twistking Posted May 4, 2017 Posted May 4, 2017 Hello, whenever i built a mission, i struggle with setting it up in a way, that is at least somewhat realistic. I have neither a background in military nor aviation, so i always have many, many questions. Although this forum is a good place to ask for advise, i feel that my questions are often not interesting, yet plentiful. Ranging from basic stuff like flight altitude and speed for a specific jet for a specific task, typical weapon deployment profiles, setup of airspace defense / patrol, setup of individua sam sites and general ground based air defense... Wikipedia and most military info websites focus on technical specification and historical significance, but don't list common mission profiles / setups. Do you know a place, where i could find those information? Ideally on a per asset (aircraft) basis, or as a short overview of general mission profiles / doctrines... Maybe, eagle dynamics could also set up a little wikia, where users could gather informormation, on how to set up each dcs asset for maximun realism and/or maximum "gameplay benefit" :) My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
ESAc_matador Posted May 5, 2017 Posted May 5, 2017 Good point. I collect info from books mainly, and real documents, Natops, etc.
twistking Posted May 5, 2017 Author Posted May 5, 2017 ok. i suspected books and real documents were the way to go. to be honest though, while i sometimes skip through real documets i find online, i feel that this is too much of an effort for just making a remotely realistic mission to play with my friends... would be cool, to have an official wikia, where everyone can put their pieces of knowledge for each dcs asset. that would safe the mission builders from skipping through real field manuals just to find info on how to setup an asset in a reasonably realistic way... My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
ESAc_matador Posted May 6, 2017 Posted May 6, 2017 (edited) ok. i suspected books and real documents were the way to go. to be honest though, while i sometimes skip through real documets i find online, i feel that this is too much of an effort for just making a remotely realistic mission to play with my friends... would be cool, to have an official wikia, where everyone can put their pieces of knowledge for each dcs asset. that would safe the mission builders from skipping through real field manuals just to find info on how to setup an asset in a reasonably realistic way... Actually, each country has their own doctrine, and there is not good or bad profile... just depend on the threats. You dont want to fly high with SAMs and without Jamming... Also, you dont want to go low with lots of AAA with IR. Do you have enough Fuel or you need to save?? do you have Escort?? You have to get the balance... by reading books, (apart from the funnier side....) you get a lots of histories... Vietnam war are really cook, because they changed their tactics very often (depending on the number of aircrafts shot down that month...) I strongly recomend this: Since I understand, you are bunch of friends, to make things more interesting, one makes the defenses... and redact a Intel report with maps, zone of threats (dont say exactly where the bads are, or at least not all of them) and what is the target that day. You send it to one of your friends, that will be the flight commander, and he is responsable to make the flight plan, according with the data. Another advice, start always from the end....and add wps, back. ;), PS> FInd attached a Briefing we made for an intersquadron. So, different squadrons had to comply with the TIMELINE, but each squadron made their own plan. Its in spanish, but is plenty of maps and diagrams, you will like it. Edited May 6, 2017 by ESAc_matador
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