Freak's sometimes plausible history club

I sent a message on Discord too but didn’t hear from him so let’s start at the time in the OP

@Freak and everyone, thank you for a great nights fun and flying . :grinning: :grinning:

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I had a whale of a time, thank you. I love flying red air, playing the bad guy for you to shoot at. What a difference that AWACS and link16 made eh @Derbysieger :wink:

Those stinger squads took a little of the fun out of flying the red hind, but that’s ok, I bet the reds have more helicopters than the squad has missiles :rofl:

The scripting is lovely, with the column and the pilot rescues and all of those little surprises you built in. Brilliant fun!

If we do run this thing with a gaggle, it may be good to double up on the slots @Freak . So two of everything, allowing everybody to run in a pair if they want.

I would love a '81 version of this as well, without GPS, without HTS, without AMRAAM… Red air suddenly becomes a lot more menacing :metal:

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and please some weapons for the hinds :sweat_smile:

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Did I tell you about the time that I was heads-down in the Hornet trying to select center station jettison and had my wings removed by the Dutch Russian Eddie Vedder? :rofl:

Beautiful scenario @Freak and good times. Looking forward to the next one.

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Sorry I had some issues after getting wtfpwned by a German in viper for three times in a row :wink: SA is everything in air combat, and just after take-off that is often not the greatest. Killing the AWACS made schwacking the other guys pretty easy all of a sudden, fun times!

It’s amazing how quickly the scenario around Maykop airfield got cleaned up by you guys. Those choppers can really clean up when flown well (and opposed badly)!

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I know that was a bit cheap from me, I couldn’t resist :smiley:
You got your revenge though. That jammer truly fckd with my radar and I did not have tally on you xD

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No sir, not at all. The technological disparity was part of the scenario. You did as you were supposed to. It was fun getting back at you tho :salute:

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So so sorry i didn’t join last night.

I had an issue.

This decides to fail. :fu:

Can i join next time please @Freak

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Oh wow that sucks! Hope the rest of the pc is OK. Reading all the watercooler failures lately, I’m quite happy to just cut my hands open on that chunk of aluminium every time I replace parts.

maverick GIF

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Ha!

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Mine sounded like a chassis fan was working loose. So i left it as its massive faff to get to them on my case. Then all of a sudden it went quiet when i was doing some paperwork.

Thought it must be some dust imbalancing the fan that had blown off now.

No. That was the pump destroying itself as far as i can work out. Luckily it didnt leak it just failed and overheated the CPU so it shut itself down to protect itself.

I thought the GFX card had failed when i opened it as i couldnt get any display to show on the tv but when i plugged it into a monitor it showed overheat fault and cpu fan fault on startup.

Luckily i had the original fan that came with the cpu, swapped it over and back online. Ironically, its running 5 degrees cooler with the fan at idle which is irritating.

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Thanks for all the positive comments on the mission! It really helps to motivate me to do another one like this. Perhaps a little more challenge and a little less “clutter” on the playground would be nice.

There’s so much stuff in there we didn’t even do: ELINT, DEAD, Ship Strike, road base and AAR ops, and then there’s 2 surprises we didn’t trigger because of chance.

I fully understand what you mean, an 80s near-peer scenario is lots of fun too, but that will have to be a completely different scenario: this was especially set up around an expanding, militarizing EU, separate from NATO, former Eastern Bloc being on Blue (Poland and Czech with Mi-24, MiG-29 and Su-25), as well as Finland having F/A-18s and getting closer to the West (1995 is the year of both the Hornets purchase and them joining EU).
Hornets and smart bombs were a requirement from my brother for the scenario.

I had a look and the weapons were there in the ME just not in game. I think an update to the Mi-24 broke it, even re-adding them didn’t work. Now after copy-pasting it seems to have been fixed. That’s the problem with a mission with so many options: impossible to test everything and things will break.

Almost everything but Red Air was already set up with pairs as the minimum unit. I am now running through the slots again and ensuring everything is available in a pair, including Red. (with guns ammo, not sure where that came from: perhaps I copied from Viggens?).

When this and some other small improvements are done, I will upload the mission as a V2 to the User Files.

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fantasic looking forward to giving it a throw :smile: and thank you for running it

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ah … i see the problem there :laughing:

i moved away from corsair with my last cooler

this seems to be working well so far for me

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I guess you had fun chaps. too many things were going on on my Saturday night so wasnt able to join, hope next time

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Sorry I missed it @Freak . Everyone seemed to have a good time. I am 2 hours ahead yada, yada, yada… I am looking forward to this weekend. My lady is gone…Miss Her… But I get to play LOL.

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Ah for me it’s the opposite this weekend!
I am probably out this weekend but schurem is hosting a Fight Club this Saturday:

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Operation Lemming V2 uploaded to ED User Files:

Changelog:

New in version 2

Features

Added Mirage F1
Added Russian AWACS and Tanker with Escort
Added player slot for Red Hind near Maykop
Added more player slots on Red fighters

Fixes

Added weapons to Mi-24 slots near Maykop
Filled gun ammo on F-16 and other player-controlled fighters at Sochi (Norwegian Airbase)
Made naming of UH-1 player slots consistent
Removed some slots for helicopters at the Finnish road base (too far from Maykop)
Added delay between capturing of Maykop and subsequent triggered message

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looking forward to a night on this mission :grin:

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