New Finnish OOB

[PlasmaKrab]

Well, Scandinavia as a whole is planned for the future releases, but I'm not making any promises because Sweden and Finland are going to be tough pieces of work.
That's why I thought it would be interesting to have a campaign or a couple of scenarios to make good use of these OOBs.
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[Zipuli]

Cold War mod... nice Maybe the Finns bought some T-80s etc. instead if the policy of roughly 1/3 western 1/3 finnish 1/3 russian remained? And due to not being able to buy ex-DDR equipment in early 1990's maybe materiel situation in especially armour is not that good?

Zip

[Warhero]

Or Finns joined NATO and reneved all tanks to Abrams etc....

[PlasmaKrab]

Glad to see you're interested!
We can discuss the details at length, but preferably not on this thread, I guess.
And don't you worry, I have plans for Finland...

Don't hesitate to PM if you have workable ideas for this or other OOBs

[Zipuli]

Small update on the OOB since 6.1:

-MLRS now with the Finnish naming, 298 RSRAKH 06
-81mm Mortar 71 with new HE ammo (previously named 81mm Mort 71/90, now 81mm Mortar 71) dates fixed for single mortar and 3 mortar platoon -units (used to be from 1971 onwards, now 1990 onwards)
-Urban Jaegers with following changes: available from 2000 (previously 1995), Urban Scouts and Urban Pioneers as their own unit classes (Guards Scouts, Guards Engineers), weapon configurations and with pictures, Urban Jaeger weapon options now have also satchel charges
-New unit: Polaris 500 6x6 All-Terrain Buggy, used by Urban Jaegers from 2008 onwards (to transport 40mm AGLs) and also available in misc. screen, as other troops also use them, but more irregularily (signal units for laying optical fibre, recce units...)
-Musti Position (fort) now available also from 1962-1994 (bug)
-some revised texts and few new unit pictures

Anything coming to mind from you guys, bugs, stuff missing etc.?

Zip

[Koh]

I installed the new version and couldn't notice any changes. Are you sure you uploaded the correct file?

Also 298 RSRAKH 06? Wouldn't 227 RSRAKH 06 make more sense? I've also heard 227 RAKH 07 being used, but that doesn't sound correct to me.

- Koh

[Koh]

Nevermind, I just noticed that the new version is not quite out yet. But why on earth can't I edit my post. I know I edited it before, it even says so, but the edit post button has disappeared. So yeah, sorry for double posting. But the RSRAKH question still stands.

Huh, so apparently you can only edit your messages for 30 minutes after they have been posted. That's... impractical?

[Zipuli]

The info is from newest issue of Panssari -magazine. It appears the naming "298" comes from the diameter of the launcher tube, not the rocket. 06 due to it being purchased 2006, though the system arrived to Finland in 2007 (with 7 vehicles delivered to date).

Zip

[Koh]

I guess that makes sense. It's gonna take a while to get used to that, given how for the last two years or so people have been referring to it as some variation of 227 RSRAKH. Boy are they gonna run into trouble when they buy the ATACMS system for those. How on earth can they name a system that has two different launcher tubes for different kind of munitions

[Koh]

One possible suggestion for the next version. I've heard from a few second-hand sources that nowadays BV/Nasu equipped platoons have three Bandvagens or Nasus. Since you seem to have a lot of sources avalaible to you, maybe you could look into it.

At least one thing that would hint towards is that someone I know who served as a driver just recently had a refresher training exercise, and he was informed that there are new limits to transporting troops with the Nasu-vehicle. The limit of troops allowed in one vehicle during peace time was so low (ten, I believe) that at least in peace time it would be impossible to transport a jaeger platoon with just two of the vehicles.