Slitherine

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OK I'll wrap this up now. Enjoyed it. Couple final points.

-Those bloody MANPADs are a real PITA. One Osprey down, another damaged as well as an earlier MH-60 damaged.... Bugger

-There is 10 times the amount of lift you need for the troops sitting at Savaneta: 4x LCU for 98 troops. Now had I tried to be fancy I could have moved the LCUs to the ARG to help out there and flown the Cougars to Savaneta after they dropped off their troops. That probably would have worked out except I didn't think of it in time. Perhaps a note or maybe an airlift into Aruba with more troops - but you don't really need them.

-Never did find the SSK but did notice after the game that it has a huge PZ, it would have actually stumbled into the Dolfijn in a few hours but that was just by luck. You may want to limit and focus its PZ a bit.

-It would have been very useful and I think realistic to have a FARP on Bonaire. Perhaps not at first but as a Special Action later in the game. Also having the F-35s change to QTR in prep for the landing would be realistic as well. You could work in C-130 runs into Bonaire for ammo etc but that would enter the realm of scenario creep... (I'm guilty as hell of that...). Using an existing airport would allow the MQ-9s to rebase there as well.

-The Single Unit Ports are considered hostile, but they're invincible and you probably don't want the player destroying the infrastructure anyway. You may want to put them on an unfriendly side.

-The same goes for Hato airport. I suspect that you would want the player to capture it instead of destroying it completely, as it is now any ground unit in range will start shooting the heck out of the hangars etc. Perhaps have it change sides when a player unit gets close.

Great fun. Thanks

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ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Not sure how much Lua you’ve done and remember I’m an old dog as well – happy birthday btw.

You should have a text editor, I use Notepad++. Its free and makes things a bit easier. I keep a separate file with all the lua script for each of my scenarios. At least I lose them in an organized sort of way…

This site really helps: Lua Docs

First thing you need to do is identify the unit: Select the unit, right click/scenario editor/copy unit ID to clipboard. (you can do the same with Ctl+C)

Paste this value into your text editor, you have the name and the GUID. You only need one of them so use the GUID as it is guaranteed to be unique.

{name='HMS Northumberland (F238)', guid='XMJRWB-0HM45FODO2HGL'}

Next make your script

Local u = ScenEdit_GetUnit({guid='XMJRWB-0HM45FODO2HGL'})


So this identifies the unit you want to modify, the local bit is to make sure this function doesn’t linger in the memory of the game file (I think…)

Local fuel = u.fuel

This makes a value for the fuel you’re going to modify. Each fuel type has a code and unhelpfully I cannot find the table anymore but it is in one of the threads in Lua Legion:

So we know that HMS Northumberland uses Diesel so that is 3001, and her max is 800 tons so lets cut that in half (need to experiment to get the values right:

Fuel[3001].current = 400000

Then we apply the fuel to the unit:

u.fuel = fuel

Open up your Lua Console in game add the script and hit run

local u = ScenEdit_GetUnit({guid='XMJRWB-0HM45FODO2HGL'})
local fuel = u.fuel
fuel[3001].current = 400000
u.fuel = fuel

Change up the GUID, fuel type and level as you need to get all your ships.

B

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ORIGINAL: BeirutDude

I'm, going to give it until Wednesday to see if there are any more comments and if not I'll post it. thanks for the help!

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ORIGINAL: Selchu

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ORIGINAL: BeirutDude

I'm, going to give it until Wednesday to see if there are any more comments and if not I'll post it. thanks for the help!

BeirutDude, if you want to give it until next Friday I can run through it again this week. Sorry man but my shifts mean I'm working till wed so it'll be late evenings and Thurs to play for me.

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The QE and one of the tankers are now out of fuel. Gonna try that again.


When I'm trying to do it manually, QE to the replen ships it keep saying that both are smaller than the receiver and cannot do it................

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ORIGINAL: Selchu

Saw your post in Tech issues and you nailed it exactly on the head. That's what happened last night. I will manually refuel the escorts later and keep QE as she is. She should have enough fuel for what I have planned anyway.
Thanks man

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ORIGINAL: Selchu

Actually I was going to suggest leave them down. Maybe not half but what's a reasonable amount to have burned in sailing from home port? Adds to the realism?

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ORIGINAL: Selchu

Dude I swear I'm not out to cause you headaches. I'm running mine as it was with reduced fuel (primarily cause I'm lazy and can't be arsed resetting my missions). I tried an experiment to refuel the escorts only and HMS Kent and The Sullivans stick with the replenishment ships apparently waiting for items to be transferred across (17 for Kent and 69 for the Sullivans). Also the ships only refuel off Tideforce and not Victoria. So Tideforce ran out of fuel quickly. Good news though she can refuel off Victoria. Every cloud and all that. Thought you might like to know. I'm gonna send the fleet in anyway.

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Logged for investigation.

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ORIGINAL: Lionheart

I ran through this scenario to the end from the UK/FR/NL side and ended up sweeping aside the Venezuelan forces quite dismissively with a Triumph (25754 points), probably my highest ever score! I only lost 1 x F16BM and 3 x Rafales - all to SAMs and I don't think there was any point deduction for the Rafale losses.

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At the start of the scenario there was already this list of expenditures:-

SIDE: Org of American States

LOSSES:
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9x 120mm Mortar [Cargo]
10x 155mm/39 M777 Towed Howitzer [Cargo]
135x 7.62mm MG [Cargo]
126x 81mm Mortar [Cargo]
24x AAV-P7/A1 [Cargo]
36x AGM-114R Hellfire II [Cargo]
12x Avenger SAM [Cargo]
120x BGM-71A TOW Section [Cargo]
81x FGM-148 Javelin [Cargo]
25x Forward Observer + Sensor Tripod (NVG + Generic Laser Designator) [Cargo]
369x Infantry Section [7.62mm MG/Unguided Infantry Anti Tank Weapon] [Cargo]
12x LAV-25 [25mm/75 M242 Bushmaster] [Cargo]
9x LAV-III [25mm/75 M242 Bushmaster] [Cargo]
10x M1A2 SEP Abrams Main Battle Tank [Cargo]
1x Radar (AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR) [Cargo]
12x Sniper Section [12.7mm Anti-Materiel Rifle] [Cargo]
12x SpecOp Saboteur [Cargo]
114x Stinger MANPADS [Cargo]
12x Vehicle (AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel [I-HAWK]) [Cargo]
36x Vehicle (Truck, HMMWV) [Cargo]
75x Vehicle (Truck, Unarmed) [Cargo]

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I expected the Russians to turn hostile after my aircraft breached the EZ and commenced their attacks on Curacao but there was no change in their posture, although I did detect a possible event/trigger issue as the messages below were continually repeated in the message log.

18/11/2021 16:59:05 - Side 'Org of American States' is now considered HOSTILE to Russia
18/11/2021 16:59:06 - Side 'Org of American States' is now considered UNFRIENDLY to Russia
18/11/2021 16:59:37 - Side 'Org of American States' is now considered HOSTILE to Russia
18/11/2021 16:59:38 - Side 'Org of American States' is now considered UNFRIENDLY to Russia

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With about 9 hours left all amphibious forces had safely landed on Curacao and the airport had been successfully captured. If I could suggest, this scenario could have been more challenging if the French had less aircraft and weapons but I did enjoying planning end executing the amphibious assault.

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ORIGINAL: schweggy

With the forces available outside CONUS I was able to render Curacao defenseless except for a smattering of MANPADS in about 12-14 hours. Once I was certain there would be no opposition I launched the 2 Amphibs from Savaneta to secure the northern part of the island. With the C-17's inbound those "advanced" troops began to find and eliminate the MANPADS still around, took the airport, and then just chilled while the jumpers did their thing. I did sortie all the bombers when they were available and used every JASSAM and cruise missile I had armed them with and laid waste to the Venezuelan airbases because I'm like that.

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I had achieved a Triumph and not a single amphibious boat other than the 2 from Savaneta entered the scoring zone. I did lose 4 F-15's, a SEAD F-16 and both UAV's. The LCS took minor damage when it got too close to Curacao and an IFV near the airport shot at it.

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A sub-mission for the LCS might be to land some forward observers via RHIB? Otherwise it's gonna' be moved out of the way or lost.

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The
Side 'Org of American States' is now considered HOSTILE to Russia
Side 'Org of American States' is now considered UNFRIENDLY to Russia
messages might be able to be suppressed? That initially caught me off guard, then I just ignored them.

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I think you could honestly remove the French F-16's and the CONUS based bombers/tankers. Between the two US Burke DDG's there's over 100 Tomahawks to deploy with an additional 24? on the SSN.

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All in all I don't think the Venezuelan's are much of a threat to the array of forces here. The Russians never entered the fray either, which is probably what would happen IRL unless they had some additional firepower in the region and were sure they'd inflict enough damage to warrant such action.

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Moving it out is the right thing to do, isn't much for an LCS to really do other than be a picket boat. I use it for it's radars until i'm about to start the attack and then get it out of Dodge!

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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

If you'd want to be evil, you could add some mines...

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Also to use it's fairly good sonar to find and track subs. In my run through it found both the Sov Kilo and the Ven SSK, followed the Sov which proved fatal but it did a really good job tracking it until warstart.

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LCS = Little Crappy Ship!