Gepard

Ups. I must build Saki Airfield a second time. Last time i forgot to save the file. Funny!!!

Saki Airbase at Crimean peninsula, the big base, where the Soviets trained their pilots for carrier operations. If i could find a nice ramp i could include the NITKA system, where the soviet carrier pilots were trained for the ski jump take off. It would be close to the right end of the upper runway. The carrier landing zone was at the big square close to the left end of the upper runway. So Saki AB looks in the editor:

Mirny airfield. A small russian air base close to the western coast of the Crimean peninsula.

I found an embarrassing mistake on my terrain. The city and airfield Dnepropetrowsk are on the wrong side of the river Dnepr. I will correct this in the next update. Sorry.

View File Southern Ukraine and Crimean Peninsula Terrain Donbass Beta 0.40 ***************************************************** Southern Ukraine and Crimean Peninsula Terrain THIS IS STILL A BETA VERSION!!!! ============================ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This terrain is written for SF2E. It works well with SF2NA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I. Short description: The south and the east of the Ukraine are battlegrounds in mid 2022. At the moment nobody knows how the war will end. This terrain covers the most parts of the Ukraine and some parts of the Russian Federation. But only the southern war theater and the crimean peninsula are included in this terrain so far. Airfields and some other target areas are placed on the map. Further improvements will come. I made the airfields in their shape as realistic as possible. Only 3 airfields are more or less freestyle. At the moment the terrain is made for scenarios around the Crimean peninsula. Offensive operations are more focused for the ukrainian side. In ukrainian strike missions you can fly against airfields, factories, depots, Sewastopol harbour and support facilities and a dense SAM network. For the russian side you can only fly against enemy airfields. At the moment possible mission types are: Sweep, CAP, Escort, Intercept, Recon, Strike and SEAD missions. The terrain is set as NavalMap=FALSE, but it is prepared for NavalMap=TRUE. If you use SF2NA as basic game you may change the setting, so that carrier vs carrier operations will be possible. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. INSTALLATION: To run this terrain you need SF2NorthAtlantic or SF2 Israel or SF2 Europe. Unzip all files into your saved game folder ...ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2XXXX Thats it. If you have SF2Europe installed you must do nothing more. If you miss SF2E and have SF2Israel you must open file Donbass.ini with Notepad editor and look for the lines: //CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat change the entry into: CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat //CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat save the file ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. Credits. Tileset is basing on Jan Tumas tiles for First Eagles Shelter1 circular aircraft shelter taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue EWalls 500,100 and 50 m taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue SunShelter170m taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue D_Bunker taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue ControlTower.LOD made by RussoUK SA-6L i added Ukraine in the Userlist.ini StraightFlush i added Ukraine in the Userlist.ini SA-5 + SquarePair made by FastCargo, taken from SF2_SAMs_Pack, radar modded by me GK-P-14 Tall King Radar, made by GKABS GK-D-30Russia D-30 howitzer made by GKABS ShelterZuRoad made by AmokFloo Base_C.lod round parking area taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue Base_H.lod small parking area taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue ZIL-157 Sam Trailer made by ???, taken from SF2_SAMs_Pack, Factories made by Geezer T-72A i added tactical numbers and gave it a Fla-MG BTR-80A taken from eburgers PanzerPack for SF2 Plattenbau_4_Geschosse Made by Wingwiner as BlokW704P, i converted it from bmp to jpg Plattenbau_11_Geschosse Made by Wingwiner as BlokW7010p, i converted it from bmp to jpg Nitka_Ramp Made by Yakarow NitkaRezystorKompleks Made by Yakarow I hope i have not forgotten someone. . ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IV. This Terrain is Freeware. Commercial use is not allowed. And i say it again for the YAP, YankeeAirPirates file thiefs, the usage of this terrain and/or parts of the terrain for commercial use is not allowed!!!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ V. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM. Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany 29. Oktober 2022 Submitter Gepard Submitted 06/12/2022 Category Full Terrains

I have uploaded a first Beta some minutes ago. Swambasts High Dam i have removed from the terrain, because i still have no answer. Now only an Admin must give his Okay. Dont forget: It is a very early Beta. It is far away to be perfect.

Somewhere over the river Dnepr.

I sent him a PM, now I'm waiting for an answer. Thanks for the hint.

I used Swambasts Mossul Dam parts and the stock generatorbuilding to create the Dnepr High Dam of Saporoschje.

Snake Island

Sounds like a wrong radar mode was used.

I think, that i can release a first Beta this weekend. It contains the ukrainian airbases which i made as real looking as possible and the russian airbases which are made as placeholders. In a further step i will make the russian bases as unique and real like the ukrainians are already done. Then i made a placeholder targetarea for Sewastopol Harbour. If you use SF2NA as basic game then you will find Krivak destroyers in the harbour. All other games as basic will find an empty harbour. So a visit to Sewastopol looks in SF2NA: This targetarea is far away to be complete.

And Saporoschje is finished now. So it looks in editor tool: And so in game:

Real life had prevented my work on the terrain for a couple of days. Today i found time to finish Saporoschje Airfield to 75%. So it looks now in the editor tool: and so in game: The left upper taxiway bow with a lot of parking areas is still missing. I hope that i can to the rest of the job tomorrow.

If you mean on the sat image: A lot of IL-76 and then some MiG-25 or MiG-31. A couple of IL-18, An-26 and Jak-40. One An-72 and some Su-17s. The Sat image is from 2004. It seems to be, that the airfield was used at this time as storage or graveyard for planes.

SitRep: I'm working on the fck big airbase Saporoschje. Its giant. I have finished the southern part so far. The screenshot shows how big this base is in contrast to what i have already done. Funny fact to Saporoschje. There was a big automotive factory there. In the 1970th the soviets bought the licence to built FIAT cars, which were manufactured under the designation LADA. To avoid further licence fees the Saporoschje car development team got the task to redesign a FIAT into a own soviet car. The FIATs had had frontal engine and rear drive. In Saporoschje they made the decision to built in the engine in the rear too. But there was not enough space in the rear. Gearbox and engine did not fit. What do? An inginous designer had the idea. "Lets revers the gearbox!" And so they did and it fits perfectly. One flaw was, that the gears at the gear lever were now revers too. The first gear was not left front as in a normal car, but right rear! Okay. You can do it so, but its rubbish! For the soviet citizens and the eastern block car drivers it was good enough. For the rest of the world it was nonsens. The car, called "Sapo" had had a very interesting handling because it was very tail heavy, or with other words it was dangerous for the driver, especially when the streets were wet. I know from what I'm talking about. My parents had had one of this "Sapos". Spinning while driving through a curve was not seldom and for me as Kid very exciting. To solve the problem, we found out, it was helpfull to load sandbags in the trunk, which was located in the front of the car. So the tail heaviness was tempered and the handling of the car was extremly improved. And so it looked: Link to the picture source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS-966#/media/Datei:ZAZ-966_front_view.jpg

Lightning

Creating an airbase is simple. The only thing you must have in mind are the header lines. [TargetArea001] Name=Cherson Aerodrom Position=440000.00,514000.00 Alignment=FRIENDLY Location=3 AirfieldDataFile=desert_airfield3.ini <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<This is important. Its the definition from where the planes starts and land. And where parked aircrafts stand. ActiveYear=0 Radius=14142.135742 NumSquadrons=1 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This is important, but self explaining. Target[001].Type=SLB2400 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This must be a runway. Target[001].Offset=0.00,0.00 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Runway position is always 0.00,0.00. Otherwise the planes starts somewhere in the desert. Target[001].Heading=30 All other objects, which you can place with the target editor tool are based on the position of the runway. If you rotate the runway, all other objects hold their position in ralation to the runway.

This has nothing to do with 3d skill. I use the Target editor which is included in Mues Toolbox, that you can find in the download area. With this tool you can create airbases or other target areas easily. Its like playing with Lego bricks.

Ukrainian Airbase: Aerodrom Dnepropetrowsk

I will try it. But at the moment it has not high priority. First i will finish the ukrainan airbases. Then release a first Beta. Then making the russian airbases. Then an other Beta. And after this the rest will be done step by step. I know, that i must rework the village tiles. Russian and ukrainian villages are looking completly different from the central or west european villages. From above they are looking like the lines of a book, while in the rest of Europe the villiages are looking like a cluster.

So it looks in game: This airbase is from Baltic Entrance terrain. At this airfield i placed two stock airfield3 and a covering SLB2400 at the same place on the map. With this trick you can let an airfield "grow" during the years. It start with a simple airfield3, then some years later comes the covering SLB2400 and then some years later the second airfield3. You may also put two airfield3 files one after the other, so that it appears as would it be one single long runway with two dispersal areas. This has the asvantage, that both airfields can be destroyed and air operations can run from both airfields without hinder each other. Here a screenshot of 4 airfield3s connected to one big airbase. Done in my Korea MiG-Alley terrain.

As Menrva already said, it is not possible to connect a specific airfield to a nation. To your second question. It is possible with a trick. You create two target areas as airfields. You place them at the same position on the map, so that one runway is placed exactly over the other. The problem is, that only the upper runway can be destroyed, the lower runway is invulnerable, which can cause frustration if your mission task is to destroy this runway.

MiG-23ML over Arzis Airfield, southern Ukraine. WIP terrain.