Slitherine

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XX. Ia Drang Campaign 01 - Dan Thang 21 Operation - October 19, 1965 - 33rd VC Regiment (B rating) Attacks Pleime Camp (A team, CIDG, plus two ranger companies (91st SF Rangers) flown as reinforcement - they fly in October 21, LZ 5km Northeast of Camp)

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 02 - Dan Thang 21 Operation - October 23, 1965 - 32nd VC Regiment (A rating) Ambushes relief ARVN relief column (Tank company, APC company, Ranger Battalion, Artillery Battalion) - 22nd ARVN Ranger Battalion heliborne into LZ 10km north of Pleime

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 03 - Dan Thang 21 Operation - October 26, 1965 - Elements of battalion from 33rd VC Regiment (B rating) ambushes elements of ARVN armoured TF as it sweeps south of Pleime camp. [Short, small scenario]

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 04 - Operation All the Way - November 1, 1965 - Eagle Flights (2/12, 1/8, 1/12 and 2/8 Battalions - Air Cavalry) vs scattered elements of 33rd Regiment (B Rating) - find VC hospital

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 05 - Operation Silver Bayonet I - November 14, 1965 - 1/7 Air Cavalry lands (company sized waves) at X-Ray vs vs 9th Battalion/66th Regiment

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 06 - Operation Silver Bayonet I - November 15, 1965 - 1/7 Air Cavalry at X-Ray (0750 "Broken Arrow"), 0910 elements A/2/7 land at X-Ray (0800 2/5 Air Cavalry lands at LZ Victor to reinforce LZ X-ray) vs elements of 66th Regiment

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 07 - LZ Albany - November 17, 1965 - 2/7 Air Cavalry marching towards LZ Albany (ambushed) vs elements of 6 & 7&8cos/8th Battalion/66th Regiment & 1&2cos1st Battalion 33rd Regiment

XX. Ia Drang Campaign 08 - Operation Than Phong 7 - November 20, 1965 - 3rd & 6th ARVN Airborne battalions land LZ north of Ia Drang where they ambush retreating 634th/32nd Regiment

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ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

Thank you, Ed.

The new 3D graphics guy is really coming along. We're changing the dirt for the firebases (etc) to a more reddish, which was prevalent in most areas of South Vietnam.

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ORIGINAL: MrRoadrunner

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ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

Thank you, Ed.

The new 3D graphics guy is really coming along. We're changing the dirt for the firebases (etc) to a more reddish, which was prevalent in most areas of South Vietnam.

Yes, I just like the direction you are heading. I know it all is a work in progress. What has been fleshed out is really nice.

RR

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ORIGINAL: berto

At current state of development (finished, fully debugged I think), the new air_mission_fire() and air_mission_spot() functions:



The code will have the gunship helos or spotter helos/airplanes:

get a new target assignment, randomly picked from selection of objective or other hexes

fly off to target (typically 2-3 turns, in the VN_640117_Thanh_Phu_Island case)

fire or spot, randomly "dancing" around the target for the duration (typically 3 turns, in the VN_640117_Thanh_Phu_Island case)

return to base for refueling (typically 2-3 turns, in the VN_640117_Thanh_Phu_Island case)

All automatically, over and over again, until the helos/airplanes are destroyed or incapacitated, or until scenario's end. (Typically 3-1/2 such missions, in the VN_640117_Thanh_Phu_Island case.)

Important point: The scenario developer/modder need not code the above. Those are standardized functions in user.lua. All the scenario developer/modder need do is to call those functions in the scenario .lua file. In the VN_640117_Thanh_Phu_Island scenario, for example:



Excluding the comments, and ignoring the 'if DEBUG then ... end' blocks, that's just eight lines of code (3 lines for the target reassignment plus 1 line to execute the mission; X 2, for the gunships and the spotter airplanes). Not too bad.

Similarly, for other purposes -- e.g., riverine embarkation/transport/disembarkation; helo transport; etc. -- I am writing the Lua code in generalized fashion such that all the scenario developer/modder need do is to make high-level function calls. Leaving the difficult, background coding to me!