Blood and Sand : A Mirage Story

[R.MES]

"Blood and Sand : A Mirage Story" is a fictional 5 mission campaign for the Mirage 2000C, fully voiced-over, taking place during Iran–Iraq War.
Briefing doc and kneeboard available for each mission.

 

Situation :
November 1987. The war has been lasting for more than 7 years. In the sky, Iranian F-14s have no challenger. Despite daring and often successful air fights, the Iraqi Mirages F1EQ can't contest the Tomcat's superiority and must also carry out ground and antiship strikes. But there is good news for Iraq :
The two first Mirages 2000 are just coming from France.

 

Link

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3314265/

 

 

Hi everyone !

 

Here is a new campaign for the Mirage 2000 on the Persian Gulf map.

Feel free to comment, ask, report, ...

 

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[ataribaby]

Very nice, just small bug. Actual skin in missions is set to "iraqi air force" and it differs from recomended skin name. After I edited skin name in its description.lua all was fine. Otherwise you will get French skins.

 

So open description.lua in Iraqi skin folder and change name to

name = "iraqi air force"

I also renamed skin folder to "iraqi air force" but I think it is not nessesary.

Hope it helps.

Edited January 12, 2021 by ataribaby

[R.MES]

Hi !

After some investigations, I'm confused ...

On my PC, for this skin :

- The folder name is "Iraqi Air Force" (the default name when you unzip this livery)

- In the "description.lua" file, the last line is name = "Iraqi Mirage"

- In the DCS Mission Editor, in the liveries list, the name is "Iraqi Mirage"

- when I unzip the .miz files and open the "mission" file (with notepad for example), the livery_id = "iraqi air force"  (why ?!?)

But in any case, on my PC, it works !

So ... I don't understand the difference with your config and why it's not working for you ...

You are at least two in this case ... What about the other players ?

 

So far I don't know what to do ... I'll ask in the "Mission Editor Discussion and Questions" forum maybe but if someone here has an idea ...

 

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[VonWerner]

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For iraqi skin I tried the solution provided by ataribaby (thanks!) and it worked for me. 

 

Then i had the same problem with F-14 Livery

 

In "aircraft/Liveries Import" I made a "F-14B" folder where i put mentioned skin. I also put both liveries in  "Liveries" in "Saved Games\DCS" folder (for M-2000C and F-14B). 

 

Now everything works fine. 

 

Again, thank you for this very interesting campaign - looking forward to try it! :) 

Stay safe!

[R.MES]

Hi VonWerner and thanks for your feedback.

I'll change the description to put the liveries into "Saved Games\DCS\Liveries" instead "Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft\Liveries Import\" if it works better.

 

[VonWerner]

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Just finishing your campaign - loved every minute of it.

 

Documentation was very nice, fully immersive. I read every page of it ;).  The kneeboards were very clear and showed exactly what was needed for the mission. I never had a problem understanding what I needed to do to complete a mission.

 

Missions - nothing fancy nor complicated, but really REALLY fun!  I love Mirage and I flew almost 40 flights on it - I can safely recommend Your campaign to people at intermediate level - after the campaign-tutorial for the module it will be just perfect. 

 

I really hope you have plans to add more missions or campaigns for Mirage - the module definitely deserves it :).

 

Thank you very much for all the work you put into these 5 missions.

[R.MES]

You're welcome VonWerner !

I just copy/paste below my answer in the campaign page :

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Hi VonWerner,
I'm pleased to read such comments.
You summed up (my intentions for) this campaign perfectly

For your information, I'm working on a more ambitious 10 mission campaign occuring on Syria map.

The missions are more or less completed but there is still work on speech, docs, etc. and ... I'm waiting for the Cyprus update on this map.

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[R.MES]

A promise is a promise ! My new campaign here :

 

[R.MES]

o-Tomcat-o made a playthrough of this campaign. Thanks to him !

 

[R.MES]

Hi everyone !
I put a new version of this campaign (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3314265/), retested with DCS 2.9, minor changes and doc updated.