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Home again, safe and sound. Geez that's a long flight to/from Hawaii! My butt is schmushed.


Hollo pointe is on the latest update, but I need to to a quick save on the missions to get them updated, too. I'll do that in a bit.


WTG BEANS -- glad you are back in the cockpit. I've decided to go forward with a new system, prolly with a 4K monitor. BEANS that's a nice new display you got!

WC

I was home sick today and kinda ran amok in The Highway. It's a little safer to fly around now.

Thanks for the server last night Crew, I had a great time. Good crowd too!

It was fun smashing targets at that railyard across the water in Erl..

I saw the crowd on Hollo Pointe last night but it was too late for me to join. Good to see so many on!

Yes, that was a lot of fun. Cleaned up in Erl Sis (Blue COOP) and then went to Zugdidi to blow the bridge (Red v Blue H2H). Great crowd -- had fast movers and Tactical Commanders along with the A-10Cs, Hueys (dropping Stinger teams) and Ka-50s!



tc -- got The Highway going again under the latest update, as raven is coming in this weekend and that miz is a favorite of his. We'll also be dusting off the ol' Huey Apocalypse.

WC

I would like to join in on some Huey flying. I was thinking of requesting Highway since I love that death ride down to the coast, but now it is on deck so queue up "Ride of Valkyries!"

I've never experienced the Apocalypse mission but I think I saw a screenshot of four hogs rolling down a hillside in formation so definitely looking forward to it.

I'm down to fly some more tonight. I really need to refine my radar skills in the fast movers.

BEANS, you were saying last night that I should wait for DirectX12 release before buying new hardware. Here is a link to an article by NVidia --
NVidia DX12 Blog

So I gather there will be GPU hardware advancements to support DX12?


BTW -- The Highway has good F-15C slots (Blue COOP).

WC

Welcome back WC!

Is the server down? I am running 1.2.16 but thought I saw it up a couple for days ago (after latest patch). Can't see it today.

Hi dagger,
Yep, it sure was. I have this F-15C mission called Kill Bombers and it usually crashes after a few hours. After putting on the latest patch I thought to try that miz again. I need to grab the logs and post them to DCS Forums, again.

I started The Highway. TV is great that it works on my iPhone!

WC

Was using it from my iphone too crew, I use it to connect to my airplane detecting computer so I can watch the signal strength on the program I use to pick up ADS-B signals. Helps me determine when military planes are close enough to see.

I was playing in the dirt tonight, lord what a frustrating endeavour. AI being god like and seeing through cover is insane, and Tors shooting down TOWs?? Surely that's a stretch. I did manage to put a crane between myself and the Mi-28 though while driving the Vulcan and it saved my butt long enough to damage him and he RTBed for a while before slaughtering some margarine armoured M-1s and Bradley's. CA has a lot of potential but it's a bit of a headache right now. But it's a good way to mix up how I play missions. I'll try to be on tomorrow eve, I'd like a chance to adjust and retry some tank attacks. This mission is great fun.

Trying to go up against AI vehicles is certainly tough, especially in the trees where they can 'see' you. I play it a lot from the Tactical Commander's role where I'm guiding groups into position. That way, when my group gets in range, they can use their own AI capabilities to attack.

But there's also the JTAC role, and if you have good SA (F10 & F7 views), you can look out for enemy ground missiles at long range. You'll see them launch, coming at you, and you can hear them as they get close. If you can get to a good overwatch with some cover close by, the HUMMER TOWs work well for long range engaging and fairly accurate as you guide the TOW to target. The M1-A1's are fun to drive as they get stuck the least. I'll bound over the terrain in an M1-A1 and use the G + mouse to command the rest of the group to keep up; the rest of the group seem to do pretty good at negotiating difficult terrain that you may not be able to drive through. I did figure out recently how to site the main gun on the M1-A1, and it is DEADLY.

In the Witches Hollo mission you can get JTAC vehicles up on the ridges above the enemy camp and lase the targets for A-10Cs to drop GBU-12s. BEANS and I have had success with this, where he was above the cloud cover and dropped onto coordinates I gave him and his GBUs followed my beam onto the targets.

I do want to play around more in CA with the air defense -- which is a feature in Bridge At Zugdidi for the Red team, with all of the TORs available.


Happy Friday!

WC

If you are aware of an enemy missile coming at your vehicle, move the vehicle to avoid the missile much like you would do with an aircraft -- those missiles are not that maneuverable. If there is cover then get behind it fast and you will be OK.

WC

Thanks for the reply crew, I'll certainly take that advice. In retrospect I shouldn't have snuck up the hill in an M1 but should have taken a HMMWV. Could have outranged the BMP with it easy as pie instead of being nailed by it through cover trying to get sighted up.

How are you sighting the Abrams' gun? Right click? I wonder if I'm missing something.

Oh, it is something like that. You will see a red targeting bracket -- right mouse? -- and then I think it is Enter to lock it. Must be w/in 7,000m. Left mouse to fire and wait until the exhaust clears to see where you are hitting.

WC

Ah yeah that's it, I've been hitting enter and getting the elevation I need to shoot at to arc the shells. Glad I wasn't missing anything. I just restarted The Highway, I plan on attending later for a rip down it. Hope to see some people there!

Oh when I played last eve I flew the long way around after Force Correlate killing the first SA-11 on the right at the start point. When I arrived at Galendzik I couldn't rearm.. That was odd, but it was probably a temp glitch. Also lol aparently G a l e n is a swear word?? It censored my original post!

I always called it Gelen

Erl Sis -- added an AWACS for the F-15Cs and a squadron of Su-27 AI to do battle with. Fixed some messages for the RR Destroyed.

Bridge At Zugdidi -- hope the Su-27s will not all get stuck on the runway anymore. Should provide a better challenge to the F-15Cs.

WC

Hahaha! Show off, using correct spelling! Good times last eve, thanks.

Nice weekend flying. These are from the little bit my of contribution ...



Guns Mode on The Highway --


tc and I attacked Novo Airbase with CA,,, and won,,, twice --


Tankerwade escorting a Blue convoy in Erl Sis --



WC

Good times! Crew, what's the view in that second last shot (Abrams?),it looks similar to F2 when you're in a plane but you've got sights.