Vietnam Specific OOBs

thatguy96 · #1 March 10th, 2007, 04:00 AM

Alright, so I figured I'd mention it here too. The total conversion now has a pretty basic Philippine OOB (then again the force they sent was pretty basic), and a more or less complete Lao OOB.

Currently features in the Total Conversion (including those updated from the basic pack):

Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Australia
Cambodia
France
Laos (Royal Lao Government and Neutralists)
MACV/CIA/Etc
People's Army of Vietnam
Philippines
South Korea
Thailand
US Air Force
US Army
US Marine Corp
US Navy
Viet Cong

Warhero · #2 March 10th, 2007, 06:02 AM

Hmm any hint when you are going to release total conversion mod?

thatguy96 · #3 March 10th, 2007, 01:54 PM

When its done...unfortunately

thatguy96 · #4 March 16th, 2007, 09:02 PM

For those of you who are interested, I've just released an Alpha of the Total Conversion here: http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/wins...ack-alpha.html

Warhero · #5 March 17th, 2007, 06:33 PM

I played couple of battles and I'm impressed how good you got Laurent's stuff (well at least part of it

) to work in WinMBT too. Not any bad errors (well, I'm not checked all oob's than USMC/US Army and VC yet). Hmm was M60 Patton really used in Vietnam? Or just "here and there" (small amounts)? I remember that M48 and Bulldog were most used tanks there...

thatguy96 · #6 March 17th, 2007, 07:39 PM

The tank history might have to be reworked a little. I haven't done much on it, and what I have done was more in the USMC OOB.

Note that the M60A1 was first introduced into the US Army in the early 1960s, but you are correct in that none were actually deployed to South East Asia. IIRC, they were all deployed to Europe to help counter the threat of Soviet Armor, while the armor threat in South East Asia required far less attention.

PlasmaKrab · #7 March 18th, 2007, 07:25 AM

Just add the early M-60 variants in the same unit class as the other earlier tanks (like the M-48) and give them an X3 radio code.
That will prevent them from being all over the place when the IA buys units, but they will be available for scenario design etc.
If you have already tinkered with the unit information tags (I haven't yet), you can add a little something saying that "the M-60s were mainly deployed to CONUS and Europe due the higher Soviet armoured threat, etc., but could have been shipped to SEA at short notice to counter an unexpected NVA armored push" or whatever. Not that it makes much sense now that I write it, but hey, it gives you a reason to keep it on board.

cbreedon · #8 April 22nd, 2007, 12:02 PM

Quote:

thatguy96 said:
For those of you who are interested, I've just released an Alpha of the Total Conversion here: http://www.xtreme-gamer.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=65635

The link isn't working. Anyone have a copy?

thatguy96 · #9 April 22nd, 2007, 12:12 PM

Fixed the link. Should be working now. The forums that I posted it on have moved twice heh.

thatguy96 · #10 May 2nd, 2007, 01:53 PM

Alright, so as always the patch has caused an immediate setback in order to bring everything up to code. Last time I stalled on doing this for some time, and I'm not sure when my life will allow for it. The largest amount of work would likely go into trying to find files with space for the icons (though the new hovercraft icons are really cool!), but with things like the new hovercraft class I might want to look over various other issues before any future release.

Basically, there's logistical work to be done before any future release, and I'm not sure when it'll get done.