Darkwolf

No one is talking about the most #1 important thing in DCS : Radar Cross Section. How is the m2000 ? The reason mig21 can bang f15 without much pain is the low RCS, nearly 10 fold lower than eagles and flankers. It allow to dodge amraam and radar detectiln really easily when you know your stuff. i'm not een mentionning the mountains, as the low rcs allow fun tuff even above the sea :P i actually don't fear much the mirage. 4 pylons, that isn't much stuff to dodge. Once within R3R range (Pk=0.9), mirage is dead meat. it will come down to the mirage bvr missile Pk, and to the mirage RCS. Once mirage is locked by mig, its too late. If i had to drive the mirage against mig, i wouldn't rely too much on those fancy corner speed charrs and aerodynamic marketing campaign. I would either try to get kill from range, or try to sneak around. An head on merge is the last thing you wanna do against migs 21. edit : at least, on the beauty point of view, mirage is clearly above :P

Ok feet, sorry, i was tired. this imperial stuff should be banned worldwide :music_whistling: Point is still valid with 12000ft anyway ! And that not me that says they must be a hard deck for CAS. That was the rule in the gulf. nowaday you don't fly below 12000 unless you are doing a safari against some insurgents. Just open any to&e an you'll undrstand why.

Destroying f15 in a mig is no prblem ... so mirages.... :D :music_whistling:

In wa, do ou expect tanks to sit in the open ? DCS is already ridiculouly empty of any ground clutter compared to real life.... are you really expecting a defense brigade to stay on apron and be like " hey shoot me ? "

Where on hell would you use he gau-8 to begin with? As a reminder, hard deck are in effect in wr, mening your little gau-8 is resrained at firing from ABOVE 12000 meters. Unless all shorad stuff is destroyed and you are fihting in the desert, your gau-8 is just useless untill the war h come dow to COIN. :music_whistling: (check irak report for more info) sorry for typo, i'm in my bath, with that damn tiny tablt keyboard :P)

Active missile debate has no point, really. Check out 104th tournaments results and tacview and you'll see that competition between the two plane is very, very tight. You don't need active missile or even ambush tactics to keep the f15 at bay. F15 and su27 are both the same level. Take advantage or russian hardware instead of trying to fly the thing like a f15 :P and check out those tacview files, youll get confidence back

No need to talk plane unless the pilot issue has been solved. I'm sure half of the blue players haven't even meet anything else than AI fighters :P

How about just limiting capture when server population is more than 70% off ?

Fightinh f86 and hawks are a good start.

My computer is dead and i haz 12hours/day at work this month so i cannot help immediately. Ere is the thing to start with : mig21 is no bvr. Its radar is just here to shoot he missile. . it could eventually be used to scan, but only in gen3 fighter battle. In modern combat, just keep it as a fire control systm, not a sensor. So you are down to visual search, then once you find something, start your radar, lock and shoot. Using radar to detect is absolutely dangerous in gen4 environnement. If you have information on a contact, you can use it to spot it, but only if you are sure you are pointing the radar at something you intent to fire rapidly. Alone, mig21 shall be used as a ambush fighter. As a squdron it can easily be used as a frontline fighter with appropriate techniques.

Absolutely wrong. Single life has not fknancial advantage. Except if your wife is not working. Being two, getting two paycheck but sharing food/house is a huge financial advantage. If you ae single, your food expense are slightly less, but house still here for only one payroll. :P Your argument is however valid for "time", instead of "cash" ;)

Text chat is way wayyy enough to coordknate flight. Whisper just drove our squadron nut we got rid of it. While voice chat is pertinent within a flight, when you want to send a huey to a place X you dont really need voice comm. Voice comm may actually be counter productive, since not all people have enough skill to talk/lsten, while they can perfectly read english. mportant message should get teamtexted. Sorry for the poor writing, i'm on mobile device since computer is down. :(

Nope. A10 primary weapon is NOT the gau8 and it will just not fire that much round either. during gulf war, A10 had an hard deck of 10000+ for a good part of the conflict and rounds fired over all the conflict were 100/plane/sortie. They mostly used missiles and bomb. Data comes from the usaf report. nowaday usage in small counterinsurgency "wars" isn't demosntrative of anything except it would be a perfect COIN plane if it wasn't that expensive. Take real report from large wars if you want an opinon.

That was an epic story. Luckily, my wife is a good match for me, she rarely check out the expense as she is a gamer too. I usually make sure that whatever money i waste in PC sim, she has enough cash flow to buy what she likes too.

Only Patriots and Hawk systems, i'm afraid :P

Found myself circling above a FARP, thinking I was merged with a F15 :P We were flying in the middle of nowhere and were not expecting sam there :D Hopefully that was a friendly farp and we did catch an F15 - because we were in panic mode we noticed a far away contrail :D

IR view would be awesome ...

instead of lives per dude, how about simple plane count ?

[(red) troll ON] Since you are part of that blue mafia that only flies when red are sleeping, you aren't causing much place availability problem :P :P :P

LOL

On behalf of the Projekt Vodka, thank you for all the efforts and the hosting. That was a fun event, despite our clear outnumbering. A few note from our point of view on the future : 1. Outnumbering Outnumbering was a major issue here, however that was the only way out of the campaign. 2. Squadron allocation Squadron allocation was an issue too. Some airfield were completely booked and they were undefendable/locking paks. I suggest to simply get rid of the plane reservation. Just password lock the server and put the code on the website campaign map. lonewolf will still be able to join, but only if they have a look into the campaign, no only random joining. Example 1 : PAK1 had fighters only available in Anapa. All other slots were booked. that was definitively a long ride to defend maykop area, while other could take off from soshi. Example 2 : Eastern Pak was taken by blue on day 7, it was impossible to take it back. They is a huge gap between western pak and eastern pak, and the only airfield in the middle was all 373. 3. Original Airfield plane set Due to the limitation of the ground defense, i suggest to drastically size down the PGM/SEAD capable planes down, and add regular Su-25 / A-10A to the campaign. At least, use warehouse system to reduce amount of PGM available per hour. An su-25T can carry 16ATGM along with 2 Kh-58, fuel tanks and rockets. That's enough to clear a base. For example : Home bases would host the "modern plane", with Su-27/F-15 fighters, and A-10C/Su-25T strikers. Captured airfield would feature Mig-21, F-86, A-10A, Su-25A, L-39 & others armed trainers That would value airfield capture and allows point defense. I would also recommend to remove the heavier Kh-58U from the campaign. That one is overkill against the tiny airdefenses. Removing of plane assignation per squadron would free the slots for this. 4. server restart Server restart is an issue. It is obviously mandatory, you wouldn't do it otherwise. :P 1/ Can server restart time be displayed on website map ? 2/ Can server save the ground unit status ? that's annoying to suppress an airfield and then server crash. 5. weather and atmosphere As the server restart every few hours, can we get some night / bad weather rotation ? Remember that clouds needs to be either full 8/8 clouds or absolutely clear, as single cloud position isn't broadcasted on MP games. 6. Thank you, again Thank you DCS Israel and the 373 for this event, that was hell of a fun.

^^ This ! Noobs and Lonewolves NEEDS to fly with us. This is a serious matter and from experience, any leisure/activity need to have a "bridge" between socialized teams and lonewolfs/noobs. that's a basis for activity growth. This make people fells more confortable about the community, flying with squadrons, and eventually leading some to join/create groups. Leave the people outside our world and flight simulator will never get more popular.

Well, at least, we know ED is working on it and making some progress. Also - the fake IR view doesn't show tree, so you are on par with AI. :P

GREAT !!!! :) Regarding F-15C vs Su-27 Air performances, it has already been proven multiple times during 104th tournaments that both planes are equivalent.

I'm convinced that the gameplay will stay stuck in the same position for month. You just can't push 200km without having your fighter base advancing too. It's not even DCS related, that's pure strategy math that worth in any strategy situation. It the simple equation - attrition rate vs availability rate. Tactics may improve attrition rate but availability rate will not change. I think it would be nice to have some point defense of airfield in a form of 1/2 cheap fighter slot. That's where all those hawk, mig21, F-86, C-101 could be useful in term of module use and gameplay variety.