Combatintman Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Hapless said: The 79-82 timeframe is very much pre-SA80. The Falklands War was in 82, so that's what we'd be looking at in terms of infantry weapons, ie. Sterling SMG, SLR, GPMG and Bren. And the L42A1 Lee Enfield sniper rifle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Steiner Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 2:28 PM, mjkerner said: Fixable problem, though. (Technically, an FN FAL but hey, any port in a storm!) Is the FN FAL already in CMx2? I don't recall seeing any Uncons carrying them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 No, it’s a weapon swap from CM:Afghanistan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rice Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 3 hours ago, mjkerner said: No, it’s a weapon swap from CM:Afghanistan. Combat Mission Afghanistan has some really neat weapons that unfortunately never made it back over to the other CMx2 games. (Type 56, G3, FAL, M16A1, AR10, etc) Also I know M16A1 is about to drop in CMCW but that's about 10 years in between. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 5:58 AM, Cpl Steiner said: The opportunities for this are endless. Foot patrols in South Armagh. Mercenaries in Africa. Falklands War. All doable if we have late 70s, early 80s British Commonwealth equipment. +1. This!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 10:58 AM, Cpl Steiner said: The opportunities for this are endless. Foot patrols in South Armagh. Mercenaries in Africa. Falklands War. All doable if we have late 70s, early 80s British Commonwealth equipment. A heap more than that ... Cyprus, Dar Mutiny, Oman, Malaya, Borneo, South Arabia (Aden) are just a few that spring to mind with a bit of modding. 12 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said: +1. This!! Obviously mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Rice said: Combat Mission Afghanistan has some really neat weapons that unfortunately never made it back over to the other CMx2 games. (Type 56, G3, FAL, M16A1, AR10, etc) Also I know M16A1 is about to drop in CMCW but that's about 10 years in between. Already have them swapped out. Of course, it’s only a cosmetic change. They fire like the original swapped-out weapon. Still fun, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vet 0369 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) On 3/31/2021 at 5:14 PM, mjkerner said: Already have them swapped out. Of course, it’s only a cosmetic change. They fire like the original swapped-out weapon. Still fun, though. IIRC, the main change to the M16 that makes it an M16A1 is chrome plating the barrel and gas port, and changed the flash hider from the three prong to the ringed flash hider. All they did was correct the issues created by the Army Ord Dept. that eliminated them from the original Stoner design to save money, and that gave the M16 such a bad name in Viet Nam. Edited April 19, 2021 by Vet 0369 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Vet 0369 said: IIRC, the main change to the M16 that makes it an M16A1 is chrome plating the barrel and gas port, and changed the flash hider from the three prong to the ringed flash hider. All they did was correct the issues created by the Army Ord Dept. that eliminated them from the original Stoner design to save money, and that gave the M16 such a bad name in Viet Nam. The main change was the addition of a forward assist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vet 0369 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Splinty said: The main change was the addition of a forward assist. Ah, then the M-16 history that I read wasn’t complete as it didn’t mention the forward assist as the main reason for the M-16A1. An article in Gun digest dated 12/16/2017 states that the reason for the Army insisting on the forward assist was not mechanical, but psychological to give the troops more faith and confidence in the weapon. Yes, the M-16 in Viet Nam had a lot of issues with rounds not chambering, but those were due almost entirely to the Army eliminating the Stoner design requirement to chrome plate the chamber, barrel, and gas tube in order to save money, and the neglect of training troops in how important to actually clean the rifle. In fact, troops were actually told that cleaning was usually unnecessary! The main changes to the M-16A1 were to chrome plate the chamber, barrel, and gas tube, after which there was actually no need for a forward assist as the chrome plating reduced the fouling, as was the original design intent. The flash hider was changed from the three prong to the ringed flash hider simply because the men in the field were using the three prong flash hider to break the bands on cases of C-rations, which tended to cause misalignment of the flash hider resulting in the rifle shooting around corners. Some soldiers learned to ride the charging handle and then using the forward assist to seat the round for a “silent” chambering. This however was never the intent of the Army. Think about it logically, if a round fails to chamber, why would one then use a forward assist to force the round into the chamber, running the risk of jamming the rifle big time vs pulling the charging handle to eject that round and trying to chamber another? If that second try fails, you have bigger problems than you can solve by pushing the forward assist. There is a reason we did rifle inspections. In all my years with the M-16A1, I never once needed to use the forward assist. I also cleaned the rifle on a regular basis. I was also not ever in a sandy or dusty environment, such as Iraq or Afghanistan, so I defer to your operational experience with using it in those environments. Edited April 19, 2021 by Vet 0369 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukaFromFallujah Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 @mjkerner Yo friend, im trying to find that FAL modelo from CM:A for a long time, since i don't have the game, would be a problem to you sending me the FAL files ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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