No, but I bet you know what gif I meant 
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I wouldâve called it North Cape or The Arctic, or something like that.
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@wagmatt was the producer on janesâ F/A-18. This had a campaign played out in the ⊠Kola peninsula! So coo.!
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This is absolutely huge news for me. Way more significant than an new single aircraft module.
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Youâve got to be kidding me!
A few weeks back, I hosted a co-op event for my extended flight simming family.
You guys know how I love to come up with semi-plausibld scenarios in history. The challenge was to pick a time and place for a conflict that would include as many as possible of the craft we fly, all on one side. The main constraints were the Hornet driver who likes JDAMs a lot, combined with the F-5 and the UH-1H or similar vintage (UH-1Y doesnât count) Huey helicopter, and my dad who only flies the Viggen.
I ended up picking (of course) a war in the Arctic, near the Kola peninsula, using the Caucasus map as a stand-in. The scenario was Russia invading Finland, triggered by the Baltic states joining NATO. Finland not being in NATO yet, the main support comes from the other Nordic countries and the EU, which Finland joined in 1995, the same year they purchased the first Hornets.
IRL the Baltics joined NATO in 2002. Sweden retired their old UH-1s in 2001, Norway retired their F-5s in 2000 but Spain still flew them, Sweden flew the AJS-37 until 2005.
MiG-29s were transferred from the Luftwaffe to the Polish Air Force around this same time.
Finland flew Hornets, Fishbeds, and Mi-8s during this time. Easy to imagine a Czech, Polish or Hungarian Mi-24 joining an EU coalition. F-16s everywhere (Norway, Denmark, Netherlands), French Mirages (both, though we did not have F1 then) and Gazelle, same story.
And though none of the group flew them, I also threw in some Harrier IIs (could be UK GR.7s, or even Spanish or Italian AV-8Bs) and Dutch and English AH-64s.
The mission is probably way too small/easy for the kind of group we have here as it was made with a lower level of proficiency in mind but it could be fun to fly it together before everybody and their dog starts making better versions of this scenario on the proper map.
It is very simple but has something to do for everyone: troop transport, FEBA strike, interdiction, anti-ship, SEAD, escort, intercept (the trigger for this one may be a bit too specific)
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Spooky ghostsâŠ
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I should have bought the 2TB NVMe two weeks ago instead of the 1TB âŠ
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This will be a definite purchase for me. I spent many hours virtually flying missions in this region during the late 80âs and 90âs. F19 Stealth Fighter, EF2000 etcâŠsuch great memories.
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Man, gave me a flash-back there you did. We have it soo good now (in many ways).
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I never really get excited by the map releases. Im more of an aircraft geek.
But this one and the thought of Viggen, Mjolnir and mach 1.1 at 20 feet⊠has me more than usually buzzed
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wow, Troll-town looks to be in a chilly part of the world!
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We have the North Atlantic Gulf stream to keep us âwarmâ
ORBX making a map for DCS is great news! I dont know if youâve noticed, but theyâre pretty good at that sort of thing.
hehe
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Did try the Viggen sim at F21 in LuleÄ this thursday.
Not the same immersion factor as Dcs, but a good experience.
With this map coming will need more practice with Viggen and F-16 !
Will be interesting to see how detailed this map will be.
Hopefully the map will come in a wwii version later.
Buy Fw190/BF109 ?
Have some history here, Luftwaffe had their forward HQ at my homestead.
Still find some leftovers now and then 
Piles of vine bottles are ok, but mortar grenades not so.
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For me too. I also flew there in Janeâs F/A-18 and Jet Fighter Fullburn. Also Typhoon is coming to DCS so reenactment of the missions flown in EF2000 is a possibility. I would love to see F-19 in DCS eventhough it wasnât a real plane. It would be so cool to fly it in this theatre in realistic DCS environment.
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This.
I donât mean to criticize here, just an observationâŠ
ED stifles themselves, IMO, sometimes (not always) with their attitude towards hyper-accuracy.
Perfect is the enemy of Good. Physics is physics (yeah, yeah, I know, quantum-this and that, but bare with me): a âfictionalâ stealth fighter has to function correctly within the DCS World, not the real one. I would think if you called it, indeed, the F-119, then there can be no griping about it being accurate to the F-117?
Same with the Raptor and F-35: donât try to make a [perfectly accurate - you canât] Raptor/F-35 module, make a 5th Gen âKiteâ [1] - F-23? or F-36. That follow plausible physics and systems. 4.5 Gen maybe?
Would anyone buy, literally, this/these? No clue.
Anyway, my take.
[1] Cool raptors. I see them a lot around here.
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Agreed. I will never need to have an ASPJ perfectly simulated, nor would I know whether it was or wasnât either way. Model the classified bits where theyâre consistent and gimme gimme gimme! 
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