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Post the camouflage patterns used by your military.

The SUA military uses 4 patterns of camouflage:



Desert 1- This is the most widely used pattern of the the SUA military. It is used in desert and desert urban environments. It is also the standard pattern of the special forces.


Desert 2- The first pattern used by the SUA military. It is still worn, although often mixed with the Desert 1 pattern (ex. a Desert 1 shirt with Desert 2 pants).


Desert Savannah- This pattern is suitable for use in marsh and desert brush as well as Savannah environments. It is mostly used by special forces and VIP guards.


SUA Woodland- This pattern utilizes a series of grids of various colors of both squares and intersecting lines to trick the naked eye.

We have giant starfleets.

No real need for camo, given that visual sightings are like impossible.

Woodland: Blotches of Green with Brown
Others: Khaki with Brown and Grey blotches

We use a jungle camo pattern consisting of various shades of green. We have also experimented with actual leaf prints but we couldn't detect any improvement in performance.

Interestingly, we were told once that black does not necessarily make the best nighttime camo. We were told, instead, that standard camo should be equally effective under all lighting conditions. We discovered, however, that the dyes in our uniforms do not behave the same under all lighting conditions. They don't exactly glow in the dark but they are, in fact, more visible than plain black. Hence, our commandos are using black for nighttime missions until improved dyes are found or developed.

-- Gen. Castro-Stalina, Fatatatutti Foreign Legion

Woodland/swamp = Classical Green, Brown, and black splatters.
Desert = Plain Khaki. Lay down with that and you'll start to blend in.
Artic = Same thing as Desert, but with white.

Usually our obviousness and size is an advantage, since it ruins the morale of puny enemies. Therefore most of us don't use camo at all, preferring instead to bear down on mouse-sized opposition and intimidate it into either surrendering or fleeing.

When we really need camo, for instance on stealth recon missions, our spies use a special coating that is controlled by our CPUs. The effect is like that of a chameleon; the colors and patterns change depending on what we see is around us.

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00014.php Ordinators are often seen wearing the archaic Swiss Leibermeister, in an appropriate colour scheme. Special operations at night will use one tinted with dark purple as opposed to black. Due to the Ballistic shields and heavy armour used by our infantry, camouflage is often not as effective as other nation's. In full military parade, an urban version with purple detailing is used.

http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00080.php The 'reed' pattern serves our military vehicles well, appropriate recolours for terrain, as with our infantry. It gives our vehicles a distinctive appearance when viewed at standby, and has earned the local nickname of 'papyrus-pattern' amongst ground forces.

Air vehicles are variegated, darker colour on top and lighter on the bottom. Bombers will wear a tigerstripe camouflage pattern along their topside, and splotches of pale blues along the underside

The Imperial Assembly has, however, recently opened trials for a new semi-universal camouflage pattern, the leading possibility is the Roggenwolf 'Warg' http://www.roggenwolf.com/camouflage/warg.php and it's derivative patterns

This.

Being slightly more advanced, we use LED covered fabric to mimic the surroundings around the soldier, but since we rarely go to war, we can afford to spend large amounts of money on our military.

United Souls and Minds wrote:Being slightly more advanced, we use LED covered fabric to mimic the surroundings around the soldier, but since we rarely go to war, we can afford to spend large amounts of money on our military.

((OOC; Active camouflage makes you go blind, because it blocks visual light. e_o Either you're having your soldiers view through IR lenses or you have cameras on their backs or something.))

Woodland: Dark Green background with Vertical Dark Jungle Green Stripes.

Desert: Dark Khaki background with Earth Yellow and Khaki blotches

Snow: Light Mauve background with Lavender Gray Blotches.

Urban: Ash Grey Background with Air Force Blue, Ceil and Cool grey blotches.

Night: Black Background with Dark Jungle Green and Charcoal blotches.

Standard BDU:

Paratrooper BDU:

Tank Crew BDU:

Field (Sentry) Jacket:

Desert camouflage


Winter camouflage


Forest camouflage


Urban camouflage

Tundra camouflage pattern


Snow camouflage pattern


Woodland camouflage pattern


Urban camouflage (it's not actually issued, but the design is there) is a matte gray.

And now some adorable JG sprites:

we dont have camo, we have this:

Konahagaru wrote:we dont have camo, we have this:

Thats kinda of a rip off from naruto.

Konahagaru wrote:we dont have camo, we have this:

Thats kinda of a rip off from naruto.

^that's kind of a double post.

This is our multipurpose camouflage pattern; the pattern used for desert climates is generally a lot paler.

Wikipedia and Universe uses many patterns of camouflage and even experiments with foreign patterns for testing. The patterns fielded include (but are NOT limited to):


MARPAT- Clockwise from the top left are Desert, Woodland, Winter, and Urban (The winter pattern was developed after the fact by us). Another MARPAT winter pattern can be found here.


Tri-Texture Disruptive Multispectral Pattern (TTDMP) Woodland (top) and Desert (bottom)- Developed by creating small digitized irregular shapes and checkering them with two colors. The result is three textures seen at different distances. Pixels are actual size.


TTDMP Winter and Urban- Winter is at the top and Urban is at the bottom. These are the urban and winter versions of the Tri-Tex pattern. Pixels are actual size.


Tactical Fractal Disruptive Pattern (TFDP)- Developed from MARPAT, the TFDP pattern was altered by slightly chnging the colors, shrinking the pixels, and adding cross-pixels as a depth-based disruptive feature. Pixels shown are actual size.

Wikipedia and Universe also utilizes MulitCam, Unicam, X-camo, and a spectrum of other patterns produced by Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp., Roggenwolf, and other various designers.

We use the 118th element Kobaris. In a sense, it makes our troops ghosts temporarily, for we are invisible and untouchable with the armor on.

Desertforesturbanvolcanotundra Pattern.

Imitoran Military Standard Disruptive Pattern



Special operations units are allowed more leeway in selecting camouflaged patterns, if any are selected at all.