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Hello, when I try to make ground units move along the highway I get some bizarre on-road pathfinding issues, especially around bridges over the highway. the first 3 examples are specifically on the A2 north of Magdeburg, heading west, and the last one is bundesstrasse 105 west of Rostock heading west. The pathfinding seems to avoid highways in general and sections with bridges in particular, unusure if this is an issue with DCS or with Germanynullnullnullnullnull

here's another go in the instant access scenario, to get a shorter track. first 2 attempts are at 100% stick gain/power, then 0%, then 50% Edit: oh and I only touch the stick to neutralize trim, I don't touch it while afcs calibrates itself mig-29 AFCS problems.trk

heres my track, with a vpforce Rhino. at some point I slightly open the canopy and close it again, after that I run an AFCS bit with master gain (FFB strength) at 0, then one at 100, then one with it fully off, then another couple at 100%. At no point does the AFCS align. is what I would say if the track wasn't too big? its made with the startup tutorial mission, and its 152MB and I have a limit of 50. uhh, it should be available here for 7 days https://limewire.com/d/po67L#wWstxlXvdL

Were there actually any fields in Germany with runways that bumpy IRL?

It wasn't really. Noone can say for sure what the Warsaw pact plans were but they'd certainly attack everywhere all at once. The Fulda direction I would say has outsized influence because it's where the Americans were at. If V corps had been on the road to Hamburg I'm sure wed be talking about the A24 charge or something with a snappier title

You should check the FAQ, there's a list of all airfields they intend to add I don't really get the point about carriers. Were any carriers expected to go patrol between Ipswich and Antwerp or something? any involvement of carrier aviation in exercises in Germany? Now a cold war Kola on the other hand... That'd be cool and a very natural map for a confrontation between NATO navies and the Northern Fleet... One can dream

It looks to me like Mannheim is on the phase 1 map. Now I can forgive street layouts being a little off, but this is more than a little haha. Here it is in game next to an air photo from 1980

I don't get this part of your argument because we are getting Volkel, Twente, Soesterberg, Gilze-Rijen, Eindhoven, Deelen, and de Peel in the Netherlands, as well as Kleine Brogel, beauvechain, bertrix jehonville, goetsenhoven, Liège, st Truiden, Weelde, and Zutendaal in Belgium. That's a fairly comprehensive cross section already? Especially considering there are some very important airbases in Germany still missing from the list. (Hello Geilenkirchen? Home of the AWACS?) I'd love to see it because I live here tho! But I do think I'm getting enough to hope for other stuff first (My priorities of further additions is basically: all airfields in the current high detail area in Germany > at least one French airbase > at least one Swedish airbase > at least one danish airbase > Bavaria> su-24 bases in Poland > extension to include bases in England)

Honestly you wouldn't be far off. For DCS purposes every division has as many T-64s, BMPs, BTRs, and artillery pieces as you want, it's not like it'll run well simulating an entire regiment at once. That said here's some good sources: https://www.relikte.com/literatur.htm has the numbers for 1988. It's in German but you can figure it out, in the index click on 8. Gardearmee and off you go. You can also use https://www.ww2.dk/new/army/armies/8gvoa.htm which has more time accurate equipment but is based on CIA estimates instead of Soviet/east German documents so less accurate. There's no definitive answer for where they would go so you are free to assign them as you see fit. I will note the 8GCAA and east German 3rd army aren't going to be attacking along the same route in parallel. So you're going to have East Germans or Soviets, not a mix. (Though one army could be in echelon behind the other ie following behind)

ah yeah those are neat! and once again highlights that we really need a Krug. and also the OG Strela-2 IMO.

also thanks for putting lights inside the hardened shelters! no more futzing around with a flashlight

Theres an SA-5 site just east of Apolda, FRAG-511, but IRL this was never operational. MGRS 32 U PB 84163 57991.

Hey, my preferred spot for stuff like this is the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Digital Library! they have lots of fascinating documents, articles, and more

This highway entry/exit just south of Gotha is a bit wonky, though I'm sure it's not the only one

The 81st TFS became an A-10 squadron in 1994. They operated F4 phantoms before the 88s and got partial F-16s in 1988. As far as I've been able to find, A-10s operated from Sembach, Leipheim, Ahlhorn, Norvenich as forward bases with the actual home base in Britain. Per USAFE, a primer of modern air combat in Europe by Michael Skinner, 1983 (which should not be taken af a definitive source but is simply the book I was looking at this past week) The 78th, 91st, 92nd, 509th, 510th, and 511th fighter squadrons of the 81st TFW (TFW and TFS may have lead to confusion) flew the A-10 out of the twin bases RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge. At least a third of the wing was deployed to forward bases mentioned above.