Few small issues Mission 3

[CH4Pz]

Just finished mission 3, and noticed a couple things..

First, on start up, we do radio checks and i can hear wingman, other flights and myself, but nowhere through the departure, does departure actually respond OR if im meant to change freqs it doesnt tell me too, in which case, that would be handy.

second, im using PP to drop the JDAMs and i actually played the mission twice, as i ran into an issue i'll cover next, but both times when using co-ords, i follow the bomb with F6 and the trucks are on target, but the other bomb goes to fuel tanks which are already destroyed, and this happened both times, and both times on BDA he says target partially destroyed. Could the co-ordinates in the kneeboard be wrong?

Also, as mentioned above, on my first play through when i got to the convoy, now this part im not entirely sure, but he says its south of the target but it seems north? regardless i couldnt find first time through, so i ordered wingman to attack convoy, he said target destroyed, but there was no option for "attack complete", so i headed off, ended up calling winchester as fuel was past joker. Second run i realized we both need to get the convoy and after several units the option for "attack complete comes up, but i guess it wasnt very clear. even after getting 2 trucks myself and wingman got 2, got the message "attack complete, but still scored partially destroyed. cuz it was a bit confusing i ended up abandoning the first run.

Lastly, when grabbing a drink on the way back, i got in observation, ordered wingman to tank and he didnt, tried several times, he just went into observation, so i got my fuel and left, i figure hes set to have unlimited anyway, but just thought i'd report it. Also thought it was a bit weird to be tanking inside the corridor especially when clearance is given he says "assigned alttitude" (which is 28) but tankers at 25, but again not entirely sure, this may be SOP?

Anyway, hope this helps, may also be user error on my part, there never seems to be enough time to stay "current" these days

 

[Kurnass1977]

I've already reported the same issues as cannot score more of 85/87...

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/370942-mission-3-aar-again/#comment-5628193

 

Waiting for the patch as stated by Nix Mills in the linked thread, my ego cannot accept a similar score. About the trucks in one try ( scored 87) I eliminated the whole convoy by myself and communicate via F10 only after the last truck blowed up.

Also , as stated also by you, Iìm a bit confused about the tanker altitude and if ( as I've done) is allowed to take some ingress gas as the convoy need some srtafing passes to be succesful

[Nix Mills]

I’ll do my best to respond as you’re raising a couple of different questions.

So during Case 3 departures, each aircraft will make calls to let everyone know where they’re at. Departure itself will only call or respond if they need to intervene for safety reasons.

As you know, the KC-135 has a race track orbit in one leg of the transit corridor. Its altitude is between the altitudes assigned to traffic in either direction. If you’re heading east, you simply pop up to FL250, and if you’re heading west, you just come down. You then return to assigned altitude once done. This is also explained in the campaign guide.

The targets assigned to you are the truck park and the fuel tanks, one GBU-32 each. I’m not sure why or whether your fuel tanks target would be destroyed before impact. The column of trucks trying to escape comes from the facility about 1km south of your target. As the UAV on station there is engaging with a Hellfire first you can look for the smoke from the burning AAA truck. I think there are five trucks for you to take out with guns, but you can call it off before that.

There are a couple of YouTube videos up already with this mission. You could have a look and see how they are working their targets.

[CH4Pz]

On 4/19/2025 at 3:48 AM, Nix Mills said:

The targets assigned to you are the truck park and the fuel tanks, one GBU-32 each. I’m not sure why or whether your fuel tanks target would be destroyed before impact. The column of trucks trying to escape comes from the facility about 1km south of your target. As the UAV on station there is engaging with a Hellfire first you can look for the smoke from the burning AAA truck. I think there are five trucks for you to take out with guns, but you can call it off before that.

 

Thanks for that, good to know thats SOP (departure, tanker etc). As far as the convoy i guess we were still missing one, i should of got myself. Both times those tanks were already destroyed though, are you able to verify with F6 yourself, using co-ords in PP mode? at first i thought it was a failsafe thing, but when i got the BDA, i realized there was an issue there