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Below I attached a package I made. It includes Russian Air Force, which starts in 1992 and uses new decals only beginning from 2010 (as in RL), automatically switches back to Soviet Air Force before 1992. Also included additional decals and nations from yakarov's helo mods. Last but not least, some small changes here and there for more realism made by me (Somali Air Force was once Somali Aeronatical Corps). Still a lot to do, I must fix Iran and other countries to make sure they reflect historical changes. Ah, for the Russian Air Force I used an alternative, smaller decal included in one of eburger's mods. It's the same blue-ish star as the one made by Nyghtfall. If you prefer his over the original ones, well you are modders after all... Happy Holidays! Decals_Nations.7z

Then I wonder why in the bloody hell Boeing's X-32 lost to Lockheed Martin's X-35... I am not against the idea of seeing the Advanced Super Hornet, but a lot of money has already been wasted on the F-35. You simply can't tell the F-35s to go f... themselves.

Next, he will resuscitate the Tomcat...

Well, actually, it is coincidence in this case. What did you expect? He opened fire at police officers. The least they could do was to return fire. And one officer got hit in the shoulder during the process. Fortunately he is fine, his injuries are not life threatening. In my country weapons are rarely seen and/or used. I too would have liked to see the bastard captured, but he drew fire on himself. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38415287

Wow, I'm impressed, very nice paintings, full of imagery and meaning. Thanks for posting this one!

They are. More RL developments on the artificial islands: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38319253

Just for historical purposes, would it be possible to upload that very same .hfd (maybe plus the old unuseful TerrainEditor) here at CombatACE?

Here's an answer on how the game will be. People need to forget about Assault Horizon real quick. That was a (sh*tty) spin-off, we are now back to good old AC-style: http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/12/05/ace-combat-7-return-strangereal-reason/ That being said, Yellow 13 was such an interesting character, a worthy enemy of Mobius 1!

Nope. Unfortunately this is a limit in TW's SF2. You can set two factions, one Friendly, one Enemy. Other countries listed in the _nations.ini are either Friendly or Enemy. My idea about the terrain was to make Iran NEUTRAL (it seems it "works", the game treats it like FRIENDLY, but spawns no aircraft), Iraq ENEMY and Saudi Arabia FRIENDLY. Iran can be set as Enemy in specific campaigns, I think, with no side effects (I am not sure how airbases will be handled though).

Yep, if you look carefully though, Stonehenge appears damaged, most likely it has remained so since the war in AC04. Moreover, Erusea was a Federal Republic, now it's a Kingdom? We'll see. Storyline should be set in the 2020s.

Exactly, an example would be Novalogic's Armored Fist 2 and 3, Comanche 3/Gold and the first two Delta Force games. They use a voxel engine, without hardware acceleration. Most of the stuff is 3D (lots of polygonal stuff), only a few 2D sprites are used for special effects and such. Even PSX games are not hardware accelerated, but that doesn't mean they are not 3D or don't use polygons at all.

Ditto, congratulations to the team, it's a very fine aircraft!

What Coupi said. Consider that flying certain heavy bombers can cause a CTD, especially if you order your flight to attack your target. I kept the amazing red cockpits by Stary. I remove cockpits which are inappropriate for some aircraft; I like to fly only the aircraft with their own cockpit, or with a cockpit very close to the RL counterpart (same plane, just inaccurate cockpit for a certain subvariant). I went crazy and probably made the biggest mod folder ever, with an objective in mind; most stuff with less space on the HD. I converted everything I could to .jpeg (without loss of quality thanks to a good software) and I even went on to remove backup files, readmes, thumbnail caches, .out files and so on. I kept it clean and small. FYI, it contains eburger's expansion packs (most of them except the Mediterranean one atm), TSF2, Falklands War, ODS, Korea, Taiwan, Pakistan/India, Crimea, Southwest Africa, and other scenarios/terrains, plus lots of additional aircraft and yakarov's helos (including the recent ones yet to be included in some mods). Everything has been tweaked and reordered to remove unuseful copies of aircraft, etc. It has become some sort of anthology of Cold War and post-Cold War history. My mod folder spans from 1948 to 2018, seventy years of aerial warfare. It "only" weighs 126 GB on the HDD.

Keep fighting, mate, we are with you. Wish you the best of luck!

Thanks Crusader, I remember the infos you gave me for the terrain. If I miss you in the credits list, kill me! BTW, I have no problem with the location of Tanajib, thanks to Google Earth and gerwin's TFDtool, I managed to be extremely accurate given the limitations of the terrain engine. I simply don't know if the USMC effectively built an expeditionary airfield near Tanajib, and if so, where precisely (of course, I guess it should be near Tanajib itself).

I found interesting material regading the USMC ops during ODS, I was able to estimate the location of two expeditionary airfields, Lonesome Dove and Al-Kabrit. Still I am not sure about Tanajib Expeditionary Airfield, I placed it a bit southwest of Tanajib Airport (some info confirms the existence of an expeditionary airfield, before the Saudis conceded the airport). I also added other Iraqi airfields that were missing. More airbases will be added just for eye-candy or for post-ODS missions. Gotta leave for some RL duties, I'll be back in two weeks.

Not what I was looking for, but has a lot of other useful infos, many thanks!

I don't think it is available. I once started making a 1958 Taiwan campaign based on the Second Taiwan Crisis, but I stopped because I had no info regarding Chinese squadrons and Navy.

Can anyone provide me with info regarding Iraqi positions during Desert Storm? Also, I need info regarding expeditionary airfields built in support of Desert Storm.

It's the proposed F-15 2040C upgrade. In other news, do the F-22s have HMD capability? AFAIK the Eurofighter does while the F-22 doesn't.

Wow, I haven't heard anything about it. The Syrian civil war is simply escalating with time, now even Turkey is on the battlefield. I wonder what Putin and Erdogan are up to. The US presence in Turkey is about to be challenged.

My Russian is a little rusty... Are Su-33 deployed to Syria? Most likely they are using the Syrian war as a test for new equipment.

Actually it's called Ras Safaniya in the revamped terrain, and it seems it is real, or at least it was at some point. I just have to re-brand it, it's an airport, not an airbase. Just have a look at Google Earth, or here: http://airportguide.com/airport/info/AG3219 More info I gathered shows that today Ras Tanajib airport serves both Tanajib and Ras Safaniya, so Ras Safaniya is more likely a decommissioned airport (Google Earth images of it are not pretty). I better add Ras Tanajib then. In other news, I missed the H1, H2 and H3 Iraqi airbases, they are a must, they will be added ASAP.

I'm back, the terrain is still alive and I have backups, just in case. Original DS terrain: Original IR2003 terrain: Revamped KuwaitWA terrain: I need some advise now. I still have to fine tune many targets with Mue's TargetAreaEditor, then I can start flattening/reworking the heightfield. Below, I'm attaching a list of airfields included in the revamped terrain. Tell me if I should add other ones, there are so many. Unfortunately, it turns out that if I place Prince Sultan Air Base and Shiraz Airport in their RL locations, these are beyond the wall, so they are not usable. At the very least they could work as Off Map Airbases with the function introduced in SF2NA, or I could place them in non-RL coordinates (problem is Prince Sultan is paramount for the DS campaign). If I knew about it before, I would have expanded the terrain's area, damn me! The terrain as of now contains targets for the Iraq/Iran war plus Desert Storm. Desert Storm targets and locations will only activate during their relative period, and they will deactivate soon after February 28, 1991. I might add post-OIF airbases and targets like in the IR2003 terrain, using the same trick. This will sort of double the targets number, and Iraq will turn Blue, while Iran turns Red, despite the fact Iraq will remain enemy in the _nations.ini. So a dedicated version of the terrain post-OIF will have to be made. Here's the list of airfields/airbases, keep in mind that the listed Iraqi airfields use/should use the pre-OIF names (the Yanks renamed and/or decommissioned some of those). So let me know if I made such mistakes. KuwaitWA_airbases.txt