Request for static Riflemen object

[DD_Friar]

Salute,

 I spend the majority of my mission building time creating missions for my squad around tanks.

 

With Normandy on the horizon may I make a request (assuming that the wonderful dev's have not already thought of this and are already hard at work) would it be possible to include a standing and kneeling riflemen?

 

When building ground war missions I find that the machine gun options available at the moment can be too much for the scenario.

 

I am thinking that I could use a static Riflemen object to better simulate a fire fight. Their advance (or retreat) could be managed by placing groups of troops in different positions and either enable or delete them in the Mission Editor to replicate movement over short distances based on gains or loses.

 

 

 

 

[Sandmarken]

This woud be cool. Woud not need much. Just a static guy, mabye a small trench or foxhole with 2 or 3. If you shoot at them the run away animation we have can be used ?

Edited December 13, 2021 by Sandmarken

[Jade_Monkey]

There has been some buzz about infantry for TC, but it was never clear what form that would take, only that it would not be very sophisticated(?)

 

My guess is that there would be some panzerfaust or trenched infantry, but not sure.

 

I don't know if that project went anywhere or if it's still part of the backlog of wishes.

[Knightmare]

Even just a static object would be nice. Some basic animations like being able to shoot or even move would be amazing.

I know there's a mod that kinda does this. 

[IckyATLAS]

We had already a bunch of soldiers in various positions with the past IL2 1946. They were extremely coarsely modelled yes, but it allowed realistic scenes.

Here are some still shots of  a film I made with IL2 1946 - Patch 4.09b  many many years ago on the Guadalcanal campaign.

 

Troops and armored vehicles landing on Guadalcanal unopposed.

 

Henderson field and HQ is captured:

 

 

Sea landing operation on Tulagi:

 

Japanese troops resisting fighting on the beach

 

Japanese pillbox and soldiers resisting landing forces

 

 

Today we could have much nicer stuff. After all the models exist already, so it is to dress them and put a rifle in their hand. German, Soviet, US and British should be enough.

 

Christmas message to Santa Claus (Jason for friends) for next year ? : Now that the clouds are done, time to move on to this next major target that we are looking for, since so many years now.

 

 

[Strewth]

2 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

We had already a bunch of soldiers in various positions with the past IL2 1946. They were extremely coarsely modelled yes, but it allowed realistic scenes.

Here are some still shots of  a film I made with IL2 1946 - Patch 4.09b  many many years ago on the Guadalcanal campaign.

 

Troops and armored vehicles landing on Guadalcanal unopposed.

 

 

Yeah it was a nice touch.

And they were still there in the 70's.