Campagin tips
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hitting factories has an impact, but you have to do alot of damage to alot of factories; they have an incredible number of them, so it’s a drop in the bucket to knock out one or two.
if you want to reduce the enemy presence, it’s probably better to just do sweeps or OCA (direct anti-fighter) or CAS (direct anti-ground)
if you do lots of either you will see a noticeable weakening of that particular element’s strength.
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I usually focus on interdiction and OCA. Regarding strikes, I take out a few key bridges and the refineries. I figure no gas, no mobility on land or in the air.
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I did destroyed almost 50% of war production asset, so maybe I should concentrate on fuel then.
About OCA, the problem is there is no plane on the ground to destroy, and the runway get repaired in a few hours -
When you take out the runways you have to destroy all three segments then it should take a lot longer.
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Yes. The strategic planning in the campaign….for both sides…is terrible. Neither side seems to have any clear strategic objectives or phases to their effort. The DPRK offensive plan…especially the AIR EFFORT…isn’t…and the BLUE force defensive plan…isn’t either. Both sides seem to just put their air assets up in a bunch of suicide missions with no potential to gain the initiative from them…even if the missions are successful. BLUE Force goes offensive way too soon and against pathetic targets. If we are going to go offensive…OK…Does anyone at HQ have the intent at taking out the Mig29 bases…like now…so they cannot launch them against us…at least for a while…instead of the 12 plane strike packages against highway strips. A10s and F5’s should never even be scheduled for A-A missions. There is already too much CAS work for them to do. Does the DPRK have any intent at sending overwhelming attacks against BLUE FORCE air bases to prevent BLUE FORCE from even thinking about…going north…at least for the first 12 to 24 hours? When it comes to the load outs…are we going to keep sending our pilots up with pocket knives when we have Excalibur’s to arm them with. I practically have to rearm almost every plane in the ATO…
Oh well In any case…it still is fun…from a gaming perspective… to go up and push all my abilities and my Vipers to the limits on a suicide mission…with my fellow pilots…But realistically…or even from a Simulation perspective…Our own AI HQ should probably be the first target taken out so that we fighter pilots can fight the fight to win it with our best stuff…without so much pointless loss.
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Our own AI HQ should probably be the first target taken out so that we fighter pilots can fight the fight to win it with our best stuff…without so much pointless loss.
I guess these words have been uttered many times… by real life pilots in real life conflicts ever since manned flight began!
All the best,
Uwe
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Thanks Cik … I’ve been “playing” falcon since Falcon4 days and never thought to adjust packs. No more suicide missions! It’s like a whole new sim!!
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Good morning Bull.
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You can manage the ATO yourself with far better results. Leaving it up to the AI will make a lot of dumb shit happen.
I guess these words have been uttered many times… by real life pilots in real life conflicts ever since manned flight began!
All the best,
Uwe
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It always seems to me, that near the end of a campaign, the campaign manager sort of looses control of exactly what needs to be done to win it. During those last hours, it makes good sense to take over. You know that you need to have your forces capture and hold at least two specific cities in enemy territory. There isn’t too much good about flights that the campaign manager is scheduling far away from those objectives. So, try cancelling all of your assetts that are not supporting your primary objective of winning. Clear the paths needed for your ground troops to move into those areas. Shedule many BAI missions to cut off enemy activites in the areas you need. If there are still airborn threats schedule more CAPs over the area. The campaig manager seems not to think in this mode very well.
To me, there is nothing like winning a BMSFalcon campaign.
I hope that you think so too.
Raven
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I started a KTO campaign a few weeks ago (the one where the North invades at first, then you have to repel them and capture Wonsan, Pyongyang and Hamhung) and am now in day 3 10am or so. Outlook is excellent, I already got to see the video of “Russia” entering the conflict (maybe I misheard it, but I’m pretty sure it was Russia), and since then both enemy air and ground activity has picked up quite a bit.
Blue has already captured Wonsan (how can I tell if the capture is “complete”? The airbase east of the city is still red, for example, though at status zero) and it looks like Hamhung is next on list up North. I was wondering how to proceed from here, I’m really anxious to fight this campaign (and hopefully win it) to the end, so for most of the time I’ve taken over Prio mgmt myself, reducing naval, infrastructure and CCC strikes to near zero and only taking out specific targets that were bugging my myself, using a self-managed squadron operating out of Seosan (for instance the DPRK withdrawal started once I took out some pesky HQ batallion that had advanced south).
I’m still mostly flying interdiction mssions (using JSOWs I’ll freely admit for the pure fun of employing them), and using Seosan I can mostly bingo with enough fuel to make it back to base using a single bag of centerline fuel (I usually equip the AI with 2 bags though because of their horrific fuel management). ECM pod hasn’t been necessary anymore for quite some time (prio one during day 1 were SEAD operations), so I’ve given up the music pod for the extra bag of fuel that’s quite convenient at times.
Now I’m wondering how to ensure my ground forces don’t “lose it” now that we’re only a few days away from winning the campaign. Blue ground forces are still quite far away from Pyongyang, so I guess we’ll reach Hamhung quite some time before Pyongyang is within reach, so any advice would be very welcome here.
Thanks in advance,
Uwe
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Fly missions with “successful” rating. The initative, moral depends on a scoring system which uses many imputs, this is how was achieved that player’s performance has impact on strategical level either. The dynamic camapign is a very complex RTS which runs in the background while you act in it.
Every city what your forces capture gives suppy points and as I can remember initative pts either but A.S can tell more about the system.
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Since I fly mostly interdictions most if not all of my missions have received “excellent” ratings, so I think I’m good on that side of the equation. Also I turned down the infrastructure strike prio to 0 as to avoid breaking / burning down bridges my forces would need to cross later.
Cheers & thanks,
uwe
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Start manually moving your tanks to the cities you want to take over and FRAG flights to protect them. That will speed it up a bit. Sometimes AI is slow to get moving and needs a push. I don’t think they are as brave as WWII troops.;)
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+1…had to manually move troops in the Israeli theater as well to take over a city.
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Manually task constant OCA strikes to keep the red air force on the ground and your ground forces will continue offensive operations to victory.
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Since I fly mostly interdictions most if not all of my missions have received “excellent” ratings, so I think I’m good on that side of the equation. Also I turned down the infrastructure strike prio to 0 as to avoid breaking / burning down bridges my forces would need to cross later.
Cheers & thanks,
uwe
Excellent is not a mission rating. That is a pilot performance rating.
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Here is a tip - don’t do Korea strong Iron Fortress thinking you like a challenge, then choose a Block 30 before totally underestimating the oncoming onslaught. After congratulating myself on a good first mission I landed and my base was out of action about 5 mins later.
That was my last mission - fast forward to day 6 and the base never got repaired enough to take off.
Luckily on the next campaign the engine must have felt sorry for me because a flight of 8 Su-24s flew past me without escort. Don’t remember ever having so many gun kills !
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Excellent is not a mission rating. That is a pilot performance rating.
So it’s ok to get an “Success: –- only minor damage…” report for the mission in question?
Uwe
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Yeah, the ratings next to each pilot are performance of each pilot. The rating at the top of the debrief is how well the mission went. I don’t know if the rating bonus is determined by pilot performance or mission performance or if it is even that big a deal. Different versions of the game have made that a bigger or a smaller impact.
I’ve found the typical way to lose a campaign is to have your friendly airbases wiped out. It’s practically impossible to lose with airbases intact.