British 'Bulldog' APC

To the sound of a container of bagpipes falling on a rat column

TAG_BLX would like to introduce the FV432 Mk3 'Bulldog' British APC for ARMA2:Combined Ops

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ntnrv8gq2aoaa58

Current version: 1.1

What is it?

This may well be apocryphal but here goes...

The 'bulldog' is an upgrade to the aging FV432 series British APC.

With a new drivetrain, the addition of ERA and bar armour, an anti-IED electronics suite

and improved crew protection it was designed to relieve the operational burden on the Warrior.

After seeing action in Iraq it was deemed 'unsuitable' for deployment in Afghanistan

and was sent to the knacker's yard.

What you get

The 'Ned Kelly' variant - so named because of the Australian designed 'bucket' turret.

Variant with remote weapon station in woodland and desert camo.

Variant with 'hypothetical' armour upgrade in woodland camo.

I can't claim this model is 100% accurate but hopefully I've done the old girl some justice.

Requires: Community Based Addons (CBA) and BAF

If anyone would like to give it a go and give some feedback I'd be chuffed.

Weird, I was just thinking about this addon not ten minutes ago. XD

DL-ing now, will have feedback and/or lamentations of my horrid driving skills ASAP!

EDIT- Well, I can see why they chose to name it the "Bulldog": It's ornery, it's mean, and it's got a face only a mother could love. I think I'm smitten. XD

But seriously; the addon runs flawlessly on my end, the texturing and modeling work is excellent, and there's nothing quite like playing around with a platoon of them in the editor, chugging over the Takistani hillside like a pack of particularly angry, khaki-colored warthogs. I think this little... er... "beauty" of a machine is going to be on my hard drive for a LONG time. Really excellent work!

Fantastic. Looks great. Nice work.

Ooh, this is the kind of thing that makes me fire up Arma 2 these days. Downloading!

Thanks cleggy

ArmA2Base.de Mirror:

British 'Bulldog' APC v1.0 by cleggy

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British Armed Forces

ArmA 2: Combined Operations

Community Base Addons

Kind regards

Miller

Nice release mate! Armaholic informed :)

Also would there be a woodland version in a later release? thanks.

Looks great, downloading!

Nice to see this 'beast' finally released. Always good to see more kit for the British inventory. Cheers Cleggy.

Incidentally, why was it seemed unsuitable for A'stan? Is it just... rubbish? :D

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to mirror :

British 'Bulldog' APC (v 1.0) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=addons&id=1762

Yeah, thanks a lot for your hard work and for sharing it! :)

Cheers,

D.

Incidentally, why was it seemed unsuitable for A'stan? Is it just... rubbish? :D

When all the all the uparmour kit needed to make Bulldog safe enough to use in such a high-threat environment is added, it's not mobile enough to deal with the Wadis and shitty roads in Afghanistan without getting stuck or something breaking (more likely). It worked in Iraq because it's largely very flat, and the have fairly decent roads.

There are loads of Bulldogs in use in the UK; just without the uparmour kit and ECM on the version we saw in Iraq.

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

British FV432 "Bulldog" APC v1.0



Community Base Addons

- Arma 2: British Armed Forces

- Arma 2

JUst a couple of things mate when turned out you cant see out of the hatch and the drivers legs stick out of the bottom of the wagon, and in the top cover position the gunners arms stick out of the sides of the glass and the gpmg sight is slightly of to the left and you can se it through the cover will post screens to follow.

Other than that cracking job mate hope to see more brit kit in future.

Nice, I just got BAF and PMC some weeks ago :D.

Great looking addon! Thanks for sharing.

Patrol APC for british army it is great! What about open variant?

First up thank you all for the replies and much thanks to Miller, Old Bear and Foxhound for the mirrors - I knew I could rely on you.:)

Now...

JUst a couple of things mate when turned out you cant see out of the hatch and the drivers legs stick out of the bottom of the wagon, and in the top cover position the gunners arms stick out of the sides of the glass and the gpmg sight is slightly of to the left and you can se it through the cover will post screens to follow.

This is interesting mate! I don't get any of that at my end:eek:

Would dearly love to see those screen shots! ... anyone else seeing this?

Nope i havent got her fixed and now for some screens.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-22-48-18.png

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-22-36-83.png

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-22-26-89.png

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-22-16-48.png

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-22-14-65.png

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/Robert_Haggan/Arma2OA2011-07-0317-21-45-90.png

Images ~500kb each! Please take the time to read our forum rules. /Alex72

@rhaggan:

Thanks for the screens ... tho' this is bad enough without you posting so many!:)

It's obvious they are all in the default pose - so the animations aren't working.

Are you running any mods that might be messing with them? (always look to blame someone else....)

Whats the bloke in the first pic doing (apart from sinking in quicksand)...

he's not in the vehicle at all!

Just to mention about the above problems... im not getting anything like that! I have used plain vanilla ArmA2/Oa and also used SMK Animations and still no problems.

Cleggy, as asked before mate,.. any news on a woodland version? thanks.

Cleggy, as asked before mate,.. any news on a woodland version? thanks.

Sorry DarkXess, didn't mean to ignore you!:o

I could do a woodland version but afaik they never existed, well not in this version anyway. However if I get enough requests for it why not?... no actually I can think of one good reason ... I hate painting textures! Anyone up for the job?:j:

Thanks for the feedback on the animation issue.

Sorry DarkXess, didn't mean to ignore you!:o

I could do a woodland version but afaik they never existed, well not in this version anyway. However if I get enough requests for it why not?... no actually I can think of one good reason ... I hate painting textures! Anyone up for the job?:j:

Thanks for the feedback on the animation issue.

One reason: It may not be suited for Afghanistan but Chernarus has some pretty good roads. ;)

Anyway I too would like to a woodland version.

I support the woodland version idea.

Just make it not so darkish to be used in Takistan too.

I support the woodland version idea.

Just make it not so darkish to be used in Takistan too.

In my opinion the colour should match the BAF and UKF woodland versions.

Blimey! Support for the 'woodland bulldog' is growing, maybe we should start a poll!

There I was quietly contemplating a (yellow) version with the remote weapons station and now you've given me something else to think about.

Blooming Chernarus and it's nice roads...:mad: