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I want to make a mod replacing one of the brigades with bicycles, giving a small boost to movement and (hopefully) jungle attack/movement.

Which brigade do people use the least, so I know which is best to replace?
 

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I'd replace Armored Cars, in my opinion most useless, not even useful for minors since the bonuses are so marginal. AT and AA are more useful and almost as cheap.
but, hm, i don't see how bicycles / motorcycles should improve the divisions speed and ability to fight in the jungle? :confused:
 

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Japan. World War Two.

They used bicycles in the jungle to outpace retreating units on foot, because it was too dense for vehicles.
 

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He is trying to simulate the Japanese army under Yamashita in the campaign on Malaya, which gave the Japanese Singapore

The Japanese used bycicle troops to move their troops, mostly on roads though.

And they used it just for transportation, they didn't fight/shoot while riding a bike
 

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Yeah, good point. But in the highly abstracted battle system being able to bike around your foe, dismount and attack him from behind would count as jungle attack (?)
 

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Only in a mod.... :rolleyes:
 

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Byakhiam said:
Bicycle troops were used by other countries too. Like the Finns.

Though they used skis more successfully.

But yes, even the Germans used bicycle troops. Quite a few countries did. Usually in a recon capacity.

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I am having some trouble in finding the variable that will allow me to add in a picture for the unit. Do I need to name my picture the same as the brigade's current picture name or can I add in my picture?
 

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Alexus said:
I am having some trouble in finding the variable that will allow me to add in a picture for the unit. Do I need to name my picture the same as the brigade's current picture name or can I add in my picture?

It has to have the same code as the picture you are replacing.

so ill_bri_10_0.bmp is the code for an armoured car brigade piccy.

countries with their own variant will have their tag as well ill_bri_CAN_10_0.bmp for a Canadian armoured car for example.

These pictures can be found in GFX/Interface/Models folder

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But yes, even the Germans used bicycle troops. Quite a few countries did. Usually in a recon capacity.

Granted, but why would they count as jungle attack? That was my reference.
 

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in the highly abstracted battle system being able to bike around your foe, dismount and attack him from behind would count as jungle attack (?)

And I couldn't manage to edit that anyway : /
 

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Big Mac said:
Granted, but why would they count as jungle attack? That was my reference.

Jungle attack? I have no idea. But movement through Jungle yes. I know they were heavily used down the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam conflict.

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How many times must I repeat my justification for jungle attack before someone takes some notice of it? :p
 

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Point taken. :D

Ay.
 

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Byakhiam said:
Quite unsuprisingly, they didn't really use bicycles in the snow. Or skis without snow. ;)

prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtt! :p

OK I win an award for stating the bloody obvious.

You however need to update your sig (its release candidate D now) ;)

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I'd say the brigade to replace is "light armour" (brigade, not division). You can easily stick the single vanilla light armour brigade model into the armoured car series, and voila! You have the entire array of vanilla divisions and brigade models and your bicycle troopers.

Moreover, the AI might not make a hash of using them. Whereas, it might be... confused... if you gave a super-heavy armoured brigade your desired bicycle brigade's characteristics.
 

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The dutch army 1930

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