daveoreno
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Joined: 8/27/2016 From: Toronto, Canada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: templar42 Hi daveoreno, Thanks for this scenario - I'm less than 3 hours in and really enjoying it. The J-31 adds real difficulty, especially as I'm not detecting emissions from them and they appear to be on internal loadouts. Too many scenarios have OPFOR stealth fighters that aren't stealthy enough! I think I noticed that the cloud cover disappeared during the scenario, which, again, is a really welcome bit of realism not seen enough. Just a few points that I noted down so far: I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem realistic to have the Fleet Class USV sailing in formation as part of an ESG. The database lists it as LCS based, so why not give the player an LCS with it embarked? If you choose a relatively toothless LCS configuration (not hard!) it shouldn't affect the balance. The Super Hornet loadouts are a little eccentric, I think. An entire squadron is equipped with MALD for example. Most players don't want to use MALD because there is a bug in Command that causes the AI not to engage decoys unless it's at Weapons Free (I recall seeing a thread about this a while back). Maybe a few aircraft might be given Maverick or HARM loadouts? Also, given that ATFLIR is present in good numbers on the CVN, it's odd that the AIM-120 loadouts at the start don't have it. If you're making a point about its utility against the J-31 I'd understand that, but can I at least start with two aircraft ready with an AAW ATFLIR loadout? This may be a database problem, or a mistake when you armed the ship, but LHD 1 Wasp is armed with 80 LGBs - I think the problem is that they're not in her carrier magazine, so they show up as a shipboard weapon. USS Portland has HN-5B MANPADS teams embarked. Are these supposed to be Filipino allied units? Or should they be replaced with Stingers? Lastly, I quite agree with very harsh penalties for F-35 losses. IRL it would be an event of considerable magnitude, so it's good that the player is incentivised to take care of them. However, it doesn't seem right that the player scores the same 50 points for killing a J-15 as he does for killing a J-31. It might not be as devastating for the Chinese to lose a J-31 as for the US to lose an F-35, but it's certainly still a much bigger blow than a semi-hopeless Flanker copy getting smoked. In the same vein, I haven't been able to kill a red force AEW aircraft yet, but I will be disappointed if I only get 50 points when I do! On a somewhat pedantic level, I noticed there are two separate aircraft each named 'Green Knight #5', and you spelled 'Texaco' as 'Texeco' - both doubtless late night typos! I'm really glad your enjoying it so far. I don't really remember playing a good stealth on stealth scenario that had too much challenge. I really doubt the Chinese will be able to place this many J-31 (or any for that matter) on one of their carriers but it does add some spice to the mix! Your right about the USV sailing with the fleet! I'll change that. If you sail where your supposed to the player won't need them anyway. I was not aware of the AI behavior towards MALD-J's all I know is that that I use them all the time in any mission that I can because they always worked so well. Maybe I'll just limit the number of them. I'll look into making the ATFLIR AIM-120 loadout change. (hope that won't tip the balance too much) I'll switch to the stingers, (I think I missed them in the cargo load list. Its hard to search in this list as its not like the DB viewer). Regarding the points...definitely need a little fine tuning. I'll make sure that you get more points for a PLAN AEW or a a J-31. I need to figure out how to do this without a million different events. I will get my scoring cleaned up a bit. Its on my list! I'll fix the typos. Thank you so much templar42, It means a lot to me that you and the others on this forum are helping me so much. I would really like this to be a first class scenario. Dave
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