Baltika

In testing now. It's reaally hard to survive for any length of time.. .

Hi Eric, thanks for the feedback, I'll take you up on that reading recommendation. Must admit, I hadn't thought how the Navy would fall into this, I'm open to suggestion. My gut feeling is they'd be more inclined to take the side of the Federal Government, having less obvious "regional" ties and for the mish-mash effect you cite. But who knows? Well, test-build campaign file is written, using Wrench's ASW rebuild terrain, for Texas. I have to write up a couple of win/lose texts, and unit text files so you know what side you are on (Friendly and Enemy units are all selectable from the USAF dropdown) then I'll fire it up. What I am finding is that it is very hard to survive at all going up against Eagles and Raptors, even if you are flying the same. Needs a readme, then it can go up. Cheers, baltika

Fair comment, I confess to absolutely no knowledge about how these units are stationed, administered, controlled, or answereable at all, other than what is available on wiki. What struck me about looking at it, is that how many of the USAF fighter units are stationed in the (former) Confederate States. In fact, I had to swap some over to Unionist loyalty to balance things up, on a purely territorial basis. I accept that it is totally fictional (and possibly delictual, to use a traditional Scots legal term) to suggest that serving members of a Nation's armed forces would turn their arms on fellow members of that same nation's armed forces. Absolutely no disrespect is intended in that regard. But, most nations have faced civil war at some point in their history for whatever reason - and that is precisely what happens. I was proceeding on the basis that the ANG units would have stronger (emotional, if not legal) ties to their home states than the federal USAF forces stationed there, and that State Governors would have powers to call out National Guard Units - which may or may not be heeded. There is also the possibility that there is a General or Air Commodore (or whatever) around who fancies himself as the next General Lee - but reckons he can crack it this time. Hubris has led to many a downfall on the battlefield - but it has also led to a change in the course of world history. Like I said, it's for fun only. There are enough people around who like to re-enact Gettysburg or whatever that I thought it might be of some interest. But, I am happy to be corrected on any of these points. . .

Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, why? "USA 2010:- Against the backdrop of challenging world opinion and the continuing war on terror, and the ever-growing clamour following alleged civil and human rights abuses, coupled with growing crime and murder rates on the domestic front, the liberal and progressionist leader of the USA proposes a new Bill of Rights to Congress. Abolishing the Right to Bear Arms and the Death Penalty, the Bill provokes the greatest intellectual and popular debate on the state of the American Nation for 150 years. When the Bill passes the first stage of the legislative process, a powerful lobby of State Governors demand a referendum of the people before the Federal Government proceeds further. The referendum is held, but the result referred to the Federal Supreme Court following a "miscount" in a crucial swing State. The Bill is passed on the authority of the Supreme Court. Allegations of political interference in judicial independence are levelled, but the Washington Administration holds firm. The Federal Government issues an ultimatum: an amnesty for all citizens who surrender their weapons within 30 days, otherwise face prosecution to the full extent of the new law. The State Governors of Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina responded: no citizen shall be required to surrender any weapon, invoking the Second Amendment as interpreted by the US Supreme Court Decision of "District of Columbia vs Heller" 2008 07-290. Washington is unimpressed, citing the authority of the legislative process of the Federal Government. Popular demonstrations in the southern states multiply. As the western world looks on in horror, the Federal Government mobilises national troops to "maintain public order in disruptive States." The State Governors protest that Federal military intervention over State boundaries would transgress local jurisdiction - to no avail. As the first Federal soldiers cross State borders, the Governors call out the militias in defence of their citizens' constitutional rights. With emotions running high, the call is answered. . ."

For those who missed what kicked this off:- http://forum.combatace.com/topic/49378-fess-up-time/ Here's how that OOB is shaping up:- ************************* Confederate Air Forces ************************* Texas Air National Guard 182 FS, 149 FW F-16C/D Lackland AFB, San Antonio Florida ANG 159FS, 125FW F-15C/D Jacksonville ANG Base USAF 325FW Tyndall AFB, Florida 2FS - F-15C/D 43FS - F-22A 95FS - F-15? Georgia ANG 116th Air Control Wing Robins AFB E-8 Joint STARS Alabama ANG 187FW - Dannelly Field, Alabama 100FS - F-16C/D Louisiana ANG 159 FW - NAS/JRB New Orleans 122 FS - F-15C South Carolina ANG 169 FW - McEntire Joint National Guard Base 157 FS - Swamp Fox - F-16C Blk 52 ********************** Unionist Air Units ********************** 1st Air Force (1AF - AFNORTH) Mass ANG 104FW, 131FS - F-15C 120FW, 186FS - F-15C - Montana 142FW, 123FS - F-15A/B/C/D - Oregon 144FW, 194FS - F-16C - California ANG 148FW, 179FS "Bulldogs" - F-16C - Minnesota ANG - Duluth Int Airport 158FW, 134FS - F-16C - Vermont ANG 177FW, 119FS - F-16C - New Jersey ANG 9th Air Force - Shaw Air Force Base - South Carolina 1FW, 1FG - Langley AFB, Virginia 27FS - F-22A 71FS - F-15C/D 94FS - F-22A 4FW, 4OG - Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina 335FS - "Chiefs" - F-15E 336FS - "Rocketeers" - F-15E 20FW, 20OG - Shaw AFB, South Carolina 55FS - Fighting 55th - F-16C 77FS - F-16C 79FS - F-16C 23FW, 23FG "Flying Tigers" - Moody AFB, Georgia 74FS - Flying Tigers - A-10 75FS - Tiger Sharks - A-10 33FW, 33OG - Eglin AFB, Florida 58FS - F-15? (Air Superiority) 12th Air Force - maybe?? ***************************** I have deliberately split the units stationed in the Carolinas, Florida and Georgia for that "brother vs brother" vibe of the Civil War. Suggestions, comments, etc etc most welcome. I think I'm gonna need a bigger map of the USA. . . For the avoidance of doubt, this is intended as a "what-if" scenario for entertainment only, although, as always with my scenarios, I would prefer if those flying them bore in mind the simple "lest we forget" lessons of the last hundred years of world history. And, I bought my poppy today for the servicemen and women of all nations, not the politicians. Having said that, I'll be with 100FS out of Alabama, no question

Bump! Apart from loving the title of this thread, I have been working up some campaigns for Kurils terrain and running into trouble getting my Foxbats to engage properly... for all the reasons explained in this thread. I have applied some of the rough edits as suggested by C5 and Gepard to the avionics sections, and it's better, but, you know. . . I was just wondering if some MiG-guru like lindr2 or Gepard was thinking about a radar upgrade pack for the excellent Foxbat pack by Dave and others available here at CA? Cheers all, Baltika

Nice one, a most welcome addition

Hi there, Waay back in the day, Bunyap built a Test Range terrain for SFP1/WoV/WoE. Grab it here:- http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=2658 This is set up so that you can fly practice missions only, without enemy air interference. It should give you a guide as to how to set up SoCal terrain as a purely test range terrain. It may be as simple as opening up the terrain_TARGETS.INI file and batch converting all the "ENEMY" entries to "FRIENDLY" (Use find/replace in wordpad). But you may also need to move the frontline in the terrain_MOVEMENT.INI file in order to create a practice range with enemy ground targets. I think your test range would also have to be defined as "ENEMY" in the targets.ini. The important thing is to have NO enemy airbases. That means you can only fly blue-side birds on the terrain, though. These are only suggestions, I haven't looked at how to do it properly myself. I have had requests to make my UK terrain Blue-flyable only for training purposes, and I may get around to it someday. But that is how I would go about it, I think. Good luck, Baltika

Sounds good Eric, I for one would be interested in a WoV Oct '08 version of your campaign/upgrade pack. I will be moving over to SF2 series, but not til I upgrade my hardware, which will not be until well into next year at earliest I suspect. Cheers, Baltika

Thanks veltro

Listened to this album a couple of times now. . . "Storm" is a great track also. Look, it's all good. You like guitars, you like guys who say, "They'res a bandeet on yoo're Taaaylll!!!" You're gonna love these guys, OK?! Tallyho! Baltika

OK, I may be a pasty faced, kilt-wearing Scotsman with an unfortunate taste in Russian beer. . . And I may like flying red-side birds and building those campaigns. . . But, when it comes right down to it. . . I'm a redneck at heart (and I bleed Red, White and Blue) Picked this one up on trust, from the old Van Zant days. Title track "God & Guns" is worth the price of entry, "Still Unbroken" and "That Ain't My America" are standout tracks, and may just prompt me to build that Confederacy 2010 campaign (Lone Star State & Allies versus those d**n Yankees, probably on Wrench's American Southwest terrain ) Anyone else from the Skynyrd Nation round here?

Great news, Thanks very much to everyone whose hard work has gone into this release. I'm really enjoying the EAW revival Of course, you will tell me it never went away Cheers to all the EAW propheads

Did I see Frogfoot mentioned? Wow, top work Now I'm gonna have to buy a new comp to move over to SF2 series

Tragic, tragic news. My sincere condolences to his family and to all who knew him.

Great detective work there I'm off to re-install WoV with 08 patches Cheers, Baltika

Progress update. . . Egress from NAF ATSUGI, near Tokyo, Mount Fuji fairly dominant on the skyline. . . Meanwhile, Fishbeds scramble from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. . . Great part of the world for volcanoes, mountains, deep valleys and lots of little islands which are quite tricky to place runways on - but we're getting there

Now that is something else. . . I am reaching for my Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes (yes, audiocassettes) as we speak. . . Where can we d/l this assasin, and where is the US Constitutional Crisis: Confederacy 2010 campaign to go with it??? What, there ain't such a campaign? Yet. . . Ya'll know the British Republic will provide military aid to its former colonies. . . And Eurofighter will seriously kick some Yankee F-22 ass (j/k )

I promise to finish something, someday. Resolution: Don't start any new stuff

Don't worry, what I call my "North Cape" is well ahead of this in terms of development, despite being started much later. California FS was basically languishing on my HD as I reckoned Wrench had it covered - hell, I built a campaign for Wrench's Scal after I had done all the stuff you see here. This just got dredged up from the vaults because wpnssgt's Red Flag thread struck a chord. I didn't want to hijack his thread, so I started this one to show what I had worked out could be done in TE. I've made the alpha available because this is near the bottom of the pile of a long list of terrain wips. Here's how they're stacked:- NZ: A few more runways to be placed/flattened/test-flown. Then targetisation But it is the most advanced. Ironically, my most recent full-fledged TE project, but it has had the benefit of all my earlier head-scratching. Kuril: Intended as a quick fix to showcase a fully transitioned tileset, based on Deuce's WoE repaint. As with all my stuff, I got carried away, it will ship with 3 campaigns for JASDF/USAF/USN/USMC vs USSR (& for 2010, Breakaway Eastern Russian Empire) North Cape: Really Finland, northern Sweden, northern Norway, Kola Peninsula & Sankt Petersburg environs. All the targetlist is done, bar Norway. 2010 air campaign is built, featuring all listed nations plus USN CVBG and RAF expeditionary force, working on ground war. Iceland: I really want to get the tileset done & released. It is well advanced, but tiling from scratch is darn hard work. If I have to make another &%$&£%^ transition tile. . . From then on, a mish-mash of stuff, including upgrading my British Isles beta to full release, and that insane Northern Europe from Iceland to Moscow and all points in between, right down to Kursk. Speaking of which, don't get me started on my WW2 stuff Personally, I blame Gepard for posting his tutorials to TE. But for that, I would have been happily churning out campaigns files for existing terrains

OT: Wrench, where do I get your Confederate Spit? What's it called, General Lee? Time to give those dashed Yankees a trouncing

Wrench, you hit the nail on the head. . . Never mind the darn UFOs, I want a Shado Space Interceptor for WoE (And a girl in a purple wig and silver miniskirt - better speak to the missus about that one )

Excellent, Cheers Russo

Great plan, Area 51 is on the map, so we are good to go. I seem to rememebr a beta UFO model floating around somewhere?

Hi Jel, Thanks very much for the prompt and detailed response. Lots of useful info there. I am very excited at the prospect of the new build, like many people I suspect Thanks for the offer of help. I am quite happy to wait for the new release and upgraded campaigns as that seems the best way forward. Cheers, Baltika