Pinetree Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) The purpose of this mod is to expand on the backgrounds of Xenonaut grunts, add more names, and to add some more nations. Parts of this mod have now been incorporated into the official game: *denotes nation that comes with the vanilla game The nations included in the mod are: NATO: United States* United Kingdom* Canada* West Germany* Greece* Spain* Italy* Portugal Norway* Netherlands* Denmark* France* Belgium Turkey Iceland Western Allies: Australia* Malaysia New Zealand* Japan* South Korea Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union* East Germany* Hungary* Bulgaria Czechoslovakia* Romania Poland Communist Bloc: Vietnam China Cuba North Korea Non-Aligned or Neutral Nations: Rhodesia South Africa Israel Egypt Sweden* Finland* Ireland Brazil Nigeria Kenya Morocco Philippines Indonesia Mexico Thailand Chile Argentina Austria Switzerland Yugoslavia I've also expanded most nations' available regiments and/or made them more "elite". This represents the nations giving the Xenonauts their best of the best. The combat experiences are all historical wars from the 60's and 70's that a soldier's nation was involved in but you will get the occasional non-historical result due to there being no relationship between a soldier's age and previous combat experience when they are generated. e.g you might get a 21 year old veteran of Vietnam. Here's the full list of nations with units and possible experiences: NATO: United States Units: Army Special Forces (AKA The Green Berets) Airborne Navy SEALs Marine Force Recon Army Rangers Experience: Vietnam El Salvador - Special Forces only Angola - Special Forces only Laos Dominican Republic '65. Korea '66-'68 Cambodia early '70s United Kingdom Units: Special Air Service Parachute Regiment Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron Experience: Aden Northern Ireland Dhofar- SAS only Borneo Canada Units: Canadian Airborne Regiment Royal Canadian Regiment Royal 22e Regiment (for French-Canadians) Experience: Cyprus (UN Mission during Turkish Invasion 1975. Airborne only) West Germany Units: GSG 9 - Anti-terrorist unit of the Federal Police FSLK200 - Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol(LRRP) unit 26th Fallschirmjager Brigade - Paratroopers Experience: Mogadishu - GSG 9 only Greece Units: ETA - Special Paratrooper Unit MYK - SEALs equivalent Raider Forces - Rangers Experience: Cyprus Spain Units: Unidad de Operaciones Especiales - Special Operations Unit (SEALs equivalent) Grupo de Operaciones Especiales - Special Operations Groups EZAPAC - Special Operations Unit of the Air Force Experience: Equatorial Guinea Spanish Sahara Italy Units: 9th Parachute Assault Battalion - SAS equivalent COMSUBIN - SEALs equivalent RIAM - Air Force Special Forces unit Portugal Units: Comandos - Commandos Cacadores Especiais - Rangers Corpo de Tropas Paraquedistas - Paratroopers Experience: Angola Mozambique Portuguese Guinea Norway Units: HJS - Special Forces MJK - SEALs equivalent Netherlands Units: KCT - Army Special Forces BBE-M - SEALs equivalent Korps Mariniers - Marines Experience: Moluccan Terrorist Crises - BBE-M only New Guinea - Marines only Denmark Units: Jaeger Corps - Army Special Forces Frogman Corps - SEALs equivalent Sirius Sledge Patrol - LRRP unit of the Navy that patrols Greenland France Units: 1er RPIMa - Marine Special forces 13e RDP - Special Forces Commandos Marine - SEALs equivalent GIGN - Anti-terrorist unit of the National Gendarmerie Experience: Algeria Zaire Belgium Units: Paracommando Regiment - Paratroopers 1st Company ESR - LRRP unit Experience: Congo - Paracommandos only Turkey Units: OHD - Army Special forces SAT - SEALs equivalent Experience: Cyprus Iceland Units: Icelandic Coast Guard ISVL - Icelandic Special Forces unit formed after the Iceland Incident (Fictional) Western Allies: Japan Units: 1st Airborne Brigade Australia Units: Special Air Service Regiment Royal Australian Regiment Experience: Vietnam Malaya Borneo Malaysia Units: Grup Gerak Khas Experience: Malaya Borneo New Zealand Units: 1st Ranger Squadron, NZSAS Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Experience: Vietnam Malaya Borneo South Korea Units: Special Warfare Flotilla - SEALS Marine Corps Special Warfare Command - Army Special Forces Experience: South Vietnam Border Actions Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union Units: Spetsnaz GRU - Special forces Group Alfa - Anti-terrorist unit Airborne VDV - Paratroopers Experience: Afghanistan Ethiopia Sino-Soviet border Vietnam - Spetsnaz only Hungary Units: 37th Air Assault Battalion East Germany Units: KSK-18 - Combat swimmers(SEALS equivalent) 40th Fallschirmjager Battalion - Paratroopers Diensteinheit IX - Anti-terrorist unit of the Volkspolizei Feliks Dzierzynski Guard Regiment - Elite unit of the Stasi Experience: Angola Congo Ethiopia Mozambique Czechoslovakia Units: 22nd Airborne Regiment Bulgaria Units: 68th Special Forces Brigade Romania Units: 161st Paratroop Regiment 1st Mountain Hunters Brigade Poland Units: 4101st Paratroop Battalion - Special unit of the 6th PAAD WOP Highland Brigade - Mountain troops of the border guard 7th Naval Assault Division - Naval Infantry 6th Pomeranian Air Assault Div. - Paratroopers Experience: Workers' Rebellion - 1970 Pacification of striking workers in coastal cities Communist Bloc: Vietnam Units: Dac Cong - Special forces Experience: Cambodia Laos Sino-Vietnamese Border Vietnam Cuba Units: Tropas Especiales - Special forces Experience: Angola Ethiopia Syria North Korea Units: Special Operation Forces Experience: Border Actions China Units: Marine Corps 15th Airborne Army Experience: Paracel Islands Sino-Soviet border Sino-Vietnamese border Non-Aligned or Neutral Nations: Rhodesia Units: Rhodesian Light Infantry 1(Rhodesian)Special Air Service Regiment Selous Scouts Experience: Rhodesian Bush War South Africa Units: 1 Reconnaissance Commando 32 Battalion 44 Parachute Brigade Experience: Angola Namibia Israel Units: Sayeret Matkal - Special Forces Shayetet 13 - SEALs equivalent Yamam - counter-terrorism unit of the Israel Border Police Experience: Yom Kippur Southern Lebanon Entebbe - Sayeret Matkal only Egypt Units: Task Force 777 - counter-terrorism unit Saiqa Commandos - Special Forces Experience: Cyprus - Task Force 777 only Sinai Libya - Saiqa Commandos only Sweden Units: Fallskarmsjagarna - Parachute Rangers Kustjagarna - SEALs equivalent Experience: Congo Finland Units: Erikoisjaakarit - Special Jaegers Ireland Units: Army Ranger Experience: Congo Lebanon Brazil Units: Paratroopers Brigade GRUMEC - SEALs equivalent NuCOE - Special Forces unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State Experience: Dominican Republic Araguaia Nigeria Units: Special Boat Service 31st Airborne Brigade Experience: Biafra Kenya Units: 20th Parachute Battalion General Service Unit - Paramilitary unit of the Kenyan Military and Kenyan Police Experience: Shifta War Morocco Units: Commandos Experience: Western Sahara Zaire Philippines Units: Special Forces Regiment Special Warfare Group - SEALS equivalent 1st Scout Ranger Regiment Experience: Anti-guerrilla operations Indonesia Units: Kopassandha - Army special forces KOPASKA - SEALS equivalent Experience: East Timor Western New Guinea Kalimantan Mexico Units: BFP - Paratroopers Infanteria de Marina - Marines Thailand Units: Royal Thai Marine Corps UDAU - SEALS equivalent Experience: Laos Cambodia Southern Thailand Chile Units: Comandos Buzos Tacticos - SEALS equivalent GOPE - Special force of military uniformed police Experience: Tierra del Fuego Argentina Units: APCA - Special operations force of the Argentine Marine Corps Halcon 8 - Commandos Experience: Tierra del Fuego Tucuman Austria Units: Jagdkommando - Army special forces GEK - Counter-terrorism special operations tactical unit Switzerland Units: Grenadiers - Army rangers Fsch Gren Kp 17 - Parachute Reconnaissance Company Yugoslavia Units: 63rd Parachute Brigade 12th Naval Infantry Brigade Special Thanks: ResFu for helping out with the Polish names and units. jamoecw for U.S. unit experience. llunak for correcting Czech names and adding Slovak names. steelgonads for correcting Portugese names I've included 2 extra files called regiments.xml and experience.xml which are the slices of strings.xml that this mod uses. What this enables you to do is copy and paste over the regiments and experiences that are in any version of strings.xml and let you use this mod with any other mod.It will also allow you to update the mod yourself if you wish This was developed for V22 but should work fine for the V21 stable. Download Link: Xtended Soldiers__22_5.zip Edited April 28, 2014 by Pinetree version 22 ex 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Nice, I'll have to give this a try sometime...although "Special Forces" is not an actual regiment. Nor was I aware the Russians ever fought in Vietnam? Also at some point we'll have to work out the character limit for the first and last names, because some of the eastern european ones can be very long and they go off the edge of the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks. Special Forces is actuallly the official name of the Green Berets. Where a service has a lot of regiments, I went for the overall title of it, such as: Spetznaz, Airborne, etc. As for Soviets fighting in Vietnam, it's never been confirmed but there are a lot of rumors of "advisors" serving there,the Aussie SAS reported seeing an armed, well-built caucasian, preparing with VC troops for example, so I decided to include it for some flavour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 That is some serious effort and research there. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Nice. I'd like to see some mercenary or paramilitary groups (like the French Foreign Legion) used as backgrounds since they can apply to any nationality which is nice in cases where it's hard to think of a "native" example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I really like this, especially your effort to distinguish between East and West Germany. I hope there's a possibility for this to become (semi-)official, I believe you can't have enough background possibilities for your soldiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks for your comments guys I've just posted an update (see first post) as a couple of accented characters slipped through the net and was causing a crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Thought I'd explain my reasoning behind this mod so added some paragraphs to the OP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenX Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Chris, you should really think of including this in the build. Well done Pinetree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 By the way, are African countries-of-origin planned? Or are there even already any? They had a lot of strife going on down there (unfortunately still have to this day), which would make for some combat experienced troops from say Rhodesia, South-West Africa or South Africa (which have the advantage of being able to use white portraits, as I believe there aren't that many black soldiers at the moment) or other now differently named African countries such as Zaire and Upper Volta. I think it would add a nice amount of historical flavour, making you party like it's all 1979 again and it would alleviate the general tendency of video games to focus on the Western world (and maybe the Soviet Union, depending on the era a game is set in). Drawback would be to generate believable names, especially for black Africans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 My line of thinking is that Xenonauts is mainly a Nato / Warsaw Pact organisation with Aus / NZ being strong allies of Nato so I added them. (Actually with this train of thought, maybe I could add Vietnamese and Cubans as they were strong allies of the Soviets) I thought about adding Rhodesia and South Africa but Rhodesia was an unrecognised state that had been turned into Zimbabwe by 1979 and South Africa was a pariah state by then due to it's apartheid policies so I'm not sure how they'd fit in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) I understand that. It just came to my mind that African countries could provide combat experienced soldiers, whereas the "big players" often cannot (because of all the proxy wars). Plus, it'd get some additional flavour into the game. I'd be very interested to hear what Chris has to say about that, though (of course it is only a mod, but it'd be interesting nonetheless, especially regarding the somewhat alternative Cold War timeline). Rhodesia turned into Zimbabwe Rhodesia only in the summer of 1979, so at the beginning of Xenonauts we could still have them in. You're right, however, about the somewhat unofficial or outcast nature of those states. Good to hear you were at least considering this As another suggestion, what about Japan? Do we already have them? They featured in the original X-COM, though that was set in another time, and I don't know about the combat potential of Japan's force as they were primarily a homeguard sort of army. Another idea I had yesterday was Portuguese soldiers, who fought in Africa up until 1975. Oh, and +1 for Cuba and Vietnam Edited March 12, 2012 by The New Romance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 There are Japanese troops in the game already. The only African troops though are from America, Canada, and Britain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Another idea I had yesterday was Portuguese soldiers, who fought in Africa up until 1975. Oh, and +1 for Cuba and Vietnam I was humming and haaa-ing about adding the Portuguese but you're right, they were pretty experienced troops back then. Another thought was completing the NATO nations, adding Norwegians, Danish,Dutch,Greeks,Italians,Turks,Spanish and possibly the French. And also rounding out the Warsaw Pact nations (Polish, Bulgarian,and Romanians).I'm not sure when I would get this done though as I have baby no. 3 due any day now so my already limited spare time is going to be even more limited. Hopefully Chris will update the xenonauts font soon to allow accented characters so it will be a LOT easier to copy and paste name lists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Fox Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I demand Scandinavians! (No I don't.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 You want some Icelanders eh? Will they have Iceland incident experience? (btw does any Russian or Americans have iceland incident experience?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Well, for the next version which I'm going to release when 9.2 comes out, I've added the Danish, Dutch, Norwegians, Italians and Portuguese.I'll probably get a couple more nations done before release. You want some Icelanders eh? Will they have Iceland incident experience? (btw does any Russian or Americans have iceland incident experience?) Didn't all the troops involved in the fighting die? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 No clue. I'll have to read it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Well, for the next version which I'm going to release when 9.2 comes out, I've added the Danish, Dutch, Norwegians, Italians and Portuguese.I'll probably get a couple more nations done before release. Yay, great! Rounding out the NATO is a good idea. By the way, good luck to your and especially your wife (or girlfriend), I hope everything goes fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceVamp Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Yay for Norweenies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Yay, great! Rounding out the NATO is a good idea. By the way, good luck to your and especially your wife (or girlfriend), I hope everything goes fine Cheers mate Today is the due date but still no baby. At least I've got more countries done . I've now added the Spanish, Cubans, Vietnamese, Polish, Romanians and Bulgarians. I'll see if I can add the Turks, Greeks and French by the end of the week. Then I'll test each nation separately to see if I've missed any special characters and it'll be good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Lets hope the little one hasn't used the world of games as a guide on due dates. Good luck to you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AradoX Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 My daughter came more than 6 weeks too early, so that was a problem. So rather a little late, than too early. Good luck to all of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Thanks for the well wishes,guys. My daughter came more than 6 weeks too early, so that was a problem. So rather a little late, than too early.Good luck to all of you! I know where your coming from, our firstborn was 4 weeks early, she had to be induced as the missus got pre-eclampsia.She only weighed 2.1 kg(4 lb 10oz) so definitely needed more time in the oven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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