Kuwait Theater tester version 2 (434U1)
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Great theatre and campaign. Just completed it flying the F-15E Strike Eagle with the 335th FS, reliving Jane’s F-15! I’ve not had this fun in a long time in a flight sim.
A few things I want to point out:
After probably half of day 1 had progressed, only a few sorties were generated for my squadron and it took many hours before they popped up. Not many were generated for the newly arrived 336th FS (also Strike Eagles). I also saw that the F-117 squadron had only flown 1 mission in two days. I made my own strike packages primarily for my squadron at this point. Feels like a loss of air power with no F-15E missions being generated no matter if you fly the F-15E or not.
Around the same time as my squadron stopped receiving missions, HQ “white listed” Kuwait in the ATO for some reason. Had to override the ATO and made it a focus again in the PAK menu.Also noticed that numerous squadrons in the campaign did not receive any missions, or few if any.
Looking at the map in real time, most missions flown by the coalition was over Kuwait, Basrah and the area closest to western Kuwait. But I guess this is by design?
This changed after I messed with the PAK-settings.Maybe add a few more F-15C and F-14A squadrons for fighter missions for HQ to draw up? Maybe EF-111s and EA-6Bs as well.
Verdict: 8,5/10 due to no more missions being generated for my squadron and others. Will fly again though!
Would be awesome to see an Operation Iraqi Freedom campaign, and a fictional modern day Iran campaign at some point.
Keep up the good work.
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Hi,
is there a way to change the white font color in the 2D map and make it darker? It’s difficult to read the white labels over the yellow desert map…
Thanks
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Hi there,
BMS is crashing on startup after switching to this theater. (running latest update “Add-On Kuwait434U4_V7_27-04-2020”) Other theaters are loading fine.
crash log tells me:“Falcon BMS.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION…”
and
“Object at RCX(0000000000000000)
Data inaccessible”can anybody help me out with some pointers? Thanks for you work and have a good one.
EDIT: Nevermind… i never actually applied the BMS updates… doing that now
Possible options:
- Installation is not performed correctly. (Recording paths to the theater)
- Corrupted archive when downloading.
- Try changing the theater in the Falcon editor options.
PS.
The version of the theater works with the latest Falcon updates; for compatibility with older versions of the game, no tests were performed.Hi,
is there a way to change the white font color in the 2D map and make it darker? It’s difficult to read the white labels over the yellow desert map…
Thanks
uzrLater I will execute a theater map in darker colors.
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Would be awesome to see an Operation Iraqi Freedom campaign, and a fictional modern day Iran campaign at some point.
Keep up the good work.
Thank.
All my free time is now spent on refining landscapes and textures of the earth (mixing different types of sand, adjusting heights, adding zones with lakes and farms, etc.). Adding towns and villages, similar to how it looks from Google maps.
There is no time for other things yet.
PS.
SU-20 Desert skin updated.
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Omg, this looks really great!
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Are you looking for any help with information on this theater? I spent quite a bit of time in Iraq and would love to assist in this project, my time was spent much later than ODS but I’d be more than happy to help, I do a lot of research on ODS order of battle. I can provide squadron names for the Saddam era Iraqi Air Force, bases, airframes used by said squadrons, and places targeted in downtown Baghdad in 91. A lot of that info carries over to 2004. I can also assist in the creation of assets for Baghdad international airport and K West in Mosul. Personally I’d love to see your map expanded so we can properly simulate Operation Inherent Resolve.
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I’d love to see that, judging by our conversations you actually know your stuff.
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Are you looking for any help with information on this theater? I spent quite a bit of time in Iraq and would love to assist in this project, my time was spent much later than ODS but I’d be more than happy to help, I do a lot of research on ODS order of battle. I can provide squadron names for the Saddam era Iraqi Air Force, bases, airframes used by said squadrons, and places targeted in downtown Baghdad in 91. A lot of that info carries over to 2004. I can also assist in the creation of assets for Baghdad international airport and K West in Mosul. Personally I’d love to see your map expanded so we can properly simulate Operation Inherent Resolve.
Can you post that stuff in the forum anyway, would be curious to know your info!
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For those that are interested there is always the Gulf War Air Power Survey. Awesome report on the air war. Complete order of battle on both sides, a overlook on targets hit on which day and so forth.
Just search for the above title and you’ll find it on Google.
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Absolutely! I’ll compile some stuff with sources for you. For the record I’m not an ODS vet to be clear, I was there in 2017 and 18, but most of my info comes from reading. The Air Power Survey is a fantastic resource as is The Air Campaign: Planning For Combat by Colonel John Walden III. Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign 1989-1991 is a good doctrinal look as well. I’ll pull specifics for a seperate forum post, but @spGoro, if you’d be okay with it I’d love to help make campaigns for you.
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For those that are interested there is always the Gulf War Air Power Survey. Awesome report on the air war. Complete order of battle on both sides, a overlook on targets hit on which day and so forth.
Just search for the above title and you’ll find it on Google.
Good catch this yours, mate.
It could be interesting… I’m curious, so I’m going to go and see what good could be there.
With best regards.
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@DUSTOFF17:
Can you post that stuff in the forum anyway, would be curious to know your info!
Me too. So please do that, dear modelo, if you don’t mind of course.
With best regards.
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Absolutely! I’ll compile some stuff with sources for you. For the record I’m not an ODS vet to be clear, I was there in 2017 and 18, but most of my info comes from reading. The Air Power Survey is a fantastic resource as is The Air Campaign: Planning For Combat by Colonel John Walden III. Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign 1989-1991 is a good doctrinal look as well. I’ll pull specifics for a seperate forum post, but @spGoro, if you’d be okay with it I’d love to help make campaigns for you.
Yes of course. Thank. That would be very interesting.
At the moment, the source of information on the basing of aviation at air bases is the Internet site: https://dstorm.eu/pages/en/menu.html -
I think Modelo was talking about this ?
It’s only the 300pg summary … but it’s a treasure of information . Ty , Modelo .
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are the KSA tonkas skinned in this?
saudi_airforce_tornados by arabianjules, on Flickr
Dema did a skin for these for us in FreeFalcon days….:bowd:
John.
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I have been trying to get ACMI to work properly in Tacview from this theatre.
I have added the following section to try to enable the Kuwait theatre map in Tacview but no luck so far.
Has anyone got it working?
Filename: C:\Program Files (x86)\Tacview\Data\Xml\Data-Falcon4Theaters.xml
Added section to <falcon4theaters>```<theater id=“Kuwait”><terrain>D:\Falcon BMS 4.34\Data\Add-On Kuwait\Terrdata\terrain</terrain>
<database>D:\Falcon BMS 4.34\Data\Add-On Kuwait\Terrdata\objects</database><lod>2</lod> <west>42.0325</west> <east>52.3625</east> <south>25.10</south> <north>34.31</north> <visible>1</visible> <timezone>+3</timezone></theater>
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are the KSA tonkas skinned in this?
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49911696878_61b1cc5e4c_z.jpgsaudi_airforce_tornados by arabianjules, on Flickr
Dema did a skin for these for us in FreeFalcon days….:bowd:
John.
they are in the theater, I painted for bms model, not for FF
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Hello,
is this version 2 compatible with bms update 4 too?
Thank you
iuzr -
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are the KSA tonkas skinned in this?