The "Uber" Command: Modern Air/Naval Ops Thread

[jomni]

Yes, modern aircraft are significantly more maintenance-intensive and mission planning & preparation also takes much longer.

USAF's most overtasked airframes during Desert Storm, the F-4Gs, only managed 4 sorties per day during surge ops. Other aircraft such as A-10s and AV-8s managed more sorties and this is reflected in their lower ready times.

What about the turn around time of F4s and A4s in the Arab Israeli wars?

Update: I did some reading and Israel can sortie up to 4x a day.  The Arabs only 1x or 2x a day.

[JudgeDredd]

Yes, modern aircraft are significantly more maintenance-intensive and mission planning & preparation also takes much longer.

USAF's most overtasked airframes during Desert Storm, the F-4Gs, only managed 4 sorties per day during surge ops. Other aircraft such as A-10s and AV-8s managed more sorties and this is reflected in their lower ready times.

WOW!

So - would ANY shortcuts be taken in readiness if there was imminent danger? I'm just thinking, in the window of my Falklands scenario (not mine  :P) that if I send my Harriers up and they head back on bingo fuel and I see a few Mirage IIIs or A-4s heading in - is there anyway at all they would have corners cut in maintenance (in real life) - like not checking everything over (I'm not really sure what happens to an aircraft after a sortie)...so it could just land, load weapons and fuel and off it goes again?

[Dimitris]

Yes, modern aircraft are significantly more maintenance-intensive and mission planning & preparation also takes much longer.

USAF's most overtasked airframes during Desert Storm, the F-4Gs, only managed 4 sorties per day during surge ops. Other aircraft such as A-10s and AV-8s managed more sorties and this is reflected in their lower ready times.

WOW!

So - would ANY shortcuts be taken in readiness if there was imminent danger? I'm just thinking, in the window of my Falklands scenario (not mine  :P) that if I send my Harriers up and they head back on bingo fuel and I see a few Mirage IIIs or A-4s heading in - is there anyway at all they would have corners cut in maintenance (in real life) - like not checking everything over (I'm not really sure what happens to an aircraft after a sortie)...so it could just land, load weapons and fuel and off it goes again?

That's an interesting option. It could be combined with a % probability that the aircraft will crash because of mechanical failure (in the rush , someone left a wrench in the engine intake - ooops....).

[Baloogan]

Would tie in great with a aircraft damage model! :D

[Dimitris]

Yes, that's something else we're looking into. Pretty useful for many CAS/COIN setups.

[MikeGER]

a question that came up doing the first tutorial  (800VP, 2 planes lost)

does the AI when i send bomber on a ASuW (ground) Patrol to finish of the buildings calculate the bombs need to bring down their target (hard) of choice and keep the rest and to do a second and maybe a third run (hello, its a patrol) with the reaming ordnance on the next targets of oportunity in the patrol area ?

My experience was: giving the plilots the liberty the bomber(s) dropped just all its 18 MK82 on the first target (hard) - and that's it.
well - that was not the commander's intention ;) 

[Tuna]

Baloogan Campaign Live now at http://baloogancampaign.com/ and http://www.twitch.tv/baloogancampaign

Fun watching last night, Matrix should put you on it's payroll!

Made the game very tempting!

[MikeGER]

Thanks again to Balooga. Helps a lot.

LB, Clarissa the puppet said watch Baloogans's vids not the BlueLagoon vids  ;)

[republic]

Yes thank you Baloogan!  I went from "Should I buy this?" to "When should I buy this?"   :)

[Jarhead0331]

Surprised pilots from downed aircraft are not modeled. It would be nice if SAR ops were a real consideration in missin planning. Was this ever discussed as a possibility during development?

[jomni]

Anyone have problems with unresponsive UI.  I've been clicking the menu buttons frantically until I get a response.  Same with deleting waypoints.  Have to press delete twice or more and the screen does not refresh properly showing the way points are deleted.

[Yskonyn]

Yes I do. And the route mode seems to get stuck often too.
Also, if you want to move an already established waypoint, a new one gets added immediately resulting in you having to click and drag twice.
Pretty annoying.

The map would also benefit from better performance with zoom and scrolling IMHO.

[Baloogan]

Cheers guys! All streams are archived so if you can't catch the stream you can always catch it on youtube!
As I upload recordings from the stream I'll put them on http://baloogancampaign.com

[Dimitris]

Guys, if you are having UI performance issues please make sure to download the latest beta build, currently B439. (Back up your v1 Command.exe file just in case). Thanks!

[jomni]

Guys, if you are having UI performance issues please make sure to download the latest beta build, currently B439. (Back up your v1 Command.exe file just in case). Thanks!

So when will this be live? :D