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You haven't played OFP if you haven't got an Iron bomb fetish, the RAD_F/A-18s, all Footmunch planes, GR4s and FDF mod Hawks all bomb marvellously under AI control.

Why not use SJBs reaction units as part of a Nogovan police project, with a little bit of work they could be turned into an all purpose internal security paramilitary force.

I'd be very interested to see air to air rockets implemented, if you're planning on polishing off the 'nam/Korea air forces don't forget F-100 super sabre A6M and JU-52M ( Captured and license built respectively and used by the french and subsequently ARVN/AF) IL-28 (Soviet Canberra equivalent) OV-1 Mohawk F-7F Twin prop night intruder (Korea) MiG-19s formed a very big part of the North Vietnamese capability until the 21's were finally released to them. RA-5 Vigilante FJ-1/2/4 Fury F-82 Twin Mustang A-37 Dragonfly Polikarpov PO-2 (Korea) and a type of flying boat operated by the USN throughout the former and early in the latter conflict. NO risk of getting bored at least

I vote for the A-10 because there are already good F-16 and AV-8B models out there by Vit, the problems with these aircraft are largely in the config and I passionately believe that marrying these models to refined configs with all the newest scripting effects (Including VTOL/STOL) would produce top class addons. However before that I'd say to cut your teeth on the A-10. I was actually going to do an A-10 but can't find the time to play OFP anymore never mind addon make. Heres some things that I'm convinced should be in any decent A-10 pack. 1.Infantry smoke/flare script- Something like Snypirs support pack mixed with BAS CAS script where a player places a marker (laser/flare/IR probe/smoke) and a CAS A-10 carrying LGBS or JDAMS is spawned to hit the co-ordinates. 2. Forward air control OA-10A- to take advantage of above script and for MP, loadout for FAC A-10 is usually AIM-9s, Smoke rockets and laser designator pod (I know the latter was tested and approved, don't know if it was ever used, it would have the advantage of automatically enhancing the accuracy of all guided weapons fired at the target.) 3.Maximum Ordnance load A-10s- The full list of weapons available for the A-10 (circa 2000) includes, MK82 500lb (28 max), AGM-65 (max 10), MK84 1000lb (16 max), CBU-87 (8max), CBU-52/71 (16max), it can also carry 20mm Gun pods, rocket pods and various ECM pods. So theres a lot of room for variants 4. AGM-65B- TV guided Mavericks, I figure it should be possible either to control a missile while its in a bomb cam (talk to footmunch) or more drastically setpos the player to a "driver" position in the missile and setpos them back to the cockpit prior to impact...the plane should be ok once its in the right attitude when you launch. 5. A-10B- I've only ever seen one picture of a two seater A-10 and I believe it was a one off prototype, it would however have the following benefits: Clan Crew training, reduced human player workload in MP/SP missions, it looks good.

More greatwork, the MiG-23 handles much like I'd expect (hint read this months AFM thats where I got my expectations if yopu know what I mean), in Combat against 3 F/A-18Cs (Radishville) 5 floggers faired surprisingly well in slash and dash attacks (much in the way the Soviets expected the MLE+s to), however on one to one dogfighting even your humble F-5E ran circles around it (as it should be). Not a big fan of the colourscheme personally I'd prefer something like the airsuperiority grey on Polands fleet. Any progress on the loadout scripting? Perhaps multiple AAM combinations might become available for floggers, would you need to rework all your previous addons to make them compatible with such a script.

Actually certain MiG-23 types (MiG23B, MiG23BN, MiG23BK and MiG23BM all with reporting name Flogger-F) were specifically built for ground attack as interim solutions pending the development of the MiG27 no other Flogger types were intended to have any AS or strike capability.

Why not just have the forst nine passengers get inside instead of complicating matters with two versions or arsey configs?

Well this APC just lets you choose whetehr the soldiers feel comfortable or not (or it will do if/when the proxies ar ordered so that seating is on a first come first serve basis.) I forgot to mention another possible reason for the whole Chechnya roof sitting habit, according to a friend of mine who was working near the border in 99 half th Russian APCs were towing the other half, in one case he saw a tractor (as in CET not massey ferguson) pulling two or three armoured vehciles behind it as they were travelling without spares. JDs doesn't mention any or the CMW measures featured on the Piranha Series (for instance) on the BTR-80, i.e. Anti-spall lining on the floor, roof suspended seats, any design features to deflect the blast. AKM74 do you know if there have been any upgrade programs for the BTR-80? I know Poland and the Czech republic have been adding these and other features to their OT-64 modernisation programmes.

Soldiers do have a habit of doing that. Besides mine protection and ballistic protection are totally different things for instance in Lebanon a BMP-1 drove over a dual purpose mine the APC and crew continued back to base, but the passenger compartment was a slaughter house, zero survivors, in a similar situation in the first Gulf war a LAV-25 drove over the same type of mine and had three wheels blown off, but the crew and passengers all survived because the vehicle was designed to disperse the force of the blast through itself in order to protect the occupants (hence the roof suspended seats, the shock would travel through rigid seats and shatter your spine), for the same reason British Saxon APCs are designed so that the large mudgards will blow off in a mine explosion in order to diffuse the blast. In fact an Irish SISU/Patria XA-180 APC in Lebanon drove over an anti-tank mine and drove back to base on five wheels and full crew, and its armour can barely stop 7.62x39

AKM74 is there any chance of an ambulance version with maybe extra casualties being sat and laid on the roof, just for effect? Cpt Moore's dustoff Huey had a pretty good stretcher anim as I recall.

Jaguar, why don't you dowlnoad Chris's OFP script editor it has briefing and overview wizards which negate the need for HTML skills to write briefings. Great pack I just can't think of missions fast enough. As for the BTR-80, Troops would sit on the roof if the alternative was to walk into or out of combat, wheeled APCs and similarly lightweight tracked vehicles like M113 and FV432 can be used to fire and manouvre into small arms range although this would only be practised with cannon armed vehicles IRL, and even then it wouldn't be the first choice. Anyway long to the short I say just make the first 9 proxies the internal ones, therefore you can avoid having people on the roof by restricting squad size to 9...easy peasy. Also you might want to have vulnerable troops on the roof in ambush missions, or missions with multiple drop offs, where maybe a support detachment or flanking section are deployed further back from the FEBA while the internal squad proceed to a frontal assault.

Em for some reason when I try to create a cylinder from the menu in oxygen it comes out as flat object, I do recall accidentally selecting some sort of "always do this option" the first time I was playing around with one, is there actually something wrong here and if so can I fix it Edit: sorry wasn't looking at what I was doing, can I delete this?

Where is the O2 section?

I'd say add a few "park" areas to reduce Poly's

The S-tank didn't have a turret at all, it had to rotate on its tracks

I concur its a beautiful map but all that effort is wasted if a quite ninja PC like mine can't run it without lag.

It's beautiful now how about a H-21 Shawnee?

Its reputed to be the most effective desert warfare MBT in the world, I'd really love to see this come out with the APC converted from captured T-55s, Desert Islands would well and truly conquered

Could be used for Vietnam, Korea, Aden, Borneo, Malaya, Falklands and Northern Ireland, and Israel pre 1975 Missions for a start, also quite a number are still in commercial use, I saw a special extra quiet version used for giving tours over the Grand Canyon.

WOuld it be over elaborate, for SATCOM and certain air units (Kiowa) to have in built map click activated cam create scripts, kind of like integrating the (who made it again) support pack? Secondly I know that BAS has expressed no fixed wing intentions but would something of equal quality to Hudson and Pennywise' F/A-18 be considered for use alongside, i.e. integrated into campaigns and aforementioned scripts?

Base?

Well the second option would probably be preferable if it can be done, but if it can't then three or four fixed loadouts would be just fine. I guess for realisms sake certain weapons would have to be selected in pairs, could a laser designator pod be added as a weapon. (I'm afraid I'm high on ideas but aalways low on implementation, hopefully that will change when I get my first addon out)

I'm afraid I'm temporarily unemployed while I wait to be conferred with my degree (on monday) so I've lost that whole friday feeling. Anyway well done on the bombscript, if this can be done would it be possible to have re-arm trucks on the runway with a range of different loadouts for Crews to select?

I'm sure this is unnescessary but I'd like to feel in some way helpful: MiG-27 Armament 1x 30mm Gsh-6-30, up to 4000kg (8820lb) of external weapons including Laser, TV, electro-optical and GPS guided bombs and missiles as well as unguided Iron bombs, rockets, gun and cannon pods as well as tactical nuclear bombs. (source: The International Directory of Military aircraft 2002/2003 by Gerard Frawley (2001) Fyshwick: Aerospace publications)

Footmunch you're a legend.