OPERATION EXCLAVE - Unofficial Campaign
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I’d like to share a new unofficial campaign I’ve been working on for POH so we can enjoy this theater until the official ones arrive:
OPERATION EXCLAVE
Picture:
Moroccan forces have launched an assault and have claimed Ceuta and Melilla exclaves during the night, and are now aiming towards the spanish capital city, Madrid.
Spain and it’s allies must prevent this from happening, while aiming to recover both exclaves.Objectives:
SPAIN: protect Madrid and recapture Ceuta and Melilla exclaves (city objectives)
MOROCCO: maintain Ceuta and Melilla and capture MadridAvailable teams:
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Spain (blue team)
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Portugal (brown team) - will join Spain
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U.K. (yellow team) - may or may not join Spain
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France (orange team) - may or may not join Spain
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US (green team) - will join Spain at a later stage
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Morocco (red team)
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Algeria (grey team) - may or may not join Morocco
Some of the main available flyable assets:
-SPAIN: spanish EF-18, EF-2K, Mirage F-1, AV-8 and F-5 squadrons;
-PORTUGAL: portuguese F-16AM, F-16B and Alphajet squadrons stationed at Monte Real, Sintra and Beja airbases;
-U.K: Jaguar and Tornado squadrons stationed at Gibraltar;
-FRANCE: Mirage 2000 and Rafale squadrons (airbased and carrier based);
-US(NATO): F-15, F/A-18 and F-22A squadrons (stationed at Lajes airbase / carrier based);-MOROCCO: Alphajet, F-16CFT, F-16C-52+, F-16D-52+, F-5A and Mirage F-1 squadrons;
-ALGERIA: MiG-25, Mig-29S, Su-24M-EW and Su-30MKK squadrons.… and more.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1 - Download the compressed folder: https://www.dropbox.com/s/frfo3jytq1ow3od/Add-on%20Iberia.7z?dl=0
EDIT- original STATIONS.ILS.DAT file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ygg5jger7cpgop/stations%2Bils.dat?dl=0
I’ve made a mistake on the compiled folder, so please download this file and place it inside the campaign folder for the tower comms to work properly (sorry about that)2 - Unzip it and copy over your \Falcon BMS 4.33 U1\Data\ folder and overwrite the original files (NOTE: you may want to make a backup of the original campaign folder, if you like to keep other campaigns);
3 - Enjoy it
OBS: This is my first attempt to make a campaign, so I’m sure many many aspects can and may be improved, including balance of forces, unit usage, storylines, etc, etc… so I would appreciate your help and thoughts on improving it and maybe some ideas for storylines for two other campaigns. All help appreciated!
Enjoy, folks!
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Looking good mate!
Thanks for sharing… -
Nuno Santos thanks for camp. Special in this nice theater.
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Awesome! Thank you!!
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Welcome to campaign creation, Nuno, I’m sure you did a great job
PS: you didn’t use MC to create it?
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Welcome to campaign creation, Nuno, I’m sure you did a great job
PS: you didn’t use MC to create it?
Thx, Lorik.
Yes, I did. I stopped using TacEdit for a couple of years now but since POH is a 128 segment theater, sometimes I still have some issues with MC (can’t be sure if it’s related to the size of the theater, but I assume so…).
The main issue I had during the camp development is that, from time to time, the ground units seem to behave completely differently from before, sometimes ignoring direct orders and such, and it’s not an easy task to understand “the brain” behind the campaign engine
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@Nuno:
Thx, Lorik.
Yes, I did. I stopped using TacEdit for a couple of years now but since POH is a 128 segment theater, sometimes I still have some issues with MC (can’t be sure if it’s related to the size of the theater, but I assume so…).
The main issue I had during the camp development is that, from time to time, the ground units seem to behave completely differently from before, sometimes ignoring direct orders and such, and it’s not an easy task to understand “the brain” behind the campaign engine
Pretty painful indeed. I tried to work on Israel for a rather scenarised campaign but got sick of unit not being able or likely to do what they were ordered. Fortunaly LK worked well on that aspect…
Forget my MC question, I had trouble using it, not anymore
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Nuno’s, looks as though the Station+ils.dat that you created is porked. None of the entries call out the correct CampaignID #.
You can look at the first entry Albacete, whose CampaignID# is 2093, but in the Stations+ils.dat it has the incorrect CampaignID# 2836, which is a bridge!!
Are the movies that you included new, I didn’t check them.
I’m hooking your campaign file in with the other two, and here’s what it looks like:
Cheers,
C9
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Hi,
Yes I noticed too that when requesting taxi it tells me : ‘you are outside my airspace’
Also a question for Nuno, should the intro movie be playing when selecting the start campaign selection button?
Or are the movies only triggered somewhere into the campaign, because no movies playing so far here, but just flew only one mission into campaign.Btw looks great C9 the 3 combined.
Cheers Obi1
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Obi1, revert to the old stations+ils.dat that came with the default install.
If you don’t have it, let me know!!
Cheers,
C9
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@Cloud9:
Very strange, mate. In my rig everything is working like it should, regarding stations+ils.dat…
Even stranger is that I didn’t touch the file, it’s the original one.EDIT: I just confirmed, my stations+ils.dat file has 17/09/2018 date, so somehow I must have done something with it with Mission Commander without noticing it…
Tomorrow I’ll update the download files.
Thx alot, C9, appreciate all the helpAnd yes, the movies are new, so probably will mess up with the other campaign triggers…
@Obi: the first video you see is because Morocco starts on the offensive, so it’s triggered on the very start of the campaign.
Thx for the feedback, guys!
EDIT 2: original STATIONS+ILS.DAT file available on the first post!
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Yes, Nuno, I believe somehow you ended up generating the Station+ils.dat by mistake!
Anyway’s, if you look at your Save0 file, you will find that in the Campaign page, Teams tab, that the UK is not present:
This is because in the Teams page, Info, the UK does not have a flag assigned, it is 0, which is what the Civilian entry has:
The flags are assigned as follows:
Civilian 0
NATO 4
Spain 1
Portugal 5
France 2
UK 0
Morocco 6
Algeria 7So two teams(Civilians and UK) have flag 0, and no one is using flag 3, which is an issue. The only time 2 teams should have the same flag is if they’re grouped together and still that is incorrect and shouldn’t be done. Assigning flag 3 to UK brings the UK into the Campaign>Teams list as active in the Campaign.
Also, the naming in the Strings.wch file were incorrect and also in the Theater.irc file which is in the Art>main folder, and I fixed them as I fixed the Campaign file issue with the UK.(Although flag 3 is an ISIS flag, lol, so that would have to be corrected also, but it’s late, gotta get some sleep!!!)
Here’s the link for the files: http://www.mediafire.com/file/4kef0e7u26ubsv2/Nuno%2527s.rar/file
Cheers,
C9
EDIT: I have everything put together to release to the public with all 3 of the campaign files inserted into POH and will upload it after I get some sleep, so that those that want to have all 3 campaign files in POH can get that!!
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@Cloud:
Obi1, revert to the old stations+ils.dat that came with the default install.
If you don’t have it, let me know!!
Cheers,
C9
No problem, I kept a backup. Thanks!
Obi1
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@Nuno:
@Cloud9:
Very strange, mate. In my rig everything is working like it should, regarding stations+ils.dat…
Even stranger is that I didn’t touch the file, it’s the original one.EDIT: I just confirmed, my stations+ils.dat file has 17/09/2018 date, so somehow I must have done something with it with Mission Commander without noticing it…
Tomorrow I’ll update the download files.
Thx alot, C9, appreciate all the helpAnd yes, the movies are new, so probably will mess up with the other campaign triggers…
@Obi: the first video you see is because Morocco starts on the offensive, so it’s triggered on the very start of the campaign.
Thx for the feedback, guys!
EDIT 2: original STATIONS+ILS.DAT file available on the first post!
Well I guess the format of the avi’s is preventing the movies playing then on my side.(this happens sometimes with other theaters too, other movies play just fine, baltic,nordic,korea for example play fine)
Also would be great if you would add the Intro movie from the first forum post and use this one when selecting Campaign from the menu?
Or is this already the case? I just see short popup and then nothing.Thanks again
Obi1
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Well I guess the format of the avi’s is preventing the movies playing then on my side.(this happens sometimes with other theaters too, other movies play just fine, baltic,nordic,korea for example play fine)
Also would be great if you would add the Intro movie from the first forum post and use this one when selecting Campaign from the menu?
Or is this already the case? I just see short popup and then nothing.Thanks again
Obi1
Hi Obi!
The intro movie on the 1st post is the one the plays already when you select the campaign, and when some of the triggers kick in during the campaign progress, other movies play. At least that’s what happens on my rig
I hope it’s working also on your side.
Some of the movies are a bit long and boring, I apologize for that but just didn’t have any more patience to edit them further…:D
Just go to the movies folder and try playing them directly and see if they’re working. I especially like the one that plays when Spain wins, nice soundtrack, keeps your adrenaline pumping
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@Cloud:
Yes, Nuno, I believe somehow you ended up generating the Station+ils.dat by mistake!
Anyway’s, if you look at your Save0 file, you will find that in the Campaign page, Teams tab, that the UK is not present:
http://i66.tinypic.com/28ap8r8.jpg
This is because in the Teams page, Info, the UK does not have a flag assigned, it is 0, which is what the Civilian entry has:
http://i67.tinypic.com/148lv8h.jpg
The flags are assigned as follows:
Civilian 0
NATO 4
Spain 1
Portugal 5
France 2
UK 0
Morocco 6
Algeria 7So two teams(Civilians and UK) have flag 0, and no one is using flag 3, which is an issue. The only time 2 teams should have the same flag is if they’re grouped together and still that is incorrect and shouldn’t be done. Assigning flag 3 to UK brings the UK into the Campaign>Teams list as active in the Campaign.
Also, the naming in the Strings.wch file were incorrect and also in the Theater.irc file which is in the Art>main folder, and I fixed them as I fixed the Campaign file issue with the UK.(Although flag 3 is an ISIS flag, lol, so that would have to be corrected also, but it’s late, gotta get some sleep!!!)
Here’s the link for the files: http://www.mediafire.com/file/4kef0e7u26ubsv2/Nuno%2527s.rar/file
Cheers,
C9
EDIT: I have everything put together to release to the public with all 3 of the campaign files inserted into POH and will upload it after I get some sleep, so that those that want to have all 3 campaign files in POH can get that!!
Hi C9!
Thanks alot for the support, mate, you’ve just taught me another fine aspect of the Falcon “universal mistery”. :D.
I see you’re using TacEdit. On the other hand, I’m using MC, and I would never figure that out, since in MC the UK shows up properly:
I also tried editing my save0.cam with Tacedit and it fubars my objectives and units list, many of them disappear when I save the file…
I guess nothing is simple with the Falcon way, that why we love it!
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@Nuno:
Hi Obi!
The intro movie on the 1st post is the one the plays already when you select the campaign, and when some of the triggers kick in during the campaign progress, other movies play. At least that’s what happens on my rig
I hope it’s working also on your side.
Some of the movies are a bit long and boring, I apologize for that but just didn’t have any more patience to edit them further…:D
Just go to the movies folder and try playing them directly and see if they’re working. I especially like the one that plays when Spain wins, nice soundtrack, keeps your adrenaline pumping
Cheers!Hi, Yes they play fine when clicking them from outside BMS.
I have seen this before with other avi’s and fixed it by re-encoding them to different format, did the trick before so am positive I can get it working again.Cheers Obi1
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Ok, everything is working now.
The station+ils and movies and latest files from C9.
Had to re-encode them, probably the audio that prevented them from starting.Cheers Obi1
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And how about some multi-player campaign for us to kick Mohammed’s butt?
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Hi,
@Nuno and Cloud9, I have to say it’s a really cool campaign. I am still in the early phase, but so far very nice!
Without giving any spoilers, the story is very intresting and many things happen without noticable slowdowns.
I really like the movies and triggers implemented, it adds lots to the immersion and atmosphere.
Really hope this (movies integrated into campaigns) is being implemented more often also for other theaters if not done so.Thanks again for all the enjoyment it has brought.
Cheers Obi1