Question Re Red, Blue and Green OOBs

[DRG]

Do you have a completed SA OOB?

Don

[troopie]

Originally Posted by DRG

Do you have a completed SA OOB?

Don

I use the one posted here. After it was officially posted that South Africa would not have an OOB in WinSpww2, I decided to step up and make my own. If you like, I will go over it and make corrections.


http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...+African+Orbat

troopie

[DRG]

Let's get this next release out of the way first then we'll take a look at it

Don

[TonyE]

Personaly i find red/blue/green to be one of the most usefull features of the game.
I have used them all the time since i was member of the SPCamo Workshop years ago and up until now (sadly we lost yellow along the way).

I find them great for fictional non-national OBs and as placeholders for national OBs are not included in the game.
Currently me and a friend are prepearing for a looong red-blue (totally modded OBs) team pbem campaign using a mixture of semi-table top strategic maps for moving units around and fighting our battles in the SP-game. Tried and tested before, it works.

I have to say though that i never use these OBs as they come straight with the game, i always use them for brand new modded work.

For me, if space is a premium and it is not possible to add more countries other than by replacing these three, then i would rather retain red/ble/green and have that feature than to add some additional commonwealth clone OBs (no offence to any Kiwis or South Africans)that don`t really add that much more to the game.
The modability has always been one of Steel Panthers strongest features and these non-national OBs really add icing to this "cake".

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by TonyE

I have to say though that i never use these OBs as they come straight with the game.

I'm exacly the opposite,I never use modded stuff anymore.

Lot's of work goes into refining the standard OOB's.

[TonyE]

Originally Posted by Skirmisher

I'm exacly the opposite,I never use modded stuff anymore.

Lot's of work goes into refining the standard OOB's.

Just to clearify, in this case i was refering only to red/blue/green, not the other national OBs of the game.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by TonyE

Just to clearify, in this case i was refering only to red/blue/green, not the other national OBs of the game.

Once in a while i build a wunderunit and test it's effect in those oobs(super-heavy armor, ultraguns...)

[Firestorm]

I use them to portray fictional countries or sub-national groups (mercenaries, bandits, rebel groups, cults) in various fantasy/alternate history scenarios that I and some of my friends create to amuse ourselves. And, similar to iCaMpWiThAWP, sometimes I'll get a bit weird with them (robot or alien invaders, for example).

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Firestorm

I use them to portray fictional countries or sub-national groups (mercenaries, bandits, rebel groups, cults) in various fantasy/alternate history scenarios that I and some of my friends create to amuse ourselves. And, similar to iCaMpWiThAWP, sometimes I'll get a bit weird with them (robot or alien invaders, for example).

Which is pretty much what they were intended for in the first place (roll your own nations) - the default units being merely "fillers" intended for replacement.

I simply wanted to know if folks actually were using them for the intended purpose, or not.

Glad to see that some do !

Cheers
Andy

[Firestorm]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Which is pretty much what they were intended for in the first place (roll your own nations) - the default units being merely "fillers" intended for replacement.

I have a four-man cavalry unit in the Blue OOB with very high survivability as well as morale and experience stats (doesn't seem to make him any more bulletproof, any idea how to fix that?). The main armament of this unit is a napalm weapon with a ridiculously large warhead size, accuracy, kill rating, penetration, and range. I use it to single-handedly wipe out the AI's formations. One day I'm going to use it on my niece, just to see how she responds to having literal hellfire brought down on her panzers.