'OPERATION REBEL YELL' singleplayer CAS campaign WIP

[repsol]

Hello.

 

While waiting for the MiG 21 and the Nevada map i have decided to try and make a few missions for my beloved friend...The A10 !

 

My plan is to make a number of missions within the same setting. I have just finished the first one and uploaded it to the user files (to big to upload here). It will be avaliable soon i hope..

 

The general setting is as follows:

 

OPERATION - REBELL YELL

 

Situation:

 

In the 2012 presidential election Micheil Saakasjvilli won the election and with that the "united national movement"-party lost power and was replaced by the more pro-western "Georgian dream"-party.

 

During the next couple of months president Saakasjvilli launced a number of reforms to increase the freedom of speech and democratic rights for the georgian people.

 

This was a very welcome change to most of the neigbouring countries and also to EU and other western countries.

 

Russia on the other hand was not very pleased.

 

Russia used to have very good relations with- and high influence over the former goverment in Georgia (united national movement) and this drift towards western democracy was not something the Kremlin approved of.

 

Things turned for the worse when Georgia applied for full membership in NATO in late september 2012.

 

Russia informed the western countires that a Geogian membership in NATO was totally unacceptable and a threat to national security.

 

Relations between Russia and the west hit rock bottom.

 

To avoid a new cold war - the Georgian request was turned down by NATO.

 

Inside Georgia - not everyone approved of this pro-western approach of the new goverment.

 

Many 'oldtimers' did not understand this democracy thing and missed the good old times with communism.

 

Rumours of a conspiracy could be heard and finally on oktober the first the military revolted and arrested president Saakasjvilli.

 

This military coup was lead by no other than Davit Kezerasjvili, the minister of defence in the new goverment and one of president Saakasjvillis most trusted men.

 

The majority of the Georgian people did not approve of this military coup and the streets soon got crowded by protesting civilians demanding the imediate release and reinstatment of president Saakasjvilli.

 

At first the demonstartions were allowed but as the protests grow they were brutaly knocked down by the armed forces.

 

The military coup was however not a total succes.

 

The abkhazian part of Georgia, being the most pro-western, never accepted nor took part in this coup. Both the military and political leaders in Abkhazia supported president Saakasjvilli.

 

The Abkhazian part of georgia soon became the base for the oppsition.

 

What had started as peaceful demonstation more and more turned to armed resistance as the brutallity of the new military goverment grow.

 

A number of rebel groups had formed and they saw it as their duty to do their best to protect the civilians as best they could.

 

Regular military units from the Abkhazian part of Georgia soon joyned the rebels in their strugle against the military goverment in Tiblisi...

 

The conflict more and more started to look like a full civil war. The rebel side was however hopelesly under-gunned and few in numbers.

 

The situation for the civilans soon got unberable and the number of refuges in the neigbouring countries grew at an alarming rate.

 

In an attempt to force the new leadership in Tbilisi to stop with their murdering of innocent civilian the UN inflicted a number of resolutions against the Georgian leadership...

 

freezing funds and more.

 

This did little to stop the brutal killing. Many expressed the opinion that the UN needed to use military force to remove the new, undemocratic goverment and reinstate president Saakasjvilli.

 

Russia, however, protested and the UN could not come to a decision to use military force.

 

As the weeks passed and the apparent warcrime after warcrime were broadcasted on the internet and television the Russian resistance to a military intervention declined.

 

On the 3rd of november Russia finally agreed to the use of 'limited' military force to expel the unlawful goverment in Tiblisi.

 

The first step in this military intervention was to annonce a No-fly zone over Georgia to prevent the tiblisi leadership to use the airforce aginst rebel and civilan targets.

 

NATO fighters based in Turkey were to enforce this no-fly zone.

 

A few days later the 74th fightersquadron based at Moody AFB and its A10s were transfered to Sukhumi airbase in Abkhazia with the task to conduct strikemissions against goverment forces targeting civilan areas.

 

There would be no TOTAL airwar this time though. The goal was not the complete destruction of the goverment armed forces.

 

The russians would not allow it. Only goverment forces directly targeting civilians could be attacked.

 

This ment that the Georgian air defence network were more or less intact.

 

 

 

 

The missions will be Medium difficulty i think...

 

Voice files will be included

 

Hopefully i will be able to make one new mission each months...not sure though...I only have a limited number of hours i can devote to this each week...

 

I hope you like the first one !

 

Regards, Repsol.

Edited December 16, 2012 by repsol

[tintifaxl]

Sounds like an interesting challenge - bring it on :-)

[repsol]

Hello, Tintifaxl

 

If you're a veteran pilot...the first mission may not be 'to difficult'...:joystick:

 

Hope you enjoy it anyway...difficulty level may well increase in future missions...

 

Good luck with this one ! :smilewink:

[repsol]

Hello ,guys...

 

A Few questions for future missions...

 

 

- Difficulty level...Do you find this mission to easy, to hard or just about right ?

 

- Amount of units...Do you feel that the this mission has to few units (friendly ,enemy)... Maybe adding more at the risk of lowering FPS...?

 

- any other like, dislike part of the first mission ?

 

 

Any feedback welcome....

[Spanker79]

I've just finished the mission...Nice scenario and a normal level of difficulty...

Correct amount of units...

Looking forward for the next one...

[repsol]

Hello, GR VAGGOS

 

Thanks for the feedback...:)

 

quick question...

Did you manage to kill any of the gunplatoons before they started to move out ?

 

Mission 2 is almost finished (i hope to have it done in a few days)

 

It may be a little more difficult...More airdefences :joystick:

It will be a two flight mission (the first one i have made with the player flying as number two...

requering some formation flying skills :smilewink:)

[Spanker79]

Hi...No..At the first and second time i bombed the artillery..When they started moving i could kill 2-3 of them with GBU-12 while moving...But after a while i left the mission...

Yesterday i played the mission with the tasks they were given to me..First the supply conv and then the art battalions...

The next missions don't make them to "heavy" with airdefences..

 

And cool radio chatter..

[Lange_666]

Flew it once today, nice effort, the radio chatter is cool. Got shot over the target area and limped back home.

I also noticed a glitch here and there:

- In the briefing before the mission is actually loaded, you get wind information. But once the game is loaded and you bring up the briefing screen, that part of the info isn't visible (maybe to much text?). So you have to write down that info before you load the mission.

- During the radio chatter where you get your coordinates there is some info about a radio channel with radio freq for xxx (at the end of the chatter). I didn't understand the radio freq (not a native english speaker so sometimes....) nor the rest that came behind it properly and wondered if i missed some vital info to use in the mission later on? Or is there a way to ask to repeat that info?

[repsol]

GR VAGGOS, thanks

 

I will keep your remarks regarding airdefences in mind...

 

Mission two is almost finished though.

 

It will have some more SAM units but if you just keep out of the way of those, read the briefing and follow the instructions from the flight leader you should be fine.

[repsol]

Hello, Lange 666

 

Thanks for the feedback..:)

 

 

- During the radio chatter where you get your coordinates there is some info about a radio channel with radio freq for xxx (at the end of the chatter). I didn't understand the radio freq (not a native english speaker so sometimes....) nor the rest that came behind it properly and wondered if i missed some vital info to use in the mission later on? Or is there a way to ask to repeat that info?

 

If i don't remember wrong...You only get one message with a RADIO FREQUENCY....That is the first message from COMMAND 1 once you are airborne (giving you your tasking).

At the end of that message you get the FREQUENCY 30.00 FM to be able to contact COBRA 11 at the target area.

 

You don't need to change any RADIO SETTINGS...the FM RADIO is set to 30.00 by default.

 

The message after that is the PILOT (You) making a communication check with COBRA 11 to make sure the communication is working. You don't need to do anything at this point...

 

The only time that you ACTIVELY will need to contact COBRA 11 is after the GUN PLATOONS move out and you want COBRA 11 to give you an update on their locations.

 

Use COMM.MENU option F10 to do this...

 

I will have a look at the missing WIND-info in the briefing

 

Thanks :pilotfly:

[tintifaxl]

 

I will have a look at the missing WIND-info in the briefing

 

Thanks :pilotfly:

 

In all campaign missions from ED this info is missing in the in-flight briefing, too. I think you'd have to write them down and add them to the mission description.

[repsol]

In all campaign missions from ED this info is missing in the in-flight briefing, too. I think you'd have to write them down and add them to the mission description.

 

Tintifaxl, you seems to be right...

 

I will add the wind info to the briefing when i make a V2 of that mission...

[repsol]

Missionbuilding put on hold...

 

I have been struggeling during the weekend with this new mission crashing...I have not been able to find a solution...:(

 

I'm tired if this and will take a break...

 

Maybe it will work after the next update...

 

For now...no more work