The Hornets' Nest - F/A-18C campaign

The Hornets' Nest is a nine missions single player campaign for the F/A-18C over the Caucasus. This is a fictional campaign where you will have to conduct varied missions from A/A to A/G.

In just a few weeks, a group of insurgents has taken control of almost all the Georgian territory. Their claim is that oil resources should benefit to everyone.

However, this argument is considered by many countries as a pretext to take control on these resources.

Last week the insurgents captured the capital city and the regular government had to hide at Batumi which is the last major city that is still under the government control.

However, the insurgents are only 50 miles north of Batumi and may capture it in a day or two.

As a last resort, USA have sent the USS Stennis in the Black Sea to help the regular army protecting Batumi and to provide support to regain control on Georgia.

Only air support is planned and ground operations are let to the regular army.

The remaining resources of the Georgian army are small most of them have been captured by insurgents including MBTs, SAMs and aircrafts.

Insurgents have been able to use ground vehicles but air opposition is not expected yet.

A few important notes:

- The missions are balanced to be flyable with the currently limited capabilities of the Hornet (as per june 2019) so the missions may seem more easy in a few months.

- You should fly the assigned flight plan and you should follow your leader or the AWACS instructions because the missions use triggers. But you can change the payload and livrery.

- Sometimes you are leading the package, sometimes you are not.

- You are supposed to use the regular comm menu and sometimes the F10 menu.

- There is no voice-over for now.

- I hope you will have as much fun flying this campaign as I had making it. ;)

The current up-to-date version is 1.11 (06/16/2019).

Download link: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3301814/

Suggestions are welcome of course.

Hi Bovsam,

Looking forward to flying your campaign. I too have created missions as you can read about in the thread above; The Prelude which also links you to a CASE III Qualification mission.

Sincerely,

Skyspin

Wow! Thank you very much. I look forward to playing this!

Awesome Bovsam! I'll check it out. Thanks.

just finished Mission 1.

Awesome and lots of fun/anxiety with target acquisition, AA refuel, and a trap.

One suggestion, the rescue helicopter is hovering on the left side of the ship right off the bow.

If you bolter, you have to nose over to avoid running right into him.

Hey, thanks!

Making the rescue helicopter go along with the carrier was not easy and I admit that it is still not so good. I will put that on the TODO list.

hi bovsan,

Well... I tried the first mission four times... On the first two, got acquainted with your style and the mission objective. On the third had to exit due to RL. On the fourth I did perfect, destroyed the HQ (not all cars, but both barracks and several adjacent tgts. Got all 4 mortars and rtb safely. Score 37 and results 0 (yep, ZERO).

On the fourth, after all that, the campaign said it was a failure and had no honor or whatsoever and ended.

I am sorry, but some trigger went bad on that...

I didn't like it... Sorry. Thanks for the effort anyway.

All the best,

Sydy

Hey Sydy,

Do you have some Tacview records or track files so that I can try to understand and to fix what went wrong?

Regards.

Bovsam

Hey Sydy,

 

Do you have some Tacview records or track files so that I can try to understand and to fix what went wrong?

 

Regards.

 

Bovsam

Hi Bovsam,

In fact I do have the Tacview file for the mission I flew.

I hope you discover what happened.

Good luck and all the best,

Sydy

Tacview-20180906-031711-DCS-The Hornets' Nest_mission#1.zip.rar

hi bovsan,

 

 

 

I am sorry, but some trigger went bad on that...

 

 

Sydy

I had the same thing happen. Maybe the trigger should be NO EVENT instead of ON DESTROY? **Edit: I just tested it using NO EVENT on the triggers and it worked for me now FYI.

Thanks for these missions!

You're right, thanks for the info, I will fix this ASAP.

Hi bovsan,

Decided to edit my Logbook.lua and give the second mission a shot. Mission was ok and the only thing I noticed is that the name (ADDER) of TGT 2 is nowhere to be found on the map. I had to “cheat” and check F10 and look a lot for the tgt figures to “guess” where the TGT 2 was.

I’d recommend you give coordinates for TGT 2 or change the name.

Good luck,

Sydy

Hey everyone,

A small update (1.01) to fix the reported issues is available.

Changelog v1.01:

- In all missions, you get some additionnal result "points" if you land on the carrier after completing one or more objectives (even partially).

- In all missions, the SH-60B should not fly in front of the carrier anymore.

- In all missions, corrected typo errors in briefing.

- In mission 1, the triggers now properly detect when objectives are completed.

- In mission 1, the location of the secondary objective is given by the AWACS when switching to the secondary objective (F10 menu).

- In mission 2, the location of the secondary objective is given in the briefing and by the AWACS when switching to the secondary objective (F10 menu).

- In mission 2, the escort only rejoin you after you complete the first objective.

- In mission 4, the triggers properly detect if the escort is shot down by the bandits.

- In mission 4, the triggers properly detect if the bandits are shot down by the escort.

- In mission 5, the target waypoints are now exactly on the targets.

Thanks for your feedbacks

Hi Bovsam,

Pretty cool update. Just flew the third mission. Pretty nice set up. I had an hard time to land with that weather but I loved it.

Now I will DL the new vs 1.01.

Tks a lot,

Sydy

Glad you have enjoyed it. I agree that the weather is quite challenging in this mission!

Hi Bovsam,

I flew the fourth mission today. Nice set up again. I flew it twice and I had to do a minor change on the second.

Also flew the 5th mission. Awesome set up.

Also flew mission 6. Pretty nice. The fixes you made worked out nice. All you have to do now is to add some voice overs and it will be perfect.

Congratulations on your campaign.

All the best,

Sydy

How do i install this mission set?

How do i install this mission set?

Hi,

Download the file Campaign.rar in DL link and put all files in the following folder: N:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Missions\Campaigns\Eastern Friendship 1p1

Just that.

All the best,

Sydy

Thanks for this one, been flying mission 1 for a couple days trying different things.

Having a issue when returning to the carrier, so far 6 out of 8 times, one of the Hornets on deck is on the landing deck. First time I did not see it till the last minute and boom.

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Might have to remove the bugger in the ME.

Any tips for getting the Wingman to engage the targets. He responds and then just follows me around. Would be nice to inflict more damage that the little I can do alone.

Once again, thanks for this.

Thank you Sydy for your feedbacks.

I will add a note on how to install this campaign. In any cases, it should be installed just like any other missions or campaigns.

Techross, I did not notice this issue with aircrafts stuck on deck. I will investigate and try to fix. Thanks for this information. In most missions, the wingman is supposed to be able to engage the main target if you told him to engage his targets and then rejoin. I will check if these triggers are missing in some missions and fix if needed.

Hi,

 

Download the file Campaign.rar in DL link and put all files in the following folder: N:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Missions\Campaigns\Eastern Friendship 1p1

 

 

Just that.

 

All the best,

 

Sydy

I still cant found it under Campaigns in the Sim Desktop

Misson 1 Springfield 2-1 and Springfield 2-1 collide on deck.

The tent is so hard to idendify at dawn....I know there they are,but really difficult to spot it through HUD

Just finished the campaign！Very done!!!5 star Missions!

Almost perfectly finished them(Finish all primary and secondary object and RTB in one piece) except shot down once by SA-13 in Mission 6 .

Springfield 2-1 and Springfield 2-1 don't collide this time.

Also I adjust the time of mission 1 to make target much easier to spot.Or it's too hard to spot

In Mission 6,Enfield 1 are not good at destroy SA-9 and SA-13.Always leave one of them or both.

Mission 6 after destroy tower and oil tank,It didnt trigger anything.

Hey,

Thanks for your feedbacks! I agree that it is hard to spot the tents in mission#1. I will probably add some smoke and I will check the triggers of mission 6 because they are supposed to detect when the fuel tanks and the control tower are destroyed.