thx malibu43 for your comment, don't worry I don't perceive them as negative
I know that there is a team working on a desert storm mod and it's not my intention to go into direct competition with them. First of all they are in a group and I am all alone and surely their combined experience will outweigh my experience. The main reason for not including a ground campaign is that I am working on my own: I don't have others to fall back on for guidance or testing, so those parts of the campaign where I am not proficient enough or lack time to test, are cut.
But that does not mean that CAS missions will disappear. I know that F-111's went on tank-plinking missions during the Gulf War, destroying fixed Iraqi tank positions. Those kind of missions are on my agenda, but i think they will fall under strike missions.
Another form of CAS are missions to support Special Forces, stuck behind enemy lines. Again I will have to check how I can encorporate these kind of missions.
As for my schedule, this is the route i want to take:
1/ install allied aircraft (I am busy doing that)
2/ install enemy aircraft
3/ install/edit ground units (SAM, AAA etc) on the terrain
4/ add additional scenery on the terrain
5/ figure out how to install those special missions (tank plinking, SF support)
6/ test the allied side
7/ test the red side (because some people showed interest in a red flyable campaign)
8/ write the manual (yep I intend to write an Allied Manual,an enemy order of battle and a weapons manual)
9/ release the damn thing
Oh yeah and I want to post from time to time on my blog too.