think not.
You see, the lists are mostly made up of formation numbers (plus pick probabilities and prices, of course), and I fear equivalent formations in the OBFs of say, USA and Salvador, aren't in the same place in the formation index.

You can try swapping files, but the most probable thing that will happen is that you'll end up with a Salvadorean force made up of, say, odd support platoons, lonely utility vehicles and tank transports by the dozen... or something equally useless.

Best is to use the Excel spreadsheet Andy made up (link posted earlier on this thread), and check the various entries against the formations in the country's OBF. Mostly, that's how it works.