Not easy to spot an AA gun emplacement in the bush

And I'm sure that's going to be the case in the mod itself. Ground forces will have to deal with anti-air emplacements otherwise the choppers are going to have a hard time

Ground forces or fast movers. How I'm going to deal with the fixed wing aircraft will be interesting... As IIRC SQUAD won't be including flyable fixed wing aircraft. They'll be controlled by AI like Post Scriptum. I don't really want to do that but of course if there is no feasible way to implement flyable aircraft due to the size of the maps then they'll have to be implemented the same way as PS.

its gonna be like rising storm vietnam when we have to land somewhere

Well the sizes of the maps will be larger

But ja finding a good place to land will be tricky on some maps with the thick bush

Could just hover

and have the guys jump out

i know some of the places was wide open so maybe that could help but that leads to the guys being sitting ducks

Ja if landing in a hot LZ it's preferable to have guys on the ground first to secure the LZ.

Otherwise you're just landing right into an enemy ambush

exactly so im thinking a Alouette goes in first with a fire team to clear the LZ somewhat for the Pumas/Oryxes

Ja well there may be various scenarios that would play out in LZ's depending on the situation

If you've got ground forces nearby it's best to have them secure the LZ first then land.

If no ground forces nearby then have fixed wing bomb the area or smoke it up and then land

Best way to minimize the risk of an LZ ambush

true

we'll have to test everthing ones we get there

Yup

I'm keen to see how different the meta will be compared to vanilla SQUAD

No optics, thick bush, different vehicles (SADF side anyway)

Closer engagements on many maps due to the environment and lack of scopes

Trying to get some decent black skin on the FAPLA reskins

They look weird... Bone structure is off 😬

Shrunk the camouflage pattern and made the head black

Just need to make the hands black now

Does eyes

Told you he looks weird... The facial bone structure isn't right 😂

its staring into my soul

Changed his hat to camo now too

Now painting in his fingers... Fokken pain in the arse that

Would be better without globes

gloves

i believe in you and hey maybe you can just remove the gloves then

Can't

they're baked into the model

Would have to edit the high and low poly model to remove the gloves. Which is not possible as I do not have access to the high poly

damn

Doesn't matter as I'll be sculpting proper character models in the near future

nice well you are doing hella good work so i believe its gonna look good no matter what

😉

we believe in you 😂

Voila

nice

skee mask for the win

😅 would sweat like a pig in the Angolan bush with that on

Good thing I'll be sculpting the proper character models when I get Zbrush

id still use the hell out of it

yea thats good lol

but good place holders though

What SWAPO looked like

What UNITA looked like.

remove the kneepads and you've got a soldier

Can't do that either 😦

Baked into the low poly

damn but when you get zbrush

But again no worries as I'll have proper character models sculpted as soon as I get Zbrush. (around September)

can sombody show me some models of the guns

Sure

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/4f/a3/274fa3244c299b585f685caba97a2678.jpg

damn i wonder if that grenade on that gun will work

As in that particular one or ingame?

both i guess

Nice job

Not sure it would work on that AK as AFAIK only the SKS, R1 and R4 could fire rifle grenades?

As for ingame ja It's something I'll need to implement for most of the factions as rifle grenades were used. Not as many under barrel grenade launchers back then

AK's had them though

oh oky it would be interesting to see

@Boomninja those rifle grenades are easy irl, the rpk muzzle was the same as the regular ak, and those grenades fit right onto the muzzle, only funny thing was that these specific grenades needed to be shot with a blank cartridge, or you might blow up the gun. This happened quite often in the shit @Springbok

@Kooijpolloi Thanks for the info man.

Ja I know about the blank cartridge thing even the R4 needs blanks to fire rifle grenades. That will make firing rifle grenades rather finicky and time consuming but realistic 😉 It also makes the M79 snotneus and Milkor Y2 MGL far more useful due to their rapid ability to put down 40mm fire

No r4 doesnt need blanks afaik uses a shot trap with a normal cartridge

I may be wrong

Really? Damn I assumed blanks I was sure I saw a 10 round magazine just for blanks

Heatstrim

Second from bottom

Wew i see i lied its a blank firing one the design right after from the frogs is a shot trap the ac58

I see

This one was also license built by armscor

Cool man. Downloaded for reference

Any idea how common the nutria R4 paintjobs were?

Rifle grenade

As far as i can figure out not really common

I think maybe a few units had them in nutria but its not a lot

We still use those rifle grenades

Another rifle grenade

Interesting wooden grips here with pattern 83 gear.

Weird how they still use the rifle grenades when underbarrel grenade launchers have been out for so long which offer a faster fire rate.

Another nutria R4

With the paint wearing off on the dust cover

Its faster and cheaper to use rifle grenades

And everyone can carry a couple extra

Also an underbarrel gl on an r4 would make it one really really heavy gun

True, the R4 being milled steel is certainly heavier than the mostly plastic M4