Forze Armate di Capraia - Shaping Alternative History.

[yevgeni89 163]

hmmm thats true I never thought of that at all, because whenever i played around with takistan in editor, my natural profile face is white, so who ever I choose to play with is white naturally, thats a good question though I wonder if you could :/.

No matter though, you still debating on Fal's or famas rifles? and other equipment they may use/need including possible vehicles?

[Sakai 1]

hmmm thats true I never thought of that at all, because whenever i played around with takistan in editor, my natural profile face is white, so who ever I choose to play with is white naturally, thats a good question though I wonder if you could :/.

No matter though, you still debating on Fal's or famas rifles? and other equipment they may use/need including possible vehicles?

Well your player face will be the one you decide to have in player profile but AI would of have Taki faces.

Just to make stuff less complicated and that the Army uses same NATO round they will get FAMAS G2 instead of F1.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

That makes sense logistically, same FALO AR and same army equipment pretty much too, that leaves possible vehicles :P

[joker006 462]

in this army would a plane because the airport Capraia is large, you could add some vehicles as if they were captured and reused by the army of Capraia ;)

Edited January 26, 2013 by joker006

[Jenkins48 1]

Really loving the mod! I prefer fictional non-high tech factions to the more modern ones.

The idea sounds good for the Marines, They are looking good already!

If I could make some suggestion? These might help you with ideas.

A 'reserve force' (having the marines into a regular force, instead) that sits in the middle between the professional Army and the militia:

-Reserves used for defending military installations that need that bit more protection than checkpoints, road blocks which are guarded by militia troops.

-Gear on them (Webbing, Backpacks, Shovels etc.) to make them look more soldier-ish. But not too much, perhaps gear mixed bewteen CDF, Takistan and Chedaki insurgents (cold war stuff).

-Transported by Trucks.

-Using the same weapons as militia, but some FALS, or other cold war weapons thrown in.

-Perhaps a mix of camouflage: Olive green trousers with a camouflage smock (Rhodesian) or vice versa, some with just one set of the same (showing how supplies are low).

-Steel helmets as suggested with marines, with the scrim net over them- variety is good, some with nets some without, perhaps foliage on the helmets?

-Officers with a chunky, classic radio (PRC 349?)

Perhaps you can combine the two together, rather than having marines, you could have a reserve force with light amphibious capability.

Also, are you thinking about 'beefing' up the other Caprian soldier's gear? I like to see troops that look like they're geared up. I think it would be good if you gave militia steel helmets, they are quite cheap so I'm sure Capraia could afford them. Also you could give them ALICE backpacks in the ACE version, if you want to stick to 'history' these are quite affordable for a poor country as well.

[Sakai 1]

Mod is centered in the beginning of the invasion not in the middle :)

So its up to player's to add empty vehicles so they can drive it/fly it as captured.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Sakai

[Sakai 1]

@Jenkins - Reserve Forces are Militia in Capraia :)

Sadly i'm not gonna add different models, I believe the Capraians are good as they are, steel helmets cost more than a beret :) But if I will find out that you can change faces on model's in config.cpp I will re-texture the Takistani soldier's to be Capraian Marine Infantry as well but didnt come up with a name or story for them, because I want to have a connection between UNO Models and Takistani in the Marines.

Trucks - Unimog's and MAN are already in service :)

EDIT:

Changes big changes for the marines!

There will be two types of Marines, Old Equipment and New Equipment, Old Marines will be using Takistanian Model's, French Lizard camouflage and FN FAL's, New Marines, UNO models, FAMAS's and French Lizard.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

@Jenkins - Reserve Forces are Militia in Capraia :)

Sadly i'm not gonna add different models, I believe the Capraians are good as they are, steel helmets cost more than a beret :) But if I will find out that you can change faces on model's in config.cpp I will re-texture the Takistani soldier's to be Capraian Marine Infantry as well but didnt come up with a name or story for them, because I want to have a connection between UNO Models and Takistani in the Marines.

Trucks - Unimog's and MAN are already in service :)

EDIT:

Changes big changes for the marines!

There will be two types of Marines, Old Equipment and New Equipment, Old Marines will be using Takistanian Model's, French Lizard camouflage and FN FAL's, New Marines, UNO models, FAMAS's and French Lizard.

:O Great Scott I must see this !

[nicklomas 3]

Hi interesting mod. I get an error thought as there is no FN FALO nor M72 for the milita

[yevgeni89 163]

which version did you download?

[Sakai 1]

Hi interesting mod. I get an error thought as there is no FN FALO nor M72 for the milita

There must be FN FALO because I checked it by myself, downloaded the dropbox version, unpboed to check the config.cpp and its there, you won't have M72 if you don't have ACE + FN FALO is not for Militia but for Infantry.

EDIT: Just checked the NON ACE ver, forgot to remove M72 from it, sorry about that lads! I will get it fixed on new update which might be soon

Pictures of Marines will be up soon once I get everything done.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

Marine pictures ! :D

[Sakai 1]

Here is the old equipped Capraian Marine Corps (CMC):

Few notes about the pictures:

Officer does not have Lee Enfield anymore.

Backpacks no longer on the units.

As you can see medic has a patch showing his a medic

Officer has a patch showing his a Officer.

Classes:

• Assistant AT Specialist
  
• AT Specialist (Light)
  
• AT Specialist (Heavy)
  
• Riflemen
  
• Medic
  
• Automatic Riflemen
  
• Machinegunner
  
• Squad Leader
  
• AA Specialist
  
• Engineer
  
• Soldier Night
  
• Officer
  

Every one of them beside AR & MG uses FN FAL, these are no variants, clear rifles given as gift and bought of from Belgium in 1964's, Older Marines that are currently using New equipment say "I won't forget the taste of the waffle but I am sure I will forget the taste of white flag quickly on the battlefield"

Known Issue:

As seen on screenshots the vest has weird, darkish and white colors on it, cannot do anything about it, the model changes the color of the texture, tried to fix it, but my eyes burn since than.

If you want to speak to the units aka ask if they seen anything they will speak arabian. Don't worry they have CDF head's and speak chernarussian and english on radio chatters

More stuff to Marines: Sniper, Assistant Machinegunner, Spotter, Modernized Marines, Amphibious vehicle's e.g. boats and APC's.

Im pretty much lost with updates now but lol anyways stuff in upcoming version very soon, which is today, Im currently uploading the files which will take a while as my upload speed aint good!

Version 1.1:

Introduction of Capraian Marine Corps -Old

Static Equipment.

Worn out uniforms - dirt and sand for infantry.

Bren LMG.

Militia Machinegunner

Military Doctor.

Armed Hilux for Militia - MG and SPG-9

NON ACE M72A2 fix.

New Infantry class - AA Specialist

Modernized Marines not added yet, few improvements need to be done, texture + script wise.

Pretty much it or might of lost some :P

Sadly I can't get transportmagazine with backpacks in config.cpp to work, Demolition Specialist and Engineer which get already pre-set backpacks with explosives.

P.S. Would you guys like to have Paratroopers as well? :') - with shity AN-2's

Too bad Capraia is not bigger or has more settlement's :'(

BIG BIG Thank you to W0lle who helped me fix config errors, without his help I probably would of rage quit xD

Edited January 27, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

These guys look amazing :D ,are thinking about adding helmet nets or burlap sack textures to a few helmets like this...http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/uploads//monthly_07_2010/post-1424-1278267342.jpg / http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/steel-helmets-3-reich/257395d1319906760-m-42-with-wire-and-burlap-cover-dscn1932.jpg and thank god we have AA now just tried to fight off the taki 2035 army , requested UNO and CDF support haha.

Very impressive work Sakai, cant wait to see what vehicles you have planned for them im still pushing hard for that fiat APC, but bmp1 works nice captured in earlier skirmish or bought after the wall came down and paratroops you say hmmmm, im definitely thinking hard on that one, ive got a few ideas ;)

I had some thing envisioned along these lines for the helmets

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/world-steel-helmets/156933d1290049101-lebanese-soldier-wearing-the-israeli-style-m1-helmet-with-3-point-para-straps-1982-1cf5e940.jpg

http://qmfashion.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/picture-22.png

as for the paras, you going to use vanilla models?

Edited January 27, 2013 by yevgeni89

[stupidwhitekid75 11]

Paratroopers would be awesome. Based on the size of the airfield you would think that it would be able to hold bigger and newer planes. Capria doesn't have to be so small...who knows, it could be part of an island chain. Just none of it's other islands are featured in game haha.

[yevgeni89 163]

Paratroopers would be awesome. Based on the size of the airfield you would think that it would be able to hold bigger and newer planes. Capria doesn't have to be so small...who knows, it could be part of an island chain. Just none of it's other islands are featured in game haha.

Mmmmm the thing is Capria Air force is small anyhow those prop planes and thats really it, so An-2 makes sense, but your right about the airfield size it could hold a few c47 douglas's.

Im still thinking about those para's if vanilla models are going to be used or not, most likely though, but if they werent going to be vanilla id seriously through out as a suggestion the old BGS para's using the old luftwaffe helmets, or old school british para helmets" best bet is I44, but they denied you on the bren gun so I dont know about that" or m1 helmets " p85 racs/ or http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=15850&highlight=BGS ".

Edited January 27, 2013 by yevgeni89

[Sakai 1]

Mmmmm the thing is Capria Air force is small anyhow those prop planes and thats really it, so An-2 makes sense, but your right about the airfield size it could hold a few c47 douglas's.

Im still thinking about those para's if vanilla models are going to be used or not, most likely though, but if they werent going to be vanilla id seriously through out as a suggestion the old BGS para's using the old luftwaffe helmets, or old school british para helmets or m1 helmets.

Yes if you take a look at the Spectnaz Officer skin, aka one with a beret I plan on making them as paratrooper's with red beret and French Lizard as well unless you have better idea for camo :)

Or even better if you know any model that will fit it best that is ready to be downloaded and asked for permission let me know.

About the net on the helmet, Sadly I won't be able to put it on without proper texture which is hard to find.

[yevgeni89 163]

"textures ;) ", and hmmm, lemme see what I can do, the army is in digital,the marines are in lizard, so airborne naturally has to be different their the elite short of the BFS, and mmm i dont know about that model, its kinda ugly with that body armor and rig, I think bis had their mids on making the spetsnatz officer geared more towards a police action than like a operator compared to the normal jumpsuits and bandana's the spetsnatz are in, I hate to say especially since I have no talent, but I would hate to see the spetsnatz officer as the model base for the para's, I highly suggest asking Vilas to use his soldier model, their a lot more thinned down.

http://www.catalogclearance.com/itm_img/burlap.jpg

http://static4.depositphotos.com/1015574/318/i/950/depositphotos_3180580-Burlap-canvas-texture.jpg

http://burlapfabric.com/images/floridasand.jpg

Camo possibilities

http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Italy10.jpg

http://www.kamouflage.net/resource/gif/showthru.gif

http://www.kamouflage.net/resource/gif/showthru.gif

http://camopedia.org/images/a/a9/Portugal2.jpg

Edited January 27, 2013 by yevgeni89

[Sakai 1]

"textures ;) ", and hmmm, lemme see what I can do, the army is in digital,the marines are in lizard, so airborne naturally has to be different their the elite short of the BFS,

http://www.catalogclearance.com/itm_img/burlap.jpg

http://static4.depositphotos.com/1015574/318/i/950/depositphotos_3180580-Burlap-canvas-texture.jpg

http://burlapfabric.com/images/floridasand.jpg

Camo possibilities

http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Italy10.jpg

http://www.kamouflage.net/resource/gif/showthru.gif

http://www.kamouflage.net/resource/gif/showthru.gif

http://camopedia.org/images/a/a9/Portugal2.jpg

Could get me the names of the camouflages? only two links work from camopedia but I need names :)

As well as Marines they will be using FN FAL's sadly Capraian Government did not spend money on improving their gear.

I think you got the idea wrong of the model:

Here is the guy that would of be a paratrooper http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/File:Arma2_RUS_officer.jpg

Edited January 27, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

first one is italian desert used from somalia till 2004, the very bottom is Portuguese camo , here's a few other links, better images and their working :P also names are listed for the other two camo's

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00215.php

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00058.php

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00250.php

*edit*

The burlap textures passable? and no lol same model with the black body armor and chest rig, it reminds me of someone going to do a CQB fight with a body armor like that, it just looks geared wrong for a para.

Edited January 27, 2013 by yevgeni89

[Sakai 1]

first one is italian desert used from somalia till 2004, the very bottom is Portuguese camo , here's a few other links, better images and their working :P also names are listed for the other two camo's

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00215.php

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00058.php

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00250.php

*edit*

The burlap textures passable? and no lol same model with the black body armor and chest rig, it reminds me of someone going to do a CQB fight with a body armor like that, it just looks geared wrong for a para.

What kind of model do you recommend than?

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Download:

@FAC ACE - Dropbox

@FAC NONACE - Dropbox Simply download ACE Version and this, delete the ACE fac_cdf_marines.pbo & fac_mariner.pbo and put the ACE version or simply replace it with NON ACE version.

As well, did little test, as for the Taki 2035, no need to worry about those louzy T-72's, T-90's, T-72M will explode with ONE armor piercing around in the side,front and back. T-90's never shot in the front, side is the best way, however on the back if you fire it with AP you will set it on fire imminently :) - That is with M60A3!

T-55AMV - T-72: Back side instant fire, Front side instant explosion, side disabled/instant explosion. T-90/A - Front side bad idea, Back side, instant fire, Side, disable/fire

Sadly I'm still waiting for a reply from wld about the PRACS static weaponry but no luck as for reply yet, I wonder if there is any Anti-tank guns in arma 2 which I would love to add...

Oh as well ((Fiat Won't happen :()) Capraian Government has made a deal with Russia buying off some BMD-1's, they will work as APC's and Tank (Vehicle) Destroyer's, they will be distributed to Infantry, Marines and Paratrooper's, Capraia made this deal by selling some fine oil to Russia and USA is not happy however the relations are still good.

Remember to report bugs!

As well got some epic screenshot of FAC Forces? share it here!

Edited January 27, 2013 by Sakai

[yevgeni89 163]

I know its frustrating and I really dont want to seem selfish, but I think you should ask vilas to use his soldier model he did for the racs p85, there's a beret model included as troops in steel helmets which then could be retextured into what a lot of airborne forces looked 20 or 30 years ago, when the m1 and its variants were used widely through out europe as the standard paratrooper helmet because it gave the most protection during a drop.

It also can fit in if it's covered that they were gifted or left by french forces in the 50's who had to turn their attention to conflicts in indochina and algeria or that the belgians sold them as a deal with the fn fal's.

Something along those lines, i dont think youll be too disappointed, but that style is what im thinking for the para's

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rpHSPTj_mxQ/TDqPN9CC5AI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Ah4jYKZDtsk/s1600/13-para-belge.jpg

[Sakai 1]

If possible could you send me a picture of the model?

[yevgeni89 163]

To be honest with you im not sure the exact name of the model I just know he used them in his p85 racs, but he did the soldier models in this pic

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=16374&highlight=VILAS

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1483/p85bw.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2758/p85us.jpg

Also side note ;), these wouldnt be a bad thing to remember in the future if you get what i mean.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3917/111scn.jpg

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hmmmm, I dont know if there are any anti-tank guns i honestly was using 119 and d30's as anti tank weapons lol , but hmmm i would like a true anti tank weapon, but then again we do have tows and there are plenty of spg 9's and recoiless rifle out there, i just wish they made one on a higher mount that moved 360 that tripod only moving 180 is slightly annoying.

Sad news about the Fiat's but BMD1 is good its amphibious and its better armed, and as far as relations go with the americans so long as they get an extra cut of capraia oil i think they wont mind, and thats good news because before it was rather close and I think I lost all of Capraia's air force fighting off the invasion literally those t90's and various brdm's and btr's ate those things alive.

[Sakai 1]

The thing is, as a AT gun, AT Cannon fits Capraia the best, they were effective, only if I would of know how to make the D30 into a AT Gun I would of make a AT Gun for FAC already. All it pretty much need is to take off the artillery computer menu and add custom ammunition...

AT Gun's had big cannons and big rounds to penetrate specially with AP's, even as T-55AMV and M60A3 can take on T-90, AT Cannon would of as well, actually even better.

if anyone perhaps know how to let me know! :)