How to get the campaign(ATO) to successfully defend all 4 airbases in Iron Fortress
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Go to priorities. In the mission tab, move the offensive counter air and deep strikes all the way to the left. Move defensive counter air all the way to the right. This will make the dynamic campaign engine generate a whole screen of barcaps.
Don’t change anything else including anything in the targets tab, anything in the PAKs, or any other thing in the mission tab. Changing anything else will actually make the campaign engine generate less barcaps. Not only that, you want the campaign engine to generate lots of other missions in order to get planes in the air. Missions other then barcaps will do double duty and also defend the airbase.
This can also be used to increase the amount of air to air resistance for OCA strikes. Go into a red squadron and change the priorities to the above settings to get more enemy barcaps and enemy resistance.
Changing the priorities to the above also might create Tarcap missions for things other than OCA strikes. I notice that Tarcap missions are created for interdiction missions as well, which means they get defended-which is a cool thing the ATO does.
When you’re ready to attack enemy airbases, change the offensive counter air priority in the missions tab an extremely tiny bit to the right to start. Then if that’s not enough, change the offensive counter air priority more to the right.
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I disagree. If you don’t negate the other mission types and the PAKs the ATO will generate many basically unnecessary missions losing you many airframes and not provide the best barcap cover for your airbases and frankly I am doing just that now in Iron Fortress currently. You don’t need strategic strikes 200 miles away that won’t RTB or many other types of missions and targets. Managing the ATO works well.
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I have tested this and won this campaign before; now flying it on veteran forces level. After beating back the initial assault mostly with JSOW which truly decimate massed red ground units and then receiving reinforcements I start methodically moving the PAK’s north then when I have complete air superiority I unleash the strategic strikes etc. When the PRC then the CIS join the fun I revert back to solely barcaps as they inundate my flot with SU27’s.
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The BMS campaigns are awesome. No equivalent in r/l as we get hours of mowing down red fighters, controlling the campaign and eventually kicking the shit out of the reds to win the hard fought campaign medal.
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I partially disagree with myself here. I admit I haven’t tested whether changing the PAKs messes up the ATO in creating barcap missions. Changing the PAKs to focus flights near the FLOT and then branching out is good campaign strategy and worth trying. My focus was rather narrow of just trying to get the most barcaps and defend airbases -not minimizing allied losses or winning the campaign.
But I have noticed that the ATO is rather finicky about setting things a certain way- or it messes up mission creation to do what one wants it to do. I recommend that the best place to start is with the mission settings of offensive counter air to the left and deep strikes to the left and defensive counter air all the way to the right. You can then try other things in the mission or target tabs and see what happens.
I tried both setting all the mission sliders except for defensive counter air to the left and defensive counter air to the right. I then tried just offensive counter air and anti shipping to the left and leaving everything else alone; and then setting defensive counter air to the right. The ATO has something peculiar about it. The second way seems better. But again I am just focusing on creating the most barcaps- not winning the campaign.
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Just IMO, but I believe the Iron Fortress campaign is broken, or at least has some issues. I have a camp on Iron Fortress and there seems to be a camp lock up of sorts. Completed every mission out through day 1, and then the camp just locks up. No flights out of any allied airbases. Maybe my instal is bad, but I have loaded up Iron Fortress twice and this happens every time. Doesn’t matter if you adjust the ATO or not, it still happens. Maybe someone can chime in on this?
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It’s worked for me at least 3 times Bro
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It’s worked for me at least 3 times Bro
How far did you get in the camp? I can’t seem to get very far. Day 1 only.
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i’ve won it a few times.
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I have won it three times and am in it again now with no issues and actually it’s progressing well in the context of making sense per ATO I set [email protected]:
How far did you get in the camp? I can’t seem to get very far. Day 1 only.
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I have won it three times and am in it again now with no issues and actually it’s progressing well in the context of making sense per ATO I set Buddy!
I will have to run it again then. I have everything set to ace, so I will see what happens.
