I used to work on satellites for a living (as a civilian, but some were for defense industry customers), so I've got a few thoughts.

C:MO abstracts away a lot of the communications lag, including in space assets. From first hand experience - satellites can get better image resolution at lower ...

I think if I had this question I'd try to solve it by coding. Here's my algorithm:

I'd use LUA to set up conflicting hostile CAPs of your aircraft at some pre-defined altitude, and let them engage.

After a hit, I'd append the hit message, shooter altitude as a string, and target altitude as a ...

1. I've yet to encounter evidence that altitude directly affects agility (which I want to say is represented by a single number associated with each DBID in the database). Each a/c will have speed and fuel consumption impacted by altitude bands though, and those things will impact dogfighting ...

I tried it briefly last night and got nailed when a single Scud took out an entire Nike Hercules battery right at the start. That felt like behavior I'd expect to see of the nuclear variant of the missile, not the conventional one. It's not strictly your fault - the Nike battery has 0 Damage Points ...

Golden Horizon uses an Imaging IR seeker and a passive radar seeker for guidance. Neither of those are active seekers, so I'm not sure that conventional jamming as CMO models it would work. Golden Horizon also has HOJ (Home on Jam) capability and GPS guidance, so I'm not sure ECM would be advisable ...

I believe this scenario was created during the CMANO era, so I'm not that surprised that it is out of date in some respect.

I just played through it in Build 1638 (a beta), and got a Minor Victory score of 23 mostly by forcing Soviet A/C to maneuver such that they ran out of fuel on the way home ...

Thanks for bringing comms jamming to the masses! I have a couple questions about this mechanic:

Will units go out of comms due to distance between friendly units, or only due to jamming/destruction of subsystems/scenario editor?

If I play a scenario built with an older database in this beta, will ...

Thanks for sharing this!

It's very complex for a first scenario.

A couple quick thoughts that I don't think involve spoilers:
- I think something's potentially misconfigured with the unit destroyed points awarding - I was losing points as the player for killing enemy radars mentioned in the ...

Sometimes I worry that we as a community are not doing enough cool things with CWDB.

So here's a new scenario ready for testing about one of the wars beneath the sea that was fought last century.

This scenario is gigantic (very impressive)!

Unfortunately, there were so many units that I couldn't progress more than a couple hours into the scenario in one 2-hour playthrough - it really got bad after everybody started firing large-caliber artillery. I'd encourage you to consider eliminating ...

I found a source from TRADOC that supports the "swarm" flight profile https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/P-700_Granit_(SS-N-19_Shipwreck)_Russian_Medium-Range_Anti-Ship_Cruise_Missile . It does note that most of the missiles aren't flying at high altitude - only 1 per swarm.

At the same time, I ...

That's an interesting idea.

IRL sonar performance, including towed array performance, decreases as speed increases (because the noise your powerplant makes increases with speed). A towed array will be less effective at the max possible speed than at something like 5 kts. CMO does model this.

The ...

I agree w/ TBLackey that the complexity rating is somewhat idiosyncratic - almost certainly more so than difficulty.

The point of view for complexity that I've adopted is as follows:
1. control < 10 units
2. control up to 1 squadron of tactical aircraft OR 1 SAG
3. control up to 1 wing of tactical ...

Ouadi Doum, 1986 (final version)

It's been 2 weeks and there's no critique.

I guess that means it's ready to share with the Community Scenario Pack?

Now that the CMO update is live, I'm getting back into scenario creation.

Let's start things off with something simple - the Ouadi Doum airstrike in 1986.

The scenario ought to be a trivial OCA exercise from a weaponeering perspective. The challenge is really in putting the aircraft over the ...

What text is this from?

A unit seems to have disappeared in a Matrix-built scenario, and the game raised an alert. The popup says that the system is stable, but balance may be affected.

See screenshot + save file in zipped attachment.

Some of the nuclear weapons specified in in-scenario messages are missing from loadouts aboard the B-52s in the final scenario of Northern Inferno.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9&t=402570

That sounds very interesting. It also sounds very complicated, particularly for a first scenario.

I don't know how familiar you are with LUA, but I think you're going to need a good deal of it to implement your vision.

Good luck building this - I'm excited to play it!