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The 104th are pleased to announce a new mission for our FC2 deicated server, Operation Lermontov. We hope you enjoy it and look for more new missions soon. Many thanks to 104th_IronMike for his many hours spent on this mission! Sochi 2014/15: A massive terrorist attack has cost thousands of lives at the opening ceremonial of the Olympic Games. Some claim it was Islamic terrorists, others claim it was an attack by Abkhazian insurgents that are being supported by Russia itself. Russia has therefore declared war on the fundamentalist Islamic world, including Georgia and Iran. France demanded the European Union to support Russia and has started to send massive numbers of troops to Russia to support its war on Terror. The USA, in the meantime the biggest supporter of the Islamic world, has sent its troops to the Black Sea to help its allies. Out of fear, Germany and The Netherlands met with NATO. Israel stepped on the side of Russia hoping to defeat Iran. So it is here, at the feet of Mount Elbrus, that the game of war is being restarted and old enemies oppose each other again... NATO has launched its massive Operation Lermontov – with the aim to gain control of the Stawropol region and to force Russia into negotiations. The main goal is to take Min’ Vody and secure the bridgehead at Nalchick and Mosdok, that has been won in the last months of heavy fighting. Russia has just regained control of the Taman Peninsula and is trying to defeat the remaining NATO forces around Novorossijsk. While the rest of the world is demonstrating for peace, it has not yet decided which coalition to trust. Many hope that at the grave of the Great Russian poet – who had witnessed the Caucasian war a long time ago – the world would solve a big problem in a fairly small conflict, or as Lermontov said himself: “An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.” RED TASKING Friendly Airbases: Krasnodar Krasnodar-Pashkovskij Anapa (FOB only) Krymsk (FOB only) Min’ Vody (until captured by blue coal.) Camp Podkova FARP Enemy Airbases: Sochi Gudauta Sukhumi Nalchik Gelendzikh (until captured by Red coal.) Novorossijsk (until captured by Red coal.) WP1 - Homeplate for all aircraft Read OIC (callsign: “Kedr”) Radio Messages CAREFULLY! *Fighter Tasking* Fighter Sweep: Bullseye WP2: Common for all fighters WP2 (except multi-role = WP6) and is midway to hostile airbases. Stop enemy fighters from trying to obtain air dominance. A2A WP3 = Min' Vody A2A WP4 = Maykop A2A WP5 = Gelendzhik Multi-Role WP2-5 = striker WP2-5 Multi-Role WP6 = Fighter WP2 = BE Fighter Defensive Counter Air: WP3 Min’ Vody Protect our ground units at Min’ Vody and West and South of Min’ Vody. Fighter Escort1: WP5 Gelendzhik Protect the friendly strikers attacking enemy units around Gelendzhik. Fighter Escort2: Immediately fly to Min’ Vody WP3, Regroup and Escort with all 4 IL78 Evac Cargo from Min’ Vody to Krasnodar. They are carrying parts for a PS300 SAM that we will install at Anapa, if you manage to make them all safely RTB. Be advised: If only one of them gets shot down, we won’t be able to bring up the S300! Fighter Escort3: Escort all 4 IL78 Cargo planes carrying humanitarian aid enroute from Stawropol over Min Vody and Bullseye (WP2). If you manage to make them all safely RTB, we might convince the UN Tribunal that justice is on our side and they will grant us permission to use Maykop (WP4) as a forward operating base, but we believe the enemy has similar plans and route, so be on the lookout while you are on escort. Fighter Intercept: - The enemy will have Cargo planes leaving Gelendzhik WP5. We believe they are carrying goods for a Patriot Sam Station. Shoot down at least 1 of them, and the enemy won’t be able to reinforce their Air Defenses. You are weapons free on any enemy Cargo planes. - Intercept and destroy all 4 enemy tankers IL78 Tanker is on station between Krymsk and Anapa. Protect it as well. *Attack Aircraft Tasking* CAS - Fast Attack:Su-25/Su-25T Take off from Krasnodar-Center, fly to WP2 (Novorossiysk Harbor) – Target Area Alpha. After destroying the ground units and ships at Alpha you can use Novorossijsk for rearm and refuel. Move to WP3 TA Bravo – Gelendzhik Airport. Once ground units at Bravo are destroyed, we will be able to use it as a FARP and more attack aircraft will be dispatched to it. Continue following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP4=Charlie Group, WP5=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Expect enemy ground and AD reinforcements at any time. Subtasks A2G Fast Attack & Attack Helo: Kedr-OIC will provide you with secondary objectives if available at target trigger that will advance your success on completion or slow it down, if you fail. - destroy the 3 Radio Comms Towers at ALPHA to open a window for a Spec Ops team to sabotage the BUK-site at Gelendzikh. - destroy the advancing MLRS convoy at ALPHA to protect our Artillery. If you fail, the enemy will regain momentum and bring in additional AD - stop the retreating tank convoy before it reaches BRAVO. - help our infantry that is trapped at DELTA. High Value Target Search and Destroy: UAV has spotted 3 S300 5P85D LNs in this region. They seem not operational, but we cannot take the risk. Kedr OIC will keep you informed. Find and destroy them to win! Anti-Ship 1 / Anti-Ship 2 1) Destroy the enemy carrier group located SW of Sochi. 2) Destroy the enemy cargo ships at Sochi harbor. Multi-Role: 1) Help with the 2 main CAS objectives in either destroying the ground units from triggers Alpha to Echo, OR help finding and destroying the High Value Targets once the enemy will have made them operational. Ka-50 CAS/ Attack Helos: Ka-50 Podkova FARP Take off from FARP Podkova. Abris WP2-Novorossyisk Harbor to attack first enemy ground units Alpha at Pjatigorsk. After destroying Alpha you can use Novorossijsk for rearm and refuel. Go to your next WP TA Bravo – Gelendzhik airport. After destroying Bravo, Gelendzhik will be captured and additional Ka-50s can start at Gel. without immediate threat of enemy ground units. Continue to following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP3=Bravo Group, WP4=Charlie Group, WP5=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Ka-50 Min’ Vody. Once Gelendzikh is captured Ka-50s can start there without immediate threat of enemy ground units. Continue following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP2=Charlie Group, WP3=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Expect enemy ground and AD reinforcements at any time. Common Waypoint References: Fighters WP5 (Gelendzhik) = Fast Attack & Attack Helos from FARP WP3 = Multi-Role WP3. Attack Aircraft and FARP Helo WP4 &5=Gelendzikh Attack and Helo WP2 &3 BLUE TASKING Friendly Airbases: Sochi Gudauta Nalchik Sukhumi (FOB only) German FARP Kapel Gelendzikh (until captured by red coal.) Enemy Airbases: Krasnodar-Center Krasnodar-Pashkovskij Krymsk Anapa Min’ Vody (until captured by blue coal.) WP1 - Homeplate for all aircraft Read OIC (callsign: “Hawkeye”) Radio Messages CAREFULLY! *Fighter Tasking* Fighter Sweep: Bullseye WP2: Common for all fighters WP2 (except multi-role = WP6) and is midway to hostile airbases. Stop enemy fighters from trying to obtain air dominance. A2A WP3 = Gelendzhik A2A WP4 = Maykop A2A WP5 = Min' Vody Fighter Defensive Counter Air: WP3 Gelendzhik Protect our ground units at Gelendzhik and West and East of Gelendzhik. Fighter Escort1: WP5 Min’ Vody - Protect the friendly strikers attacking enemy units around Min’ Vody. Fighter Escort2: Immediately fly to Gelendzikh WP3, Regroup and Escort with all 4 C-17 Evac Cargo from Gelendzhik to Gudauta. They are carrying parts for a Patriot SAM that we will install at Sukhumi, if you manage to help them all safely RTB. Be advised: If only one of them gets shot down, we won’t be able to bring up the Patriot! Fighter Escort3: Escort all 4 C-17 Cargo planes carrying humanitarian aid from Turkey passing Tuapse, Bullseye and Cherkessk enroute to Senaki . If you manage to make them all safely RTB, we might convince the UN Tribunal that justice is on our side and they will grant us to use Maykop as forward airbase. But we believe the enemy has similar plans and route, so be on the lookout while you are on escort. Fighter Intercept: - The enemy will have Cargo planes leaving Min’Vody (WP5). We believe they are carrying goods for a PS300 Sam Station. Shoot down at least 1 of them, and the enemy won’t be able to reinforce their Air Defenses. You are weapons free on any enemy Cargo planes. - Intercept and destroy all 4 enemy tankers KC10 Tanker is on station hdg SW of Sochi. Protect it as well. *Attack Aircraft Tasking* CAS - Fast Attack: A-10/Su-25/Su-25T Take off from Nalchik, fly to WP2 (Hill 401) – Target Area Alpha. After destroying the ground units at Alpha, move to WP3 TA Bravo – Min’ Vody Airport. Once ground units at Bravo are destroyed, we will be able to use it as a FARP and more attack aircraft will be dispatched to it. Continue following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP4=Charlie Group, WP5=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Expect enemy ground and AD reinforcements at any time. Subtasks A2G Fast Attack & Attack Helo: Hawkeye-OIC will provide you with secondary objectives if available at target trigger that will advance your success on completion or slow it down, if you fail. - destroy the 3 Radio Comms Towers at ALPHA to open a window for a Spec Ops team to sabotage the BUK-site at Min’Vody. - destroy the advancing MLRS convoy at ALPHA to protect our Artillery. If you fail, the enemy will regain momentum and bring in additional AD - stop the retreating tank convoy before it reaches BRAVO. - help our infantry that is trapped at DELTA. High Value Target Search and Destroy: UAV has spotted 3 S300 5P85D LNs in this region. They seem not operational, but we cannot take the risk. Kedr OIC will keep you informed. Find and destroy them to win! Anti-Ship 1 / Anti-Ship 2 1) Destroy the enemy carrier group located NW of Novorossijsk. 2) Destroy the enemy cargo ships at Tuapse harbour. Multi-Role: 1) Help with the 2 main CAS objectives in either destroying the ground units from triggers Alpha to Echo, OR help finding and destroying the High Value Targets., once the enemy will have made them operational. Ka-50 CAS/ Attack Helos: Ka-50 German FARP Kapel Take off from German FARP Kapel. Abris WP2-Hill 401 to attack first enemy ground units Alpha at Pjatigorsk. After destroying Alpha, go to your next WP TA Bravo – Min’ Vody airport. After destroying Bravo, Min’ Vody will be captured and additional Ka-50s can start at M.V. without threat of enemy ground units. Continue to following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP3=Bravo Group, WP4=Charlie Group, WP5=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Ka-50 Min’ Vody Once Min’ Vody is captured Ka-50s can start there without immediate threat of enemy ground units. Continue following waypoints to destroy additional enemy groups; WP2=Charlie Group, WP3=Delta. Final enemy group Echo is not marked with a WP and will be on the move. Expect enemy ground and AD reinforcements at any time. Common Waypoint References: Fighters WP5 (Min’Vody) = Fast Attack & Attack Helos from FARP WP3 = Multi-Role WP3. Attack Aircraft and FARP Helo WP4 &5=Min’Vody Attack and Helo WP2 &3 More intel to follow.

You mean Cali. Please don't insult me. ha ha j/k Any screenshot even in FC2 will cause some lag, even if in FC2 you don't notice it as much. A person with a fast hard drive may not lag as someone with ancient hardware. As a client you can report to server admin someone being a wanker by taking your own screen shots of the offense, but you won't have access to another client's IP or UCID. Server admins tend to share this info, but yes, they normally do it privately between other admins. Even if the offender really doesn't deserve it. Report an issue to an admin, they can track down the offenders info and ban. Especially easy with Servman.

Yes, you will get the new loadouts that Wolverine made and the 104th edited in SP when you call to maintenace. Really, with a little know how anyone can customize their loadouts. Just make sure if you join a MP sever you check to see what loadouts are legal.

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I like to shut off the automated Head Movement by G-Force option in A-10C (Winkey+F1 in FC2/Ka-50). Then turn up the sensitivity of the Roll axis in Trackir. You'll find yourself naturally rolling your head in a bank and it is a cool sensation. Works great for racing sims in turns as well. I remember when I first got the TIR, loaded up IL-2 and did a barrel roll in trail of another plane. All the while keeping the plane in the center of my view. Impossible with hat key slewing. Never go back.

Servman 3 for now compatible with A-10C by the great Panzertard here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=73625

Panzertard, thanks for your hard work on Servman. It is an awesome tool for the MP community. We are also thankful for you looking at Servman compatibility with FC2 stats by Moa. 4C are also using Moa's stats and perhaps others soon as well, so it will be well appreciated.

Thanks 139 for the posting the link. Благодаря 139 для размещения ссылки

Right oritpro. uzipaz, Do you know how to customize key settings and map axes in the sim?

Go to the options screen for mapping axes. Make sure there are no duplication of mappings. By default FC2 will try to map all controllers to all axes as much as possible.

There is no AP indicator light in the F-15. It and the A-10 are the most stable aircraft to fly in FC2. Make sure when you turn off autopilot that you are level. If you turn off AP when in a turn for example, the control surfaces will stay in the last position! If this happens press ctrl+t to cancel trim.

A little bird told me that soon Presing will loose this Cdt name :)

As you know, new trigger functions in A-10C look very promising. I bet we will continue to see great improvements that help us get to what you explain. For those having connections issues to the 104th server, we're trying something out again tonight config wise that might help us narrow the issue down. Hopefully tonight we'll see an improvement. Thanks for your patience.

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Nice logic. For sure ED thought more about realistic performance with FC2, than game balance, which I think is great. Let's just hope they are able to give mission designers the choice to limit weapons in DCS in the future.

Thanks for the report. Will check with other clients now to see if the situation improved or not.

You are right and we have discussed this post, sorry for that. We are serious simmers, and your comment about us looking to make this sim more like HAWX hit a nerve. It is NOT what we are doing. We understand that the mod is not 100% accurate. We are not disputing it's accuracy hence you are not seeing 104th trying to say that this is 100% accurate. No need for others to argue that point. I said it in my first post that this is hypothetical, but we are not changing game physics etc. to dumb down the sim. I use the example again to compare it to this mod, Ka-50s fly for the US in DCS. Realistic? No! Hypothetical? Yes. It does not make DCS like HAWX though. Give it another try Cali. We made some temporary adjustments to the server. Please let me know how you make out so I can analyze. It easier to give a mod that is optional than to manually monitor players and the server to enforce a weapons restriction. Plane and simple. This is why I have made the suggestion in this thread that ED in the future provide the option that weapon loadouts be set by the mission. I hope they do it with DCS when the fighter module is released. The mission could enforce particular weapons for a given aircraft per pylon, and then the player would be free to choose those. That would be the ultimate.

Fair enough Kuky. You are more than entitled to your opinion thanks.

Yes it can with the Su-27 maddog launch.

Not with file check on certain files. Unless you turn off file check, or players are forced to download a mod that matches server files. I don't think people will really notice much difference. F-15s vs F-15s, or F-15 vs Su-27. Many similarities. There is a change for Su-27 drivers, others won't notice it so much. People rarely fly the MiG-29G, and again, even if all of them are in the air that same time, can anyone tell the difference between a MiG-29G with 120B and a MiG-29S with R-77 attacking you? Of coure not everyone may enjoy the changes, but it is not a drastic change. You can't please all of the people all of the time. People have varying preferences.

Again, other mods require file check to be disabled. This one does not.

Nice work!

Every time someone gets killed by AIM-120 from a MiG-29G, baby Jesus cries. Just jokin. Yes, it is a bit hypothetical to be sure. If it proves to be disruptive, we can always retract it and consider it a test. I don't think many people will choose the G regularly though anyhow. Just watch out for a certain sniper from the 104th.

In the first vid I thought, laugh it up, ha ha really funny. You almost hit the wall when your tires lost grip. Then after watching the second vid, I see that tire slip was nothing compared to what that guy can do. Amazing driving.

[quote=MATT;1192710 You wanna hear my honest opinion....put the 120As on the 15s...give the Flankers ERs with longer range (longer arm vs fire and forget sounds like a sound BVR scenario ..A,F,E-poles etc etc) ... That's a good idea as well. One that we have considered. When FC2 first came out and there were no customized weapon loadouts yet, the stock loadout for the F-15 was only a max of 2 x 120C I believe. It is a valid way of adjusting balance by controlling weapon loadouts and yet not interfering with realism. A nice feature ( I like to repeat myself in the forums in case ED is listening:)) would be for the ability to customize and force lock the complete choice of payloads for a client in the mission file itself. Of course along with brining back the ability for a client to fully customize weapons per payload within the limits set by the mission. The MiG-29A NATO upgrade is just a senario meant to have a little fun with. Something special at the request of our members. You gotta consider all 104th missions never have more than a few MiG-29G on one side. The overall effect on the server is very little and the MIG-29S carries the R-77 anyway. In terms of A2G, this same mod lets you use extra A2G ordinance on the Su-27 as well. It doesn't affect player vs. player simulation.