[Faction Proposal] Korean People's Army Ground Forces

[General Dragosh]

EPIC lol xD

[Tannhauser]

Could be a Bren LMG ... old o_o

[Polka]

Still, we have got any spies in North Korea yet ? Needs information about their army lolz

[Rangu]

^Last word I heard, they're still working on the flying laser-snakes. The shark project failed apparently.

I support this faction alot btw.

[Tannhauser]

Wikipedia's a good start...

Korean People's Army Ground Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They still use the PPSH!!

Pistol : Makarov PM

Pistol : Tokarev TT-33

Sub Machine Gun : PPSh-41 (already in PR)

Assault Rifle : Type 56 (Chinese copy of AK47, old PLA exports)

Assault Rifle : Type 58 (Another name for the AK-47)

Assault Rifle : Type 68 (Another name for the AKM)

Assault Rifle : Type 88 (NorthKorean copy of the Ak74)

Semi-auto Rifle : Type 63 (Korean SKS variant)

Light Machine Gun : Degtyaryova Pekhotny (DP) horizontal drum magazine

Light Machine Gun : RPD machine gun

Light Machine Gun : RPK machine gun (Reskinned Alquds can do the job)

Sniper rifle/DMR : Zastava M76

Sniper rifle/DMR : Dragunov SVD

Dedicated Sniper rifle : ?????

Light Anti Tank : RPG-7

Heavy Anti Tank : ?????? (RPG-29 vampir?)

Automatic Heavy Grenade Launcher : AGS-17 Plamya

Stationary Anti Tank position : B-10 Recoilless Rifle

[Polka]

Well actually, since we dont know absolutely everything about North Koreas awesomeness(I do of course), doesnt that add a bit more freedom to the modding ?

Surley all that stuff on wikipedia is not used for real

[Panzerfire]

Epic is the word, but tragic should be better!


It's me or he had an Japanese WW2 machingun?
http://www.geocities.com/dprk02/poster.jpg

You know I was thinking exactly the same thing. I mean I think I saw those in some war movies about WW2. Not sure if it is one but I am under the impression that it is a WW2 japanese MG.

[STORM-Mama]

Yes, that looks like the Japanese Type 99. When the Japanese surrendered in WW2 they left lots and lots of equipment in areas such as China and Korea. Japanese equipment was probably more common than Russian during the early years of the DRK. I've read that both PLA and NK used lots captured Japanese weapons during the Korean war, for example.

Isn't the Type 88 based on the AK74 rather than AK47?

[Rudd]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... owy_DP.JPG

they have that one on EoD

[STORM-Mama]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... owy_DP.JPG

they have that one on EoD

But do they really use them alot anymore? I mean, compared to the RPD or RPK? After all, the DP was designed in the late 20s...

[Tannhauser]

Isn't the Type 88 based on the AK74 rather than AK47?

You're right, fixed.

I don't see why it's a problem to use the DP if there is even possibility of NK still using outdated japanese weapons.
But for realism sake, until we get any sources of actual soldiers carrying weapons, the list posted seems alright to me. You'd have to choose wich AKs to give tho. AKM(type 8 for officer and AK47(type 56) to grunts? What about the SKS and all of that goodness? How are the kits going to be displayed? Seeing how North Korea is slow to develop its military I wouldn't be surprised if their kits were radicaly different from other convetional armies.
I mean, if they still use the SKS, it's for grunts.. But who's gonna use it?

What about the RPG-29 Vampir as their HAT? They don't have any HAT really.. The other possibility is you give the HAT more ammo for his RPG like Militia HATs.

Any ideas?

[STORM-Mama]

The reason that the Japanese weapons are shown on the propaganda posters are to remind the people of the revolution and the early years of communist rule, because those are the weapons they used during that period. It's used as propaganda, not to show us what weapons they actually use. Can anyone translate that Korean text somehow? Would be fun to hear what they have to say to the American president.
I would be suprised if the Type 99 is actually still used by front-line NK troops today. Same with the DP28. After decades of military support from USSR and China they should've been able to replace those relics with more modern weaponry.

I say you go for another kit layout than on the other conventional armies. Skip the HAT and give them five or more LATs instead, same for snipers and marksmen.

[charliegrs]

after doing alot of searching on the internet heres some things i learned about known military assets of nk, and how they relate to PR:
tanks
t62 tanks: the most prolific tank in nks arsenal. PR already has this. a re-skin would be all that is needed.
t55 tank: nk has lots of these too. id say its really too similar to the t62 to have to go through the trouble of making a new t55 unless we wanted to borrow a model from the EOD mod.
t-34 tank: nk still has some of these incredibly old tanks, but they are mostly given to the defense militias, not any forces that would be invading south korea. honestly i dont think it would make much sense to put these in PR, but thats just my opinion.
t-72 tank: its not known exactly how many nk has, but its believed they dont have very many. if mec gets a t-72 in the future, it may be worth re-skinning it for nk forces for use on certain maps where you are fighting more elite nk army forces.
t-80 and t-90: nk has these in too small numbers to be worth putting in PR.
pt-76: nk has lots of these. I believe the USI mod and the EOD mod have models for these. perhaps could be borrowed and re-skinned.
apcs
bmp1: nk has lots. i believe the USI mod or the EOD mod has a model for these. perhaps could be borrowed and re-skinned.
bmp2: could not find any info on nk having these
cars
brdm: nk has lots. we already have in PR, just needs a re-skin
anti-air
zsu-23 shilka: nk has about 100 of these. could borrow one maybe from USI or desert combat mod and re-skin
helicopters
mi-24 hind: not certain of the amount nk has, but they do use them. USI mod i believe has a model, maybe desert combat mod too. could be borrowed and re-skinned.
mi-17 transport: nk has these, maybe could re-skin the mec mi17?
aircraft
mig 21: north korea has over 150. EOD mod has a mig 21 that could be re-skinned perhaps.
mig 29: nk has about 30. maybe re-skin the mec mig 29.
su 25 ground attack jet: nk has about 50. maybe re-skin the mec su-25
army:
nk has the 4th largest army in the world. maybe give them a lower spawn time to simulate the numerical advantage? main weapon is the AK series rifles, which we have plenty of in PR already. optics are not common.also machine guns like pk, rpd, rpk, etc. all in game. sniper rifles like svd, already in game. nk has a large amount of rpg7s. no info could be found about anything heavier than that but its not known that they have rpg29s. id say give heavy AT more rpg rounds. nk also has TONS of sa7s and sa16s for air defense. also nk has the second largest special forces in the world. most likely new models would have to be made for nk army as none currently in PR would really suit. or maybe, an iraqi soldier model from USI or desert combat could be re-skinned as the uniforms are similar.

[Hresvelgr]

The Iraqi soldier models should work very well for the KPA. And maybe they could have camo like the uniforms from this webpage:North Korean Camo, plus Leader Kim Jong Il - Military Photos
I think it looks a lot more useful than olive drab or whatever most pictures of them have. Also Type 88's and PT-76's sound really awesome.

[Tannhauser]

If only we had North Korean special forces with dark-blue uniform and cap, no body armor and vanilla AK47.

Sensenfukoku. Because NKSF are l33t, bunnyhoping knife fighters!

[General Dragosh]

Sniper rifle/DMR : Zastava M76

Lol, a zastava in the hands of the Koreans, this is rediculosly hilarious

[STORM-Mama]

charliegrs: They don't have the BTR-60? We already have a model (used by the ruskies) so it will be easier to use the BTR than one of the older BMP-variants.