Corrected UK OOB

Listy · #1 September 7th, 2005, 11:35 AM

http://www.soldiermagazine.com/mag/update2.htm

has the infomation about Watchkeeper haveing Radar.

And on the Lannies with light armour and a hole in the roof so two blokes can provide cover, you asked for pics:

http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod....E832CED9DE7A88
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod....E832CED9DE7A88
(Appolgies for the Huge URL's...)

I had it as a turreted lanny with Armour 1 all round and a pair of SA80's as weapons. I alos reduced it to a carry capcity of 4 (Two blokes sticking their heads out the top, 4 inside).

Thermal imaging:
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/cs/pw_spy.htm
Should an option of Support sections (Containing the HQ section) be Given Vision 40?

(BTW: you can tell me to stop pestering you, I realise I might have been annoying over the UK OOB... I won't take offence.)

Mobhack · #2 September 7th, 2005, 06:02 PM

Hmm - "landies" was what we called land rovers, not "lannies"

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Cheers
Andy

Mobhack · #3 September 7th, 2005, 06:19 PM

The armoured landies seem to be Ex-NI kit.

Would need own segment as simply armouring a utility vehicle will not give it the "protected" flag for pax, so these will "fall off" if the vehicle is hit (as with tanks or soft vehicles). Needs to be a proper APC class of its own - not sure if worth bothering with, for a few items.

ISTAR - is a tripod mounted thingy, there is already an OP with such.

The game needs 40 vision for TI (it has no differentiation of NF kit other than range 40+ is see through smoke super stuff) - so it cannot handle modern small man-portable TI other than giving 40 (2 Km) range and at a huge cost (when in reality we really need TI with a 500m or so range - will not fit game engine ).

Though plenty of scouts etc have this 2Km+ TI vision - a bit much in reality. Support sectios could have it, or just cross attach a scout/TI (unit 174 - which as a 2007 start date ATM) to the platoon ?.

Cheers
Andy

Listy · #4 September 7th, 2005, 07:50 PM

ISTAR: is the term for a group of units: "Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance". ISTAR platoons are normally Mounted in landrover's and scout units and snipers.

That's according to modern army TOE, as I showed in the army infantry training document I uploaded at some point. Which gives full listings of ALL modern UK infantry formations, from section's (and what weapons they carry), all the way up to regiment level, and the composition of the Companies).

LION:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/...ils/lion.shtml

Not to big I belive...

SOPHIE:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/...s/sophie.shtml
and her Laser Range finder:
http://www.thales-optronics.com/dos/.../sophiel.shtml

Armoured Land Rover Defender's 90's/110's:
I've trialed the Armoured Landrover's and keeping them as a Utility vehicle works fine. I don't know about you, but I'd jump out of lanny if it was shot at..

However an Improvised APC class, in a unit listed as COIN patrol would work fine.
From the start of the NI troubles, with two scout squads, armed with small arms (And the Baton gun I worked out), two of those Improvised APC's. Also during the Iraq conflict a bicycle patrol (the UK has used them in the MND area).

To much bother? I'll do it happily. You can have the OOB Files to copy from and the icons by sat morning GMT.

Listy · #5 September 10th, 2005, 05:52 PM

Right, because I'm a nice guy...

The attached Zip file has the following stuff in it.

Trojan AVRE: Icons for both dessert and normal, and an LBM for it.

OOB file that has formations and units for armoured land rover's, the Units they'd carry and a bike patrol. Just cut and paste. There's also LBM's for those units (In the OOB. The units and formations are in slots around #999).

FMRAV: Normal and desert icons.

Note: All the icons are in BMP's, as I don't know what slots you want them in.

Mobhack · #6 September 10th, 2005, 07:09 PM

We'll see if that makes the 2.0 upgrade, as it is pretty much finalised, and then we will be moving on to WW2 development.

Cheers
Andy

IanWilliams · #7 October 22nd, 2005, 12:19 AM

The in game stormer HVM carries 12 missles, while according to this MOD site:

http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aad/aad_shvm.htm

it should have 20 (8 ready in launchers + another 12 inside the vehicle.

Or was this intentional to keep the cost down?

Ian

DRG · #8 October 22nd, 2005, 03:06 PM

We'll look into this

Thanks

Don

Listy · #9 October 24th, 2005, 12:54 AM

I've also noticed that stormer has a radar fire controll.

From what I've read it has only thermal vision.

Mobhack · #10 October 24th, 2005, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Listy said:
I've also noticed that stormer has a radar fire controll.

From what I've read it has only thermal vision.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/starstreak/

- The stormer has a thermal "alerting system".

- Later versions will be netted into the rapier area defence system (ie will be cued by off-mount search radars)

In SP - many missile systems which use an off-mount radar are credited with the radar, as that is the only way the game will work. (e.g HAWK, SA-6, Rapier etc).

I'll decide if we dismount the radar and just use the thermal imager field to represent the 360 degree thermal search unit.

Cheers
Andy