Kastrenzo Benelli

I know very little about RO:HOS, I dont even know if it's a standalone game, free expansion, retail expansion, etc etc. Sounds interesting though. Hopefully the SP NPCs/ Bots arent always so trigger happy though, Nothing more annoying in Red Orchestra than having 2 or 3 bots armed with PPDs or PPSH's rock and rolling on full auto.. because they're F-ing loud and obnoxious

Going on about the part that no one plays games for their ever so shrinking singleplayer campaigns is obvious, but most games have some kind of story or theme to them. There have been some exceptions, some instances of "Two factions just shooting each other for no apparent reason". Such as Battlefield 2, with America for some reason is fighting a war with China and a fictional Arabic Federation. Nevertheless, the point was, even if 97% of the people who play MW2 for example are playing MP only, and in those Online games it depicts some firefight between A and B, in that case, America and Russia In most cases, with exceptions like said BF2. Developers usually try to write an explanation as to why A and B are fighting in the first place.

Frontlines was just a fail propaganda game, Americans and British unrealistically slaughtering Russians and Chinese. The same company is making a game called Homefront which depicts North Korea taking over South Korea and Japan, then Occupies America. I was excited to hear about it until I realized it was the same developers as FFOW, Which had terrible gameplay mechanics. Tom Clancy's Endwar had a great storyline, as who you played as was entirley up to you. Iran and Saudi Arabia Nuked each other, Russia becomes the world leader in supplying Oil and Natural gas, the EU becomes a federation. US and European relations break down. And then Russia instigates a 3-way world war 3 by framing the Europeans. And World War III starts in 2020, lasting only a few weeks. The gameplay was absolute shit, since it was just a giant rock paper scissors game, but the background to it is great. It was a shame that it was such shitty gameplay. The scale of the war was pretty epic, while it only took place in Western Russia, Europe and the Eastern US, The battles they tried to depict were on the scale of Warhammer 40K engagements. And what Ron said about Red Orchestra, that's a multiplayer game, While I know most people arent that into singleplayer games anymore, my point was about "storylines" in singleplayer games. Most multiplayer games let you play as the "bad guys". lol

Is it just me, or are a lot of Shooter and War games hating on Russia these days, While some games have singleplayer campaigns for both sides, there seem to be a lot of games out now that depict a war between Russia and The west, most often just Russia and America. Most of which putting you in the shoes of some invincible US ranger or British SAS Trying to be cool *No Pun intended* Sure it's a cool idea.. granted if it happened In real life it wouldn't be so awesome.. But It feels like Russia has become the new Germany in video games, 6 or 7 years ago a vast majority of war games, you were Fighting the German army in WWII. Then after a while, games like World in Conflict, BF:Bad Company, COD4, MW2, Blackops, the list goes on. The fact that I have some Eastern European ancestry, this whole thing of killing hundreds of Russians doesnt bother me, but I am beginning to find it a little bit dry and boring. It just seems game developers are unwilling to try other options for depicting their "World War III" Conflicts. since that seems to be the "Fad" with a lot of war games today. Granted there have been some notable exceptions, The Fallout series, while being an RPG, It depicted China as "the bad guys" Medal of Honor was based on a current conflict, the logic of Fat American mothers amazes me. The American public complained of a game that depicts an ongoing conflict. Yet they have nothing to say about video games that could "Theoretically" Piss off a Military Superpower like China or Russia. I understand that much of the controversy was because of respect for those killed in action in Afghanistan, that's not my point at all. I just find it extremley hypocritical that people complained of the games. It's perfectley OK to play as a Nazi soldier and slaughter British soldiers, or as a Russian Terrorist and shoot up an airport, but it's not Okay to play as Taliban on an online game where most of the players are Western European, American, Canadian, etc. I just think it's about time developers move on from Russia as an Antagonist in video gaming, or if they're going to keep hating on Russia.. why not make an alternate storyline in their singleplayer campaigns. World in Conflict was one of the best examples of this, While selling an expansion pack that only contained a few online maps *that were free for everyone to DL anyway* and six singleplayer levels for $20 might seem like a rip. They added a lot of backstory to the game. Showed things from the perspective of the other side, and not just NATO/USA. Looking back, Call of Duty: Black ops was to my knowledge, the first game I've ever played that had a WWII Level which had you fighting the British as an enemy, or any Allies for that matter. I had made a promise to myself that I'd never buy another World War II game again unless it had a storyline for "the other side". Because frankly, a lot of people who play these games have probably killed more NPCs than were even in the Werhmact in the real war.

Many are probably unaware, and I had nearly forgotten myself. But back in the day when hit-point armored vehicles were in their infancy. With the deployment of the Merczateer Legion MBT, Originally it was only given to Officers and Veterans of their Trooper Class, it was a very vague issue policy, and albiet unfair as it was for the most part only used by Officers, whom also had access to practically everything. I along with several others in the Merczateers divised an "Armoured engagement policy", an FYI of sorts, a guideline for responsible armor deployment. Not days after it was first deployed in the 10th Mountain Division, guidelines of deployment had to be drawn out for both offensive and defensive. Armor was typically only used on offensive operations as a brute force tool. and had to be extremley careful not to break any rules with the vehicle. Defensive deployments on the other hand were very controversial, it all boiled down to the judgement of the Commanding officer, which was extremley unreliable as some people would enstate a "no mercy" stance of defense. And initiate ten kinds of retarded tactics. Tanks were being used to fight off lone attackers. And the second an enemy tank appeared. Three tanks appeared on the Merczateer line. Now enter 2011, Armor is no longer posessed by just Mercz, Ordo, Vanguard and the rest of the "great powers" of the combat community. Thanks to the efforts of Companies like Titan Industries and Ironsight Armaments. And No-thanks to FRAG. Armor is available to practically everyone. (I am not propagating the Ordo Approved vendors, I simply find it a BAD Idea to be distributing a tank for free, in the case of FRAG. I do like the idea of equipping groups that otherwise would not be able to script their own, It's just I worry about the half dozen Brazilitards lone wolfing Titan, whom all decide to pull out a FRAG BMP-Razer and tank rush the line and crash the sim) The point of this article is that of Responsible Armor deployment, and Anti-Armor policies. It is by no means an attempt to critisize officers and NCOICs for making "a bad call". But some things need to be realized and considered when deploying armor. Situation: Titan has roughly 15 Terra and 5 Astra Personnel on sim, and a force of four Attacks the sim, one deploys a Tank, the OIC's immediate response is to deploy a tank to counter that. MBTs are generally the most common vehicles deployed, they are normally used as an offensive weapon, and are used to match the firepower of an entire squad or so. When the Ordo defending force deploys a tank based on the justification that "Oh there's another tank out there we're going to get slaughtered" isn't a true justification at all, A. It's just making it more unfair for the attackers, we're not trying to give them a red carpet to our gates, but We're not supposed to be hammering them too hard either. If we did, no one would ever come here, and Ordo would be blockaded from most every military on the grid... Like Vanguard. We are forgetting that alongside the tank, there are still 20 some defenders. So statistically That would be something like 3 soldiers and 1 tank VS 20 soldiers and 1 tank.. I'm sure you see my issue. B. There are many aspects of ground combat that are often unused and/or forgotten about, Anti-Tank launchers and artillery can be deployed by infantry. Grunts on the ground work hard for their QP Points. And when they spend them on weapons, they're hoping to use them. And when Milites Bob unpacks his SRAW, Pilum, whatever. And sees a tank coming over the ridge. His eyes light up hoping to pop a tank with his new toy, only to have an Ira come blasting out of nowhere and blowing it up with a spam of machinegun rounds. C. Astra has a hard enough time finding valid air targets, I am grossly unfamiliar with all of the capabilities of our aircraft, but it is to my understanding that some of our craft have EMP, AGM and bombing abilities? I really musnt need to explain this very much. But Why not Bring in an Airstrike on the vehicle? A tank is a legit ground target for an aircraft in almost any situation. In short, there are much more responsible solutions than just "fighting fire with the same kind of fire". Granted in the current sim build, Armor does not perform very well on the terrain anyway. I am suggesting to would-be Defensive commanders, Lessen the Blitzkriegs on defense, and get some Infantry rockets and/or Aircraft bombs on them instead. It's quite frustrating to see the sight of a tank coming over the ridge and having the officer's first reaction "X, Get in a tank and go kill that thing" Armor should really only be necessary on Titan in large battles or where manpower otherwise cannot be matched. Lastly, on that note, I'm unfamiliar with exactly how many people are qualified to pilot Armor. And I will not mention specific names, but there are roughly 30-40 people at least, with access to the armor. And 90% of these people rarely if ever get to deploy them. As it's always the same 5 or 6 people either asking to bring out tanks, or being "chosen" to deploy. While this may be because these people are more experienced with the vehicles, this logic is flawed because how will the other 75-80% ever gain experience in combat with these vehicles? Myself, I'm not whining "baww I never get to drive", I don't even care. I'm just as happy on foot. But it just seems very pointless to have so many people qualified for these vehicles, but never get to deploy them. These have just been some of my thoughts on some of the developments I've noticed recentley.

I hadnt shaved in a while anyway. Coincidence. Gonna have to soon though because I'm expecting a job interview soon. Rofl

I haven't even seen good models made for the M249 or 240 Hutter

To me, there's not much different from an M1911 and an MK22, etc etc. Handguns all look strikingly similar. The only sidearms I'm even interested in seeing are a Makarov, a decent Desert Eagle, and a nice Beretta M9

Most people in Ordo probably have a lot of guns on SL, Myself I had to make a list of all my stuff so I could remember everything I own. Which has like 150+ entries. People tend to use guns on SL that they also like In RL or other video games. Unfortunatley some of these weapons have never been made in SL, Or in very limited instances, sometimes the only examples of certain weapons are crappy 10 prim freebies. What do you hope to see being made available in the future? Whether it be from TI, ENIC, ISA, Operations, General Ordo Gear, etc Some groups may have a gun in their armory, but no other store sells that kind of gun *Example, Mercz AUG A1* you can also list a weapon if it exists in SL, But in poor quality, such as something in need of a better model or scripts You can list as many or as few as you like, just try not to name off every single thing in the British Armory or Every Russian Kalashnikov variant imaginable. Comments beside them too if you like These are mine, if there is a gun that you might not know what it is, I'll put something in explaining what it is --- Rifles AUG A1 (The good one I saw was made by Daffee, it was given to the Merczateers exclusivley, I don't like A2s or A3s) AK-74M *<3* AK-101 AK-107 AS-VAL (Apparentley ISA is getting one? but it's been under construction for some time) C7 (Canadian M16 Clone on Steroids) HK G36 (Sure many have been made, but they're always silly G36Cs, generally always poor quality.) FN FAL FN F2000 Galil SG 550/551/552 VEPR (Ukrainian Bullpup AK-74 Design) QBZ-95 XM29 OICW Shotguns M3 Super 90 *I'm sorry, the TI model has a lot of silly errors :<* Spas-12 Saiga 12K Machine guns / Automatic Rifles *LMGs* RPK-74 PKM HK 21/HK 23 *Basically a G3 rifle turned into a LMG* Long Range Rifles / Sniper Rifles Dragunov SVD SV-98 Mosin-Nagant QBU-88 *AKA Type-88, Chinese Sniper rifle, was often seen in BF2 and BF:BC2* TL;DR, lol ~end

When I was with my Girlfriend in London, she told me that I was talking to her in the middle of the night. I had no memory of it, so I must have been "sleeptalking" The only two things I can remember was I said to her "I like it when you pay for your own stuff" - Which was foolish because I paid for pretty much everything on my own free will And I apparentley screamed at the Russian Cleaning lady who tried to walk in the room, and my girlfriend was convientley getting undressed at the time.. I dont know what I said, and she doesnt remember either, but whatever it was, The housekeeping lady never came back while we were still in the room, and waited until we went out

I share your point of view Anly. But sadly I-110: Intentional friendly fire is strictly forbidden, regardless of situation. :/

Never said you did get things out of hand. I meant that there are so many people fishing. and goofing around while they do it, Worst thing is it's a massive distraction from what we're really supposed to be doing. I really hate to badmouth an allied group, but it's starting to look like the Merczateers, or at least when I was in it. People getting obsessed with acquiring gear and nothing else Also I swear that fishing server is scripted to never give me the Assault pack.

Day 1 and this is already getting out of hand I say get your free stuff while you can o.o

I know. I own BFV And 3 CDs good sir.

WHY ARE GAMES ALL GOING BACK TO VIETNAM AGAIN. I Swear they're just doing this to 1UP BlackOps I won't be getting this because BC2 Is getting pretty dumb.. It decided to spontaneously lose my password the other day, and I tried the "Lol lost password" option on the website, and it never sent me anything.

Mercz actually did something very similar with the multi use breach charge a long time ago. They had two different breach charges, a personal 1 user charge, and a "saw" that cut a hole in the wall. The saw took longer to deploy but it would leave a hole that would stay there for like 1-2 minutes, allowing anyone to warp through it. I'm not sure about throwing grenades in a "rapid fire", but possibly something like one of the grenade's pictured below. After throwing it, it would bounce and drop 3-5-whatever small explosive cannisters that'd explode all over the place. My favorite idea of yours was simply the one about the strobes/smokes/flares, other than that I really just wanted the assault pack as an unscripted decorative backpack :/

What is that supposed to be, that is confusing, in that map the Soviet Union is disbanded, yet Germany is still divided. As well as Yemen.

I Wanted a puppy for Christmas but did I get one? NO >:C