TheStig

Freaking awesome! I can't wait till the whole family is done!!!

I have noticed in the past couple of days that my decals and numbers don't show unless I click on the squadron, or unit box and select them again. For example, no numbers show on my F-14 if I select intercept and launch the game unless I go into the loading screen and select the unit and/or squadron again. Not sure if this is a rendering issue or not. Confusing...

Sugarblues you are right. I changed the aircraft numbers and the decals appeared instantly. Thanks!

Campaign Idea on the Berlin Crisis I had a small yet creative revelation on creating a great campaign that would contribute to a Cold War gone hot for WOE fans like me and a very realistic & alternate era of the Berlin Crisis. The setting is on the stock Germany map with aircraft from the mid-to-late 1940s, post WWII. I'll put a summary below along with aircraft ideas. Campaign Era & Length - June 1948- December 1949 Name: The Berlin Crisis & Escalation Aircraft will be a transition between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War. However availability for aircraft gets rarer as they get older, but here is the idea: USA C-54 Skymaster (Cargo Plane for Berlin Airlift) F-4U Corsair Variants P-47N Thunderbolt P-51D/F-51D Mustang P-61 Black Widow B-29 Superfortress F-80 Shooting Star Germany (A What-If Idea that the Luftwaffe is in Remnants but still capable of defense) Heinkel He-111 Junkers JU-87 Junkers JU-88 Messerschmitt BF-109 Messerschmitt BF-110 Messerschmitt ME262 Messerschmitt ME163 'Komet' Focke Wolfe FW-190A Dornier DO-24 (Cargo Plane) Britain Avro Lancaster De Havilland Mosquito Gloster Meteor Hawker Fury/Sea Fury Hawker Tempest Short Sterling Supermarine Spitfire (Latest Version) Westland Whirlwind Soviet Union Ilyushin IL-2 Sturmovik Lavochkin LA-15 Fantail Lavochkin LA-11 Lavochkin LA-5 Mikoyan-Guervich MIG-3 Mikoyan-Guervich MIG-9 Fargo Tupolev TU-4 Bull Yakovlev YAK-9 Frank Yakovlev YAK-15 Feather Campaign Premise: In May 1948 the Soviet Union imposed a heavy blockade against the west, cutting off East Berlin from any allied support. As a response to this, President Truman dispatched C-54s to support citizens of the East known as the Berlin Airlift. As Stalin grows infuriated that his concept of forcing rule over Berlin using starvation as his weapon flails, he orders interception of the C-54s. As Germany struggles to fend off the Soviet interdiction with remnants of its army and the Luftwaffe, Truman responds by sending the Strategic Air Command and Marines to deter aggression by targeting Soviet bases and incursions into West Germany. With the Soviets now nuclear capable, Stalin threatens to insitute a nuclear response on any invasion of territory for deterrence escalating European forces to DEFCON-III status. Flyable Aircraft - Any non-Soviet aircraft above should be made flyable to add to the fun factor of possibly a 50+ sortie campaign. Fly your own war; it's your decision to escalate this into a nuclear exchange. Thoughts and ideas are welcome.

Right now I'm delaying the project for a good reason... House Hunting. I will resume in about 3 more months. Nevertheless, ideas are still welcome to be posted on here so that I can gather the necessary info to create the campaign.

Someone tell me I'm hearing things? Gates said today that the Raptor line is stopping at 187?!

I used this one by the way from page 1 to input in my D-model: [RocketTray] SystemType=FIXED_GUN GunPortAnimationID=10 GunPortOpenTime=.5 GunPortCloseTime=.9 GunTypeName=MightyMouse InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN MuzzlePosition=-0.639,3.033,-0.13 LightPosition= -0.689,3.083,-0.13 MaxAmmo=24 EjectShells=FALSE MinExtentPosition=-0.394,1.473,-0.461 MaxExtentPosition=-0.394,1.473,-0.461 That's all that there is? Was there any other lines in the INI from the original missile station that should be included in this for the animation to work?

Weird. No Rocket tray animation. Did I take something out I wasn't supposed to?

Maybe they don't want guns too because their covered by Eurofighters in the event of battle?

Happy Easter!

I love it Veltro! It passed my test.... tactically nuking a section of East Germany

Oh yea... that'll buff out!

Third Wire Anthology? Will there ever be one? There are so many sims from Thirdwire that can be merged into one big Gold/Anthology bundle. We could finally have carrier abilities in every game and fly all the campaigns we can! I wonder it TW has ever gotten this idea to consolidate everything into one big Sim and distribute it out... I can't seem to get an aircraft carrier to work on my Germany CE map so I am just wishing this one would happen.

Effective immediately, I have begun working on this campaign. I am thinking of inserting a small taskgroup in the North Sea to add some Naval ops to this scenario. This will make the use of USN Corsairs in this. I would like to use the F4U-4 and F4U-5s in this. Especially F4U-5Ns for a little night fun and 20mm loose-cannons. What other jet aircraft did the navy have in 1948?

Hey Veltro I saw you updated the file this morning? Is this the Final then or still Beta?

Are you going to do a GR9 too? I don't think there is much difference externally between the 7 and the 9. Man I can't wait for the GR7!

DEFCON-I in 1960 @ Mach 2.

My friend, thanks so much!

No but can someone cut and paste the entry on here so I can insert it? Thanks!

We in the states love animals. Seems like a justifiable response to me..

I hope whoever steps into office next resumes production. It reminds me of the B-1 when Carter axed it and Reagan made it possible for Rockwell to resume construction, production and procurement.

Yea but it's radar cross section is still larger than a Raptor. Heat signature is HUGE still on it too. Lockheed's creation is for export to countries that one some stealth technology on their aircraft. It is nowhere near as advanced as an F-22. We are making a huge mistake here in the long run cutting a plane that will give us service until at least 2030.

It's not working for me. Not even showing an ammo quantity (it's all grayed out) in the loading screen... confused!

How can we have adequate defense of our country without the latest technology? Pretty crappy that we are blowing billions (err trillions) on bailouts, banks, and garbage spending as to re-equiping our military to deal with 21st century threats. I know that history has proven production can be restarted (i.e. Carter's B-1 cut and Reagan's B-1 recovery), but what about the Raptor? Can this even be restarted?

I just noticed on a Corsair that I downloaded the canopy translucency (exterior) is not showing up. I'm not sure if this has to do with cockpit reflections or not as mine are turned off. Is this an issue with the LOD or an INI File?