Celtic Wars - What If scenario...

[+Baltika 85]

OK, confession time, terrain targeting lost a couple of hours tonight - feature creep, aarrgghh

 

But I think it will be beneficial in the long run. The UK terrain will now ship with a campaign featuring the RAF & USAF vs a Soviet invasion of the UK. It is a simple .ini edit of the stock WOE '68 campaign to use the UK terrain, with some more interesting RAF birds added. The good guys are the RAF (with some help from Uncle Sam, happily extending his WW2 lend-lease arrangements with Old Blighty, dont'cha just love the capitalists ) flying from the "Celtic" side of the border.

 

The Soviets have occupied the whole of England and expect soon to crush the remaining British resistance with little difficulty. They got another thing coming. . .

 

Cue Judas Priest power chords and RAF Lightnings out of Leuchars screaming overhead

 

Both sides still hope to win the conflict by conventional means: The Americans seeking to avoid a MAD scenario which would result in an ICBM tennis match with no winners, just smoking ruins of American (and Russian) cities. The Soviets are confident enough in their massed tank armies to hold off on the nuclear option unless NATO pulls the trigger first.

 

So - the stage is set for The Battle of Britain II: Soviet Invasion UK :yes:

 

 

ndicki, this will give you a template, if you want to use it, for your Celtic Wars campaign. You will have to switch Red/Blue Force over, and the various Celtic nations will require a more complex campaign.ini file to select each of the featured nations' flyable squadrons, but it will give you a working baseline as a reference tool, if nothing more.

 

Tally-ho,

 

Baltika

[ndicki 22]

Sounds perfect. When you're ready... :smile:

[Canadair 16]

I had the luck once to fly an ATR-42 in the beautiful AirWales livery . somethign similar on an EF2000 would be a blast

[ndicki 22]

The Dragon's nice. They don't operate any more, sadly.

[ndicki 22]

The Hawk would not be the sexiest combat aircraft, but it would be the most numerous, at least until foreign machines become avaliable. So...

 

The logic is that they would be used as attack aircraft at relatively low altitude, hence the green and brown camouflage. And because I happen to have a weal spot for that sort of thing, and it's different from RAF specs - equally important if you're a small country trying to distance itself from its bigger neighbour. Just in case, I've tweaked it to carry 4 Sidewinders - I can't see why that would be technically problematic.

 

By the way - Welsh for "Rescue"?

Edited March 28, 2009 by ndicki

[GwynO 16]

Nice shots! I'm loving the camo! "Rescue" is "Achub"

[ndicki 22]

Thanks! Moving on to the detail work and weathering...

Edited March 29, 2009 by ndicki

[Canadair 16]

The Dragon's nice. They don't operate any more, sadly.

 

Don't they? I didn't know that. I had a great few days with AirWales people

[+Baltika 85]

Great Hawk skin

[ndicki 22]

[ndicki 22]

Baltika's UK terrain is out, and it's very nice. Go and get it!

 

BUT...

 

I don't have WOE, so I don't have the ground objects, houses, trees, etc. And the WOE stock tilesets are abysmal. The fields are all rectangular and regular, and nastily coloured, so they look like a childish parody of what American agriculture might look like if seen from the air. Not Baltika's responsibility, I must add, because he has done a great job with limited means, as he explains in the "read-me".

 

SO...

 

The trick is to download these tiles and objects, and tip the lot into your UK terrain folder.

 

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6192

 

And lo and behold, it looks right. Beautiful tiles for beautiful terrain. You'll probably have to turn your scenery settings down in order to keep decent FPS rates, but it looks great.

 

Happy!

[GwynO 16]

Wow!! That looks amazing! The clustering of buildings really reflects typical rural, outer suburban areas for much of the country. Great work latch!

[ndicki 22]

The Hawk is up in two versions, SF1 and 2 - have fun!

 

It's an updated model - Russ made it specially, so many thanks to him.