TOMCATZ

Well ... well, well Our attack on the enemy positions in the flank went terribly wrong. Pretty soon, the enemy forces surrounded our positions and our small infantry groups were encircled. Commander Patrick decided to evacuate our guys in the night. So the plan was easy: infiltrate and land our spec team near the area under night vision conditions, hovering over the area and stand by for fire support, attack located enemy positions and finally bring our boys back home. Normally, I have nothing to do with ground ops- Fighters only. So I installed the good old Huey and tryed to fly it. What can I say: Finding the correct location in the night is pretty hard. As long as you stay un-detected. After dropping the special ops team I circled over the area and tried to get situation awareness. It was really intense - what is that? A friend? An enemy? ... Oh ... A BTR82! So ... where are my rocket pods? For luck I not only gave my fire teams night vision but laser pointers to. After a while I saw small little laser beams pointing to the enemy locations. That helped a lot. So I decided to switch to the gatling gun pods and sent a hot shower of steel into the direction. That worked well. Step by step our forces got the initiative and pushed the confused enemy out of the urban area ... and under my cover, the special ops team attacked without any casaulties. Finally, the area was completely under control of our forces. In the early morning, more Rangers arrived and the wounded have been evacuated to the nearest front hospital. A great success! So, what can I say... First: Ugra Media has built one of the most beautiful maps for DCS- the Normandy 2.0. The textures are very nice. It´s a European area which means: not endless sand and dessert, but fields, woods and nice villages and cities. The ground is too lighten, and the buildings too dark. But this can easily be done by adjusting the shadow options- Please see Mustangs mod. With a nice LUT filter ( more contrast - less colours) the Normandy map is looking more photo realistic what I really prefer. Even with boring helicopters you can have a really immersive scene and very interesting tasks (evacuate, infiltrate, cover your team - help them to survive) With the right radio comms, authentic actors, DCS can be not immersive, but epic! Cheers TOM PS: I crashed 3 times while I tried to learn the Huey

Hi, so - that was a long weekend with modeling only. I will not have the time for the next 2 weeks. So I can provide some latest updates: The different equipment and uniforms can be selected in the editor. It´s like a "what you want-shop" ... I´m really impressed by the 3d art made by EagleDynamics. The hole C47 is so wow and the pilots are so detailed and accurate - just amazing ED! On this picture you can see the different sets: Face shield and glasses, Night vision, just sun glasses and so on ... I think I have to prepare another rifle - I love the German G36 ... will see. Thats the news so far. Cheers TOM

Hi mates, that was a hard night ... I wish there is a way to make night vision available for the free camera. Okay - got to go to bed, cheers TOM

Hello mates, still not perfect but still fighting for better results. Cheers TOM

Hello, I mean - It´s the wrong section for wishes but I do it anyway: Please ED- If you guys can do a deep simulated MiG29 then please give me a full fidelity Su-27 Flanker. Cheers TOM

Hi everybody, I wish you a happy new year! The last days I downloaded different maps but unfortunatelly none of the maps made me really happy- I just do not want endless sand, not the sun on the wrong side and my drive space is pretty limited which means: every map bigger than 100GB is out of business for me. And so I went back to Caucasus and played a bit with settings and textures so that my love to DCS is still unbroken since nearly 30 years. (I started with Flanker from SSI in 1995) And so ... MAKE CAUCASUS GREAT AGAIN! (please) Cheers TOM

Hello all, Unfortunatelly since the last updates I have the problem that no AI flight will ever engage enemy air defence. I set to "search in zone and attack", "search and attack group" or "attack group"- Whatever I tried- nothing works. The flight was always set as "SEAD" flight in mission editor. I used blue forces against reds - It seems to be no matter which system I use: Su-30 with KH31 or F16C with HARMs or F18C with HARMs - They always followed the routes with no action. When I place one WP on the SAM (mostly Sa11 or S300) , they fly to the waypoint until the SAM starts firing. Is the logic broken or is it just my system? I would kindly ask the community if somebody has the same problem. Thank you very much and Cheers TOM Caukasus-Battlefield-F14B-CAP-01-DAY.miz Caukasus-Battlefield-F16C-SEAD-01-DAY.miz

Perfect! Cheers Tom

Cool-Thank you Stratos! =)) about the Soviet soldiers : Any pics or ideas? Cheers TOM

Hi, And here is the maschine gun: The new assets are just amazing! I´m not sure if I keep the dog or not... That´s it for far. Happy landings and cheers TOM

Oh really?! : Okay ... fine. I´ll wait for your update. Cheers Tom

Thank you very much for enjoying my work. I`m more then happy that I`am not the only one who thought that the ED colours are oversaturated. You are welcome, the originals on ED User files Cheers TOM

Hi, The animations for DCS Infantry driving me crazy but I still try to get better results ... So far I understood, DCS is not ARMA and will never be. Maybe we can touch it a bit... I still on it. So ... yeah ... Thats the news from me so far. Cheers TOM

Hi, In the past I buildt Norway for Falcon BMS 4.33 . Now when I see what OrbX did, I have to say that I´m truly impressed. From my point of view, this map is brilliant. Not completed (of corse) but brilliant. I love it. Thank you very much and keep on! Cheers TOM

Hello, Time with my kitty ... Finest and very best engineering of Heatblur - just Brilliant! Cheers TOM

Hi there, I messed around with the Caucasus textures and a bottle Port ... Cheers TOM

Hello... Cheers TOM

Dear PeeJott17 Yes I made the carrier more then 10 ago for FC3. But since I released all data to the community and changed multiple times my hardware, I have no 3D data left. So unfortunately I can not say something about the status and functions. I`m still wondering that the carrier is still used for DCS but it makes me very proud and happy. If I remember well I spent 6 months on that project ... Chees TOM Dear Stratos, That looks interesting. Give me some time but that looks like a job for me Cheers TOM

Hm... Do you have any pics?

Same here. Sim will not start despite the fact that I used correct password and name for no reason. Something is wrong here ....!

Hello, It´s not just a livery but new 3d models. I upload the files in the DCS user files section too. Cheers TOM

Hello everyone, This is more a test run and all is on own risk - means: make a safety copy first because some files have to be replaced. The version from last night had some buggs I fiwed. (downed soldiers stayed with hands up - Max was not available for western infantry) Toms little soldiers (updatedversion): DOWNLOAD FROM MEDIAFIRE replaced will be the georgian infantry and the russian infantry version 1. There are different liveries for both soldiers so that a squad can be presented more or less. Animations - ED is in charge of that, so I made the neccesary ones as good as I could. For tactics ... well ... Do your very best in Mission Editor. Here some pictures of what I talk about: And because of this is my work - Here is the permission to modify, share, use - As allways. Thanks for helping me and Cheers TOM

WOW! That would be maybe the door opener for more interesting mods. So far- I put some more polygons on the models, worked on the bump textures and animations : Cheers TOM

Hello, just some updates ... getting better ... step by step Cheers TOM

Hello today some time to relax and modeling ... Cheers TOM