Wrecking Crew

You can set the ability of the SAM group, too. If you set it to Excellent, prepare for a tough battle. WC

They all need to be in the same group to work under regular conditions. There is a script to coordinate SAM activity across the battlefield, but I don't use it and after a brief search I did not find it -- I thought the thread was in Mission Builders Corner. WC

I don't really know what that dispersion delay is for, although I have shortened it from 300 (seconds?). You could do a work around, like -- Set an event to detect if the group has damage, ie one or more units gets destroyed. Set up a timer and on conclusion set the group's ROE to Hold. I was playing in CA last night and saw that it was ROE = Hold that allows a stuck group to resume. WC

If you want to use Combined Arms, you can set the group's ROE & Alert to Hold & Green and they should start moving again, right away. I *think* that the group may also resume if the enemy is destroyed or leaves, after some time has gone by, like a few minutes. Welcome to the DCS Forums, kingofland! WC

If we go around saying things like "see the laser on target" then people will get confused; IMHO, of course. We can only "see" the Pointer, and that with NVGs. WC

Play with the Reaction To Threat in Advanced Waypoint Settings. You can set it to not react. WC

Note: The Pointer is not the Laser. :)

Oooops! Forget what I said... :)

It depends upon the mission. For instance, Witches Hollo is up now and that has Blue JTAC. I was in there yesterday and (finally, it's easy) stumbled on the M1-A1 target lock capability. Man, that was fun, standing off at 4,000 meters (feet?) and locking up enemy armor and buildings, and getting hits on first shots with both HE and AP. WC

Nice list, BIGNEWY WC

I like EVGA products. I will call them on their pre-sales support line and talk to one of their knowledgeable folks about what I want to use the system for and how much I'm prepared to spend. http://www.evga.com/support/ Watch out for the video card length vs the case size. Some vid cards are 11", and mid-tower cases may only take up to a 10.5" card. WC

I don't use the Mission Goals feature very much. I'll usually define my Red & Blue win conditions by Group Dead or Coalition Out Of Zone type of events. But I do have a mission where Blue has to get to 100 points, or more, to win -- in that mission there are a bunch of 5 point objectives, and some bigger objectives worth 25 points or so. Once Blue gets > 99 then they win. Recently I added more of the 5 point conditions so there are ~20 of those now and that's why I made the comment above. WC

That Mission Goals window needs an overhaul. Get a bunch of lines in there and it is not easy to add more, and they can't be sorted. WC

I disable Tbilisi by activating bunkers right at the intersections of the taxiways and runways and immediately follow that with an Explosion On Unit that blows up the bunkers and that leaves a broken runway with debris that looks like a Durandal hit it. WC

Post the mission file and I'll take a look. Welcome aboard Mongo. You too Wrench. WC

Bent pins can also be straightened with a mechanical pencil, if the pin diameter is small enough. You can slip the tube of the pencil over the pin and then pull it up straight. WC

For a restart after a mission is complete, I do that in the mission's event logic. WC

I run Slmod on Hollo Pointe. Admins can restart a mission from text chat with '-admin restart'. Or load with -admin load... For an 'auto' restart, do you mean restart from Pause when someone Joins, or restart after the mission is complete? I have not used Servman. WC

Continued crashing on this mission after upgrading to v1.2.16. See attached file with logs and miz. WC

I was thinking that if an A-10C was heading towards the JTAC that was firing their laser, would the A-10C pick up the laser designator itself? This could be quite dangerous for the JTAC, if you know what I mean. WC

You also need to be on the general heading of the laser, too. WC

CA is lots of fun. Most missions on the Hollo Pointe server include CA slots, and can make a huge difference in the outcome. WC

I'm upgrading to v1.2.16, and will drop a note in here if these crashes stop with the update. WC

Very glad to hear you got it! What I meant by the Server Options is the connection speed. I think my server is set to LAN, and my Client is ASDL 2048 (? -- the higher one, whatever the number is). WC

Well, for all the years I've been using the scheme, I still have a printed copy on my desk. But looking at any group flag, like 12301, I can see right away that it is for a Red aircraft, group #23, a flag for the entire group, and the group is Dead. Folks, Look at the events in the example mission and note how the group name is in the event title. I usually will arrange like events together. An advantage is that the first event of a certain type can be made, and then cloned for the other groups that need a similar event, while there is just a couple of things to change in the cloned event. It works this way with scripts, too. This organization is soo helpful when troubleshooting, and goes to the OP about 'folders' IMO. WC