German Motorcycles and their Units - Page 4

PanzerBob · #31 May 29th, 2007, 03:08 PM

Good day, Shan

As matter of fact, I've been looking at your MODs but wanted to trial them before I got back to you. I flashed up a small battle to field test them, and liked what I was able to do with them, I'm going to incorparate them into my Mod OOB for my next campaign.

IMHO, I think some change breaking them into single bikes or some single bikes would be good.

But at least we have the MOBHACK

Eternal War(gaming) PanzerBob

Richard_H · #32 August 7th, 2007, 02:39 PM

A little late on this one I know, but would it be possible for you guys to post your mods in .zip format. After a bad experience, I'm afraid I'll have nothing to do with .rar, but would really like to see what you've modded.

Thanks.

Richard H

PanzerBob · #33 August 11th, 2007, 01:00 AM

Good day Richard,

Attached is my current German OOB besides the MC's it has many other Mods. So careful where you put it, hope this is some help to you.

Cheers

PanzerBob · #34 August 11th, 2007, 01:12 AM

Hello again Richard

Tried to send it diguised as a jpg doesn't seem to have worked. Anyway I'm attaching a rar if you want, I don't have Zip anymore.

DRG · #35 March 7th, 2008, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Shan said:
<snip> I compared some MC units of various OOBs - German MC sections are AFAIK the only ones having size 2 -

I just now got around to this item on my "to-do" list so I apologize up front for not dealing with this when it was posted

Shan..... you really didn't check very many OOB's when you wrote this did you ? Did you check the MC units in the Slovak Republic OOB ? Canada ? Czechoslovakia ? Hungary ? All have size 2 MC units. How about Sweden or Bulgaria or Manchukuo ? All have size two MC units as do France, Vichy France, Japan, the POL Motorcycle in the Norwegian OOB, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Romania and Netherlands.

So......Germany is hardy "the only ones having size 2" MC units is it ? Half the nations in the game have MC units that are size 2

The general rule of thumb used was if over 10 men the size would be 2 and under that 1. There were some exceptions and those are being looked at but there are nearly 4 dozen MC units in the game right now with size 2

It's fine to debate the merits of changing this. That's what the forum is for. The concept of breaking the MC units down to carry units that can dismount to fight is interesting and this game is made to be adapted and modified but would it be TOO MUCH to ask before making sweeping statements like " German MC sections are AFAIK the only ones having size 2" that at a BIT more effort be put into checking the other OOB's first?

Don

blitzkreig · #36 March 10th, 2008, 09:42 AM

DRG - thanks for your feedback on this subject. Sweeping generalisations apart is there a realisitc possibility of changing the way mc units work in the game? I can see that any alteration to having dismountable mc units would then also have consquneces on push bike and cavalry units and would note doubt require much work on your part, worht the effort I ask?

If the concept is of interest to you is there any kind of referance material or evidence we can hep you with?

As an aside to any one else reading this does anyone have any infomation on how nations other than Germany used thier MC units?

Regards

DRG · #37 March 10th, 2008, 01:56 PM

I have already added dismountable MC units and formations to this OOB. That's as far as I plan to go with this for this next patch and the code has been altered so that the game will load MC "passengers" in an auto deploy situation or if they are given to the AI to use but right now I have no plans to put them on the AI's picklist.

Once the Patch is released everyone can have a go at telling me how they would have done it differently.

Don

blitzkreig · #38 March 11th, 2008, 05:13 PM

Don

Thanks for your efforts, I look foward to the next patch! Don't be so cynical anyhow! You guys do a great job and you can't worry about pleasing every one all of the time as the saying goes!

Regards

blitzkreig · #39 May 2nd, 2008, 03:51 PM

Just a quick thank you for the work done on the Krad units in the German order of battle in the new patch. They play well and are just what I was hoping for.

thanks guys

Shan · #40 May 3rd, 2008, 07:31 AM

Thanks for pointing that out, blitzkreig - I just downloaded the new patch and was about to re-mod my version of the dismount-capable Kradschuetzen when I read your post - I'm pleased to see that my version has largely been adapted and some other minor corrections have been incorporated in the new German OOB. Great job!

(last night my PC broke down, with all my OOBs and much more important stuff on it and I only got saves of some of my files... I hope the hard-drive is still ok - if not, I'm screwed

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