Animals

[Heatseeker 0]

Animals are cool to throw around randomly in missions, like sheep in farms, rabbits and foxes in forests, goats in mountainous, etc.

I once thought about "using" sheep to help ambushing an opfor convoy in a map .

BIS knows how much love their loyal fanbase have for cute little animals combined with state of the art military hardware .

[johnwilso007 0]

id like to see:-

Bear+Borat+ice cream van

[Col. Faulkner 0]

There was a dog addon for OFP but it used the soldier

class. Every time you gave it an order it would always

reply: "Roger!"

[mickuzy 0]

hey the dog is military trained, maybe they taught it to speak.

[-)rStrangelove 0]

Oh, it was an english dog then.

But yeah i'd like more animals, too. Just think of snakes crossing your way while sneaking around in a forest/jungle. A Cobra coming at ya would be bloddy awesome!

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Theres not much use for animals in a military sim except for comedy value... Personally i dont want to be mauled by a pride of tigers while sneaking through a forest to take someone out hehe

It's an "ambush of tigers" or a "streak of tigers". Only lions

come in "prides".  

No tigers? You've never watched "Apocalypse Now", then?

Large wild animals are a real threat, but mostly in tropical

(ie. jungle or bush) areas, which the ArmA island of course

isn't, so animals would practically only add a bit of realistic

ambiance to the vanilla ArmA maps.

It's very easy to multiply real life examples of danger from

large animals (ie not including insects) in jungle environments

alone; several American soldiers were killed by tigers in

Vietnam (one Marine patrol even abandoned a mission to go

kill the tiger and skin it). British soldiers in the Malayan jungle

were attacked by tigers in the 1950s (SOP was for the whole

section or platoon to stand to as if it was an attack -

"Stand to!...Tiger!" - and blast it with small arms). The

only casualty of the Australian SAS in the Indonesian war in

1965 was killed by an elephant. There are many other

recorded instances.

Animals are a threat in unexpected places too. Once on an

ex. in the UK I got repeatedly bitten by an adder (a

poisonous snake native to Britain). The bloody thing went

berserk, but it was my own fault I suppose for taking cover

on top of it. I had to be "casevaced" because of that. One

doesn't expect to be hospitalized by a snakebite in

Scotland!  

Farm animals were also a "threat" to covert OPs in rural areas

in Northern Ireland. If they could get near, the damn cows

would always come over and say "hello" (or rather "mooo!")

thus compromising our OPs to the bad guys.

You could have things like the above, I suppose, but I

wouldn't ever expect a game like this to be so detailed.

Animals in most cases, like I said, would add realism but not

much more (but if I ever should make an ArmA jungle mission

in the future, then watch out for tigers....  )

[Guest]

or pack animals.... nothing like having a walking ammo box

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Only person/animal/thing being hunted will be CCZZ for quoting an image. FORUM RULES

Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

CCZZ, please don't quote images.

[Heathen13 0]

'tis would be hilarious if they made it mandatory for everybody to have Werewolves from DogSoldiers in their game.

"Right guys, a Shilka!"

"One moment Sir! This wee doggies got my arm! Wait... that ain't no dog!!"

[dentist guba 0]

you could even release a mod which allows you to wear their skins. imagine the look in your enemy's eye when that suspicious looking sheep jumps up and blasts them with a twelve-gauge.

you could also possibly use them to distract enemies or even attach bombs to them WW2 soviet style.

[Snicke 0]

Are there no animal addons for arma yett? I would so like to have a deer or something in a mission Im making.

[ck-claw 1]

Are there no animal addons for arma yett?

Give it time my friend!

Soon i'll be able to make my own Cider in an Arma mission with all the addons that this great community will release over time!