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Well, looking at the beginning of the scenario briefing, maybe he had an ulterior motive...

indeed

What I had hope to do was edit in some new units.

But guess the database files are uneditible ?

wanted to add the following units

Civilian Car - zero in all stats including defense. Has transport capibility

Car Bomb -
Anti Armor Strength - 5
Anti personnel Strength - 15
Anti Air Strength - 0
Defense Strength - 0
Is motorized

Truck Bomb
Anti Armor Strength - 10
Anti personnel Strength - 30
Anti Air Strength - 0
Defense Strength - 0
Is motorized

Suicide bomber
Anti Armor Strength - 0
Anti personnel Strength - 5
Anti Air Strength - 0
Defense Strength - 0

IED
Anti Armor Strength - 30
Anti personnel Strength - 20
Anti Air Strength - 0
Defense Strength - 0

That is if we ever get the ability to edit units.

I have been doing some more editing.

I changed some of the TO&E of the combatants.

Here is some key changes.

I used a "Truck with Milan SPATGM" to represent a Truck bomb. With a HEAT of 50 and a defense of 2 thought it was a close representation of an attack of a car bomb.



I also changed some of the Iranian armor. The creator of the scenario gave the Iranians modern Challenger MBTs. I changed them to M-60s to represent tanks left over from the Shah's days in power.



Finally for the suicide squads I got rid of the morter.

I changed the unit adding an engineer. That is to simulate the bomb makers. The Engineer has an anti personel rating of 5 so does have the ability to do some damage to personel simulating a suicide bomber. That and adds great defense to unit.

This looks good...

ORIGINAL: William Amos

What I had hope to do was edit in some new units.

But guess the database files are uneditible ?

wanted to add the following units

Civilian Car - zero in all stats including defense. Has transport capibility
Car Bomb -
Truck Bomb
Suicide bomber
IED

Back in the days when I was writing the TOAW clone, I planned on having an external file that could be edited with any text editor so that things like this could be done easily by anyone. That way we could share any database changes and fixes with each other. Also the capability to read more than one file into the clone for an external database would mean that we wouldn't need to edit one huge file anymore we could just drop the new smaller file(s) into some folder somewhere and just read all the files in the folder. Maybe we should lobby Ralph and the powers that be so that we can do something like this for TOAW4 because we DO need car bombs, suicide bombers, IEDs etc. in the database.

Not to mention any number of new pieces of kit, like Strykers, Super Hornets and Comanches (yes, I know the RAH-66 was cancelled, but still...)

Well I had to restart my edits as I made a mistake and corrutped my copy of this scenario.
 
New edits are done should be able to start later tonight when I get home from work.
 
I did add the Truck with HOT to simulate a bigger bag for truck bombs. Added them to the suicide squads.
 
Also added Auzzie Troops to the lineup. dont know why the scenario has Bulgarian, Romanian and even Dutch and New Zealanders but oddly no Australians who have been in Iraq since the beginning.
 
Will sho this stuff off in new AAR