The Enemy Within. Mission 15. Any hint?

[Odessa]

Good day All
Mission - rescue of the F-16 pilot.
I saw on You tube how other people pass it but these videos were published long ago. Maybe something was changed and it became very difficult?

Me and my bot just cannot kill all Air Defense on time and clouds force you go low where bad guys kill you and your bot.
For now I want to cheat - kill all of Air Defense before Overlord clears the attack. Looks like mission allows such ROE violation :)

Any advice or I just should play better? 
Thank you

P.S. To admin,  sorry, I did not put  this topic into right forum.
UPDATE: thanks for moving my question to the right place.

Edited June 27, 2023 by Odessa

[Odessa]

I think I know how to do it. Almost passed...
Interesting, the debriefing after failed mission is longer than after success.
Looks like mission was expected to be hard

Edited June 28, 2023 by Odessa

[Papa1]

I also had difficulty with this mission. Finally finished mission yesterday. I took out manpads early and had wingman engage air defenses. One of my big problems was the Trucks heading south they were hard to spot and track and they would always unload troops and I would mission fail. The weather is difficult because I had to stay below 14000 to be below cloud deck. I concentrated on those trucks after I got the call and was able to destroy them and then could work on the rest of the targets in the area. This is my first campaign and on mission 17 now. Baltic Dragon is amazing and how they can build these campaigns is way past me I’m just happy they do it. I absolutely love the A10. Good luck on your mission.

[Odessa]

I used a "cheat". I started to kill Air Defense before I got "go" from Overlord. After you kill two MANPADs it is easier.
In this particular mission it does not fail the mission.
And of course after 5 attempts I knew truck's route very well
Actually trucks - is the most tricky part because of time limit.

 

Edited July 3, 2023 by Odessa

[Pyrocumulous]

I keep having Pontiac go down about 40 seconds after it enters the AO and the two jeeps appear. Looking at Tacview, it's just crashing into the valley bottom. Am I missing something, or is it broken? I've gotten to this point three times now.

edit: on fourth attempt Pontiac navigated the terrain successfully, so it's just one of those things...

Edited December 23, 2023 by Pyrocumulous
try #4

[baltic_dragon]

Yeah, this is just one of the DCS AI issues I have zero control over...