News Liste Wargame: Red Dragon

Supply

Recon

• The good ol’ [b]Alouette III[/b], SAAF’s oldest and sturdiest flying helo. Available from 1961, this chopper is unarmed.
• The prototype light [b]XH-1 Alpha[/b] (1985). Although historically used as a testbed for a new generation of attack helicopters, in-game the unit has been repurposed as an armed recon chopper with Exceptional optics.

Transport

• First up is the mainstay [b]SA.330H Puma[/b] (1973), armed with a side-door MAG 7,62mm machine gun.
• The domestically built [b]Oryx[/b] (1987), which features the same armament, but with improved speed and hit points.

Attack

• The singular [b]Alouette K-Car[/b] (1973) as light support chopper. Armed with a side-door 20mm autocannon in much the same configuration as the French [i]Puma Pirate[/i].

• [b]XTP-1 Beta ’87[/b] (1987) features the original support and AA configuration, with a 20mm in the nose, four 18-tube pods of 68mm SNEB rockets, and two V3B [i]Kukri[/i] short-range air-to-air missiles.
• [b]XTP-1 Beta ’90[/b] (1990) was used to test a new indigenous ATGM, making this variant a pure ground attack chopper. It retains the nose 20mm cannon and rocket pods but switches the Kukri A2A missiles for no less than eight [i]Zingwe[/i] ATGMs. The latter weapon is an improved version of the [i]Swift[/i] missile featured on the ground-based Ratel ZT3-A1, with more range and AP.
• And at last, the classy and deadly looking [b]Rooivalk[/b] (1994). Faster, sturdier, and more agile than the XTP-1 Beta, it keeps the ’90 variant’s 20mm nose canon and eight Zingwe, but drops the rocket pods in favor of four [i]Mistral[/i] A2A missiles.

Nation Pack: South Africa in detail

• We have put a spotlight on the all-important grunt: SADF [b]Infantry[/b]. Read all [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/3016823329556921166]about it here.[/url][/b] And if you want to know how these forces appear in-game, check out this [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/3030339201340012422]detailed gameplay deep dive here[/url][/b].
• We also looked at the SADF [b]Armor[/b] force, which you can [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/3048349794619388526]read more about here.[/url][/b] Curious how these units look in-game? Check out this [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/3053984370218224825]gameplay post here[/url][/b].
• The flyboys claim all the glory in our SAAF [b]Air Force[/b] article, which [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/3070869061072083812]you can read here[/url][/b]. To read more about the planes in-game, be sure [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/251060/view/2993187041046213532]to read this gameplay post here. [/url][/b]
• Hugging the earth, SADF’s rotorcraft fleet get special treatment in our [b]Helicopter[/b] showcase, which [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/251060/Wargame_Red_Dragon/]you can read here.[/url][/b] To read more about the choppers in-game, be sure to read this gameplay post here.

What will the South Africa Nation Pack bring?

• Close to 90 new SADF units, including 20 brand-new vehicle models, as well as many new variants. All feature new Afrikaans and South African-accented English voice-overs.
• These include the ubiquitous [b]Casspir[/b] and [b]Ratel[/b] APCs (in numerous variants, from IFV, recon, command, mortar, and even SAM), the [b]Rooikat[/b] wheeled tank (including variants and prototypes), [b]Eland[/b] (license-produced French AML), [b]Cactus[/b] (French Crotale), the only tracked [b]Olifant[/b] MBT, many armed variants of locally made [b]SAMIL[/b] trucks ([b]Ystervark[/b] and [b]Bosvark[/b] SPAAG, [b]Valkiri[/b] and [b]Bateleur[/b] MLRS), to the iconic [b]G6 Renoster[/b] self-propelled howitzer.
• The Air Force includes old [b]Buccaneer[/b], [b]Vampire[/b] and [b]Impala[/b] as close-air support, and several French [b]Mirage[/b] variants and the locally modified [b]Cheetah[/b] as fighter and multirole aircraft. Furthermore, you will find the [b]Atlas Carver[/b] prototype, the first full South African prototype plane design (which never left the drawing board).
• Helicopters include the French [b]Alouette III[/b], [b]Puma[/b], [b]Super Frelon[/b] and their locally produced versions and prototypes such as the [b]K-Car[/b], [b]Oryx[/b] and [b]XTP-1 Beta[/b]. You’ll also be able to deploy South Africa’s very own attack helicopter design, the badass-looking [b]Rooivalk[/b].
• Infantry will include [b]Bokkop[/b] regular riflemen, [b]Parabat[/b] paratroopers, [b]SASF[/b] special forces, and many more units such as militia, recon, MANPADS, engineers. You will find Portuguese-speaking Angolan [b]UNITA[/b] squads, as well as SADF’s own [b]32 Battalion[/b] (the Buffalos) as a veteran light infantry formation.
• SADF weaponry features imported or locally built [b]R1[/b] and [b]R4[/b] rifles, [b]SS-77[/b] and [b]Mini-SS[/b] MG, [b]LRAC[/b] and [b]APILAS[/b] LAW, but also the more original [b]HK-21[/b], [b]FT5[/b], [b]Inflict[/b] and, of course, the iconic [b]Y2 grenade-launcher[/b] and [b]NTW-20[/b].

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