F-15 Campaign, Mission 3 - Outstanding mission, Wags!

[Agiel7]

Some people bemoan the lack of dynamic campaigns for DCS in its current form, and while I am not averse to the prospect (far from it, in spite of some bittersweet memories of Falcon 4.0's valiant shake at the concept) I don't think dynamic campaigns can offer intense experiences like this mission.

 

The one I speak of is the OCA raid wherein you fly terrain masking through the South Ossetian river valleys and the Caucasus Mountains to sneak up on the Russian AWACS. My hand had a deathgrip on my poor little Logitech flightstick :joystick: and throttle and more than once I had to pause the mission because my hand was cramping up, not to mention a few close calls with stalling due to a few high-G turns (partially due to me making one or two wrong turns through the valleys). Then there was the payoff of going the fighter equivalent of "rock and roll" on the A-50 (ripple firing all of my Slammers in pairs at various intervals), turning it into a fireball right from under the noses of the Russian SA-10s and SA-11s, dropping my tanks, and leaving an Eagle-shaped puff of smoke over the confused and flabbergasted Russians as I afterburned out of there. By the time I thought I was safely out of reach I thought that my fuel situation was so dire that I considered it a success if I managed to get my F-15 running on fumes over friendly lines and ejecting, but alas I made it back to Vazaini.

 

The mission reminded me of some of the missions in Jane's F/A-18 where you and your flight and a skeleton ground crew covertly land at an abandoned Finnish airstrip in order to launch a strike flying barely 300 feet above the deck against the Red Russian nuke storage bunkers. These types of missions make you think in your head: "If only James H. Doolittle can see me now..."

 

Great mission design Wags. Hope to see more missions and campaigns from you eventually when you find the time. Something tells me when you and the rest of the ED guys are finally finished with the F-15's AFM that mission will get a *whole* lot more interesting.

Edited January 20, 2014 by Agiel7

[TurboHog]

I've flown this mission with a friend recently (The Co-Op version) and it was awesome indeed! Fired two slammers, while evading R-27's from the escort planes. So I broke off as the slammers went pitbull. My wingman continued and moments later confirmed my kill while taking on one of the escort Su-27's.

 

We RTB'd, having successfully taken down the A50 and one Su-27.

 

Although technically speaking the mission is really simple (My thoughts as a mission designer), it's a joy to fly.

[Python]

I actually haven't tried this yet, not sure what I have been playing at but I'll get on it this week. I can't wait for the F-15's AFM! :thumbup:

[winchesterdelta1]

Had missions like this in the Total Air War Dynamic Campaign. So that feeling you have can easely be recreated in Dynamic Campaigns. Even more intense.

So now you killed the AWACS!!! Has it been any use to kill the AWACS for future missions? Are your fighters now able to move more freely in enemy airspace? No. You just continue on the next random mission.

[Hellfire257]

You may be speaking too soon. The F-15 campaign is not bug free sadly. I had to manually edit one of the missions due to a dodgy trigger before I could complete it.