Mission from upcoming campaign

[DeltaMike]

I'm presently working on a VR-friendly campaign set in Nevada. I'm targeting people like me, who want to learn the aircraft systems in context. Here's a mission I did this weekend that I had fun with, thought I'd share an advance peek.

 

The back story came from a book I wrote last year, imagining a United States divided by economic collapse and war. A nationalist Mexican government sets out to re-fight, and this time win the Mexican-American war. They have Vegas surrounded basically and it's up to US forces and their allies -- including Mexican Republican resistance fighters (terminology borrowed from the Spanish civil war) -- to hold out until help arrives.

 

This particular mission is a deep strike at a supply convoy coming in from the south, way down at the nether end of the map. You do a cold start from the ramp at Nellis and meet up with the tanker near waypoint 1. It's kind of hard to finish the mission without getting at least some fuel, even a little bit helps. You are routed west to avoid SAM and fighter coverage over Laughlin for most of your route.

 

You are looking for a convoy snaking its way up 95 toward waypoint 3. Take it out with rockets and snakeyes. It's a little hard to spot so I had some Republican commandos set up a roadblock at waypoint 3. They will set off an IED when the convoy gets there; you should be able to spot that easy enough. You should see a dust trail as the commandos skeedaddle to the east; don't shoot em.

 

You'll have time for a hand full of passes before a pair of Nationalist F5's show up. The mission plan calls for a low level exit to the west while a pair of F15's fly over to take care of business, although if you want to mix it up with the F5's, have at it. I'd draw them out over the desert; if you take off after them over Needles you're going to have SAM problems.

 

Skills

- Navigation (TACAN, waypoint, and eyeball)

- Fuel management

- Low level bombing

- A/C and ground unit spotting

- Situational awareness

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[Count Sessine]

Good mission - short ingress - and the written instructions work well.