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Does anyone have a Desert Livery for CH's Challenger 3 , that they would be prepared to let me have. ?

Super Scimitar - the three F's. Find - Fire - F... Off. Looking forward to this.

They all look like they are saying "Well, it wasnt me what did it" or better still "Okay - go for your gun punk"

As Admiral says - it depends on the mission. RFA Fleet tankers, Oilers and Dry Stores Ships carry an amazing amount and variety of stuff as standard and that is topped up with mission specific dry stores and liquids for that mission. You could not list the standard stuff, its an ENORMOUS list of everything you could imagine. They would often dissapear for a couple of days to pick up fresh supplies at the nearest port, then right back on station. When serving in Hermes one of my lads lost a small part of his dress uniform - the ships stores did not have a replacement. We sent an Opdem to the accompanying RFA and over it came on the next RAS, right size, perfect condition. Everything from FFO to Dead Fly Biscuits ! PS to Rudel - Love that part of Tierra del Fuego, it is bloody cold down there though, especially in late winter, highest seas I ever served in and my favourite seagoing experience ever - an Albatros that followed the ship for 4 days, never left us, just drifted around us and the mountainous waves, coming in really close so we could all get a good look at her. Then she was gone.

My game has become virtually unplayable since the last 2 updates, I get random freezes and crashes for no consistent reason or game action. Some days I get a few minutes of care free activity then bangs, it freezes and dies. EVERYTHING is up to date, every other game I play works just fine and rig is very capable, it should play this game like a breeze. It did play this game like a breeze with loads of mods and complex missions, until recently. I'm sure lots of people are having a great incident free experience but there is something wrong with DCS, look at the threads, LOTS OF THEM. 2.8 to 2.9 has been something of a disaster. PS: No point in sending you my logs, I cant see anything in them to suggest whats wrong or what just happened to cause a crash, just like the post above.

My game has become completely unplayable since the last 2 update, constant freezes and crashes, I use lots of unofficial Mods and to be honest if I could not use them I would not play the game in its vanilla format. Which is pretty much where I am right now, pondering other gaming options, which are not great as we all know. That's not ED problem of course, I understand that fully, but its a shame because I have enjoyed 15 years of fun with this. To be no more I fear.

Saddletanks - trials only.

6 UK liveries for the VSN Hunter Mk6. These are mostly made from existing VSN skins within the mod or from the template within the mod, which is very basic, so they are not very high quality. Skins butchered and adapted to suit my game using resources from many different sites. You will need to find the VSN Hunter Mod from wherever it is being stored today, it keeps moving !!!! Credit to the original model and livery makers who are unknown to me. I wont be doing any more. I use Dropbox for more important things so grab this quick, I will disable the link in a day or two. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u4yxybjqqystwwgcw3urj/CrazyEddies-VSN-Hunter-UK-Liveries.zip?rlkey=z5xeyyzmv6vzjk259toipn0o5&st=j0eectfv&dl=0

Can you switch it off ? Late edit - yes you can switch it all off.

If you remove these lines completely does the smoke still work ? If the answer is yes then parhaps its being enabled from a different place or bit of code now ! GT.exhaust = { [1] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.7 , 17.2, 2.1 } }, [2] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.75 , 17.2, -2.1 } }, }

Interesting - For a long time now I have no notification of an update, game starts and runs as normal using MT exe, but if I want to update I have to do it through the Start menu. I dont have the line ["launcher"] = true, anywhere in my options.lua. Are these related issues ?

Oban - Sea Darts sizes I think other ships also have Sea Darts fitted, it could be a conflict with the edm's. Have a look at other ships to see if any of them have a Sea Dart edm in them and that might be your problem.

Is the VSN AI still working okay ?

Coming to a seedy joint near you ... barkeep Hawkeye and his ladies will be here to serve your every need. PS: Bring your own wellingtons.

Proven - well done - lets have one without the ski's as well please.

The last Microprose game I had was B17 - the stone age version - it was the first half decent flight sim I ever owned, then along came Falcon and upped the game. Here's hoping their naval sim is as good, I'm looking for a new playground.

Great advice from Beldin - I reduce all my ships to 100, even less for things like LCU etc.

Hwere are those 2 missing textures, just the textures, you will have to create the livery yourself. I had a whole heap of stuff in my archive once but not much left now, I dont use this aircraft much myself these days and had ditched a load of stuff ages ago, its a very old model and not great quality. Thanks for those updated lua's, always welcome. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x9d7ys36u82oya3akjfcg/340.zip?rlkey=hw5pk5vr52ycjvdooeca8h5j9&st=3qzg1s3g&dl=0

Okay - Try this one, its working in my beta game so it should be good. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lywo1syvrjs2ijn03tf98/VSN-SAAB-340.zip?rlkey=ibh16e97qyzsux7c6gjc6l8ap&st=psujjd41&dl=0

VSN Mod - pretty basic but it looks okay.

HMS Eagle was considered for an F4 conversion, she was the only other RN Carrier of that period that had the hull size and realistic cost potential for that work, but it never happened. In the end the RN was only ever going to get 1 x F4 Sqn so the need never arose really. HMS Ark Royal was converted extensively to take F4's in 1977 and whilst Eagle did trail F4's, they did land on and take off again using existing kit, but she would also have needed a huge refit to do the job properly. F4's were ordered for her air wing but once the decision was made to cancell the F4 refit those aircraft were passed on to the RAF's 43 Sqn, I believe. One or 2 came back over time to replace accidents and natural wastage !! (I have a really interesting story of how 1 x F4 came to be lost off HMS Ark Royal, the pilot was a close friend - for another time perhaps !) The other RN Carriers of that period were never serious contenders for an F4 refit. HMS Hermes would have to have been almost completely rebuilt from the hukll up to take F4's, that was never a viable option and she had been earmarked as the next Cdo Carrier anyway, a role she was well suited to. HMS Victorious was, I believe, considered but rejected for many reasons, I think she was just too small and too old. I served with HMS Eagle when she was a fixed wing Carrier as an NGGLO, and in HMS Hermes (845 Sqn) when she was a Cdo Carrier, the differences in deck size and internally, hangars, stowage etc, was considerable. When they were scrapped Eagle was actually in a much better condition that Ark Royal, so I was told. I dont believe the RN ever seriously considered any other US Fixed Wing Aircraft apart from the F4, the Wessex and Sea Kings were UK Westlands built versions of US Helo's of course. Thats it, as best I remember.

Norwegian Postal Ferry's - for your information only: The Hurtigruten liveries are as accurate as the model restrictions allow. (It was a cheap model Admiral tells me) Early versions of the class did not have a helo deck, they were Winch Only decks, later versions had the deckheads strengthened to accept smaller helos, so a bit of both painted. These ships have been used to cruise down to the Southern Ice, so they are pretty robust bits of kit. Their normal trade is running up and down the Norwegian coast as good old fashioned nautical postmen, I used to pass them regularly diring my times in Norway in the 1970-80's. . The remaining liveries are not accurate at all really, as far as I know none of the other Companies used this class of boat, SO, in order to give you a bit of variety I found images of boats they did use in the Baltic Sea area and painted the existing model in a similar style, artistic licence writ large !! The Russian St Peter Line did exist, it ceased trading around the time of Covid I believe and has not operated sinse, as far as I am aware.

Try recreating the dds files, load them and save them in dds fomat again, there have been issues with some of the older mods.

This issue with shelters has been around for a while now, around 2.7 is used to work just fine, you could park your Tucano under one of VCP's super shelters, do the whole start up and fly thing then park again under it. Then it stopped working, I reported it and I think others did as well but nothing ever happens with stuff like that, sadly. If you place the shelter as an object and then try to start fly from under that shelter it will always default you to the nearest start point that isnt under a shelter, and its bloody annoying I know !!

Hawkeye and I knocked up a couple of civilian ships a few years ago now - I can probably skin a Generic Norwegian Postal ship for you. Updated 8 May 24 - Regretably cant be done, this is very old model and the bow is made up from bits of texture taken randomly from differnt bits of the testure file and I cant line up the red band around the hull, its too broken up. Sorry. We may have found something better, we are investigating.