Maduce Posted March 10, 2024 Posted March 10, 2024 ChillNG, I am working on building my second campaign. If you don't mind telling me what product you are using to create your briefings, kneeboards, and reports. I completed Weasels over Syria, and it is one of my favorite campaigns, I am thinking about flying it again. The briefings and kneeboards are very well done. I just would like to make my next campaign that I create, a more polished and complete campaign. Anyway, thanks in advance!
ChillNG Posted March 11, 2024 Posted March 11, 2024 8 hours ago, Maduce said: ChillNG, I am working on building my second campaign. If you don't mind telling me what product you are using to create your briefings, kneeboards, and reports. I completed Weasels over Syria, and it is one of my favorite campaigns, I am thinking about flying it again. The briefings and kneeboards are very well done. I just would like to make my next campaign that I create, a more polished and complete campaign. Anyway, thanks in advance! Hi, of course not. I produced the SPINS, intel brief and kneeboards completely in Photoshop. The mission briefings are done in Google docs, but I add a custom background I made in Photoshop and then write on top of. Good luck with your campaign
Diablo 1-1 Posted October 20, 2024 Posted October 20, 2024 ChillNG, If you don't mind me asking where do you get all the information to make missions more immersive? Do you read a lot of military related books and just grab information from there? I'm trying to find information to create my own stuff. I've always enjoyed how immersive your ATC is and of course I want to imitate greatness.
ChillNG Posted October 20, 2024 Posted October 20, 2024 1 hour ago, Diablo 1-1 said: ChillNG, If you don't mind me asking where do you get all the information to make missions more immersive? Do you read a lot of military related books and just grab information from there? I'm trying to find information to create my own stuff. I've always enjoyed how immersive your ATC is and of course I want to imitate greatness. Yep lots and lots of reading, and podcasts as well. Plus a little bit of imagination/guess work when required. Happy to offer up any recommendations for books if you need them.
Diablo 1-1 Posted October 20, 2024 Posted October 20, 2024 34 minutes ago, ChillNG said: Yep lots and lots of reading, and podcasts as well. Plus a little bit of imagination/guess work when required. Happy to offer up any recommendations for books if you need them. I'd love some recommendations on books and podcast channels if you don't mind. I'm sure they will only help improve my story telling.
ChillNG Posted October 21, 2024 Posted October 21, 2024 18 hours ago, Diablo 1-1 said: I'd love some recommendations on books and podcast channels if you don't mind. I'm sure they will only help improve my story telling. I'm a big fan of the 'Osprey combat aircraft' series of books, there's loads like 'F-16 units of Operation Iraqi Freedom', all sorts of variations of aircraft/campaigns. They give lots of first hand accounts of combat operations, mission types, load-outs etc. Always my starting point for aircraft research. There's load of other good aircraft specific books as well, if you've got a particular aircraft in mind let me know and I'll check what I've got on the shelf and give you some good pointers. 'DEBRIEF: A Complete History of U.S. Aerial Engagements - 1981 to the Present' is really good for air to air, provides detailed talk-through of every air to air kill made by the US post Vietnam to when it was published after Allied Force. Amount of detail varies by kill and the writing style of the author but there's some great info in there. I also read lots around the geo-political setup as well, be it China, Syria, or the middle-east in general. I can recommend some from here if you want them. Helps add to the story telling. Finally podcasts are helpful as well, don't tend to get many facts that aren't in the books already, but you get a lot of 'character' from these. Be it anecdotes, insights into culture, personality etc and I often find the odd nugget in these that I can bring into a campaign. I've listened to Fighter Pilot Podcast, Afterburner Podcast, I'm a huge admirer of 10 percent True and love the detail they go into. Just started listening to Authentic as well on spotify, it's a paid subscription for that but so far have found the content to be detailed and excellent. Hope all that helps! Like I said above, if you want more specifics then let me know what exactly and I'll see what I've got in the old library .
Diablo 1-1 Posted October 21, 2024 Posted October 21, 2024 (edited) 43 minutes ago, ChillNG said: I'm a big fan of the 'Osprey combat aircraft' series of books, there's loads like 'F-16 units of Operation Iraqi Freedom', all sorts of variations of aircraft/campaigns. They give lots of first hand accounts of combat operations, mission types, load-outs etc. Always my starting point for aircraft research. There's load of other good aircraft specific books as well, if you've got a particular aircraft in mind let me know and I'll check what I've got on the shelf and give you some good pointers. 'DEBRIEF: A Complete History of U.S. Aerial Engagements - 1981 to the Present' is really good for air to air, provides detailed talk-through of every air to air kill made by the US post Vietnam to when it was published after Allied Force. Amount of detail varies by kill and the writing style of the author but there's some great info in there. I also read lots around the geo-political setup as well, be it China, Syria, or the middle-east in general. I can recommend some from here if you want them. Helps add to the story telling. Finally podcasts are helpful as well, don't tend to get many facts that aren't in the books already, but you get a lot of 'character' from these. Be it anecdotes, insights into culture, personality etc and I often find the odd nugget in these that I can bring into a campaign. I've listened to Fighter Pilot Podcast, Afterburner Podcast, I'm a huge admirer of 10 percent True and love the detail they go into. Just started listening to Authentic as well on spotify, it's a paid subscription for that but so far have found the content to be detailed and excellent. Hope all that helps! Like I said above, if you want more specifics then let me know what exactly and I'll see what I've got in the old library . Really went above and beyond for me. I really appreciate it. I think I'll just stick with what you've recommended here for now. Right now I'm just trying to add realistic military aviation comms and an better ATC to a mission and will build from there. If you have a specific recommendation for this I'll take it but if not I assume I'll just learn it eventually by reading. Podcast will probably actually help me since I'm not good at creating characters. I would love some stuff on geopolitical stuff. I enjoy creating fake countries for my conflicts so having a better understanding of geopolitical relationships would help set up a realistic scenario. Again I really appreciate the help. I'm pretty decent with the mission editor. It's just the story creation part is my weakest skill when it comes to mission making. Edit: just looking at the Osprey combat aircraft books. There are tons so thanks again! Edited October 21, 2024 by Diablo 1-1
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