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Originally Posted by Ewan
Honest answer probably not hard, just convert the US military rank to the equivalent nationality (this might help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_...rmies_enlisted)
The book gives you the G3 and SLR (FN FAL) but you don't have the SA80. You also have some British and German vehicles which could be used. |
Yup you can create a half ass character that doesnt have the right equipment, with no background for their army, navy and Air Force - but good luck doing that with the Dutch, the French, the Turks, the Belgians, etc.. since they were basically ignored.
The reality is - why should we? This is basic game design and also basic business sense. You are trying to appeal to a worldwide audience and then you limit your characters to four nations?
Lets be honest - any actual game designer who ignores so much of the target audience is either being lazy or ignorant or both. And I have done this before myself for my module. I gave people enough information to build Kenyan, Rwandan and LRA characters as well as Somali and PARA. It didnt take long - I used the V2.2 book and some basic research.
I could have put all the information in the Players Manual that was needed for all the different countries in about two days of work and that would include ranks, background, weapons, vehicles you name it. They had months to do this - and didnt. I did it for my module and so did Raellus on his. And we arent paid game designers. They were paid to make a good game with all the info needed - and its not going to add a ton of pages to do it. So yes they have a bottom line - and ignoring a lot of potential customers is a pretty stupid way to run a business. Not when the work needed to properly appeal to them takes so little time.
And frankly FL needs to be called to task on this and have a lot of us say we gave you our money - either deliver on your promises and do a good job or give the money back and call it a day. Its going to take a lot of work by them to fix a screwed up product later after they have turned off a lot of people. It may mean they only make 20 percent profit off the money they raised instead of 22 percent. Its worth it - go ask Coke and Ford and Schlitz about what screwed up product releases can do for the bottom line.