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[Arne 0]

@all who PMed me:

could you please contact me via eMail: recruiting AT team-yankee.net

Thanx.

@raedor:

I've got something in the works, but the M88 is on top-priority

cu on mapfact soon

bye, Arne

[Arne 0]

Just set up the download for our bridge-pack.

Get it from our download section and please report bugs, suggestions and so on on our forum. A thread for that purpose has been set up.

thanx, Arne

[Tomislav 0]

you should post a link into your last post.

but i'll try it out

[jens198 0]

You can get the Bridge Pack from our site

www.team-yankee.net/

or from

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/

Jens

[Raptor 10]

or from OFPcenter mirror .

pls,

Raptor

[raedor 8]

to spread your addons a bit you should open a thread in a&m: complete.

[TermiPete 0]

Hi Arne

In case you wanted another pic of a M88 - here's a profile I scanned in from a book:

M88 Scan

Hope it is of some use

TP

[Arne 0]

Thanx TermiPete,

I think I'll use it as the icon for my M88.

Does your book tell us anything about the armour?

bye, Arne

[SPQR 0]

In the Jane's AFV Recognition Handbook (1992), they estimate the M88 ARV's maximum armour to 20mm (steel).

I'll scan you its 2 pages this afternoon

[SPQR 0]

Don't know if you found this :

M88 Recovery Vehicle, from Gary's Combat Vehicle Reference Guide

Protection level :

M88 / M88A1 : Hull and cab armor protect against small-arms fire and shell fragments

M88A2 : Hull and cab armor protect against 30mm projectiles

[Arne 0]

thanx for the sources,

so the M88 shouldn't have a higher armor value than a M113 for instance?

And how can I test if the A2 is protected (in OFP) against 30mm AP shells?

Does that mean that a BMP2 cannot kill it at any distance with infinite number of shells?

thynx, Arne

[SPQR 0]

so the M88 shouldn't have a higher armor value than a M113 for instance?

And how can I test if the A2 is protected (in OFP) against 30mm AP shells?

Does that mean that a BMP2 cannot kill it at any distance with infinite number of shells?

That would be true in reality but OFP damage management doesn't work this way.

While having a rather thin armor, its mass should allow it to sustain more damage points than a M113 or a BMP.

Armor (BIS standards) :

- M113 : 150

- M60 Patton : 300

- BMP : 200

- Shilka : 250 ( Its hull protection level is slightly superior to M113's and its turret protection level is miserable )

- T-72 : 400

- T-55G : 300

Something around 250 points may be acceptable ?

[Arne 0]

Something around 250 points may be acceptable ?

Think so. My estimates were

210 for M88A1

260 for M88A2

[TermiPete 0]

Nothing useful in the book.

TP

[Bobcatt666 0]

M88 armor valuses should be on par with the M48/60 series tanks, seeing it shares the same hull compaontants and martials when they were produced. Seen a fair number of them in use that had been taken to nam, and ambushed by VC and had eaten many RPG-2s.

Crews armements constisted of

M2HBA2 50 cal. Browning heavy machine gun.

with the tripod, and T & E for dismounting the gun.

3 M72A2 LAW (light antitank weapons)

2 M16A1/M16A2 Automatic rifles

2 M3A1 Grease guns

4 M1911a1/A92F pistols

The M88A1 is cabale of lifting a M109A6 alone, but the M1 serires tanks proved to be too heavy for it as it had diffculty in recovering the Abrams, thus a Abrams based version was created, the M88A2.

A standard requirment of the army is like vehicles capable of recovery of like vehicles. Usualy the M88s are only used mostly for engine removal or loading stuff, Or servicing heavilly to totally destroyed vehicles.

Commonly one is dispached per btn, with a few smaller recovery vehicles. and will move to a postion rise a baddly damaged vehicles and load it onto a flatbed truck so it can be moved to a rearend support repair area. And be proporly repaired.

[Arne 0]

M88's status is "on hold" due to the lack of an experienced texturer in our team.

Nevertheless work is continuing on other sections.

Today: Entrenchments!

Single 'stand alone' entrenchments aren't too uncommon and have been seen among OFP-Addons quite often, but this is something new: Team Yankee Trench-Construction-Set (TCS).

By now 40 different parts to be connected to each other.

Have a look:

More screenshots on our homepage at Team Yankee

TCS will come in different versions for different island textures (by now 2 for Nogova, Malden, Everon, Kolgujev, Desert and Arctic). Adapting it to other islands isn't a great deal so we hope that you may support this project.

thanx, Arne

[jakerod 254]

Looks amazing guys. Been wanting something like this for a long long time.

[Fork122 0]

Nice looking trenches, the textures blend into the ground very well

[Arne 0]

I hope to present an internal Beta in 4 to 6 weeks.

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