@WABAC well, I don't want to start mucking around in foundational settings for a game I wholly intend to play MP at some point. If I did, tailoring them on could be a challenge - a diverting story:

After Desert Storm, the DoD decided this was a spectacular chance to adjust it's modelling. After ...

I remember an anecdote on Iraqi gunnery from the Battle of Khafji where a brigade-strength unit, approximately a battalion at the front, had made it within a few hundred meters (One hex!) of DHQ 1st Marine Div... and hit nothing, accomplished almost nothing, being beaten back by a platoon of LAVs ...

It won't, so long as Ukraine can fight the Russians off by herself, which is why supporting them is still important.

Let's not forget the political turmoil in the warsaw pact countries at the time. Hard to see them going along with an all out war in 1989, particularly the East Germans who were but months from reunification with their brothers.

Personally I think that the Soviet's hope of winning a conventional ...

For the editor, I'd like the option of force-specific VPs that only they can achieve for a given faction. Gives a bit for freedom in scenario design and intentions that way.


Already exists in the game. Split VP scoring. You can set one side to zero and have a side specific VP. If you are ...

The biggest arty threat comes from 2S3s that show up later. This would be where having preserved your cavalry force from earlier scenarios would be most helpful... hope you did so!

For the editor, I'd like the option of force-specific VPs that only they can achieve for a given faction. Gives a bit for freedom in scenario design and intentions that way.

As long as they are in screen they'll automatically move around. If they're set to Hold then that's when they sit still and start eating arty strikes.

On that particular scenario, SN3, it's best to be doing some counter battery in addition to moving your HQ around. Soviets there have 2 RAGs and a ...

Be careful manually moving them constantly - the movement will hit their readiness, which lengthens the command cycle as far as I know. Generally I just set my HQ to screen with default SOP settings and they'll regularly relocate themselves.

The modern Ukrainian conflict and our hypothetical WW3 happening 30-odd years ago are apples and oranges. On the surface they look similar, but there is actually little in common. Things like geopolitical and economic circumstances, advance warning, who strikes first, troop morale, reforms ...

The disparate settings, special ops, other theaters always get me when we start talking about an overall plot. There's an entire fantasy war we're waging here, and often there are components to it that I want to play out, but Flashpoint's scope simply doesn't cover them, particularly the naval ...

Don't try to hold the VP locations. This goes for every scenario as the defender.
A VP location that you already hold has no value as a defensive point.
But it does mean the enemy HAS to take that point. With me so far?

So if you know the enemy has to go into that hex, why place troops there?
It ...

That is normal. Units will space themselves put to avoid traffic jams or stacking up for enemy artillery to hit them. If you want them to wnd up on the same hex then you can adjust their waypoints after giving the group order.

What are their SOP settings?

I can also corroborate that Deliberate moves currently have a greater delay than Assault orders.


I am wondering of folks are looking at this with units that are freshly on the map, whether during the initial set up phase or when a unit has just come on map as a reinforcement.

In those two ...

I can also corroborate that Deliberate moves currently have a greater delay than Assault orders.

A simple scenario can be thrown together in an afternoon.

But for a high quality scenario, with an interesting setup, accurately done research, full scenario description, obstacles or other items on map, full briefings and threat assessments, making battleplans, setting default SOPs, and then ...

Looking back at this scenario, the Soviet companies are mounted in BTR-60PB. Infantry are carrying RPK-74s and RPG-22s - I believe this is a mistake from me, BTR-mounted infantry carried RPG-7s as standard. With them are AT-7s, NSV HMGs which is standard for BTR companies, and AGS-17s.

But looking ...

I've found infantry to be incredibly vulnerable myself. AGS-17s and HMG teams, plus the BTR's own 14.5mms chew through them like no tomorrow. When you set carriers to hide nearby the result is that you preserve the carriers... but then you'll just have empty carriers.

Nomadass, I'm unable to get the scenario running despite a computer restart, which it shouldn't necessitate in the first place. What version of the game did you create the scenario with?