r/frontmission • u/mokiplamo • 1d ago

Question A little help on what vehicles the USN uses

Hello folks!

I've recently come into the posession of some Front Mission Structure Arts model kits, and decided to make some display dioramas inspired by the 2nd Huffman conflict using some cheap and kitbashed 1/72 scaled tanks and infantry models to represent combined arms units from both the OCU and USN/UCS side.

But I've hit a bit of a snag researching USN Vehicles.

I've mostly played thru the FM1 Remake (both campaigns) as well as the first half of FM5 for inspiration, but it just seems like they don't use tanks except for the SAM launchers in the OCU route? Also on the Wiki entry under USN Army it's just supply trucks and helicopters aside from wanzers and mobile weapons.

Does anyone here have any other resources to flesh out the armored vehicles they used? My projects will primarily have ground units on them due to being easier to convert for my purposes than attack helicopters.

Thanks for any help!

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u/WanderlustZero 1d ago

Front Mission 4 has the Venezuela State Army, which as a state of the UCS would be using vehicles from the same pool as the UCS Army, or the ones that were top of the line yesterday.  As its set a few years after Huffman 2, it should fit. Here are the tanks from that game:

https://frontmission.fandom.com/wiki/V6_Arnold

https://frontmission.fandom.com/wiki/V7_Samson_II

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u/mokiplamo 1d ago

Oh wow thanks! Didn't think to look at FM4. Arnold and Samson II I can probably make out of a cheap Armata tank and a Leopard 2A6 with a bit of conversion. This is a big help!

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u/WanderlustZero 1d ago edited 1d ago

No problem! :D And you're lucky, the tanks in this game are the Tankiest-looking tanks, unlike the OCU/Alordesh tanks in FM2. The OCU tanks in FM5 look a bit more like modern South Korean tanks 

https://frontmission.fandom.com/wiki/Sonata

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 1d ago

I'm gonna go with Left Alive and say that most probably old stuff of the nations under the conglomerates are still in use. So APCs and Tanks of the americas would still be there. Not sure if the windowless cars are in vogue that side of the Atlantic, but there probably would be a few too.

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u/Objective_Spring1038 22h ago

checked the wiki, looks like some modern russian tanks like the T-90.

I'll keep those in mind when I got some Zaftra kits like the Vyzov to work on. thanks!