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Thanks for this. Bug confirmed, HotFix submitted, work around mission available.

Hello everyone, It looks like during the mission two helicopters are colliding thus rendering the mission un-winnable. I submitted a HotFix already with the flightpath and altitude adjusted to create enough separation. But if anyone wants to go past this early the fixed mission is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cFSyIi8522wiQcJGSpj79WRZb9BElV8g?usp=sharing Thanks for reporting this.

Yes, you are right, the heli must survive. I'll test it on my end and see what's happening. The Cobras should protect the downed pilot until he makes it to the extraction point. The beauties of AI, eh? Are you clearing in the heli for rescue with F10? Cheers,

I'm glad you enjoy it so far. Let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Sorel

The waypoints are placed around visible landmarks, like lakes, cities or visible intersections, you should be within a mile and a half to that waypoint for a certain trigger to pop. However in most of the cases I built the trigger around the waypoint to give you a hint or to point you towards a target. But missing that shouldn't interfere with the result of the mission. You will have to be quite accurate with your bomb run and rocket run on that mission, destroying at least 10 vehicles is a must, also, wait for the F-4's to make their run and maybe take some stragglers with a gun run. There are 3 groups there and all 3 of them should receive some damage. Two of them should be really close together by the time you get there and should be easy to inflict quit lot of damage with a good rocket pass or a good bomb drop. In the mission card you should have a graphic representation of the target locations.

Go for the bombers first and ask your wingman to cover you, they can handle the MIG's and delay them all, also, as you climb to your designated altitude make sure you are a good leader and wait for your flight to form up with you, it will give you a better chance to survive.

Correct me if I'm wrong here. During the communist times. Ground personnel and lower ranks where addressing a Major with the form of "Comrade Major" Where I grew up that was the case. But maybe we were more Catholics than the Pope In this campaign that's where the term is mostly used. When ground crew is talking with the pilot. Also there are some instances through the story where the political officer has something to say, and the zampolit, or whatever the term is, is abusing the term, Try not to judge a narative that's 25 missions long from a 3 minutes video, you wouldn't do that when you go to movies, right? A lot of it is done to look cool in the video but not following a certain story, and for us the ones that are not speaking Russian it's even more difficult to vet certain dialogues. As always, thanks for all the feedback on this. It's all being listen and taking care of. Cheers,

Hi guys, This campaign was inspired by a lot of the books I read about Vietnam operations. The two big one being "100 missions North" by Ken Bell a F-105 pilot and Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. When a SAM launch was spotted the command was to "Take it Down" as into dive to break the SAM lock and evade. A good example can be heard here. Around 1:46 you can hear the conversations

We're fixing it. Thanks a lot guys for the feedback.

No problem at all, feedback is good, voices can be redone, what pisses me off is the fact that I used a native russian speaker to translate this and it looks like he made a crappy job. Since I can't verify I took it for granted. If there's someone here willing to help it would be great. Thanks a lot.

All those units are in the campaign, Su-17's are not looking good enough to be put in a video, that model is probably from the Lock-on days, the same with the M-113, Bradley was introduced in 1981, since this happens in 1979, it's close enough in my opinion, also, SU-24 was manufactured between '71-'83, and the M was well into the final stages of design, I had to balance this somehow, and I think that it worked out okay so far. This is all in the end alternate history.

The official trailer is out and thanks to the SVT and Dominik is an eye candy. https://youtu.be/MXLBzvKOHig

The Dev team returned to work last week, from what I know, as far as I know it should be included in the next update.

Johnny, if you want I can help you with that. I'd like to see some of the old things being revitalized. And I'm vested in F-5 for other reasons. Send me a PM or something and we can work on a few things.

April 25th, 1978 the USSR Chairman Leonid Brezhnev falls sick and relinquishes the control of the Communist Party. The newly appointed Chairman, Yuri Andropov takes the reigns of the USSR but there is turmoil inside the Communist Party. The party is torn between the partisans for the war in Afghanistan and the factions against it. Andropov opposing the decision to have a military intervention in Afghanistan is losing support and on August 23rd, 1978 a successful Coup d'état removes Andropov from Moscow. The country is torn and on August 30th, Ukraine declares its independence followed by the rest of the USSR regions. On October 15th, 1978 Georgia and Krasnodar declare their independence. In the following weeks, the communist party is trying to regain control of the former Soviet Union. The 127th Motor Rifle Division seized Tbilisi and reinstates the Soviet leadership. The Division continues north towards Krasnodar but due to the long supply lines and the lack of support from the locals the advance stops before crossing the rivers Pshada, Afips, and Bezeps. Under UN intervention, a cease-fire agreement was signed by all factions on December 20th hoping for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. The former Soviet provinces voice their concern to the UN about an escalation of the conflict once the USSR troops resupply and the weather permits. The UN agrees to maintain a peacekeeping force in the region of Krasnodar and NATO forces are tasked to deploy. The USSR declares that any foreign troops based on the territory of the Soviet Union are considered hostile. The US president Jimmy Carter fearing a nuclear escalation of the conflict and having low support after the Vietnam War, orders the deployment of a small force formed from elements from the 9th Infantry Division, 6th Cavalry Air Brigade, and a MEU from the 1st Marine Division. You are Major Vanea Gureevich pilot in the 982nd Fighter Aviation Regiment stationed at Sochi. The regiment is involved in providing air support in the emerging conflict, as the winter sets in, the pilots are training hard preparing to fight in the emerging conflict. The Patriotic War to restore the Soviet Union is about to begin…

That's how she flies, This is a full mission on a campaign that's about to be released soon. Long video, but there are some interesting parts.

Great mini campaign. Thanks a lot. Please tell me there's a follow up in the works.

Hi guys, this is a video preview of the first mission. I know, I'm just teasing.

@Jester986 I think that's something ED has to allow and to implement. As far as I know after they are protecting the missions you can't do a whole lot with them. I'll check with them and see what they say. But most likely this will be something that probably will have to be implemented with their Dynamic Campaign engine.

No MP support for this. I don't know if there is a campaign in the store that allows that. But that's something worth looking at. The way the missions are created it wouldn't be hard to implement it. The Mig-21 is in the final versions of testing and tweaking. I'm at the mission 18 out of 25. the Mig-21 will have two sets of voiceovers, Russian and English. I hope that everything will be ready for ED by mid December.

@Bravelink03 sure thing, thanks a lot. I'll send you a PM when there will be enough missions for a test round.

Hello guys, I've been toying around with the idea of making a campaign for AV-8. I put together quite an interesting framework in the Gulf map. My plan is for this to be a 15 mission campaign. The whole thing will happen at the end of August 1992. The world was in a bit of a turmoil back then and the action will happen partially on Tarawa and partially in Sirri island. How you guys feel about that. @RAZBAM_ELMO do you guys have any input on something like this? ​​​​​​​Cheers,

Everything has been sent to ED. The campaign is ready and waiting to be published. As for ETA.... who knows. I've been trying to find out this too. Two weeks maybe? Maybe less, it's complicated, and it's quite a process, a bit more convoluted to my liking, but it is what it is. Thanks for all the patience guys, I hope it won't disappoint.

More singleplayer content is about to be released