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[Vanguard]

Generals uses 3d models, voxels are 2d objects, but you can import voxels and export them as 3d objects, I may make another mod after this or may not, unsure.

[Vanguard]

Sadley I cannot add more Generals with working AI, now I can however add them, just the Computer's wont beable to use them.

[Vanguard]

Creator does that sometimes.

[Bob]

Ok, I have an idea here that is a two part idea, and it's kind of long (as usual), so please bear with me here.


Part I - The Militia.

The Militias storyline is described as follows:

"The Militia hate the war, they have sided with the US and China, which explains why they have some US and Chinese weapons they are helping to stop the war with the GLA."

So here's the psychotic idea part (and remember this thread is for psychotic ideas). How about eliminating the idea of having the militia as it's very own separate side. Why not incorporate them in with the U.S. and China sides.

Here's how that would work. At the start of the game, there would be a button on the generals promotion window, that when clicked would allow the U.S., or China, COMMAND POST to spawn either militia workers, or some sort of mobile militia base unit, from which militia infantry and/or units are spawned.

Revamp the militia to build limited, slower, low powered, low cost, low range, units and infantry. These units would 'assist' the U.S. and China, side but would not be powerful enough to overcome the enemy on it's own.

With this idea it would, in theory (I don’t know the games programming restrictions), allow the militia to be removed as a separate side, allowing a new side to be created. (See Part II)



Part II - Adding a New Side.

The side I’m referring to here is the Russians. The Russians while perhaps arguably less of a threat nowadays, is still a viable military threat, and support terrorist regimes throughout the world selling of Russian built equipment. In a fantasy game such as this based in the future, who is to say that the Russians wouldn’t stir up trouble on it own somewhere in the world by providing ‘covert’ military aid by directly sending their forces to the area of dispute.

Adding the Russians to the game would add an enemy to the game that would fall somewhere between the s U.S. and China in strength, and it would give the game a third powerful faction, one that could in theory be story aligned to support the GLA either directly, or indirectly.

If you don’t like the idea of Russians in this idea, you could always substitute this idea with Iran, or North Korea, and still have some high end Russian equipment available to the new side to balance out, balancing issues.

I mean if the Russians in real life offer to sell a carrier to the Chinese , I don’t see why they couldn’t or wouldn’t sell high end equipment to North Korea, or Iran in the future. As cash strapped as they are. Either directly or indirectly.

Consider this following story:

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Ukraine has acknowledged exporting 12 cruise missiles to Iran and six to China amid mounting pressure from other countries to explain how the sales occurred, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

It quoted Ukraine's prosecutor-general Svyatoslav Piskun as saying 18 X-55 cruise missiles, also known as Kh-55s or AS-15s, were exported in 2001, although none was exported with the nuclear warheads they were designed to carry.

The X-55 had a range of 3,000 km (1,864 miles), enough to put Japan within striking range of the Asian continent or to reach Israel from Iran, said the newspaper, adding Piskun's statement was the first confirmation by a government official of the exports. …

… The United States has long expressed concern that parts of the former Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal could be sold or smuggled to countries that it regards as a potential danger. …

… Two Russian businessmen were suspected of masterminding the sale, one of whom was arrested in Prague last July and was under an extradition request, he said.

Source -CNN.com

Plans could be sold. Units could be stolen from country A, and researched and mass produced for country B. There are any number of ways high-end Russian equipment could end up in an enemy regimes, or terrorists hands.

Anyway, getting back on point, and to summarize. A Russian (or equivalent) side would add a lot more enjoyment to the game, in my opinion, than playing a with a weaker militia side, as a wholly separate side. Russians = More fun (in my opinion).

[Vanguard]

Have any of you played Turok 2? Well if you have, do you remember the Fire Storm Cannon, well this would be an upgrade for the Minigunner, it would allow them to do more damage vs. Armored units, then with the Chainguns upgrade, the model of the weapon would change to show those fins, and the back part that rotates, all in all increasing the rate of fire, and then again increasing the damage only slightly, but there is one drawback, causing the user to have to make a choice between being able to shoot down aircraft with the minigunner, or have them able to defend better against ground attacks, so they wont be able to hit aircraft at all. On the pluss side, they would do massive damage to infantry, and medium to vehicles instead of light damage.

[Vanguard]

It wont be firing plasma, it will just be similar to it, but I will use the model look.

[Vanguard]

That sounds like a good idea, but I would be unable to implement this, there are only 5 gen ranks, and I believe there can only be 5. Also I am currently in the process of combining the things in patch 1.3 to the next installation of Project Raptor version 3.0, which will be a patch for 2.5.

[Vanguard]

It didn't give you more ranks, it just gave you more points to purchase things, or it had them divided per rank, but to make it so you can have more then five ranks you need to reverse engineer, which is illegal, and you can't play online anymore.

[The True SS]

What about generals for Milita?

Crazy crap.
More importance on infantry.
Crazy monkey ninja that can board tanks.
AMC Gremlin troop transport.
2 kinds of heros, Combat and Demo.
A paradrop plane, speceil air field, load it like a Chinok, then have one of those abilities buttons, then click where to drop.

[Vanguard]

At the moment Generals for the Militia are out of the question without removing some of the other sides in the scripts. And yes combat engineers do sound like a good idea, just are a pain in the ass to get the model working right.