alright

[nmanjar]

I've always wanted to add realistic loadout to a unit, like 300-400 rounds of ammo + all his other crap.



How about reloading his loadout when he gets to one magazine.

Possible to script so when units run low they will automatically be refilled once, I'd assume it would be.

[Baddo]

Well well...

300-400 rounds, + other crap?

And automatically refilled?

Realistic?

No.

Of course you can do it with a script, but no. Not a good idea, especially if you are after realism.

[nmanjar]

find me someone who carries only 4-5 magazines and ill give you $$$$. all i want here is more bullets which should be there. plus depending on a unit, he might be closer to 300 or closer to 400.

[Baddo]

Depends a lot in what weapon the soldier has, I admit.

But a regular soldier carrying that much rounds?

300 rounds would make 10 magazines, and that is too much for a M16-type weapon soldier, if he has to carry the other crap too.

Machinegunners are different, but they don't have so much "other crap" with them.

 

[greg147]

If you want a guy with 300 rounds, and you want it to be realistic, why don't you just replace his grenades with mags? Sure, a guy in reality would have more ammo for his M16, but he'd have less hand grenades.  

[nmanjar]

actually the standard is 270 rounds for a rifleman [m16], and usually a SAW gunner might have 3 [200 round drums possibly] with him, plus machine gunners always have an ammo bearer that carries some extra, and yes it does depend on a soldiers job as to what he carries.

[nmanjar]

and also, its not like Sgt. So and so said you have to carry only this much, while yes there are limits, you also have personal flexibility in choice. like grenades, and weapon modifications.

[456820]

yes i do agree 3 mags 30 rounds each only 90 rounds how are you meant to kill with that amount and yes an average infantyman carries alot more than this

[Baddo]

10 30 round magazines / soldier...

Wow!

 ;D

[456820]

well they have tac vests wich hold two m16 mag's per pouch and they have 6 pouches so thats like 12 mags

[Lean Bear]

Don't forget backpacks etc.

In fact, that's not a bad way to increase the ammo capability of your soldiers, use the Backpack Addon.

[456820]

were do u get that addon?

[dmakatra]

The reason that the avarge OFP soldier carry 120 rounds is because he doesn't need any more because BIS M16's are so bloody accurate. If you on the other hand play with say, SEB Nam Pack 2, you can easily fart away 150 rounds in a single firefight.

:beat: *Gets Shot* :beat:

[nmanjar]

ding ding ding ding, who actually uses the piece of crap defaults that much if at all [no offense BIS].


yes the backpack addons are goos and all, but why not get better and simpler if possible.

[Dubieman]

I can tell you one thing, I44 screwed up there snipers this way.  
A script might be good but how are you going to use it? On everyone?

Oh yea, I44 had the sniper models that only have like four mag spots. They didn't like that so the Springfield 05 and I think the Gehwer rifles have like 9 mags when your a sniper. Now try usin the action menu for exchanging ammo and the action menu goes across the screen and is unreadable.

Well I thought I'd toss that in...

And dmakatra has a very good point that I agree with, even though some do not use standard BIS units, but even BAS guys without HD are still very accurate.