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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">well the only lav 25 that i know being made is being made as a USMC LAV 25 so yet again theyll be drove around in american apcs... <span id='postcolor'> I will ask very nicely, very very nicely if I could possibly alter their esteemed LAV-25's so that my beloved army could have appropriate vehicles. Because I'm just that nice. I still haven't figured out why a Lav 25 is older than a Lav III... or at least less regarded in the CF... since we have possibly hundreds of LAV 25s in service, and only 50-100 Lav III's, which are considered the next generation of battlefield ground transportation. *shrugs* All I know is I only saw one once, and that was while it was speeding by while we were being screamed at for not de-mining a fake minefield fast enough. And I will definitely keep working on my canadian forces. I'll probably release them in beta form, since I have no full mod plans at this time. Maybe if I get some Kandahar or... err.. hmmm... well I guess it's quite telling that Afghanistan was our first major contribution to a war-type conflict since the korean war. My oh my.

Oh well, I'm from Canada and I wished I fired the C7 more often than never in the past 2 years. I will sit and wait like a good doggy for the beloved Lav-25's to come out, for when they do, oh lordy Canada's virtual OFP soldiers wont be carted around in american apcs any more (though they're carted around in american planes, boats and helicopters on a regular basis in real life)

Although I care about as much for the notion of this mod as I would for a kleenex-wars mod for flashpoint, I am fairly certain that they dont need to ask permission when they dont make profit. There may still be legal precedent to have them stopped, but usually companies dont care (when the companies aren't called Viacom or Paramount).

I would have thought that the little winky eye would identify the joking nature of it all, but oh well. I'm NOT american, and I have a lot of problems with United States policy, especially that in regards to the UN (They effectively pulled out of the war crimes court so that their soldiers would not be held accountable for said war crimes) However... being a Canadian, I consider the people of the US my closest allies in the world (hey, we're the only two people in the world who are allowed to build american weapons (without a thorough security check) , so *shrugs* what can I say ). Saddam is an evil dictator, who poisons possibly the only progressive middle eastern society in the north of his country (the Kurds). He invades tiny nations for oil rights and to subjugate some new faces, and acts like a cocky little weasel, barking loudly until the nighttime when the birds of prey come out to feast. He needs to be removed from power, and his loyalist forces need to be cut down to size. The US should go forth with its normal actions of air strikes followed by a swift ground conflict. This isn't the middle ages after all, pure ground wars are done with. And for those who think that world war III is going to be sparked in Iraq... it wont. Reality dictates that it's not an important enough of a country. If the US wants to start world war 3, and I wouldn't be happier if it did start (it would certainly put my infantry training to use instead of filling sandbags and directing traffic) it would have to invade a 'friendly' nation that offers a great prize of a target, like Canada, which is resource heavy, water heavy, electricity heavy and poorly defended. In short... no important country = no world conflict. Iraq = hated, unimportant country.

I'm a canuck, and I will defend our beer until the end, which is by the way, next tuesday afternoon at 6 pm. However, beer is piss, vodka is king, so hail the motherland comrades and such. Yada yada yada. I was in the reserves, and am now in the supplementary reserve hoping that a real war will break out. However, I'm in school to be a programmer, and the reg force has a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, so I may sign up for that. I wouldn't mind dodging the whole 'private' rank this time, and be able to yell at people while being a computer geek at the same time. I love it when people in service positions of higher rank yell at infantry soldiers... I got chewed out by a cook once. Oh my that was fun.

I dont get the snssawp3d thing, but after I dropped my pride and included it instead of dropping the p3d, it worked... now I just get some ammoboxsomethingsomething.paa is missing... but it works! hee hee. Thank you muchly. Now my canuck soldiers can use army issue C9's instead of hockey sticks

Well, I dont consider myself a modmaker even though I'm working on addons to OFP. The only difference is that I dont have the pervasiveness, or official-oxygen-developer status of most modmakers, in that I base what I make on what is already available, or the more pervasive make available. Plus, mine are addons, and not full mods. Oh well. Ohhhh Caaanadaaaaa... blah blah blah blah blah blah.... Nice rant though, I agree fully. Plus, mod teams fall apart quite often.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Excellent! Our Armies website is pretty naf. But I just spent a week in East Timor doing some shows for the Army there and they are Awesome!! Incl in NZ army Battalion 6 there ar troops from Ireland, Singapore, Fiji, Russia, and about 12 ohter nations. A timor Mod would rock!! Oi, I got to drive an M113 in Timor! Two Levers, Auto gears, Gas and door lever. Easy as. One thing I noticed was that all these nations equip in a very similar fashion. Would it be an idea to create generic models, and just various nations badges and Faces... I got to fire the Steyr Aug Assault rifle too.... Sweet<span id='postcolor'> Like I was saying, I've noticed as well that most of the commonwealth nations equip similarly, though Canada does seem to be a bit more of a mishmash comprising mostly of american equipment with british traditions. The New Zealand army and the Australian army seem to be pretty close in design, and the Canadian equivalent isn't too far off both. If you know of any sites that have comprehensive lists of new zealand equipment, please let me know, cause your government's army site is pretty useless (even when compared to other government's military sites!! yikes) Uniform designs would be helpful, I'm still trying to figure out the difference between a combat uniform and a camo one (in infantry training, all we wore were combats, and they were just our standard plain green uniforms, and provided us a nice degree of camoflage... but we also have camo (several million dollar scientifically designed camo that took 10 years to design... our CADPAT program cost more than our investment in the Joint Strike Fighter program! Nevertheless... New Zealand army links would be helpful, or even an 'armed forces of the world' site cause I can't seem to find one that's useful. As for the generic models with different equipment, that would certainly work, and it does for one particular group of addons... the UN addons, which include UN Canadians, Russians, British, Americans and more does this well. Otherwise, the nuances apparent in the different forces have been well implemented in the already available British and Australian amry addons... And hooray for the secretive elitists that are making Lav-25's Canada uses them en masse, though they're being replaced by LAV III's. Maybe whoever made the patria can add a couple of wheels to it and call it a LAV-25 hee hee

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Excellent! Our Armies website is pretty naf. But I just spent a week in East Timor doing some shows for the Army there and they are Awesome!! Incl in NZ army Battalion 6 there ar troops from Ireland, Singapore, Fiji, Russia, and about 12 ohter nations. A timor Mod would rock!! Oi, I got to drive an M113 in Timor! Two Levers, Auto gears, Gas and door lever. Easy as. One thing I noticed was that all these nations equip in a very similar fashion. Would it be an idea to create generic models, and just various nations badges and Faces... I got to fire the Steyr Aug Assault rifle too.... Sweet<span id='postcolor'> I've noticed that a lot of the commonwealth nations equip similarly

That would be nifty, but I think the best way to go about such a phenomenal undertaking is for different people to work on different nations of the commonwealth. I know I'm going nuts contemplating the different uniform and section types that I'm going to include.

Ooh, I hate to reply to my own post, but they are fairly top notch. I might think of using the DDAM C7, since it incorporates at least the scope reticle, if not the visual presence of a scope... the only thing I'd change for the canadian version would be the removal of the burst fire... as I remember it there were three settings... safe... semi... auto.. we were taught to fire in short controlled bursts, cause otherwise we'd run out of ammo, and if the enemy didn't kick our ass, our sergeants would.

Regarding Canadian Armed Forces Addons... As for canadian armed forces mods, I've been working on one for a while now. Or I should say, separate addons that may or may not form a mod. I will check out the links for those c7's and c8's from the DDAM mod, but they'll have to be top notch if I'm going to accept them. I modified ... err... somebody's M16A1 with the grenade launcher and turned it into a C7A1... without the grenade launcher (I screwed up the launcher code, though it's still there... I'll get it working... hell, I'm probably ahead of the CF in implementing and testing the grenade launcher modification) But like I was saying... all canadian rifles and light machine guns have scopes... that's SOP in the infantry, I know it well because I was in the infantry. I just hope the DDAM mod has implemented this.

Ooh, a leopard tank... I need a leopard tank... maybe I can steal one from the base down the street. I'm still downloading the demo, but it looks cool from the shots... but oh my I cannot help but inquire if the maker would mind if I 'paid homage' to his work by retexturing the huey and the leopard to be the CH146 Griffon and C1 Leopard for the Canadian Armed Forces. Please? I dare not beg, but... oh well... Please

I'm also eager for these 8x8's to pop up. The closest I've seen thus far is the Patria, which is available at various addon sites, which has 6 wheels. I'm in the process of making a canadian forces addon, which at present includes an infantry rifle section, the c7a1 assault rifle (pretty much the m16, with autofire and a scope whenever I am able to find an appropriate scoped model) and the CH146 Griffon helicopter. eventually I want to include the new LAV III mech infantry transport, the C1 Leopard tank, our versions of the M113, and the CF18 hornet, once I find an appropriate F/A-18 to pay homage to. Maybe I'll delve into the New Zealand armed forces. I dont mind specializing in lesser touched armed forces. I'll check out your department of defense site and see if I can whip anything up.

I haven't tried including the muzzle flash fix in too many addons, but the ones I have investigated already had these lines of code in them, which perplexes me to no end... Especially the SNS M249 SAW addon, which is presently my favourite version of said weapon... and one which I wish to alter slightly for use as a C9 Light Machine Gun for my canadian armed forces addon. has anyone else fixed the SNS SAW muzzle yet, or know of any superior non-muzzle-flashing M249's or FN Minimi's that are available?