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I played the BWM on BattleField Vietnam, and if it wasn't for the dumb AI, it would be my favorite mod for just screwing around. Never really was a fan of BFV, but that mod was creative and original. I'll definitely have to give this one a go. Looks nice from here.

Where do you live? Nazi Germany? My guess is America At least we can draw cartoons without invoking race riots.

Someone needs to look closely at the stickies... Addon Request Thread... hmmm... no Cold War Rearmed Discussion... not quite... Addon Research Topic... not really Armed Assault AddonList... might be a clue, not sure... Why don't you check it out?

Is it just me, or has anyone else felt recently that the gameplay in ArmA went down? I feel like there are many more jackasses and BF2 losers playing now than ever. Evolution doesn't feel fun to me anymore because I can't find a server where people get along. I have a 3/4 record this past week for servers turning into a TK/Cheatfest. And there are a ton of servers that keep dumbing things down and editing perfectly good missions so everyone gets a G36 and a Javelin. That just doesn't do it for me. Anyone know of a good server where people still play Armed Assault and not Verbal Assault?

Yeah, I love using the M240, but the trick is to take them out quickly because there really is no suppressive fire in ArmA. They don't cower or make immediate attempts to find over (usually), they immediately return fire and flank you. I ran into a large group of AI from about 200m away, and I started belching out lead with the M240, and immediately after four of the enemy were killed, the AI returned fire with an ungodly amount of lead and I was dead. They were just in the middle of the road... Not a care in the world that four of their buddies just died from a hailstorm of 7.62mm bullets... They just killed me like the unemotional lifeless bastards they are.

I was just playing on a server today... evolution... And I was taking off in a UH-60 and this TK'er shot the tail rotor with an M136 and we spun out and crashed. And then I got blamed for all the TK's since nobody really knew what happened. And then I was banned. Hooray! Some German server so I don't care to much. It is annoying, because evolution is volumes better than the Beserk bs where everyone is just a leetpwningsniper with a javelin, but it always attracts the most TK'ers. I think they just do it out of frustration with not being able to play the game.

Well played, sir.

It's a nice repaint, but I don't think it is in-character of the RACS. I would see them operating like CH-34's or UH-1's or something before they bought commie choppers. I do think it is more realistic of them to have an Mi-8/17 than a UH-60 or AH-1Z though.

I think it is more realistic to have the RACS there, personally. What it comes down to is real armies fighting fictional enemies on a fictional island in a fictional war, so to have that nation represented is probably more realistic. Splitting hairs. Each to his own.

Hey, I haven't done to many SP missions, but has anyone found out what ranks the RACS uses? US ones? Spanish ones? Any information would be great. And as a side note, what are the abbreviations for the Spanish ranks? Thanks in advance.

... On that note, do you think anyone will care to much if the ranks aren't in the correct language?

That's what I originally was thinking, but the Sahranian military seems to have enough money to dish out for fancy German firearms and superfluous M163's. I suppose the CH34 could fit, but there are so many UH-1's on the market that nearly every third world country has used it in their military if they didn't get an Mi-8.

On that note about Riboli, I decided to check out the South Korean military about their ranking system, since the USA pretty much formed that military like Sahrani's. South Korea uses an identical ranking system as the US Army, but it became translated into Korean. So only if I had the Esperanto for: Private Private First Class Corporal Sergeant Staff Sergeant Sergeant First Class Master Sergeant First Sergeant Sergeant Major Second Lieutenant First Lieutenant Captain Major

Right on, well, thanks for your help. I've joined an Esperanto forum on the internet and I'll see if they can help. I've researched it a bit and it is actually a very interesting language.

I can't read that webpage... What exactly is "armeo"? Also, did you just make up those ranks? They aren't very specific. Only 1 jr. enlisted rank there. soldato - (first class) - (lance coporal or specialist, not entirely necessary) kaporalo sergento - (staff sergeant) - (gunnery sergeant) - (etc) - (second lieutenant, lieutenant junior grade...) leutenanto kapitano majoro kolonelo

Hey, could you remove the "HMH-363" entry? We are reforming. Thank you.

Bring back pilots and I'll be happy. How about this idea: Instead of pilots being the only ones allowed to fly helicopters, as I previously suggested, how about making pilots the only ones who get transport points?

This may be difficult, as I have no idea how far along you've come with the basic pack, but could you ballpark its release date? Like early September or something?

Yeah, that would be bad-ass. I think the Marine Mod v1.4 is coming out with a basic pack which includes a UH-1N, but I haven't seen any progress on it.

That would be cool, but I think even Sahrani is past the point of CH34's. I think a retrofitted UH-1 variant would fit them much better, like the 1N or maybe even the 1Y.

I have a question... Is it possible to somehow switch these guys to BLUFOR instead of OPFOR? If this is supposed to take place in modern times (the presence of ACU's says yes) I don't think the Russians would side against the Americans in open warfare.

I don't understand the blue magazine tape... Doesn't blue tape mean something is safe/inert? Like it would be filled with blanks?

You know you need the '67 Pontiac GTO and a '67 and '72 Cutlass 442... Please?

I would really like the pilot to be added in again. The TK issue is moot, that is part of the game and people should be more observant instead of going Rambo. It isn't that hard to distinguish a friendly pilot from an enemy combatant. And the only reason people are finding these pilots on the ground everywhere is because they are allowed to have the same weapon options, which lets them hop off and go along with the infantry. So, my thoughts for bringing back pilots: 1) No access to weaponry except M9 and MP5 and M4. MH-6/AH-6's commonly had SAW's stored in the back according to Michael Durant (author of Night Stalkers). This should/could only be accessed if the helicopter becomes incapable of flight (rotor shot, engine shot, out of fuel, etc). Not sure how that would work though. 2) Weapon space identical to medic. 3) Be able to start as an MH-6 pilot, and at 40 points get UH-60 like normal. 4) No other class is able to fly aircraft. 5) ... I have no idea how this is going to work, but make it an option for the server to designate pilots. It would really suck if all the pilot slots were taken up by people who couldn't fly or didn't want to help others and they destroyed all the helicopters. So, the server would start out with say, the Admin or a member of his unit, or both, allowed to be pilots. Then as they played, they would recognize regulars of the server who became good pilots and let them have the privilege.

Is it just me or do vehicles move unusually slow on unpaved terrain? I would understand slower than a paved road, but one is able to run faster than most vehicles offroad. Even the "off-road" struggles when it is "off-road". Even the hummer is fairly constricted to the roadways. On flat dirt terrain the vehicles move like they are in quicksand or something.