Venezuela OOB

[thatguy96]

High_Plains said:
It seems befuddling that you are so flippant about the most explosive place on the planet right now??

Flippant? This is a game. I'd say its hardly being flippant. I'd also say its hardly the most explosive place on the planet right now, seeing how interconnected the three countries (Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela) are. You'll notice that Correa hasn't suspended economic contacts with Colombia, and though Chavez keeps threatening too he hasn't either.

Right now its a lot of posturing, really for benefit of the larger political scene in the region. That largely has to do with the future of the region, differing views on contacts with the US, and Chavez's political ego, looking to become a serious regional political hegemon. That he has to deal with a major US ally so close no doubt irks him to no end. Its pretty obvious that whatever you think of FARC, Chavez is trying to undermine the more politically right leadership in Colombia. Its regional geopolitics at work, and I honestly think its a bit early to think that this kind of sabre rattling is actually going to lead to a war, especially with the European community and the US and their attitude toward FARC and Colombia.

On a more important level heh, I've been trying to track down sufficient information on Colombia and Venezuela for some time now, and its just not readily available. If it were, I'd have made these OOBs for sure. If people have the information I'd be happy to do the grunt work of putting the OOB together.

[Warhero]

Hmm I would be interested about Venezuela/Colombia/Mexico OOBs (if somebody could do them)... And how about Dominican Rebublic OOB if there's already Haiti OOB (thatguy I suppose)?

[thatguy96]

I'm waiting on two books on Latin American armor...which seem to be lost in the mail at the moment

I was hoping they would provide enough details to be work. Armor introduction and out of service dates seem to be some of the hardest information to come back. There's also no hints at any sort of organization usually. The orgs are much easier to fudge though, once you get some sort of basic understanding of what was available and when. This is very much how certain elements of both my Philippine and Haitian OOBs were done.

[thatguy96]

Okay, so the books have arrived, but so has the end of my final semester of grad school and the upcoming patch. I'm going to wait at least until the release of the patch to do any sort of work on the OOBs I have new information on already in game and to start work on ones that I could probably build now. I'll also no doubt have to update the Haitian, Dominican Republic, and Philippine OOBs. The patch has notoriously had serious affects on the Vietnam pack as well.

The long and the short of it is expect delays, but also that various projects are now likely to be in the works.