Re: New OUDF website
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:58:31 -0400
Subject: Re: New OUDF website
> Any feedback on the site (content or technical) would be greatly
> appreciated.
How many squads per platoon? What weapons? What specialists are
included at the platoon level?
You have a platoon that "specializes in urban combat"--a platoon is
rather a small unit for that sort of thing, especially if they're
light infantry. The preferred method for clearing a building involves
blowing a hole in through a wall, by preference with an assault gun or
something similar, but light infantry usually doesn't carry an assault
gun around with them.
I take it that the RH clones are only figuratively Nikolai's
daughters--*I* sure wouldn't be cloning members of the royal family to
serve as combat troops (leaving aside the question of whether you
couldn't find better originals elsewhere). You have the heavy weapons
clone represented twice.
I notice that your bases are basically "flat plus flock." That has a
stylized look that some people like, but you might look at eg the the
IF troopies I posted last night. If you want to try texture, a little
plaster or drywall spackle will do nicely--don't use silicon RTV,
though, as you're likely to get lead rot. You'll probably want to add
a little brown/yellow paint (or whatever soil color you like) to the
plaster before you slap it on the base--that way, if you decide to
shape it, you won't be painting, then hacking it down to white, then
repainting, then chipping away more, etc (or doing what I did, which
was say "that's too thick...but it's taken me a month to get around to
it so we'll leave it as is")