PFC Mongoose

Well, we have Most Wanted Choppers, so I think this fits nicely. I for one, would like to see: CC-144 Challenger CF-18A and -18B Hornet CT-133 Silver Star F-16 Fighting Falcon (for v1.46)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Jinef @ April 14 2003,22:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Okay, i was told that the SAS has a lot of Royal Marines in it by, suprise suprise, a Royal Marine. I could have said more about the UK SF but basically everyone is interested in the SAS and SBS, i'm sure America also has small groups of people it denies the existence of. *cough* Delta Force *cough* I saw a video of these American SFs (don't know who) walking along with some Kurds towards the Iraqi Saddam Airport. Then they see Iraqi positions about 100 metres in front of them, and our highly experienced operative stands in the middle of the road and says 'contact front' in his radio. In the ten seconds they were standing there the Iraqi guys saw them and opened fire. Well he yelled something obviuos like "they're shooting at us" as he ran around a bit and then jumped into cover. The reporter and Camera man also jumped down with them. "It's been 2 hours now, and the American special forces are trying to call in air support on the what we now know to be as a MG position." said the reporter in a slighty monotone voice. Also a 60 year old reporter in a helly hansen coat was reporting from no mans land and he spotted Americans special forces in a LUP "being covert before the assault begins" were his words. Thank god no Iraq sixty year old in a helly hansen coat was there!<span id='postcolor'> I honestly can't see any trained solider of a modern military acting like that, much less a special Forces agent of the most Advanced Military on earth. Not doubting that you saw it, just doubting heavily that it is what you claim to be.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 15 2003,11:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PFC Mongoose @ April 15 2003,10:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">See, I think destroying these weapons may not be the best solution. Â Personally, especially considering all the valuables in the Husseins' gun collections, if I were U.S. brass, I'd be trying to round up as much of the stuff as I could, and bring it back to the U.S.<span id='postcolor'> hmm .. just send them to the baghdad museum to replace the stolen artefacts .....<span id='postcolor'> I doubt many acheologists and anthropologists would appreciate that. If you want to get really conpiratorial, it's possible the U.S. LET the museum be looted, and sectrretly used Spec Ops to gether up all the artefacts ot make a fortunae on them. Between that and the oil grab, and it could be theoried U.S. is making a killing in Iraq. Pardon the atrocious pun.

Wars by U.N. Charter membver nations are illegal without consent of the U.N. Security Council. This mean, to my knowledge, every single war foguht during the Cold War was illegal. Now, here's an interesting thought; what if France pulls a Soviet Russia and just auto-vetos anything proposed in the Security Council by the U.S. or U.K.? Highly unlikely, but all thkis talk of legality got me considering the possibilities.

Sounds interesting... but I suck heavily at OFP, so I think I'll stay away from this pack. As it is, I'll engage a distant enemy with my m16, and spray burst after burst, and he'll almost always kill me with one shot.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ April 15 2003,05:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ April 14 2003,16:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Actually, Messenger is turned 'on' by default in most installs of 2000 and XP.  It's not activated by spyware or trojans generally. Basically, as far as I can tell it was originally intended to allow a network admin to send messages to folks on the network.  like service announcements and such. Then the marketing scumbags figured out how to send spam to EVERYONE with the service running, and ran with it  <span id='postcolor'> Yeah, this is almost as bad as people who don't know you but have the gull to call you on the phone and make special offers.   WTF is that, should be illegal.<span id='postcolor'> Nah. IMO, MEssenger is much, much worse. If you have a good caller ID, it'll usually tell you when the persona calling is from a corporation. And if' it's a telemarketer, as soon as they start pitching the sale, I just hang up. But Messenger makes Half-Life crash, and sometimes, it pops up a stupid window as often as once every 30 minutes. That makes me seriously angry.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Koolkid101 @ April 15 2003,02:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Whats the best paintball gun for the cheapest price? $100-200 Also a realistic gun would be nice, just not so realistic that the police are gonna shoot me. Also are there any airsoft arenas in vermont?<span id='postcolor'> I've always only ever used the guns they carry on site. You know, the cheap pump-action and semi-autos they carry, with the big-ass hopprs on top. And even then, I only use pump-action.

I've actually been working on a mission using the units from the mini-demo, the bunker pack, a .30 cal that I don't know WERE I got (probably either you guys or WW2EC, though almost all their stuff is Resistance) and Rebuilt Kojugev... however, I have to tone down the number of rifle Grenadiers the Germans have, the hilliness of Koljugev makes them excrutiaginly lethal. It's really just for my own enjoyment, though. I might send it to SFG, and if he likes it, he can put it up, or something.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 15 2003,10:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 15 2003,07:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Addon makers take note: A gold plated German-made MP-5 submachine gun that soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment found in an arms cache in Baghdad, Iraq.<span id='postcolor'> My god. Saddam is truly the undisputed king of tackiness and kitsch.  Thtat thing is just so damn ugly  I don't think it is very useful in combat either. If you have four guys with AKs and The Man With the Golden Gun, who will you shoot at first? <span id='postcolor'> I think it looks wicked. As for drawing fire, camo cloth. I want to see one of those gold-plated M1 Carbines, though. See, I think destroying these weapons may not be the best solution. Personally, especially considering all the valuables in the Husseins' gun collections, if I were U.S. brass, I'd be trying to round up as much of the stuff as I could, and bring it back to the U.S. They could sell what they don't need, and keep what they did. It's greedy, but it's almost definately what I would have done. And just for the record, I think I would have put a bit more deterring security around the Baghdad museum. More guards, and perhaps an M113 nearby with a VERY twitchy-looking, chain-smoking gunner.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 14 2003,20:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">CNN: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Meanwhile, U.S. troops believe they have found 11 mobile chemical and biological laboratories buried south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said Monday. No chemical or biological weapons were found along with the labs, but soldiers recovered "about 1,000 pounds" of documents inside them, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakly of the Army's 101st Airborne Division. <span id='postcolor'> (Emphasis aded)<span id='postcolor'> They might have poisoned the ink. Break out the HAZMAT suits, boys....

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wardog @ April 14 2003,12:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GrimmDraco @ April 13 2003,02:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">HAHAHAHAHAHAH, bail out, right... my MOS has a motto folks.... DEATH BEFORE DISMOUNT!!!!!!! oh, that was funny, thanks for the laugh....on a more serious note...to clear a few things up, when the drivers hatch is open, the turret dont move, unless you turn the override on...dunno why, if the barrel rotates to that mil, the barrel atuomatically elavates to go over it...but all the same its a safety issue.<span id='postcolor'> That's odd. Granted we're talking about WW2, but My dad's mob had a motto too: "Get the fuck out before you're burned alive."<span id='postcolor'> Well, from my experience in Op Flash, if you're in a tank engagement, and you get hit, and you're immobilized, chances are, you're dead whether you get out or nnot if another MBT sinks that last shell into yours. So, usually I chance it, stay in, and hopfully try to disable them before they finish me. Rarely works, though.

Remember that one Halloween episode of the Simpsons? With the Evil Krusty Doll? <Salesman> I have this one Krusty the Clown doll left. <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> However, the doll is CURSED!!!! <Homer> ....that's bad. <Salesman> But it comes with a free frogurt!!! <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> The frogurt is also cursed. <Homer> .....that's bad. <Salesman> But it comes with your choice of sprinkles! <Homer> That's good! <Salesman> The sprinkles contain [whatever that stuff was called]. <Homer> .... <Salesman> .....that's bad. <Homer> Can I go now?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 14 2003,18:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">you will notice i often talk about Bosnia , but you know why <span id='postcolor'> I don't.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 14 2003,18:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, selected quotes. From http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com<span id='postcolor'> I don't know who probably wants that guy more badly, Washington, or Hollywood.

Thank GOD!!! That program is Satan incarnate, I swear. It's not so bad in Op Flash, but it will severly mess you up if it pops up while you're playing Half-Life (for Day of defeat) Abnd Half-Life can't handle being minimized, so... Thank you, thank you, a thousand times, thank you.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ran @ April 14 2003,15:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (killagee @ April 14 2003,15:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Much of our expertise is in Peace Keeping and De-Mining. We are bloody good at it. So are the Swedes, British and Romanians (funnily enough..)<span id='postcolor'> and us ?? <span id='postcolor'> AND us. Hell, Peacekeeping is about the only thing the Canadian military is good for.

Many people aren't satisfied with the official gear, and want to try and improve on it. Chinooks with official Army marking, Blackhawks with more proper loadouts, and scripts to make the rotos kick up dust, m16s that sound like they're supposed to. Some aren't happy with the weapons as far as damage goes, and are working on a standard for realistic damage (so you don't get some tanks that are far more powerful than roughtly equivalent tanks, etc) I have no military experience, so the official stuff is good enough for me, for the most part, but it;;s admirable that people want to improve the game. As for your suggestions, there is a Fulcrum, an F117, an E-3 AWACS, Intruders are on the way, and ;people are working on an entire WW2 mod worth of stuff. Just most of that stuff you need the Resistance expansion for.

Okay. I have a town East is defending. Encompassing the entire town, and the space around it, is a trigger, set to 'West Present, Once' and On Activation, sets </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">A1 = true<span id='postcolor'> Now, I have a bunch of soldiers, who each have aMove waypoint, then Get In waypoints for different stationary defences. The Get In waypoints are all set to empty defences and empty stationary tanks, and the Condition for all of the to activate is A1. The problem is, the never go to their second waypoint. A1 never becomes active, even when West swarms into the town and starts mowing down the defenders, becayse they aren't in the defences to give themselves a chance. What's going on? What am I missing? I know it's something minor, but it just makes no sense! I tried changing to 'Get In' waypoints to 'Move' weaypoints with </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">This getingunner [insertvehiclenamehere]<span id='postcolor'> and yes, all the vehicles are named, but the problem seems to be, even when West are Present in the town, A1 doesn't become true. This is very frustrating and I just can't figure it out.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (JAP @ April 14 2003,09:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well, As you posted it it should work just fine<span id='postcolor'> Yes, it should. That's why I'm so confused as to why it isn't. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Another thing you can do is make the trigger a "Switch" and syncronise that trigger with the "move" waypoints for the units. No need to put in the variable then. So keep the trigger how it is now, delete the A1=true part and delete the A1 condition in all the move waypoints, instead sync all the 1st move waypoints with the trigger. That should work fine.<span id='postcolor'> I'll try the A1 = false thing at the beginning, first. If that fixes it, then, well, yay. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">One extra tip, would be more realistic if you made the trigger activate on =>West - detected by east. Would be strange if you sneak into the town and them rushing for their tanks before a single soldier has spotted you Hope this helps, Cheers<span id='postcolor'> If it was a stealth mission, that what I would havve done. But the stealth missions are why I could never finish the campaigns (I've read walkthroughs, read tips and strategies, and attempted Interdiction dozens upon dozens of times. I'll never beat it. ), so all my missions are about force-on-force. In this case, an American Armored unit is trying to push through three fortified cities, you have a squad of Abrams, three squads of mechanized infantry, and three squads of infantry in trucks. The idea is they hear you coming. I can get around the trigger business to soem degree by starting the defenders inside the weapons, but then you lose those fun few seconds of driving into the town, and seeing Soviets scrambling left and right for the defences, before peppering you with fire. Also, as you drive past certain intersections, small squads of Soviets are supposed to 'hear you', jump in empty vehicles and follow you, thus adding some difficulty (flanking). But, again, they never actually get in the vehicles, so, I dunno. Well, I'll try the A1 = false, then I'll try syncronizing, then, if that doesn't work, I dunno. Myaybe my compy of thee game is messed up.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OxPecker @ April 14 2003,06:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Avoidable Iraqi civvy casualties = bad<span id='postcolor'> Yes, that is bad, and you all know how I feel about the loss of human life by now; but come on. 1000 civilian deaths is horrendous, but in comparison to almost every previous modern war, it's almost not even a figure. I'm not defending the deaths, and I'm not saying I don't agree with you, I'm just saying.

I think if the jeep is empty, you'll have fewer problems You might have to carry in, and set down the jeep empty, then load it, or load it once it is out of the plane. You may have to carry it in with a scripted winch, or soemthing, though... I'm not certain.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Did you make A1 = false at the start of the mission?<span id='postcolor'> No, I didn't. Â I just went with the 'How to activate a trigger with another trigger' question from the FAQ. Would it work to simply put On Activation </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> A1 <span id='postcolor'> instead? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And how are you checking for A1 to become true? <span id='postcolor'> By putting myself as an East player inside the town, and watching to see, when West enters the city, if the defenders man the defences like they're supposed to. Kind of pimitive, but I didn't really know how to use hints, or anything like that. I've read tutorials, but I guess I'm a bit of a slow learner, because it seems I don't retain most of the information they present. Â I'll try this, though. Edit: Well, know I know that indeed, the A1 trigger is activating, but, the soldiers still aren't manning the defences. I tried changing the A1 = true in the Activation line to just A1, but it didn't seem to work. So, I'll try setting a trigger at the beginning that says A1 = false.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OmniMax @ April 14 2003,05:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I had watched the history channel and learned a bit about gliders and how they could fit about 350 lbs. into a glider (few men and a jeep), which the entire frame was steel and alluminium and with wooden hull\sheet metal walls. The thought of such being towed into enemy lands by huge cargo ships was joyous.<span id='postcolor'> Well, I don't know much about how to help you with this, but I am also intruiged as to how it would work, since I've been looking for a good way to airlift vehicles for a while now. However, I will point out that, if I'm not mistaken, a jeep alone weighs more than 350 pounds.

The FAQ is quite useful, but IMO, doesn't really get updated enough. I find myself asking questions that have been asked before, and aren't always covered in the FAQ.

OK, IRL, I've never fired a firearm, I know very little about military hardware, and I didn't really start getting interested untill I started getting aquainted with Tom Clancy and OFP. Now, I know there are some sites that will have all the facts, and don't mind reading through them, but I thought I'd ask you guys: What's the difference between the XMS, the M4 and the CAR-15? Aren't they all m16 carbines? I know there must be differences, I just have no idea what they are. Same with the AKs. -47, -47 CZ, -74, 101.... different rates of fire? Different clips? Different ammo? It's just been bugging me lately, and I thought I would ask the experts.