Cold War 1947 - 1991

[Alpenwolf]

Just now, LoneS said:

I like how you upgrade old missions and constantly add new things to them. The roadbases are really a great addition!!!!!!! Best server admin!!!!!! I fly on many servers and no one is so dedicated. If you only had the time for learning more lua scripting things would become insanely amazing which they are but you know

 

Cheers, mate! Very flattering.

[NELLUS]

55 minutes ago, Alpenwolf said:

Server News:

 

Operation Open Range:

- Removed all Su-25T's.

- Instead of 8 x Su-25's, it's now 14 (used to be 8 x Su-25's and 8 x Su-25T's).

- Added 10 x Mi-24's.

- The 6 x Ka-50's remain.

- Instead of 12 x SA342M's it's now 20.

- Instead of 4 x AJS37 slots it's now 6 (number of the available AJS37's remain the same).

- Added a road base for the AJS37's -> Waypoint-4. It's closer to the bullseye by ca. 95 km (ca. 60 miles).

- 1 x Avenger, infantries and other armoured units at the road base.

- Briefing adjusted.

 

 

 

[Rigo]

Hi Alpen, hopped in the server this morning and i have incountered a strange bug.

The mission was phone boot, hopped in the hind for the second sortie and for some reason i couldn't take away fuel to make the helo lighter (crew said "unable to comply") and also had trouble with loading rocketpods (loaded only 1 in the right inner pylon) only with the S8KOM heat/ap type, despite being available in storage.

Tried spawning a new aircraft,engine on and off and all of that, problem kept coming so im letting you know.

 

(me and you have some sorties to do in the hind with multicrew btw)

[Rick50]

9 hours ago, Alpenwolf said:

 

Wasn't aware of this plane being developed. Who's working on it?

 

I don't know if I'm going to add it. Just heard about it. And if then it goes Red and probably in a small number of missions only. Just looked it up and it can hardly carry any weapons. We'll see.

 

Ah yes, the Pucara!   

 

RAZBAM is working on it. Or was. I dunno, RAZ seems to have so so many different projects on the go, and I don't think this one has had news about it for some time. It was started for RAZ's Falklands project, which includes a new map, an older British Harrier (Sea Harrier? I can't remember), Mirage III, couple of ships. 

 

Very few Pucaras were involved in that war. Only 110 Pucaras ever got made or sold. No air to air missiles. It did seem like it would have been effective for very light COIN in the 70's and 80's, but of little use for anything else... sooo... might not be the best fit for Cold War CAS. 

 

But considering RAZ is currently working on the Mirage3, Mig-23, English Electric Lightning, F-15E Strike, Super Tucano, BO-105 HOT helo, Falklands map... and more.... who knows when the Pucara will be available from the store. 

 

Edit: 

FMA IA 58 Pucará

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_IA_58_Pucará

 

Only 110 made. One managed an A 2 A, using it's 7.62 FNH mg's to down a British helicopter. Biggest loss in combat was to SAS night raid ground commandos. Several surviving Pucaras have resided in England since the Falklands war. Again, this is not a tankbuster in any way, not at all meant for even 1960's Soviet formations.

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by Rick50

[Sideburns]

21 minutes ago, Rick50 said:

 

Ah yes, the Pucara!   

 

RAZBAM is working on it. Or was. I dunno, RAZ seems to have so so many different projects on the go, and I don't think this one has had news about it for some time. It was started for RAZ's Falklands project, which includes a new map, an older British Harrier (Sea Harrier? I can't remember), Mirage III, couple of ships. 

 

Very few Pucaras were involved in that war. Not many Pucaras ever got made or sold. No air to air missiles. It did seem like it would have been effective for very light COIN in the 70's and 80's, but of little use for anything else... sooo... might not be the best fit for Cold War CAS. 

 

But considering RAZ is currently working on the Mirage3, Mig-23, English Electric Lightning, F-15E Strike, Super Tucano, BO-105 HOT helo, Falklands map... and more.... who knows when the Pucara will be available from the store. 

 

 

It is a joy to see Razbam commit to the Falklands conflict, MiG23 and EE Lightening but as you say who knows what rate they will be released at, presumably not as quickly as people want.

 

I think the Falklands, Sea Harrier, F15E and MiG23 are the priority (and also that's my guess at what order they will release in over the next 2-3 years).

[Alpenwolf]

3 hours ago, Rigo said:

Hi Alpen, hopped in the server this morning and i have incountered a strange bug.

The mission was phone boot, hopped in the hind for the second sortie and for some reason i couldn't take away fuel to make the helo lighter (crew said "unable to comply") and also had trouble with loading rocketpods (loaded only 1 in the right inner pylon) only with the S8KOM heat/ap type, despite being available in storage.

Tried spawning a new aircraft,engine on and off and all of that, problem kept coming so im letting you know.

 

(me and you have some sorties to do in the hind with multicrew btw)

 

Hey, man, long time! Hope you're doing well.

 

Check out question 8 under FAQ's on the main post of this thread. There's your answer.

 

We will certainly fly the Hind together. You can count on it. However, I'd rather wait a bit for some of its bugs to be fixed first. Don't push me

 

Good to have you back.

[Alpenwolf]

Server News:

 

Operation When The Mountains Cry:

- All 8 x Su-25T's have been removed.

- Instead, additional 8 x Su-25's were added.

- Added 12 x Mi-24's.

- Instead of 12 x Ka-50's it's now 6.

- Instead of 12 SA342M's it's now 18.

- Removed poles and streetlamps around the AJS37's road base.

 

* With that, all missions have the Mi-24 included. The only exception is operation Catch Me If You Can because it has no Red helicopters in the first place.

[Get_Lo]

The Mi-24 is unbelievably fun to play on the Cold War Server

[CrazyGman]

1 hour ago, Get_Lo said:

The Mi-24 is unbelievably fun to play on the Cold War Server

I know i just had the misfortune of only being able to play it twice since all of yesterday i was never on at the time when a mission with it was running. Looks like Alpenwolf has changed most missions to include it now.

 

Hopefully blue will get the Mirage F1 soon. Right now red has such a fun new toy, that is also decently effective

Edited June 21, 2021 by CrazyGman

[Get_Lo]

28 minutes ago, CrazyGman said:

I know i just had the misfortune of only being able to play it twice since all of yesterday i was never on at the time when a mission with it was running. Looks like Alpenwolf has changed most missions to include it now.

 

Hopefully blue will get the Mirage F1 soon. Right now red has such a fun new toy, that is also decently effective

 

yeah, my pilot and I are perfecting some techniques to handle SAMs.

[Alpenwolf]

Server News:

 

Operation Sukhumi - The Beginning is back online:

- Bf 109's removed completely and are now replaced by I-16's.

- T-55's vs Leopard 1A3's instead of Panzer IV vs Shermans.

- Remember! It's R-55's vs AIM-9B's (GAR-8's) ONLY!

- Helicopters remain excluded in this mission of the early Cold War stages.

[CrazyGman]

2 hours ago, Get_Lo said:

yeah, my pilot and I are perfecting some techniques to handle SAMs.

Nice what are you finding works best?

[Get_Lo]

2 minutes ago, CrazyGman said:

Nice what are you finding works best?

the sites we tested against were on that mission with the EWR site objectives, each one had 2 Avengers (Very dangerous) 1 Vulcan (kinda dangerous) and 1 .50 cal Humvee (not very dangerous) we discovered that against the Avengers you have to charge them and get them both in 1 pass. if you turn away from the Avenger it will kill you. we come in as fast as possible and try to fire at the first one from max range. by the time the second one is dead the M163 is probably shooting at you now, and you can run from the M163 vulcan.

[CrazyGman]

23 minutes ago, Get_Lo said:

the sites we tested against were on that mission with the EWR site objectives, each one had 2 Avengers (Very dangerous) 1 Vulcan (kinda dangerous) and 1 .50 cal Humvee (not very dangerous) we discovered that against the Avengers you have to charge them and get them both in 1 pass. if you turn away from the Avenger it will kill you. we come in as fast as possible and try to fire at the first one from max range. by the time the second one is dead the M163 is probably shooting at you now, and you can run from the M163 vulcan.

Are you pre-flaring with the avenger. I've had decent success against them on blue flag 80s, but if i forget to flare during the run in and out i'll eat a stinger for sure

[Get_Lo]

Just now, CrazyGman said:

Are you pre-flaring with the avenger. I've had decent success against them on blue flag 80s, but if i forget to flare during the run in and out i'll eat a stinger for sure

trying to fix the flare de-sync, havent found a solution yet

[CrazyGman]

3 minutes ago, Get_Lo said:

trying to fix the flare de-sync, havent found a solution yet

Set them up and launch them as the pilot. Bind keybinds for the flare despenser "left" "right" and the "set I/II//III" press each key after you take off, and test that the work by pressing the Pilot snars keybind

Edited June 22, 2021 by CrazyGman

[CrazyGman]

"sigh" another evening, and another non Mi-24 mission.. and before that It was so late by the time I got on that they were all used up in the previous mission.

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by CrazyGman

[rossmum]

19 hours ago, Alpenwolf said:

Server News:

 

Operation Open Range:

- Removed all Su-25T's.

- Instead of 8 x Su-25's, it's now 14 (used to be 8 x Su-25's and 8 x Su-25T's).

- Added 10 x Mi-24's.

- The 6 x Ka-50's remain.

- Instead of 12 x SA342M's it's now 20.

- Instead of 4 x AJS37 slots it's now 6 (number of the available AJS37's remain the same).

- Added a road base for the AJS37's -> Waypoint-4. It's closer to the bullseye by ca. 95 km (ca. 60 miles).

- 1 x Avenger, infantries and other armoured units at the road base.

- Briefing adjusted.

 

The road base should be a good addition, turnaround times when there were only one or two Viggens trying to hit the factory or lake were a pain. Should ramp up the tempo without making things too hard for red. Cheers.

[Rigo]

Yet another bug for the hind, will not startup on mission "fight island" both in manual and autostart, another guy with me had the same issue.

The quirks of early access i guess..

 

P.S also saw some pretty strange pathfinding of the ground units in CA, literally driving in the ocean (jesus moment there)

[Alpenwolf]

18 minutes ago, LoneS said:

My thoughts on the Hind so far compared to the BlackShark:

With 2 pilots you see more than 1.

RWR helps a lot. At least you know something is up when the Shark has no idea Hawk or Patriot or enemy fighters got a lock on it.

In the Shark we are tempted to hover because it's great at hovering and has the best missiles to fight tanks with. And because it's easier to look for targets that way......

The Hind keeps on flying and charging forward (must do) no hovering so no ground units sneaking up on you and you're not easy to hit by enemy fighters hanging in the air and hovering......

Once players start getting used it Im sure the Hind will be tougher on enemy ground units than the Shark. Wait and you'll see.

So Alpy might put the Shark back and remove the Hind

 

One of the reasons for cancelling the Ka-50 project was favouring the two pilots concept over the one pilot one. Like you said; 4 eyes are better than 2, One flies while the other scans for targets, etc.

See why I said removing the Shark completely is not a thing? Give it time. And by that I meant, let's see how things play out with this new module added to Red's arsenal before removing the Shark completely from the server. So far I've removed it from 5 missions while reducing its numbers in others. No need to rush anything here.

[Ian Boys UK]

1 hour ago, Rigo said:

Yet another bug for the hind, will not startup on mission "fight island" both in manual and autostart, another guy with me had the same issue.

The quirks of early access i guess..

 

P.S also saw some pretty strange pathfinding of the ground units in CA, literally driving in the ocean (jesus moment there)

I had the same problem so tested it extensively. The problem is the air temperature. Alpen has it set to 41 degrees and the Hind will reliably start up at 30 and with issues at 33. There's no way to get her to start at 41 at all.

[Alpenwolf]

Server News:

 

Operation Street Fight (Syria map) is back online:

- Removed all Ka-50's.

- Added 14 x Mi-24's.

- Removed all R-60's. Instead more R3S and R-13M1 missiles.

 

* I know many of you have issues with the Syria map but I couldn't resist not having it included for the sake of the Hind or basically any helicopter.

[NELLUS]

13 minutes ago, Alpenwolf said:

Server News:

 

Operation Street Fight (Syria map) is back online:

- Removed all Ka-50's.

- Added 14 x Mi-24's.

- Removed all R-60's. Instead more R3S and R-13M1 missiles.

 

* I know many of you have issues with the Syria map but I couldn't resist not having it included for the sake of the Hind or basically any helicopter.

Syria is a Hilo’s dream, great to have the mission back

[prwoodard]

Hey Guys,

 

what is your preferred aim 9 variant when flying the F5?

[reichenwald]

Will the Mirage F1 and Flogger replace the current Fulcrum and Tomcat Bvr slots once they are available?