Civilians and vc women soldiers

[FenderHSS 0]

Okay, there's a big thing about not putting women soldiers in the game.  One thing NO vietnam-era shooter has touched at all is that women fought for the VC.  Ever seen Full Metal Jacket?  The sniper was like a 12 year-old girl.  No, it would be completely inaccurate to have female soldiers for the West, but you can't leave out female VC in Vietnam.  They were infantry, snipers, saboteurs, and they manned anti-aircraft guns.  Women would stroll into U.S. bases with 20 pounds of dynamite tucked into their dresses.  

In any third-world combat zone there are going to be TONS of civilians.  Most tactical shooters seem to forget this.  In Europe, people lock themselves in their basements, or flee the country.  But, when you live in a staw hut with a dirt floor, where are you going to go? Wisconsin? NO, you're in harm's way and you just pray you don't get caught in the cross fire.  In Vietnam, villages got shelled all the time.  True in the cities that fell to the U.S., everybody packed up and left town.  But, you know what that means? I'll tell you. MORE CIVILIANS IN THE VILLAGES AND COUNTRYSIDE!  Where were they going to go? They just moved out into rural places or to Hanoi. They were everywhere.  Okay, not in the middle of the jungle, just walking around for the heck of it, but combat inevitably came to cities and villages.  In Africa, heck, war was nothing out of the ordinary.  They just tried to live life as normally as possible.  Actually, the fact that civilians were massacred by militia and rival tribes should be included.  Ever heard of the African Holocaust?  It was going on back then too.

Want to argue with me? Go right ahead.  

Agree?  Let's hear what you have to say.    

[FenderHSS 0]

Come on! I think I had a good idea about putting civilians in combat zones (for Africa and Vietnam only) and about female Vietcong soldiers. If you like these ideas, please say so. Even if you don't, please tell me I'm wrong. Otherwise, this topic will slip to the back of the forums and be overlooked for the mostpart. One thing everybody loved about OFP is how realistically it modelled what combat would be like for standard GIs c.a. 1985. You have to throw civilians into Africa and Vietnam, as well as female VC to the latter to get an accurate portrayal of what combat was like in these theaters!

[ralphwiggum 6]

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