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South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:42 pm
by hiltonmgray
Just got TOAW III and want to recreate the 1986 - 1988 South African incursion into Angola in support of Jonas Savimbi's UNITA... one problem, pivotal to South Africa's success was their G-6 and G-5 artillery pieces. These guns could fire 42km with base bleed ammunition and 52km with rocket assisted ammunition - only in TOAW they are given a pathetic 29km!!!! Someone needs to do a little bit of homework on foreign weapon systems it seems?...
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:43 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Yet another reason why we NEED DB editing capability. YESTERDAY!
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:51 pm
by golden delicious
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yet another reason why we NEED DB editing capability. YESTERDAY!
We did have it yesterday. But we don't have it today.
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:50 pm
by Catch21
Lordy, sometimes I think one of humanity's main problems is we spend so much time and resource on trying to kill each other. And then trying to refine the process through continuous improvement. This would be a case in point. Very clever ideas.
Until DB editing capability gets sorted, one suggestion would be to find another weapon system with the range/calibre you want in the current DB and substitute in a scenario. Or thinking sideways, changing the map scale so you get the same effect might work. Try posting at
http://www.tdg.nu/ where they build scenarios and someone might chime in to help.
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:42 am
by ralphtricky
ORIGINAL: General Staff
Until DB editing capability gets sorted, one suggestion would be to find another weapon system with the range/calibre you want in the current DB and substitute in a scenario.
You can also change the name of the new equipment easily for that scenario.[8D]
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:42 pm
by hueglin
ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
ORIGINAL: General Staff
Until DB editing capability gets sorted, one suggestion would be to find another weapon system with the range/calibre you want in the current DB and substitute in a scenario.
You can also change the name of the new equipment easily for that scenario.[8D]
Ralph,
How do you change the name of the eqpt? I don't recall reading about that feautre in the manual. Or maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean.
Dave
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:30 pm
by ralphtricky
ORIGINAL: hueglin
Ralph,
How do you change the name of the eqpt? I don't recall reading about that feautre in the manual. Or maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean.
Dave
Dave,
It's now a sticky thread on the scenario design forum.
Ralph
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:33 pm
by hueglin
ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
ORIGINAL: hueglin
Ralph,
How do you change the name of the eqpt? I don't recall reading about that feautre in the manual. Or maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean.
Dave
Dave,
It's now a sticky thread on the scenario design forum.
Ralph
Sorry to bother you again Ralph, but I have no idea what a sticky thread is. I've looked through the Scenario design forum and can't find it. Please help a message board newcomer!
Dave
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:44 pm
by DuckofTindalos
It isn't there to find; I suspect that Ralph's moderator privileges are still on the fritz...
As for sticky threads, they're the threads you can find between two blue bars at the top of every forum. They are called "sticky" because they don't slide down the forum page when other threads are posted to, in the way that ordinary threads do.
RE: South African G-6 SPG not accurately portrayed
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:07 am
by hueglin
ORIGINAL: Terminus
It isn't there to find; I suspect that Ralph's moderator privileges are still on the fritz...
As for sticky threads, they're the threads you can find between two blue bars at the top of every forum. They are called "sticky" because they don't slide down the forum page when other threads are posted to, in the way that ordinary threads do.
Thanks for the info Terminus.