Unit class question

[Marek_Tucan]

Wow! That's a good news Looking forward to see Kiowa Scouts peeping over the hills and calling in a rain of shells

@Thatguy: just got the same idea with Hind helicopters for Afghanistan, they were often employed with 100kg or even larger bombs (up to 10 FAB-100 if the location was lowland)... Most likely will get them into some COIN class.

[thatguy96]

Yeah, but I'm wondering if it might be better suited to an attack helo class. My Vietnam pack turned into a sort of total conversion, so I still have the strike aircraft class and both the bomber classes free. I might use them for things.

Also, how is this shift in the benefits of the Light Helo class going to affect nations which don't use unarmed scout helos anymore? The most glaring instance of this to me is the US. The OH-58D is the primary unit in this role currently, and is not fielded in an unarmed configuration. Are OOB designers simply going to create a fictional unarmed OH-58D as a light helo and armed OH-58Ds as light attack helos?

[DRG]

If you look at the OOB you'd see the answer to your question

There's already a unit in the US OOB that falls into that catigory ( U-296 ) so no, we won't have to create one as it's already been created and been there for years and there are already FOUR OH-58D's in the OOB as light attack Helos.

Don

[thatguy96]

I had meant create one in terms of how it exists in reality, for purposes of gameplay and AI functionality. I did not know the unarmed OH-58D existed, but this makes sense because both the USA and USMC OOBs both have formations for these helos that go from 1946-2020. I was merely talking about real life employment, and so as you've said, you've already created this unit for this functionality, though in reality it doesn't really exist in the US Army TO&E.