Good Morning Malvinas, 1982 - UPDATED 09 FEB 2016

[Sensei.Tokugawa]

Restarting tonight and this time not a playtest, but that means war, just like yesterday with "Prelude ...". No quarters given and am playing that through all the way to the end.I'll debrief those who are concerned once I am done with that.

I am absolutely positive you should make those Falklands scenarios that are lurking in your mind, you really seem to be able to give the Falklands theater the right touches.

[Sensei.Tokugawa]

On second approach while the insertion choppers are still en rout to their respective DZs and LZs and a pair of Harriers is making a sweep in the north east corner of the island area I am getting someone bombing Port Stanley using Mk13 1000lbs GPB resulting in a destruction of some of the vital facilities there. I'd say that's strange.

Save file attached.

[Sensei.Tokugawa]

Forget it, those were the Black Buck Vulcans[:o][8|]Looks like they have succeeded then, awaiting the pilots' confirmation.

[Rory Noonan]

ORIGINAL: burroughs

On second approach while the insertion choppers are still en rout to their respective DZs and LZs and a pair of Harriers is making a sweep in the north east corner of the island area I am getting someone bombing Port Stanley using Mk13 1000lbs GPB resulting in a destruction of some of the vital facilities there. I'd say that's strange.

Save file attached.

That's the Black Buck raid; it's in the briefing. Your harriers are not far off the Vulcan that just dropped those bombs, and if you let the game run for a bit your DDGs should be able to ID the Vulcan in a few minutes. Also you will get the codeword for a successful mission in the next 20 or so minutes (as the message needs to go to HQ then back out to the fleet).

Checking the damage done, the runway is out of operation and a AAA got destroyed. There is a 'communication hub' listed as destroyed, unfortunately that's a relic of earlier development that I can't seem to get rid of.

Don't worry, there's plenty more AAA left [;)]

Also your helos will never trigger the drop events the way you have them set up. You need to stay within the drop zone for 2 minutes; the way your support missions are set up the helos are essentially circling in and out of them.

I would recommend plotting a manual course and setting to hover, or, setting up a smaller group of reference points inside the DZ/LZ

[Sensei.Tokugawa]

Actually that's what I had done for the DZs and everything worked fine with the RHIBs finally being deployed in both chosen spots and are en route to their further waypoints. There was a mistake with the SAS insertion, the helos were running too fast and couldn't reach the LZs so they are returning and I am curious if they can re-launch the mission in the morning when the weather changes ... Sort of South Georgia glacier missions indeed. Roland shot down too Harriers over Port Stanley, I got them manually too low prior to assessing the Argentinian AAA capacity and SAMs present in there is more detail.

Great scenario.

[Rory Noonan]

I think this one is pretty much finished; any comments or suggestions from anyone before I submit it to the community thread?

[Sensei.Tokugawa]

Yes, there is one thing I'd like to strongly suggest - we do need more scenarios like this one and "Prelude ...". Think about that South Georgia scenario for instance etc. Apart from that to my liking this scenario is as complete and ready to be release as can be. And thanks a lot for keeping the eye on the subject.

[Rory Noonan]

Great, thanks burroughs that means a lot. I'll likely get onto the South Georgia scen (The Empire Strikes Back) in the next week. Glad you've enjoyed it [:D]

[Aivlis]

I'm still in the process of playing this through, looking good so far. I do feel I don't know enough about the UKs hardware to fully appreciate it [:D]
The only minor issue I've run into is the westernmost landing zone (where the RHIB drops off the SF team, between the two islands; don't have CMANO on hand right now to check the name) is a tad too close to the shore, so when I approached it at a slow-ish pace the boat detected the shore and stopped before entering it. It's not an issue when going fast, since then the inertia will carry the boat into the designated zone.

[Rory Noonan]

ORIGINAL: Aivlis

I'm still in the process of playing this through, looking good so far. I do feel I don't know enough about the UKs hardware to fully appreciate it [:D]
The only minor issue I've run into is the westernmost landing zone (where the RHIB drops off the SF team, between the two islands; don't have CMANO on hand right now to check the name) is a tad too close to the shore, so when I approached it at a slow-ish pace the boat detected the shore and stopped before entering it. It's not an issue when going fast, since then the inertia will carry the boat into the designated zone.

Ah, I see what you mean. I missed it on my playtests because I run the RHIBs at flank (they have just enough fuel). I'll move them a little bit to make it easier. Thanks!

[serjames]

Hello, I'm new here and saw this scenario, big fan of anything Falklands based..

However I cannot load the scenario - I get the following error message:

"You have (explicity or implicitly) attempted to load a database that does not exist on the DB folder. Please update to the latest public version of command etc etc...."

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ? I have the latest CWDB and DB3000 installed from Jan ?

Thanks SJ

[serjames]

Typical - sorting it meself within 5 mins of posting

I updated to the Beta on Steam and it's working now.

SJ

[Rory Noonan]

Glad you got it sorted because I wouldn't know how to fix that!

Hope you enjoy the scenario. [:)]

[serjames]

Good so far. The SBS/SAS units are in place and I'm dreading the sun-rise, I know those A4's are out there somewhere....

[Rory Noonan]

Finally ready for release!

v1.0 changes:
Fixed some invalid mission areas
Changed some mission parameters (depth, speed etc) with new options in V1.11
Added home ports for ships and associated withdraw/redeploy criteria
Added KC-130Hs for Argentina to allow more competitive AAW patrols and ASuW attacks

[serjames]

Thanks for the update - I'll give this another go.

Are the destroyers more effective now when they bombard the airport ? I noticed the missed on 98% of shells fired ?

SJ

[Rory Noonan]

There were some improvements made in 1.10 I believe to accuracy for sustained gunfire. For the purposes of this scenario the destruction of the fuel and ammo dumps as well as planes on the ground gives the most points. There's more than enough ammo for that [:)]

[magi]

Cool.....

[bertibott]

hi,

I wanted to try this scenario... but I immediatly ran into a rather big quest-stopper (or quite possibly a rather intense moment of stupiduty on my part...). Where am I supposed to drop the special forces. The briefing talks about several deployment zones.... but it does not mention where these zones are. Nor are there any on the map.

Did I forget to turn on somehting in the Mapview menu? Or am I somehow supposed to figure out where to drop them all by myself? I am confused...

[Rory Noonan]

Hi bertibott,

All of the drop zones, landing zones and rendezvous points etc are marked on the map using locked reference points. They are unselected at the start of the scenario and thus the names do not show.

You can see all of the named reference points by clicking and dragging a box over the entire AO and releasing the mouse button. This will select all reference points, thus displaying their names.

This is shown in the attached screenshot. Hope this helps.

P.S.
The reference points are automatically cleaned up when they are no longer needed to minimise clutter.