Cold war-germany

[Sole]

Red Storm Rising... I read that 2 years ago, I loved it, really kickass. I read Sum Of All Fears this summer but I found it a bit disapointing compared to RSR.. only cool parts were the Berlin battle and the 2 naval encounters. But then again, I guess no East vs West book will ever beat RSR

anyway, I'm drifting offtopic, I would like a Germany campaign... as long as it's more full scale than the original 1985 campaign. With aircraft, armor and infantry in larger numbers and all at once (ok, this prolly wont be friendly for lower spec comps) so you get a better feeling of war..

But then again, that would probably be unmanageble to make it perform correctly, hrm, what was I saying? I forgot, never mind.... I'm stupid

[crewcutkid]

Damn straight! See, I think a campaign that involved regular infantry, armor, etc. would be great. Hell, we could even have food service trucks and stuff get ambushed! I dunno, but I think if we put our heads together and thought this out, we could create some awesome missions. Whaddya think folks? I'd be more than happy to collaborate with any good scripter through email to create some kickass missions.
-Crew
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[Sole]

thing is, how you want to have all stuff be 'synchronised' so all aspects interact with eachother and furthermore, if you are 1 soldier/squad in a large scale conflict... how much influence do you have on the outcome? not much I reckon ...

[Killswitch]

Oh yes - I'll second all of this. Now, what we need is a new island:

How about a "Fulda Gap island" (preferably a 25,6x25,6 km island and not a puny normal sized island) so we can start creating a
Fulda Gap scenario campaign, 80's style.

(Fulda is a river some ways east of Frankfurt, near the old east-west border, if I'm not mistaken)

Oh man, the ideas I have for that area... :-)

[crewcutkid]

You see, I dont wanna be a general. I just want to be able to see this from a grunt's point of view. I may not make a huge difference, but (pardon the Pun) what's the difference? Oh, and the Fulda Gap sounds perfect. The island would have to be huge, and a Berlin map would have to be dreamed up. I think this project is starting to gain momentum?!?

[DigitalCenturion]

1) Creating berlin would be a strict (well, not a strict no-no, but you get the idea) no-no if you'd want the campaign to be actually playable. OFP goes to a crawl with lots of buildings and urban combat is not ofps cup of tea.

2) A setting outside some major city by a river might be much much more interesting. Reasons?
A: OFP is a countryside war sim
B: Russia has a lot more amphibious and airborne (read: vehicles like the PT-76 and BMD series of airborne ifvs) capacity than NATO (maybe not much more in '85 but nowadays alot more) so major river crossings could be interesting. Say you as a engineer is tasked to blow a bridge only to find that when you retreat the whole area is already saturated with russian MVD and Army troops and armor, so you have to hide in some village. Might make for some interesting missions.

Also, if anyone is up to the task of making a island (crewcutkid, this might be for you. Visitor has been released and from my impression it's not HARD to make a island, just very work-intensive) i say make it in spring time with some snow and dirt and mud and leavless trees. All ofp islands are either midsummer or midwinter. Boring.

Additionally, i really support the idea of you just being a grunt, a tiny cog in a huge machinery. I liked that about the orig campaign where you feel like you arent alone or part of a 10 man army (cough red hammer and resistance cough)

Also, i think the campaign should be structured like the original campaign in that you take on several differant roles. Being a commando is fun, being a helo pilot is fun, being a tank commander is fun etc etc but not all the time. In the original campaign you could always look forward to a differant job if you hated something. I for one lost about 10 litres of sweat after every black op mission. Man i was tense. Those were the days...

[The Frenchman]

I support the idea!

[Chriz]

http://www.pbase.com/image/17323233

my us army europe soldiers with grimseys nice woodland textures and with the nice us army europe m-60a3 and m113a3 textures by surgeon

[The Frenchman]

rbeni12 is making US army soldiers that would go nice with this idea.

[Chriz]

this is a 1980's fulda gap idea those soldiers look very modernish i don't think they would fit in very well