Yeah, so at some point, I realized I could put a reticle on the satchel detonator:
That's the M22 binocular reticle, optimized for 6x magnification, with a rangefinder calibrated for objects two meters tall from 400m to 2000m.
Above you can see the sergeant is 400m away. Below you can see how he reads on the rangefinder:
I mathed up the dimensions for the reticle as best I could, and I think it's accurately scaled. The sergeant is indeed two meters tall, and he fits in that spot in the wedge tightly enough. I've also confirmed the 500m and 600m marks on the other guys you see in the background.
How often have you found yourself trying to confirm a target's range some-odd hundred meters away only to have the HUD tell you the distance to the trees with the oversized collision boxes you're hiding directly behind, or the window pane you're observing the target through? This reticle isn't laser-rangefinder accurate, but it'll give you something to work with.
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Edit: Also, the M3 binocular reticle with an Eames scale, optimized for 6x mag., mounted on the pick-up satchel detonator:
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Edit, random: A few hours ago, I learned that the rear sight system on the M16A2 has adjustable elevation between 300m and 800m. I had no experience with M16A2s in my enlistment, and was under the impression that the 0-200m and 300m flip apertures of the M16A1 was all there was to AR irons. I'm a little angry about this. Would've thought somebody might've mentioned it to me by now.
Well, in the experimental edit personal version of the SFOD mod I have on my crate at the moment, the elevation on the M16s is adjustable from 300m to 800m, now.
scope_max_zero 8 100 300 3
That'll do it.
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Edit, expected: Below is my adaptation of the Zrak ON-M79 reticle. I'm not 100% sure that the head lines on the rangefinder are supposed to be 48.26cm at range, but that seemed correct to me, and that's how I did them:
Again, this was an exercise in counting pixels on
some googled up images (okay,
one googled up image), math, and educated guesses. Optimized for 7x magnification, pale green illumination chosen in accordance with
a .jpg on WikiCommons.
I like that this is a version of the PSO-1 reticle that's both simplified and expanded in effective ways. They're all german #1s when you get down to it, and that fascinates me for some reason.