Valley Escort Mission

This is a followup to my Valley Patrol mission. Created using the Moose Framework.

Human players primarily fly on the BLUE side and have full menu command of the 7 SEAD flights and AWACs flights. Although you can also fly on the RED side but AI will fill spots that are not taken by human players. So you can essentially play single player, coop or MP.

From the mission briefing:

Players can fly on either the RED or BLUE side. RED side will be fully AI capable. The RED AI will spawn a mix of pretty basic planes and loadouts so this is meant more for the beginner. RED AI will Spawn at Mineralnye Vody and patrol in the mountain ranges until low on fuel or requiring rearm/repair. They will then return to base and fly out again after a short time period. Their patrol zone is bounded by approximate grid coordinates: GJ36, GJ00, LN56, LP72

 

RED has been moving and setting up a mix of air defenses throughout the valleys.

 

It is BLUE's job to clear these valleys of any threatening air defenses. BLUE is aided by AI SEAD flights assigned to the valleys as well as an AWACS operating south of the valley's.

 

BLUE has three playable flight groups defined:

 

F15C Group 1: Flight of 4 human players

F15C Group 2: Human lead and human wingman (starts in air)

F15C Group 3: Human lead and AI wingman (starts in air)

 

End Game: It is up to the players to decide when/if the mission is a success or failure for either side. You can make up your own rules. For example, if 4 of the valleys are clear after 1 hr then success for BLUE.

 

Misc Missile ranges and info:

 

RED:

 

SU-30: R-73 (medium range infrared 15km - 8nm), R-27R (medium range radar guided 50km - 26nm)

Mig-23 MLD: R-24R (medium range radar guided 20km - 10nm), R-60M (short range infrared 5km 2.6nm)

Mig-21 Bis: R-3S (short range infrared guided 7.5km - 4nm), R-3R (short range semi-active radar guided 8km - 4.3nm)

 

ZU-23: eff range 2-2.5km (1-1.3nm), eff altitude: 1.5-2km (.8-1nm) (5k ft - 6.5k ft)

ZSU-23 Shilka: max eff range 2.5km (1.3nm) (8.2k ft)

SAM SA-18 Igla Manpad: max eff alt: 3 km (1.6nm) (9.8k ft)

SP 0S80M1 Sborka: tracking range 35km - 18nm, detection range 80km - 43nm

 

BLUE:

 

F15C: AIM-120B (AMRAAM) (medium range radar guided 55km - 29.6nm), AIM-9M (short range infrared 18km - 9.7nm), AIM-9P (short range infrared 11km - 5.9nm)

Changelog:

V2:

- updated parking spots to work better with 2.5 due to changes in ATC or parking handling or something that brought bugs into 2.5. Don't think it is fully fixed but works much better now.

Download Link: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2664273/index.php

DropBox Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvffk7iqb4fzqzv/Valley%20Escort.miz?dl=0

Youtube Video:

Thanks for sharing!

If I wanted to give your bandits some sharper teeth, I would just need to open the .mit and edit the loadouts of the original group, right? Haven't really dug into MOOSE.

Thanks for sharing!

 

If I wanted to give your bandits some sharper teeth, I would just need to open the .mit and edit the loadouts of the original group, right? Haven't really dug into MOOSE.

I am not in front of the computer so forgive the details. If I remember I will edit this post for more exact info.

What you want to do is edit 6 specific units. Be careful touching the others as it might break things. These 6 units are picked and spawned by random. Actually there are 3 per enemy per airport. There is an SU30, Mig23 and Mig21. I think named "RU AI xxxx #" or something similar. You can actually replace with any plane you like or as you say edit their load outs.

I specifically dumbed them down a little bit.

In future missions I am thinking of a way to allow the user to select a difficulty level and this would scale the enemy in that way. Also thinking of scaling number of enemies based on # of human players in game.

Here is a video of the mission in action with some tacview analysis thrown in:

Delta99,

For future reference...When posting a YT link, leave out everything except the name YT has given your video. In this case, only XjUf42RvDnI should be inside the YT brackets. Then it'll link correctly. And thanks for taking the time to create and post these missions.

For future reference...When posting a YT link, leave out everything except the name YT has given your video. In this case, only XjUf42RvDnI should be inside the YT brackets. Then it'll link correctly. And thanks for taking the time to create and post these missions.

Thanks, I'll try and remember that for the future. I was wondering why the video wasn't working but thought it was my browser blocking something or something just not right.

Links fixed.

Updated for issues that cropped up due to DCS 2.5:

Changelog:

V2:

- updated parking spots to work better with 2.5 due to changes in ATC or parking handling or something that brought bugs into 2.5. Don't think it is fully fixed but works much better now.

Hi all, this mission might be busted right now. Seems something that ED changed recently is bugging out the spawning of aircraft. Hope to fix this soon when I get some time and can figure out how to!!!

I haven't touched my mission but tested in the latest DCS version and all seems OK again.