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New ideas for armies
Posted: 2007-08-21 15:58
by Z-trooper
Some of the ideas may already have been posted - if so, then sorry..
Idea #1 - Isreal
Many of the armies people are talking about uses the same weapons, so not much fun in that. But I thought that isreal would be an interresting army to create in PR.
They have some unique vehicles and weapons.
Such as the Merkava, and Tar-21.
Also the army has some unique battlefields - most of them being urban/close quater (vs. palestine or terrorists) or maybe vs. mec - representing their neighbours (it would cirtanly be easier than making two whole new teams)...
Idea #2 - Somalia/Africa
I know! this idea may seem kind of mainstreem since "Black Hawk Down", but it would be a fun map if we had a map of mogadishu that took up the entire map area. The "allied" army could either be the US like in BHD or maybe UN peacekeepers - then the army would have access to a wide array of different weapons and vehicles, making it fun to play as.
If not one of those two, we could do a "tribe" vs "tribe" kind of thing. so 2x Somalian armies maybe. but its my least favorite...
Idea #3 - Danish support for british forces in Helman + Basrah
(Taken from a few posts down...)
Also, there are many similar factions, even some very small ones..
So we might aswell make the danish faction (I'm danish).
We have a modified M16 as standard in all the branches of our armed forces - with scope!
We are working together with the british in both basrah and helman (regular army + navy's and army's special forces).
A cool thing would be to add a 5th "class" on helman/basrah - a danish soldier with scoped M16 - but limited access to kits and stuff like that. That could be a nice feature - like the insurgents can get civilians - the british can get support from the danish
btw, making a danish faction could be an excuse for making the Lepoard II and putting it into battle (we also have MLRS) but non of these are in use down there. Our F-16's are though, along with some scout choppers (very similar to the littlebirds)...
Posted: 2007-08-21 16:00
by LekyIRL
People are currently orgainzing an Israel faction.They just need more people to help.
A Black Hawk Down map is already beening worked on.
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/t19506.html
Posted: 2007-08-21 16:08
by bosco_
There are like 13 factions beeing worked on at the moment, both by community and Dev team, I think that's enough for now

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Posted: 2007-08-21 16:12
by LekyIRL
lol yeah let me think.
PELA
USMC
US Army
MEC
Russia
Canada
Poland
Israel
Insurgents
Miltia
That's it,I think.
Posted: 2007-08-21 16:14
by bosco_
LekyIRL wrote:lol yeah let me think.
PELA
USMC
US Army
UK
MEC
Russia
Canada
Poland
Israel
Insurgents
Miltia
Taiwan
Dutch Marines
fixed

Posted: 2007-08-21 16:15
by LekyIRL
Posted: 2007-08-21 17:04
by youm0nt
British
USMC
US Army
MEC
PLA
"Peoples Militia"
Insurgents
Militia
Canadians
Polish
Russian
Taiwanese
Dutch Marines
IDF
SAS
Posted: 2007-08-21 17:18
by ZZEZ
I'd like to see the IDF, North Korea and Iran.
If your willing to help, the soon-to-be IDF community project will welcome it

Posted: 2007-08-21 17:45
by marcoelnk
honestly.... many of these factions have hardly any difference such like |russia-poland|
|usmc-us army-canada||militia-peoples militia||MEC-insurgent|.....
My list would be following:
USMC
Brits
Russia
MEC/Insurgents
France?
PLA
Dutch(dont know anything about their army but i like holland so i just put it here in the hope it will offer something new)
and i really think Germany is missing... I mean poland,isreal,canada...have not a lot of new stuuf to offer...they mainly have weapons from russia and america
but there is hardly anything already ingame which the german army uses (beside the G3).
Just look at POE2 and you will see how many vehicles and weapons they have (leopard2, g36,eurofighter,Panavia Tornado(would be nice to see that on the british team too ),roland2, Euro-tiger,.....
I know nothing about modelling so i cant complain but would it be possible to ask the poe2 team to work together with PR???
Posted: 2007-08-21 18:01
by Z-trooper
just some thoughts anyways

thanks for the update people
Posted: 2007-08-21 18:14
by ZZEZ
marcoelnk wrote:
and i really think Germany is missing... I mean poland,isreal,canada...have not a lot of new stuuf to offer...they mainly have weapons from russia and america
Israel has the TAR-21 assault rifle, Galil, Negev and uzi as weapons.
Merkava mk4 and Namera as tank/apc..you wont find any other army that has these weapons or use these armored vehicles in quantity as Israel.
Remember, more factions cant hurt..more variety=better!
Posted: 2007-08-21 18:58
by Tumppu4321
marcoelnk wrote:honestly.... many of these factions have hardly any difference such like |russia-poland|
|usmc-us army-canada||militia-peoples militia||MEC-insurgent|.....
I can't agree with the MEC-insurgent, since MEC uses HK weapons and the insurgents use AKs and some old weapons.
And ontopic: I think that there are enough factions.
Posted: 2007-08-21 19:32
by [T]Terranova7
Not that I want to be negative or anything, but good deal of those factions being worked on by the community may never be completed or may take a great deal of time before they are.
Though, it doesn't hurt to dream.
Here's a faction, somewhat unconventional and somewhat unique that could be apllied to PR. A Mercenaries faction. I remember a few disucssions on it way back in the past. Alot of content already in PR could be recycled for it. Things like the Armored SUV, SPR Sniper Rifle, Littlebirds, and of course there are things from vanilla and its expansions too, such as the P90, G36, FN SCAR etc. They wouldn't have many "Heavy" assets such as APCs, IFVs, Tanks, Attack Choppers, Jets etc. And obviously, their main opponents might be Insurgents and Militia factions.
Other than that, one of the conventional armies I would like to see is Australia. They use alot of equipment already ingame, with a few exceptions here and there. It would also give us alot of new environments to fight on. Imagine a battle between the Australians and the Chinese in the outback or something.
Then after that, I would just like to see some of the existing factions and their seperate branches represented. Like the PLA Marine Corps, British Royal Marines, Russian Naval Infantry etc. And even generic special forces groups like U.S SOCOM and PLA SOF or something, mainly used in objective type gamemodes (such as extraction or Insurgency) and generally against unconventional forces like the Militia and Insurgents.
Posted: 2007-08-21 20:20
by Z-trooper
Hmm. Sounds like you have figured it all out

but personally I'm not that big a fan of the mercenary idea I like to keep it real
Also, there are many similar factions, even some very small ones..
So we might aswell make the danish faction (I'm danish).
We have a modified M16 as standard in all the branches of our armed forces - with scope!
We are working together with the british in both basrah and helman (regular army + navy's and army's special forces).
A cool thing would be to add a 5th "class" on helman/basrah - a danish soldier with scoped M16 - but limited access to kits and stuff like that. That could be a nice feature - like the insurgents can get civilians - the british can get support from the danish
btw, making a danish faction could be an excuse for making the Lepoard II and putting it into battle (we also have MLRS) but non of these are in use down there. Our F-16's are though, along with some scout choppers (very similar to the littlebirds)...
Posted: 2007-08-21 20:51
by azn_chopsticks_boi
blah i say kill the factions till the others r done....and quit adding more NATO factions....we need more evil factions i would say.......unless the PLA and MEC r that much of a threat ;D
Posted: 2007-08-21 21:27
by ZZEZ
azn_chopsticks_boi wrote:blah i say kill the factions till the others r done....and quit adding more NATO factions....we need more evil factions i would say.......unless the PLA and MEC r that much of a threat ;D
I have to agree, I wish the Russian community project will be on the 'evil' side, with PLA/MEC..North Korea gogo

Posted: 2007-08-21 22:01
by youm0nt
Whoever said the PLA and MEC are "evil" factions?
Posted: 2007-08-21 22:07
by ZZEZ
I'm not saying they're really evil, but the perception of them is that they're the 'bad' guys, I could say Team 1 to be more politically correct..They are on the same side as the Insurgents and the Militia hence you wont be seeing Canada VS Russia maps, as they're in Team2.
Posted: 2007-08-22 01:15
by milobr
ZZEZ wrote:I'm not saying they're really evil, but the perception of them is that they're the 'bad' guys, I could say Team 1 to be more politically correct..They are on the same side as the Insurgents and the Militia hence you wont be seeing Canada VS Russia maps, as they're in Team2.
No. It's very easy to think the insurgents and militia are 'bad guys' only because they fight organized countries' army which are allies from U.S.