Don Rudi
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I am being kicked right out of the game on a daily basis now with the DCS Login Session expired error. This is starting to get annoying.
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Hi!
I would like to introduce my CWG Sandbox.https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3344728/
It is basically 70, yes seventy, quick missions rolled into one mission file. Each slot equals one quick mission. The tasks range from simple intercepts, to deep strikes into highly defended enemy territory.
All SAM sites provided by the map are populated with the correct SAM type (to the best of my knowledge).
In total there are 50 quick missions for USAFE, RAFG and Luftwaffe and 20 quick missions for Soviet and GDR forces.Mission distances range from 70 to 700 nautical miles.
USAFE
A-10A 5 slots operating our of Wiesbaden (FOL)
A-10C II 5 slots operating out of Sembach
F-4E 5 slots operating out of Ramstein
F-4E 5 slots for pseudo F-4G operating out of Spangdahlem
F-15C 5 slots out of Bitburg
F-16C 5 slots for a pseudo F-16A operating out of HahnRAFG
Harrier 5 slots for pseudo GR.3 operating out of road bases
Harrier 5 slots for pseudo GR.5 operating out of road base and Gütersloh
F-4E 5 slots for pseudo FGR-2 operating out of GüterslohLuftwaffe
F-4E 5 slots for a pseudo initial and Peace rhine F-4F out of Bremen (stand-in for Wittmund) and PferdsfeldNVA LSK-LV
MiG-21 5 slots out of Peenemünde and LaageGSSD
MiG-21 5 slots out of Damgarten and Wittstock
MiG-29 5 slots out of Merseburg
Su-25 5 slots out of KothenFeatures:
+ 70 slots with one quick mission each
+ slots for A-10A, A-10CII, F-4E, F-15C, F-16C, MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-25
+ realstically populated Air defense sites
+ F10 options to enable/disable enemy AD
+ F10 options to spawn enemy QRA
+ measures to reduce performance impact
+ manual in PDF format
+ mission overview sheet in PDF format
+ recommend skins listEnjoy!
P.S.: You can add planes to an existing group or swap the aircraft type, as long as the initial group/unit name is not altered.
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A dedicated helicopter version is in the works as well, btw.
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Hi!
I would like to introduce my CWG Sandbox.https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3344728/
It is basically 70, yes seventy, quick missions rolled into one mission file. Each slot equals one quick mission. The tasks range from simple intercepts, to deep strikes into highly defended enemy territory.
All SAM sites provided by the map are populated with the correct SAM type (to the best of my knowledge).
In total there are 50 quick missions for USAFE, RAFG and Luftwaffe and 20 quick missions for Soviet and GDR forces.Mission distances range from 70 to 700 nautical miles.
USAFE
A-10A 5 slots operating our of Wiesbaden (FOL)
A-10C II 5 slots operating out of Sembach
F-4E 5 slots operating out of Ramstein
F-4E 5 slots for pseudo F-4G operating out of Spangdahlem
F-15C 5 slots out of Bitburg
F-16C 5 slots for a pseudo F-16A operating out of HahnRAFG
Harrier 5 slots for pseudo GR.3 operating out of road bases
Harrier 5 slots for pseudo GR.5 operating out of road base and Gütersloh
F-4E 5 slots for pseudo FGR-2 operating out of GüterslohLuftwaffe
F-4E 5 slots for a pseudo initial and Peace rhine F-4F out of Bremen (stand-in for Wittmund) and PferdsfeldNVA LSK-LV
MiG-21 5 slots out of Peenemünde and LaageGSSD
MiG-21 5 slots out of Damgarten and Wittstock
MiG-29 5 slots out of Merseburg
Su-25 5 slots out of KothenFeatures:
+ 70 slots with one quick mission each
+ slots for A-10A, A-10CII, F-4E, F-15C, F-16C, MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-25
+ realstically populated Air defense sites
+ F10 options to enable/disable enemy AD
+ F10 options to spawn enemy QRA
+ measures to reduce performance impact
+ manual in PDF format
+ mission overview sheet in PDF format
+ recommend skins listEnjoy!
P.S.: You can add planes to an existing group or swap the aircraft type, as long as the initial group/unit name is not altered.
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+1 for the Nike Hercules. It is mandatory for the new Cold War map. It was the backbone of the air defense well into the 80s, Germany was basically littered with Nike sites (I had one a few km from my home). So how can it not be "time appropriate"?!?
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13 minutes ago, Pikey said:
Exactly! The enemy of good is perfect. It will be good...not perfect
Really looking forward to that file, as it will help us mission builders a lot. And I know how much work goes into it, I spent the last two days creating something similar for Lower Saxony alone
Btw, do you happen to know, if ED will give us a Nike Hercules for the Cold War era? Imho it is absolutely mandatory.-
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32 minutes ago, Pikey said:
I have both the NIKE-Hercules and the Patriot site
Some are still obvious or history can show them, but others are not. And if I had a penny for the way the German government turns old missiles sites into windfarms or solara farms, then I would power my PC through this!
There's lots more to do, the issue is time, both my time and how much time has passed and when the sites were active and who by. We are talking generations since the Cold War and everything in the world has changed. The sites changed hands, from German, to US 3rd Army, back to German during the period 1945 onwards. One amazing example is an office in Nuremberg:
The SS HQ there was captured by the 3rd Army and called both the South Barracks and Merril barracks until 1992 when it went back to Germany and then went through changes until it became the Federal office for Migration and Refugees. This is an example, but these things changed hands, so the perspective of a modern German is that this is Germany, but from a cold war perspective, these places changed hands and capturing the accuracy is somewhat open to 'debate'.
In the same way, some Nike sites were replaced by Patriot sites especially after the withdrawl of Nike-Hercules in 1984 (approximately). So, those sites could be reused too. I must include the time before 1984 because it was so close to the start of the end and tells half the story, if that.Basically all airfields changed ownership, often multiple times. You cannot cover that and imho one doesn't need to. Is it of any relevance for the Cold War map that for instance Ahlhorn was a RAF Base with iirc Typhoons and later Meteors? Barely anyone will be interested in the Luftwaffe Sabres and Noras there either. What matters for a cold war map are the Hueys and A-10s.
Same for Geilenkirchen. It is the NATO AWACS base, not an RAF base. And so forth.
About Patriot - I can only speak for Niedersachsen, but none of those Nike bases were converted to Patriot use before the end of the cold war, from the data that I have seen.
What I mean by this, don't make your life harder than it needs to be
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16 hours ago, Pikey said:
But its not approximate by any means, its a nightmare. Here is a Nike-Hercules site in 2024:
It's a solar farm. the site was decommissioned in the eighties. This is one of hundreds of examples and how much work it takes now that the landscape is being covered up. A lot of installations like Kasernes are now Lidl or housing. The people that served in them are at least 55 years old. What I need is the coordinates of ones I dont have, which is even harder than starting from scratch.
Hope that makes sense.I am curious, is this the correct site? As a few kilometers west there is an actual SAM site, converted to Patriot by the looks of it.
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1 hour ago, KeyserSoze62 said:
I've been waiting for another great mission from @Don Rudi Thank you sir great work again!
Thanks so much @KeyserSoze62
I really love the Chinook, so this won't have been the last mission - promised
14 hours ago, muniman69 said:I switched it off about a third of the way back to base. I agree, the spinning bearing needle wasn't very helpful :), but at least seeing the distance and time was. Also, setting the correct QNH (I know where, but it doesn't work, I think).
Yes, QNH doesn't work yet. input of MG doesn't work at all and if I try to enter 1012 MB (the equivalent to 29.88), it shows 1050. I am looking forward when all this is implemented, also the full radio navigation
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@muniman69 Thanks so much, glad you like it
I see on you HSD that you didn't use the A/A Tacan, or did you switch it off for the return to base? It helps to see the distance to Reaper and adjust one's own speed accordingly imho. It'll be even more helpful once the bearing also works
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Just stumbled across this post, when looking for a good polish skin. Is this skin still coming?! Been a while
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As it seems, one of the aircraft updates reset all the VHF/UHF radio presets, as well as new loadouts were added, deleting the loadout in mission B07.
All this is fixed now and the campaign is updated accordingly.
The link remains the same:-
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Insurgent fighters have mined the vital supply routes from Jalalabad to FOB Thunder and thereby cut off the base from being replenished by road. Your task is to fly 5 palettes with about 10,000lbs of supplies from Kabul to the base and on the return evacuate 6 wounded servicemen. Due to the insurgent activity, you will be escorted by Reaper21, an AH-64D Apache.
Mission features:-
~100 quality voice overs
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custom kneeboard pages
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internal cargo transportation
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dynamically changing visibilities
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custom ATC (do NOT use ingame ATC)
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detailed manual
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seperate audio crew briefing (thanks Nathan!)
Your requirements:-
flightplan handling in the CDU/MFD (you will have to fly the reverse route on your way back to Kabul)
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setting radio frequencies on the ARC186 and the CDU
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use of A/A TACAN (not mandatory, but helpful to keep the proper distance to Reaper. How to is included in the manual)
Enjoy!
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20 hours ago, its_me_fuzzy said:
Oh thanks for responding! I'm using this version: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3334349/, is there a newer one I missed?
Edit - I used my brain and went to look at all your uploads and found the hotfix you uploaded in Jan 2024, apologies.The campaign file includes the bug fix as well, but only if you downloaded it after 6 January 2024.
I had a look at the loadout issue, it seems they added these new double racks for the inboard pylons. I assume that's why my original loadout was invalidated.
I will also look at the radio presets that Proper Charlie mentioned above. I don't want to rule out that I messed something up, when I swapped the F1CE to the F1BE in those missions.
If it is an isolated problem with just one or two missions, I will supply hotfixes, if it turns out to be something general, I'd like to wait for the F1M, as I will have to update the campaign then anyway.-
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On 2/12/2025 at 10:21 PM, Proper Charlie said:
Not sure if I am just doing something wrong, but the radio presets in Appendix B don't seem to match what I actually have in the plane... maybe Aerges changed something in the module which caused all the radio frequencies to be reset?
Either way, I'm enjoying the campaign, and can change the radio presets in the mission editor for missions that need it anyway, so no big deal.
Thanks for the missions.
I will have a look, thanks for pointing out!
On 2/26/2025 at 3:53 PM, its_me_fuzzy said:Having some issues with #B07:
First, there's no loadout on the aircraft at mission start. The instructions mention belougas so I load them on all pylons with the rearm menu
Second, I'm pulling up to 40 degrees at the green smoke but the bomblets are landing on the town about half way between the green smoke and the red smoke (target).
Has ED updated the belougas since the last release maybe? Or am I just bad? (Very possible)This is strange, sounds like something was changed (or my sausage fingers messed something up). I will check it - thanks and sorry for the trouble.
21 hours ago, its_me_fuzzy said:Alright, so I overcame the issues with #B07 by using the alternative attack profile with SAMP-250s instead of Belougas.
However, I've just done #B09, the LGB strike, and, probably because of changes to DCS's fusing and arming windows, the laser code is not set correctly on mission start. Its on the default 1688 instead of the 1588 the drone is using. This could be fixed either by just briefing it or updating the default in the mission editor.
Great campaign otherwise, I'm having a good time!Hmm, I fixed this in January 2024. When did you download the campaign?
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On 1/26/2025 at 1:06 PM, shagrat said:
...and a collision model to register hits, a heat signature for the FLIR system and it would be nice, to have civilians, that do not stand out if in a scenario with insurgents.
The key is mostly to have the challenge, to identify combatants as legitimate targets and ensure to NOT drop bombs, rockets etc near civilians. Even the standard insurgent model without any weapon would go a long way, to enable us to do this.
The aspect of "populating the map" is a bonus, but the simulation of ROE is definitely more important.
Fully agree. Civilians are needed to create immersive missions, where the player has to think twice if or how he attacks a target.
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5 hours ago, NeedzWD40 said:
Should be listed here:
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
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2 hours ago, Tonker said:
Woop!
Speaking of ops (and dealing with my frustration of the last DCS patch needing a fresh install, which took up all my available 'flying' time till my next leave)...
...an expanded mission set/campaign for the Loach would be make the mod such a complete package
There are so many cool cargos, stunningly immersive assets, and already a couple of good tutorials and the Playground mission already...so I want more!
Partly this is greed, I know, but also so much work has been done I do think it might be worth seeing if a mission designer would be interested in making a set of scenarios to show it all off. I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes the idea of designing my own missions but in reality spend limited free time learing aircraft instead of learning the mission editor, and so miss out on a lot the mod has to offer. My loss, but a pity not to make the most of the Killer Egg.
I'll hope they'll forgive the namedrops, compliment intended, but the likes of @Chef98's Move Order campaign and @Don Rudi's Bronco and Cedar Spear missions (and FAC/spotter scripts) put them at the top of the list of those I'd be excited to see getting involved with the OH-6A. I won't tag those like Reflected, who I know from the Lancaster mod are keen to help but unable to due to their work.
Just a thought whilst I look forward to trying out v1.51
Thanks for the kind words
I didn’t have the time yet, to have a look at the latest iteration. But I sure am interested in making something for the OH-6A. I will have a few inspirational beverages
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Hi,
in order to fill a warehouse by lua script, could anyone tell me the wsType codes for the Kiowa's M3P gunpods, please?Thanks
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Fully agree.
I would also add some sort of civilians, as that would help replicate the sometimes difficult targeting.
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28 minutes ago, Duck21 said:
I agree there needs to be at least one Iranian airbase in one of the detailed areas! Of course that's not enough to simulate in-depth scenarios from the Iran-Iraq war, but at least it gives you SOME possibilities to simulate Iranian defence scenarios or something like that.
If performance is an issue, by all means leave out Doha International for example.
I don't buy the performance argument. Syria has 51 airfields iirc, so many more than what is planned for this map. And as you see, just leave out the shiny eye candy International airports - they serve less purpose than these important military bases, imho.
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This map has great potential to recreate the famous Air battles, deep strikes and naval strikes of the Iran-Iraq war.
TFB.4 Dezful
TFB.5 Omidihyeh
TFB.6 Busher
Would all be in the detailed areas of the map(s). Esfahan as an important base is only in the low res area, maybe a simplified version might be possible? But even just TFBs 4, 5 and 6 would add a whole new dimension for the map and provide a natural playground for the F-4, F-5 and F-14.
Please consider adding these. Thanks.
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On 9/15/2024 at 4:57 PM, DrGat said:
Played this mission and really enjoyed it. Was well done!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it
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Hi,
I updated the sandbox to match the latest updates.
Changes include:- updated all radio frequencies
- adapted unit placement to newly detailed areas
- included Kirkenes
- added 5 slots/tasks for the A-10CII
The total now lies with 55 quick missions for 12 aircraft.
Enjoy!
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The strange thing is, it only happens in the late afternoon. No problems in the evening and now I also just finished 2 hours working on my mission.