Question Any more countries at any point possible?

Porrima · #1 April 9th, 2015, 01:57 PM

Hello.

Your 2015 patch added Georgia as a playable nation. This is quite nice obviously.

Going through the world map in my mind and the countries screen, about the only countries large and interesting enough which are not included in SPMBT (arguably, ofc) are Burma/Myanmar and some larger post-soviet states such as Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan and especially Armenia/Azerbaijan since they fought a large war -- but I do realize all those latter oobs would be just smaller versions of soviet / russian oob.

I do not mean to say you should add this or anything or that it's particularly important. I'm just interested in knowing if it's even possible to add any more countries (ie. are all the remaining "empty" r&D slots necessary for some reason) and/or whether you can already definitively say you have no interest in ever adding this or any other countries to the game.

Thank you for a long and wonderful process you've done with this game.

scorpio_rocks · #2 April 9th, 2015, 03:51 PM

IF we were looking for additional countries (that aren't clones of soviet OOB) perhaps splitting the Gulf states? I would love a dedicated Oman OOB - and may well do a mod for one at some point.

Mobhack · #3 April 9th, 2015, 04:15 PM

There are unlikely to be any more additions to the OOB set.

The flag page is full up - Georgia uses a space for someone who was there earlier, I think, but not there post USSR.

The only other way would be to make all the flag button pages have 2 pages and a swap page button, which is clunky and would entail a heck of a lot of code.

And frankly - any additional orbats would be for minor nations and each one would bring a horde of extra OOB research and maintenance, that isn't really worth the bother. Red and Green (and possibly UN - probably the least used one

!)are there for scenarios or mods for unavailable minors.

Stratos · #4 April 15th, 2015, 01:15 PM

I cannot find "Georgia" on my 9.0 install. Also wondering If is possible somehow to add "Honduras" for the 1969 war against "El Salvador". Also another option is a way to have some predefined flags you can select in options to replace the "green" and "red" countries flags.

scorpio_rocks · #5 April 15th, 2015, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Stratos

I cannot find "Georgia" on my 9.0 install.

The new OOB is ONLY available on the extended ("CD" / bought) version - Is this what you have?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stratos

... wondering If is possible somehow to add "Honduras" for the 1969 war against "El Salvador". Also another option is a way to have some predefined flags you can select in options to replace the "green" and "red" countries flags.

This is of course possible with a custom OOB. Also you can change the flag used for any country if you dont mind playing with shped and adjusting the shp files

Stratos · #6 April 15th, 2015, 02:51 PM

No, only free version. Thanks for the help.

Warhero · #7 April 17th, 2015, 02:17 PM

Colombia/Venezuela could be nice add (for example for drug cartel war or "what-if"). Btw, has anyone ever done OOB from them?

halstein · #8 April 19th, 2015, 03:42 PM

Hi.
An alternative to OOB-files, could be OOB-lists, so one could buy right equipment from red and green. Also custom-OOBs can be used for the nations we lack.

Halstein.

Firestorm · #9 May 10th, 2016, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

There are unlikely to be any more additions to the OOB set.

The flag page is full up - Georgia uses a space for someone who was there earlier, I think, but not there post USSR.

The only other way would be to make all the flag button pages have 2 pages and a swap page button, which is clunky and would entail a heck of a lot of code.

And frankly - any additional orbats would be for minor nations and each one would bring a horde of extra OOB research and maintenance, that isn't really worth the bother. Red and Green (and possibly UN - probably the least used one!)are there for scenarios or mods for unavailable minors.

My niece and I used to use the UN oob for various "Blue Helmets Coming To Take Our Guns And Put Microchips In Our Butts" scenarios that were popular among militia types back in the 90's...

...hey, is it really any worse than the 80's-era Red Dawn scenarios that we all know and love?

Suhiir · #10 May 10th, 2016, 10:07 PM

Not a bit.
"What If" is one of WinSPMBTs great strengths.

I recall a scenario from an earlier version (the pre-windows one perhaps?) where the USMC was disbanded but some refused so the US Army (and maybe National Guard) was sent into put down the rebels. As an Easter Egg they added Rambo (all max stats crew 1 commando unit with a minigun as I recall). Amusing little scenario.