• they can appear in enemy patrols and assaults, jut like tanks nowadays can (if one allows this in the ini of course).
• As combat jeeps are less armored than tanks, they are easier to damage (but still a lot tougher than infantry). With stock settings, AP and SAP anti-material ammo can damage them.
• Tanks have a main cannon (item #60) and a Minimi (item #28), combat jeeps only have the Minimi. Note that both have unlimited ammo.
• Combat jeeps can destroy structures by driving over them just as tanks do - but can't drive through tough structures, like solid walls.
• 
  Combat jeeps can also appear in autoresolve. Jeep pictures by CVB, thank you!
• Just like tanks, any enemy formation containing at least one combat jeep will categorically refuse to surrender.

• <antiTank> has been removed. It was a boolean that defined whether bullets would do no or full damage to tanks. There was no way to have a mediate between the two, so it has been removed.
• There are now new tags for damage against tanks, non-tank-but-armoured-vehicle (like combat jeeps), civilian vehicles, and zombies:
  

  <dDamageModifierTank>0.0</dDamageModifierTank>
  <dDamageModifierArmouredVehicle>0.0</dDamageModifierArmouredVehicle>
  <dDamageModifierCivilianVehicle>1.0</dDamageModifierCivilianVehicle>
  <dDamageModifierZombie>1.0</dDamageModifierZombie>
  

  
  These tags take values between 0.00 and 100.00. Note that when applying damage, these are then multiplied with the existing tags dDamageModifierLife and dDamageModifierBreath.

I like the idea of limiting jeeps movement.

To make their movement look less awkward, would it be possible to force them to move a certain number of tiles forward before being able to change directions, and only allowing them to do so 45 degrees at a time? Would also allow you to outflank them easier.

Morbo513 wrote on Mon, 21 March 2016 15:29

To make their movement look less awkward, would it be possible to force them to move a certain number of tiles forward before being able to change directions, and only allowing them to do so 45 degrees at a time? Would also allow you to outflank them easier.

I thought about that. As far as I can tell, this would require an almost separate AI pathing method, and would be a lot more complicated than the current method. Considering what happened the last time someone tried to 'improve' pathing, I'd rather stay away from that.

Also, think about it: How many tile-based games do you know where that is the case?

I have only taken a short look at the files last night and don't have access to them atm but I think that the jeep uses the same vehicle ID as tanks (ID 164). Shouldn't it get a separate ID so we can define a separate name ("Tank" doesn't really fit a jeep), separate sounds and - very important - an own armor type? Right now jeeps have the same armor as tanks which might explain why the jeep in the video took two hits to destroy.

Also for ammo I have seen that HEAT does less damage against a jeep than it does to tanks. That doesn't make sense to me. HEAT rounds are the preferred ammo against lighter armored vehicles like APCs.

Also is there a keyboard shortcut to create an enemy jeep in cheat mode? It would be good to have one for testing.

Holy shit! I think I have to put my mercs in EOD armor now.

One question - in my opinion a LAW should take out the jeep. In your demonstration it didn't. Was that just for demonstration purposes or is the armor of the jeep that strong on purpose?

Come to think of it... why don't we just use the bodytype as vehicle IDs? It's different for every type of vehicle, and via code we can make sure only vehicles get one.

merc profile 71 (formerly the unused RPC71) is now used for the combat jeep

Edit: As of r8116 & GameDir r2306, merc profile 71 (formerly the unused RPC71) is now used for the combat jeep. In Vehicles.xml, combat jeeps now get armor similar to kevlar vest as tank has spectra. Note that this is somewhat misleading, as the previously mentioned ammo modifiers are still evaluated. LAWs, however, seem to do a bit more damage - I've tested this several times. Most of the times a single LAW kills a combat jeep, but I've also seen it only deal 72 damage. Seems fair to me - almost but not a guaranteed kill.

Well, the method that requires the least amount of tactic or adaption from the player's side would be mass autofire from his ARs/MGs, which would benefit most from lucky hits. I don't really want to increase the usefulness of that - after all, we now finally have something in which those huge anti-material rifles truly shine.

i have a gameplay problem with a jeep because it arrived before i could obtain better weapons (rev8156 - the strategy was direct sneak attack to Drassen Mine).

This my first encounter with jeep when i night assault cambria mine and was reinforce by a jeep unit adjacent to the mine. I watched your youtube video the jeep moves and shoot but this jeep i encounter doesnt even move from the spawn point at the edge of map.

Does vehicle moves in tactical map?? or just a stationary sitting duck to be shot.

Thank you and all modders out there for all the excellent modding.