enigma6584 Posted September 18, 2016 Posted September 18, 2016 Got a question for your mission creation gurus; how do you create your briefings? I'm talking structure, layout, terminology. Always seems the hardest thing to do for me and was wondering how you all get through it. Are there any templates or examples out here on the internet?
Wrecking Crew Posted September 18, 2016 Posted September 18, 2016 Just so happens I was working on one now,,, here is the basic structure that I *always* use: (Mission Name Here) Red: MiG-21bis Blue: F-5E F10 All, Labels Optional, 0630 07SEP2018, Clear Day --- Summary CURRENT ROE: Peacetime, Weapons Hold, no release. (More goes here but not too much) --- Designer Notes Sunrise ~0646, Sunset ~1937 This is Mission #1 in a campaign by xxxxx, in collaboration with Wrecking Crew. Enjoy! --- Red Task A xxx aircraft has violated our airspace and is flying above the coast. Investigate the craft and escort it back into international airspace or yyy. More blah blah... Gudauta TWR 130.0, RWY 15/33 Senaki TWR 132.0, RWY 09/27, ILS 108.90, TCN 31X --- Blue Task It is important we assess the current state of xxx military assets. A specially-outfitted reconnaissance plane will make a flight close to the xxx coast. Because it will likely incur upon xxx airspace, an intercept is possible. Escort blah blah... ROE: Return Fire; the public is being told we are in Weapons Hold, but you ARE authorized to defend the reconnaissance flight. Do not fire unless first fired upon. We do not expect xxx to blah blah... Sochi TWR 127.0, RWY 06/24, ILS 110.0 Visit the Hollo Pointe DCS World server -- an open server with a variety of COOP & H2H missions including Combined Arms. All released missions are available for free download, modification and public hosting, from my Wrecking Crew Projects site.
DarkFire Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 Got a question for your mission creation gurus; how do you create your briefings? I'm talking structure, layout, terminology. Always seems the hardest thing to do for me and was wondering how you all get through it. Are there any templates or examples out here on the internet? I'd consider it to depend entirely on what you want your mission to do, and who your target audience is. For a very simple practice mission I might hammer out a few lines of text, for example: "DISTRIBUTION: CO 3RD FIGHTER AVIATION REGIMENT 08:00 10/03/2012 ORIGINATOR: HQ KRYMSK TRAINING ORDERS, 51ST AIR DEFENCE CORPS MAP 200000, EDITION 1986 AIR TO GROUND TRAINING MISSION: DESTROY TARGETS AS ORDERED OPERATION ELEMENTS: =============== FLIGHT 100: 1 x Su-27S, air to ground weapons training, IRON GUARD: Ground control for this mission. ELEMENT ORDERS: ============ Flight 100 is to attack targets as briefed, targets located at the disused airfield north of Kobuleti. Take off will be at 10:00 hours from Senaki-Kolkhi. On reaching waypoint 2 stand by for contact from ground control. Ground control for this mission is located west of the target at grid 37-T-GG-311-360. DO NOT ENGAGE FRIENDLY TARGETS at this grid location. Static target group 1 is located at grid 37-T-GG-323-362. Static target group 2 is located at grid 37-T-GG-321-357. All target altitudes are 10m. All buildings at marked grid locations are valid for this mission. If required you are authorized to land and refuel / re-arm at Kobuleti or Batumi airfields. Following destruction of all targets you will be released from the target area by Ground Control. You will then contact Senaki-Kolkhi tower on 132.00 MHz for recovery." Or at the other end of the scale I've gone as far as to write an entire separate pdf file briefing document like the one attached. Both of the above were for SP missions. MP missions will necessarily be slightly different as you have to create briefing sections for blue and red teams. As far as templates, look up JP or Joint Publication 3-50.21. It's a manual on intra-service search & rescue procedures but appendix F in the document contains what is apparently some form of US standard briefing document or air tasking order. I've searched high and low for a Russian equivalent without any success. I did however note that the data block at the top of the mission briefing I pasted above seems to appear in a lot of the ED missions. Rightly or wrongly I've assumed that this is some sort of standard for Russian briefings and now include it where appropriate: "DISTRIBUTION: CO 3RD FIGHTER AVIATION REGIMENT 08:00 10/03/2012 ORIGINATOR: HQ KRYMSK TRAINING ORDERS, 51ST AIR DEFENCE CORPS MAP 200000, EDITION 1986 AIR TO GROUND TRAINING MISSION: DESTROY TARGETS AS ORDERED" For me, and this really is just personal preference, for a training or practice mission I normally go with simpler and shorter briefings whereas for SP "story" missions I prefer longer briefings with lots of extra briefing pictures etc. Hope this helps...Su-25T Op Dawn Raven ATO.pdf System Spec: Cooler Master Cosmos C700P Black Edition case. | AMD 5950X CPU | MSI RTX-3090 GPU | 32GB HyperX Predator PC4000 RAM | | TM Warthog stick & throttle | TrackIR 5 | Samsung 980 Pro NVMe 4 SSD 1TB (boot) | Samsung 870 QVO SSD 4TB (games) | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Personal wish list: DCS: Su-27SM & DCS: Avro Vulcan.
Stonehouse Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 Some old stuff that might give you at least points to cover https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=61044 https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/379279/
enigma6584 Posted September 20, 2016 Author Posted September 20, 2016 Thanks very much guys. These do indeed give me some ideas and reference in which to work from. Cheers.
Rudel_chw Posted September 20, 2016 Posted September 20, 2016 (edited) ... Or at the other end of the scale I've gone as far as to write an entire separate pdf file briefing document like the one attached. ... Sorry for the off topic, but the backstory that you attached looks really really interesting ... Can you please share the full mission? :) Thanks a lot Edit: nevermind, Ive just found it here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2356587 :D Edited September 20, 2016 by Rudel_chw For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
DarkFire Posted September 22, 2016 Posted September 22, 2016 Sorry for the off topic, but the backstory that you attached looks really really interesting ... Can you please share the full mission? :) Thanks a lot Edit: nevermind, Ive just found it here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2356587 :D That's the one. Let me know what you think... System Spec: Cooler Master Cosmos C700P Black Edition case. | AMD 5950X CPU | MSI RTX-3090 GPU | 32GB HyperX Predator PC4000 RAM | | TM Warthog stick & throttle | TrackIR 5 | Samsung 980 Pro NVMe 4 SSD 1TB (boot) | Samsung 870 QVO SSD 4TB (games) | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Personal wish list: DCS: Su-27SM & DCS: Avro Vulcan.
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