Need playtesters: Operation Gardbrace

[dooom]

 

I threw together a mission last night because I wanted to play something on the North Coast of Krasnodar Krai. It actually gave me a decent mission idea based off of a plausible history for the area.

 

This mission is currently being tested so I'd welcome all feedback.

 

"It is Summer 2014. The world is aflame as stunning gains by an empowered Doku Umarov has successfully established Islamist control of the caucuses. The long feared Caucusean Emirate has slowly and inevitably expanded its contested existence across Chechnya to Krasnodar Krai.

 

The 2 year pan-national Syrian-Iraqi-Iranian war has weakened the ability of NATO to oppose this force. As bases and military equipment fell to the creeping Emirate, Russia watched in horror as the violence spread beyond the Osset-Chechnyian borders onto her soil.

 

On June 13th. Umarov successfully routed embattled forces from Krymsk and Anapa. He immediatly sent forces north to Temryuk to capture the assets of the Russian 382nd Marine Battalion. This battalion under the stewardship of CO Lt.Col. Oleg Kovalev was overrun but not before desperately broadcasting a dire warning. Temryuk was host to a Black Sea Fleet Nuclear Fuel processing plant. Umarov was about to have complete control over enough nuclear material to threaten the world with dirty bombs.

 

Fuel has been transported from Temryuk to Anapa by Mi8 and they are awaiting a convoy from Krymsk to distribute it east throughout the Emirate.

Ships are waiting in Temryuk harbour to transport material west under the guise of commercial goods.

Both Temryuk and Krymsk are believed to be Emirate strongholds. Try to focus on your objectives."

 

4 x KA50 Flying out of Sennoy

4 x A10C, 3 x SU25T Flying out of Gelendzhik

 

Reasonable cooperation required.

 

Following the Beslan School Massacre, US President George Bush declared that the United States would stand "Shoulder to Shoulder" with Russia against the threat fo terrorism. Never before has this resolve needed to be tested in this regard.

We must eliminate the ability of Umarov to develop dirty bombs at the Temryuk site.

Primary Mission Goals:

1. Destroy Temryuk Naval Fuel Processing plant.

2. Destroy Shipping defence and strike the ships at Temryuk

3. Destroy the ability of bomb expert Abdul Samad Achekzai to transport the material by Convoy or Mi-8s between Krymsk and Anapa.

 

Secondary Mission Goals:

1. Destroy captured 382nd assets in Temryuk to below 10% capacity.

 

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Ka-50s

The Oliver Perry is off shore of Sennoy and has landed some Marine engineers to build FARP London for 4 Russian Ka50s evacuated from Anapa.

FARP LONDON: 127.5 MHz AM

Ka50 Sennoy Flight VFH 127.0 MHz AM

1. Lift at 06:15 AM for SE Temyruk

2. Seek and destroy Surface to Air threats around Nuclear Fuel plant: Wpt 4

3. Seek and destroy Surface to Air threats at Temryuk Harbour

4. Coordinate destruction of Fuel plant and Harbour assets with A10s.

5. Destroy captured 382nd Marine Battalion assets.

6. Clear Temryuk. Assist at Anapa and Krymsk

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A-10C & Su25T

Gelendzhek Tower: VHF AM 126MHz

Enfield Flight: VHF 251 MHz AM

Triton Su25T SEAD: 251 MHz AM

CIA Predator Uzi 11 AFAC: VHF 154 MHz AM

1. Lift Gelendzhik at 06:15 AM

2. CAS Temryuk/Coordinate destruction of Nuclear Fuel processing plant.

3. CAS Temryuk Harbour/Coordinate destruction of Shipping.

4. Coordinate with Uzi 11 to monitor for materials transport convoy along Verinikovskaya Hwy connecting Krymsk to Anapa.

5. Clear Anapa and Krymsk. Assist Temryuk

 

CHANGELOG:

- fixed misplaced units : Strela clipping building, zu23 emplacement on slope

- fixed stalled convoys by converting zu23 emplacement into zu23 on Ural.

- fixed broken mi8 trigger at start.

**_v2.miz**

- set Predator AFAC to 35 MHz FM

- Introduced Tanker Texaco 11 on 45 MHz FM

- Fixed Mi8 trigger message at start

- More bling Gelendzhik

**_v3.miz**

- proper Mi8 triggered action start timing established.

- a little more Anapa ambience added.

**_v4.miz**

- labelled waypoints for Ka50 and A10C

- fixed missing skin Ka50

- reduced windspeed to 6 m/s at sea level, 2000m, 8000m

- added M818 to US FARP for Russian Ka50 rearm.

**_v5.5.miz**

- Raised Tanker and fixed orbit

- Adjusted waypoint altitudes

- Added 3 x Client Su25T for SEAD

- Added Orientation map and photos.

- Added two Krymsk Convoy Decoys

- Added BMP 2 to Krymsk Convoy

- Added 382nd Ammo dump to Primary Goal 2 win conditions

- Fixed Primary goal win message.

 

MISSION MOVED TO A10C MISSIONS THREAD

Edited September 12, 2012 by dooom

[Pyroflash]

Cool mission, however can you switch the predator from AM to FM? it will make communications on guard easier for people if they don't have to constantly be switching their AM radios between frequencies. Especially for those that use TARS.

 

And to make it easier for others to edit your mission, you should probably not hide each individual unit. Rather if you want people to be able to not see them in game, there is an option for F-10 views in the map settings tab that only allows people to see the map, but nothing on it.

 

Edit: Also, to make it easier on the A-10C guys, you could add a tanker that orbits in a N-S track just to the west of the Ka-50 FARP. This would allow them to take realistic fuel loads i.e. not 100%, and stay on station for as long as the mission requires. in addition, since they have the take such a roundabout route anyways (over the sea and then back north), a tanker may be helpful to some people who have used a lot of gas getting to the Ka-50 FARP in the beginning.

 

Also, just my 2c, but given the situation you have outlined, wouldn't it be more plausible as well as practical for the A-10C's to take off from Krasnodar instead of Gelendzhik? It would be take just as long to get to the targets, and it would fit much better to the story if they took off from an airbase that wasn't behind enemy lines. To be honest, the most practical choice would probably be to put them at Maykop or Mineralnye Vody, however time wise, I can see how many people would not want to make that long of a Journey. And if the planes were stationed at Mineralnye Vody, then a tanker would be required (again, assuming people can't conserve fuel, and take ~50%) as well as the Ka-50's having to wait for the A-10C's to get there.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Pyroflash

[dooom]

Great suggestions Pyro.

 

You know... i have been making missions since 2009 - thta is the first time i heard you could limite views in map settings :doh: will do.

 

Sure thing on the tanker.... makes sense - I'll throw it on FM along with the predator.

 

I didnt use Krasnodar as it would be held by the emirate. I agree that it would be more realistic for a southern flight - hell, ultimately i wish the a10s could fly from the Crimean.... I chose Gelendzhik with a simlulation of landing American forces having recently routed umarov.... if you look at the water line you will see them all - may be I need to make that clearer in the brief?

 

S! Thanks for the test... how far did you get? I am curious if all the triggers worked.

 

.miz file edited above

Edited August 17, 2012 by dooom

[Pyroflash]

With just me, I didn't get very far past just looking at the mission to see the general validity of it. Sorry for that, though I will probably take a closer look at it later today to make sure everything works right, though again, with just me testing it, it might not pan out correctly (i.e. I would be using a single A-10C with unlimited weapons).

 

Another idea for the mission though, if you are really interested in the immersion factor is to stick some American CAP flights out to the southwest as well as Russian flights coming in from the north. In a realistic situation, this would be the most plausible from a militarily strong threat like an empowered emirates. More likely than not they would have access to a lot of semi-modern Russian, and American hardware that they would be using to try and defend the fuel. A few F-16 and MiG-29 flights (Emirates) being countered by F/A-18E and Su-27S's (Amerorus coalition) would be a likely scenario.

Edited August 18, 2012 by Pyroflash

[dooom]

_v5.miz updated with feedback from players.