Why

no

As of 2023 is this not built in to IFA3 AIO yet?

Can you put the american and british tanks on the same team as the ussr

Hi mate, just reaching out to let you know there is a new IFA3 Official page, which can be found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648308937

The old page listed in your dependencies will be removed at the end of the month, so we are contacting creators to help mitigate issues or confusion later on.

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Discord Server



„ https://discord.gg/tBPj6ETp44“



We play nearly every evening starting at about 10PM Central European time, 9PM UK time. For a few hours.



Link to game files with Special Bonus


'http://warthunder.com/en/registration?r=userinvite_64003633'

Would this have any conflicts with other ai mods like VCOM and LAMBS?

thanks

cool mod

@leondegrelle2 30 Mar @ 4:57pm

No you do not.

Thanks for commenting and using the mod.

Sorry it took so long to reply to you but I was unsubscribed from this blog and it keeps happening even tho each time a re-subscribe. Kinda wears you down a bit.

brauche ich jetz die orginal Version von iron front nicht mehr

@{RP}Alan

Thank you kindly for assist.

@Radio1977 15 hours ago

You have to use the change weapon key and it cycles back and forth from main gun to mg. Have a look at the game key bindings to see which key it is. I do not know which one it is offhand I have it bound to a key on my game controller in my player profile.

@{RP}Alan

Hello,
Yes, indeed. You have helped a lot!
There's only one thing else, I cannot find how to use the MG installed in tank turret. Do I have to swich into it by pressing "F" like in the Iron Front: 1944?

Hello @Radio1977 13 hours ago

You have to have an ammo truck or container on the map and all you have to do is drive near it and an icon pops up and you have the option of accepting the offer to refuel repair or rearm. On some maps with support mode switched on and activated you can call for those things and a vehicle comes out to you and does it.

The key thing is the mission has to support it and the units that do the supporting have to be on the map and activated.

It does not happen on its own in a standard mission.

Hope that helps

Hello, can anyone explain to me how to resupply ammunition for tanks?
And also, how to repair them in field?

Many t(h)anks!

@Fegeleinn 4 Jul @ 6:54pm

All the Russian tanks have a few rounds of APCR hart kern solid shot tungsten ammo that would be capable of penetrating a Tiger from the front. The tiger has about 100mm of front armour and the APCR round on the T34/76 can penetrate to about that if very close, say under 100m. At 100m the penetration is 90mm and should not come through and if it is then the main game needs adjustment. The normal T34/76 AP round can penetrate to 86mm at 100m.

I did do as part of my mod a tank gun penetration correction. However the main game changed their code around so much that it kep getting overwritten or made errors and so I removed mine and will put it back when the main game coding has settled down and does not change location as it has done in the past and undone my work.

Thanks for using the mod and commenting.

T-34-76 i mean

Thanks. I've noticed something, t-34-85 can pen tiger 1's front armor after couple shoots, usually tank starts Burning. Is it realistic?

Hello @Fegeleinn 30 Jun @ 4:28pm

The mod will always work if loaded last in the mod lineup. If other mods come after it in the load sequence that might overwrite the code with their own version.

Try altering the load sequence and see if it changes.

Thanks for using and commenting.

Btw tanks are dont move even they have move waypoints when i enable this mod

Iam using ifa3+liberation44 and faces of war mods. This mod will work on those mods or do i need disable fow?

The Churchill and Crusader tank guns could be added but apart from that the mod is up to date.

mod update?

Hi, is the bug described my Magnus about to be fixed ?

Hello Benjamin Magnus 31 Jul @ 5:34pm,

As I write this there is a big ARMA3 update downloading, it could be that something in the main game has changed that has affected the mod. I will have a look and find out and report back.

Another tip is to make sure that this mod is the last one in the load order so that is writes over any other AI mod that might be there and also the core programming. The last arma mod loaded have code precedence.

Thanks for using and commenting.

Thanks

Hey Alan, been fidigiting with your mod for use with my unit for about a week now. I had it working great, tanks acted just as described. We tested some other AI mods, didnt like them, so we got rid of them. Now Smarter Tanks doesnt seem to work correctly anymore even with the other mods not installed. Tanks wont rotate their turrest to face the threats. Wont fire main weapons (only MGs), at enemy infantry. Any ideas on what might be causing the issue?

Hello Madmedic, the smarter tanks should work on those ones too. If not let me know and I can add the weapons to the list in an update. IF I can open the FOW data to read the files, some modders lock their stuff and so one cannot see it to develop it further.

If IFA3, and FOW (Faces of War) mods are installed, along with the compatibility patch...Will this addon also make the FOW tanks smarter?
If not, is there a line that can be added to the init line of a FOW tank that will make it use this addon?

Hello SCG_wtornado,

Thanks for reporting and I will look into it.

I get this when I am loading the mods starting the game.

Addon'Smarter_tanks requires addon
'Extended_EventHandlers'

Hello birkenmoped , Yes you are right it does do a bit more. What it does in a nutshell is:
1. Provides more realistic penetration and hit values.
2. New loading sounds.
3. The world famous shell fly sound

When not loaded the game defaults back to the stock settings which are not too bad and I had a hand in helping develop.

Hi {RP}Alan,

the rp_weapons.pbo is doing only the shell fly/buzzing sound or is it doing also some other tweaks to the weapons?

I know you wrote "I made the shell fly sound seperate so that one could use it in any mod and also remove it if it clashed with other mods such as ACE" but from the name of the .pbo rp_weapons I thought it could maybe doing something more and so I better ask for this again! ;-)

Hello birkenmoped and thanks for your comments and questions. The answers to your questions are:
1. This smarter tanks mod includes all the IFA3_AIO_Lite mod and Liberation mod tanks and anything that carries a weapon that is a threat to a tank. It also has the vanilla A3 tanks in it.
2. You need this mod on this page we are corresponding on for IFA3 and Liberation and Geist.
3. It is not in the smarter tanks mod but there is a version in the RealPanzer mod which can be removed if that shell buzzing sound occurs when using ACE by removinng the pbo called rp_weapons. I must add that as a note in the instructions to that mod. I made the shell fly sound seperate so that one could use it in any mod and also remove it if it clashed with other mods such as ACE.

Thanks for using my mods and taking the time to comment and ask questions.

Hi {RP}Alan,

Thank you for your mods!

I have some questions:
1. Is your "Smarter Tanks"-mod included or planned to get included in the IFA3_AIO_Lite? If not....
2. Which of the "Smarter Tank"-mods is needed if I use only IFA3_AIO_Lite, Faces of War and Geist and not the IFA3 Liberation?
3. Is your "Tank Shell Fly Sound"-mod included in one of your other mods "Smarter Tanks" and/or "RealPanzer"?

Great job! Finally realistic camos on panzers!!!!

Hello Capt Bartels,

The deed is done:

I recommend using my adaption of the Smarter Tanks mod as well and not to mention my mod for Iron Front 44 for A3 and the Liberation mod.

Smarter Tanks https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837225720
IF44 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=839956406
IFA3 Liberation https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1177484010

Thx for reply
I want to say is-2 dont use main gun only mg for enemy infantry(40 men)

Hello Gogobar, HE fire in the game and in real life has no tracer and so is hard to see. That you cannot see the HE shot flying is not influenced by this mod, it would be the same without it.

Thanks for your comment.

I can't see is-2 fire HE.
I only load this mod, ifa, cba and cup terrian core.

Hello Cpt Bartels, Yes we would and I would like to rework the CSA mod tanks however the PBOs are encrypted so that one cannot open them and work on them. The Liberation mod files are open and so I can work on those and am doing so now. We need to persuade the CSA poeople to be more open in the spirit of the A3 community and what makes it great = massive user content and modding.

Thank you for the input! I will make sure to have a look at the load order in the launcher. If your mod some day also covers CSA -we would have a great/complete spectrum of WWII AI tanks fighting in an intelligent manner :D

Hello Cpt Bartels, the way A3 works is that the last PBO loaded has precedence in the coding. So the IF44 version of smarter tanks is overwritten by my one if my one is loaded last. The programming is almost identical except that my one also contains the Liberation mod weapons and vehicles and the IF44 one does not.

My Iron Front Real Panzer 44 mod is for improving how the tanks and vehicles look, sound and handle and does not have a smarter tanks file in it and so the game will use the smarter tanks PBO in the main game if no other one is loaded.

No conflicts in other words.

Will this mod (or Iron Front 44 Real Panzer?) conflict with IFA3 considering their last main update has smarter tanks buildt into it?
Great mod, Alan!

Thank u very much!

Hello WFway, I have listed the weaopons on this discussion page. Look here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/837225720/1484358860952109694/

It went over the 100 word limit for posts here.

Thanks

Alan

Thanks for anser, I test it again, I found just German tanks been working, maybe some mods is Incompatible? Can u show me the list that i can check them.

Hello WFway, this mod works in Vanilla A3 and IF44 mod and IFA3 Liberation mod. It does not work with any other mods as one needs to hard code the weapons into the weapons list in the code. If the weapon is not listed then the AI tanker does not see it and do any special action.

I am planning to extend coverage to the Red Hammer USSR and USA mod one day as I play that a lot.

Thanks for using and commenting.

Its a great mod. I want know its just works with tanks in IFA3? Or all of tanks? I test it , and didnt saw any other tanks will use HE but IFA3. I have downloaded smarter tanks from armaholic,it doesn't work,why they can not use HE?

Hello, Just upoaded an update to include the new vehicles in IF44 A3 and also the Liberation IF3 mod. Plan to add the CSA38 mod tanks too and the Maus. Enjoy.