M1 Garand for Rangers and Paratroopers

Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2016, 17:18 PMLimaOscarMike

that sound great 4 garand 2 carbine for paratrooper and 3 for ranger will do

Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2016, 18:54 PMCookiezNcreem

Editing the abp file should work, unless a patch messed that up.

I followed...I believe it was Eliwoods' abp edit tutorial and did this same thing in one of my mods because I had the same gripe with the weapon choice.(I was able to mix carbines, upgrades, and m1 rifles by making a whole different paratrooper entity with a different weapon and then messing with the sbps squad loadout.)


I did a similar thing for Sappers, ended up giving them enfield sten mix

Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2016, 19:14 PMTheWise

That's exactly was my idea: 4 Garands plus 2 M1 Carbines for Paratroopers (like in the "Band of Brothers" and - which was pretty surprising! - real loadout of the Paratrooper half-squad) and 3 Garands plus 3 Thompsons for Rangers (pretty close to the "Saving Private Ryan').



All described can be done, except for one thing - both Rangers and Paratroopers visually run with empty hands even after editing the *.abp.

Jump back to quoted post4 Dec 2016, 20:13 PMTheWise

Historically - the main weapon of both Rangers and Paratroopers was M1 Garand, not M1 Carbine or Thompson.

Tried to reflect this in my mod ... no way, both Rangers and Paratroopers are running with empty hands. Editing *.abp? Tried, adding the line with Garand, copied from the Rifleman's *.abp, gave nothing.

Any ideas?