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Wtf happened to the saxon???

It sucked. really.

better than being exposed in a land rover
also could carry a whole squad.... i think?

i loved the saxon, it even has that awsome little Gurkha engineers symbol on it.

the point of this thread is ?

The Saxon is still alive and kicking as far as I know? It still works fine, saw it in full action last night on OGT .
I very much like the Saxon. Love the sound and yeah, I think it can carry an entire squad. The only thing I don't like is the 50 cal on top which its "160 degrees view". But that's probably as it is in real life . But besides that, it's a good vehicle .

the problem with the Saxon is that now its not used in the British Army, it was discontinued and even back afew years when it was in use, was hardly used very much compared to how much the land rovers are used.

going to keep it, just not going to be much in use cos we put time and effort into it and no point in dropping it quite yet.

It handles like a box but the fact that it completely bullet proof makes up for that. On al Basra it comes in handy as a medic vehicle

I have survived Mines, IEDs and RPGs.. it might be a giant box but it does offer some protection to the troopers inside

Resurrect it as the commander vehicle

I have to admit that it's nice not to have your passengers taken out by an RPG exploding near you...but this is Project Reality, so if something is no longer being used in real-life, it'll be used less here too.

$kelet0r wrote:Resurrect it as the commander vehicle

I like that idea. So this mod is not about early 90's techonology then like bf2 was, I didnt realise we were playing a kind of upto date type thing

saxon is dam funny on ogt, on a slope it cant carry its own weight. Drives like a beatle working on 3 cylinders, with 4 flat tyres

Yeah, I almost posted about this a couple of months back until I realised that the Devs already knew (from the visit to meet the army, I'm assuming). A mate of mine at uni was a driver in the TA, and we were chatting about the chances of us both ending up in the military doing mental health nursing (Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder being a growth industry in today's world). Got onto the subject of what he'd done last time around, and he was talking about following a Warrior in a Landie - and struggling to keep up with it, lol. Asked him if the Saxon was as much of a hefty box as it looked (they frequently drive down my road, I live close to a fairly large TA base), to which his reply was "The things just don't get used at the front line any more, too old. You still see them at home with Territorial units, but that's about it".

akaik i think its still on Mestia

[R-MOD]Masaq wrote:Yeah, I almost posted about this a couple of months back until I realised that the Devs already knew (from the visit to meet the army, I'm assuming))

we have plenty of Military Advisers (with also UK_Force being stationed at Bovington Camp, ie, where the Army visit was) who keep us updated more or less instantly about any old weapons going out of service and and any new ones coming in etc and UKF espically has been nagging about us to get rid of the saxon, which we have pretty much done

however you don't have a bulldog to replace it

$kelet0r wrote:however you don't have a bulldog to replace it

we cant pull new assets our of our asses just like that

and in terms of realism, the land rover is still used far far more than the bulldog

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:we have plenty of Military Advisers (with also UK_Force being stationed at Bovington Camp, ie, where the Army visit was) who keep us updated more or less instantly about any old weapons going out of service and and any new ones coming in etc and UKF espically has been nagging about us to get rid of the saxon, which we have pretty much done

Exactly; which is why I didn't post it

If you really want it you can go buy your own:

http://www.khakicorpsimports.com/in-saxon.htm