Credits:
Director: [R-DEV]Rhino
Model: cnflkt
Texture: cnflkt
Export: [R-DEV]Rhino
Coding: [R-DEV]dbzao & [R-DEV]Rhino
Overview:
Close Support Bridges (CSB) are basically deployable bridges that you can place over a river, ditch and many other obstacles in order to cross them at locations that possibly your enemy might not expect. This means your team is no longer purely reliant on normal bridges and even if a bridge is destroyed, you can still cross that bridge by setting a CSB over the damaged gap of the bridge or by placing a CSB next to where the old, destroyed bridge was.
How ever you can't just go around deploying these bridges where ever you feel like it. The conditions for deploying these bridges needs to be just right in order for them to work. Although this dose include most stretches of river, ditches and other obstetrical which you might need a CSB across. We have achieved this by setting up pre-defined CSB locations, at every possible location the player might want to deploy a CSB, providing a CSB would work there in terms of realism and operability. This is not to only make sure that these bridges can't be placed in such a way that could be exploited, but also to make sure all the bridges match up and vehicles can drive over them fairly easily
So far we have crated the BR90 Family of Close Support Bridges (CSB), which in real life are used by the British Army. Ingame these CSBs will be used by all conventional factions (British Army, US Army, USMC, Russian Forces, PLA, etc). Even thou in real life most of these factions use there own unique set of Close Support Bridges (sometimes also named differently, but they do the same job) we felt that it was best to get one type of bridge in first and then possibly in the future look at making different types of CSBs for other factions. We chose the BR90 family of Close Support Bridges (CSB) since we could get the most refs for all of them and we knew fully how they worked and are around the most flexible CSBs as well. Crating other factions Close Support Bridges (CSB) in the future is not very high on our list for things to do so I can't say when or if we will ever get other factions CSBs in the mod.
That said, for the BR90 CSBs, we have crated 3 types of bridge sections, which ends up becoming 8 different versions giving us lots of flexibility with how we can use them.
In the middle row is again the No. 10 CSB, but this time with a Trestle Attachment which allows for combination bridging. Combination Bridging is needed where a river is too wide for one single bridge section to cross it, so you can instead place a No. 10 Bridge with a Trestle attachment to allow for multiple bridge sections to span a river, since the trestle acts a support coming out of the water. Again we have the normal version without any dirt supports and we also have a version with a single dirt support. The double dirt support isn't necessary here.
On the bottom row we have the No. 11 CSB, which instead of being a scissor bridge like the No. 10, its a up and over bridge, as it dosen't have the folding section of the No. 10 bridge. This bridge is 15m long and also has both the sds and dds versions, and is used for small rivers, ditches and it can be used in combination bridging.
In real life CSBs are deployed by a specialist bridge laying vehicle, such as an Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB) such as the TITAN and the M60A1, but CSB can also be deployed via a Tank Bridge Transporter (TBT) which is pretty much a Truck that can carry and deploy CSB.
The Logistics Truck will still do all its old jobs of deploying supply crates and giving repairs to damaged vehicles on the field but also on top of that, it will be able to deploy a CSB.
You will now have to choose between deploying supply crates or deploying a CSB, you will not be able to deploy both in one trip, so don't try
A few modifications have been made to how the Logistics Trucks work now so be sure to check out the tutorial below on how to deploy CSBs to see what they are.
Misc Stuff:
For more info on how these Close Support Bridges where developed from the idea up, take a look at my blog here: https://www.realitymod.com/forum/blogs/ ... ea-up.html
Some Random Videos I shot though the Development
WIP Destruction Effect:
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Driving over a CSB in a Challenger 2 MBT:
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How To Deploy a Close Support Bridge (CSB)
Since our CSBs are going to deploy very differently from our other deployable objects I'm going to write a small tutorial here on how its done
First of all you will need to grab a Logistics Truck on a conventional forces team (Militia, Taliban and Insurgents don't count), the logistics truck being the truck with the canvas over the back, for the British its the MAN truck with the canvas over the back. You can also check your Truck can deploy bridges by scrolling though the weapons and checking it has a CSB in the selection list (default key: 4). Also note with the new selection list in the logistics trucks that we have also added a "Nothing Active" weapon in slot, this is basically a safe mode to make sure you dont drop crates while on the move. We have also moved the Supply Crates to the 2nd slot (default key: 2) and added the repair drop into the selection list (default key: 3):
For combination bridging, when spanning larger stretches of river you basically need to do the same things as when just placing down one bridge, but since you are deploying multiple sections you need to do it more than once.
First of all like before grab your logistics truck and drive to a location where the gap that needs to be bridged is large enough that it will take multiple CSBs to bridge and back your truck up to it like before.
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How To Drive Over a Close Support Bridge (CSB)
Now I know most of you are going to laugh that I've put a tutorial on how to drive over a bridge but I'm going to laugh even harder at someone who didn't read this tutorial who ends up falling off one of these bridges and dies
First of all I would suggest you first try driving over one of these in a tank, since a tank is the easiest vehicle to drive over one of these believe it or not, simply because these where designed mainly to take tanks in r/l and as a result are the same width as a tank and you have a lot of space to play with, as well as with your driver view being in the very centre of the tank you can easily tell how far off to the left or right you are and how much you need to adjust, but this still dosen't mean you should go over one of these bridges like a bull in a china shop.
First of all drive upto the head of the bridge and line yourself up with the bridge, for your first few times you will probably want to get out and check just to make sure your all good but once you have got the hang of it you wont need to leave the protection of your tank
Now that was the easy tank, the smaller the vehicle you go the harder it gets because there is very little room for error when driving over these. I'm really not at all surprised when a few months back when a Flood in Workington (NE England) destroyed a bridge and the Royal Engineers where sent in to build a replacement bridge to temporarily reconnect the town, why they didn't opt for these Close Support Bridges (CSB) and only built a foot bridge, because if they did we would have seen car after car falling into the river, but the News Reports didn't seem to get that point
Any ways, like with the tank before, first line your front up with the bridge, since on the landrover your sitting far on the right side, you will have yo really compensate your view to get both wheels onto the bridge and you will really need to learn where abouts your wheels are on every vehicle if you want to get over these bridges quickly without checking and making adjustments.
If you mess it up, this is what happens and you loose a vehicle and a bunch of tickets, + maybe a few men (note: I messed it up on purpose
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Looks damn great!
