Earl Grey
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And don't discount the lobsters! They might make it into the base game yet... if not, there's always a module they can be put into or somefink.
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There cant be too many of those left around.
And those that still are wouldn't remember it properly anyway - after all it's been about 70 years now. And those that still claim to remember might not even have been there at all...
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Yes, those BMP textures interest me as well... What else do you have in store for us?
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Decided to go with a two tone Sandbeige/Sandbraun on the Leopard, also took all the dust down a notch. Might go back to the Fuchs and remove the green, not sure yet.
There aren't any Leopards paintesd in desert camouflage (yet), but if they'd be painted they'd sport a 3-tone pattern. Two-tone seems to be accepted by official regulations (although I got no idea what these are), but there also have been seen single-color vehicles simply painted in sand.
There were a number of camouflage colors developed for adjusting camouflage to different environments and they're supposed to simply be painted ove the exisiting 3-tone pattern. Here's some further inspiration for you regarding German desert camouflage:
- http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/a_relaunch/bw_atf_2_dingo_1.htm - current Afghanistan camouflage
- http://www.op-online.de/bilder/2009/07/09/396364/1949585566-transportpanzer-fuchs-fotowurde-laut-bundeswehr-gefecht-leicht-beschaedigt.9.jpg - another Afghanistan variant
- http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/europe/germany/wheeled_armoured/fuchs_1a8/pictures/Fuchs_1A8_new_fox_Rheinmetall_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_personnel_carrier_Germany_German_003.jpg - no sure if this an official pattern
- http://bwmod.armedassault.info/ - conjecture of the mod team, but possible
- http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/schemes/bw_utf.htm - most applicable would be "Scheme3"
I hope that helps!
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VERY nice. Always liked that pattern... Only problem might be that my Brits are running around in the same one...
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Good start! Still a bit blurred but nice! Show us more...
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Yeah I wonder if AndrewTF will make an appearance and produce some luverly new textures.
So you think the textures already shown to you are crap? Well, it'd save us a lot of time and troubler if we'd just gave you colored polygons if you expect everything to be modded anyway...
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I'm with you. Nothing as tension building as watching a half a dozen rounds bounce off your Mark IV.
Since when do they do that? Everything's got better armor protection than a PzIV does...
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Panthers. And StuGs. More Panthers. And more StuGs. To shoot the crap outta 'em Allied tin cans...
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oh T-55s. well i think they have GAS but the downside with GAS is that it has no own TIS so in the dark it needs a seperate light source. while the LAV does have TIS... Anyway the T-55s night vision capability sucks anyway, active IR if I dont remember wrong.
So at least at night it works against... well... crappy old tanks. Ah whatever, I was just thinking positive.
Check the suppression, sometimes Syrian armor crews will freeze up or panic under fire, even if it's pretty light. Being a T55 it was probably a reserve crew who would panic if the BLUFOR so much as look in their direction. Not to mention the T55 has horrible situational awareness when buttoned up.Possible that it was suppression. I just thought I'd be able to make IFVs more than they are. I give myself a few poitns for a good try, though.
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You usually shouldn't go head to head, correct. But either T-55 don't have auxiliary sights or my gunner was just to stupid to fire on the LAV sitting about 250m away from him and peppering it with 25mm shots (that was at night, though). Mabe I have just been lucky/unlucky?
BMPs are a bit better off (and so will be the Marder) because they do have AT missiles - but that will require diffferent tactics altogether.
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Oh, I believe they stand a comparatively good chance against MBTs, even from the front (given that the mBT doesn't take them out first). They might not be able to take out a MBT from the front, but the cannons can damage every piece of equipment OUTSIDE of the turret which effectively makes the tank something of a sitting duck. How does a tank gunner aim with all optics destroyed? Happened to me often enough when I tried to get those LAVS...
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Glad to be of service. Should you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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Sounds like incorrect numbering to me. Could you please tell me the names of a few winter mods you downloaded and installed so I can check? After I've taken a look I can tell you what went wrong...
And regarding the Grey/Yellow issue: Until May 1943, all German vehicles in the game show up in Grey; from May 1943 on they're Yellow (or 3-color, depending on what mods you use, but you get the point) - meaning you'll need one winter mod for each vehicle respectively.
Example: The PzIVG (early) shows up in grey AND in Yellow, so you'll have to download a winter mod for both. Which might be the second reson a lot of winter mods aren't showing: you just have downloaded either the winter mod for the Yellow OR the Grey vehicle. Does that clear some things up?
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Those Marder's textures are REALLY good. A true artist at work there!
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Same for me. Both 112202 and 12203 are corrupted and need to be replaced.
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I wonder, though, why nobody wants to know who's grass mod that is...
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By all means, go ahead and do it! We could do with a few more choices for those!
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That's not the only details (more changes at the back and on the other side of the vehicle), but you get a good impression. The best solution would be to get a yellow base and then apply the camouflage yourself.
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Yous hould be aware, though, the there's good reason for the Ferdinand and the Elefant having different BMPs. Let me show you (sorry for the big picture):
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People, this whole affair is gonna get ugly really soon. You should pull out while you still can.
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Okay, I can udnerstand the info floating around here can sometimes be a bit misleading, but we all should view as a long-term investment: the more money we give BFC, the more (and better!) games they can continue to give us. What's the use of our favorite games developer dlivering a The-whole-shebang-with-eveything-you-can-think-of-plus-a-free-ticket-to-Hawaii game realease and stating afterwards they're going out of business because the last two releases simply were too expensive?
It's not working like that in the games industry and never has - and a lot of companies have gone out of business exactly because of that: trying to deliver more than they were able to cope with or to pay for in production costs.
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Earl Grey: That makes no sense, we shoot terrorists in Afghanistan all the time with incendiary .50 cal rounds from the M2 Browning machine gun, it's perfectly allowed. So 35mm rounds would be just fine.
Of course, but what other armies do hasn't necessarily to be allowed to the German army as well... Times might change, of course. And I'm not too knowledgeable about current regulations. The gunner It alked to has served on a Gepard about 15 years ago, so things were very lilely handled differently then.
Apart from that, a gepard is a pretty big target for a RPG, so I'd rather take the MArder for fire support anyway - or a proper tank with a 120mm smoothbore!
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Uh... what?
That makes no sense. On what grounds wouldn't the 35mm be allowed to fire on ground targets?
Seems to be more of the same silly rumours about .50 not being allowed to do so. Don't recall anyone telling off the Argentines.
I have been told that by a Gepard gunner a few years ago. Apparently the reasoning was that firing with incendiary rounds/tracers is inhumane because the poor sod trying to blow your ass off would hideously die burning to death... What IS allowed is firing AP ammo - but try that with soft-skinned vehicles (which my whole point was about). The shell will just go in on one side and out the other without having done much damage, whereas tracers would set the vehicle ablaze.
CM:N Safe to say 2011?
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Good point - you wouldn't believe how many men claim to have been members of a Tiger crew once you drive around with an R/C model of one... memory is a fickle thing.