Steel Winter - the Single Player Experience for A-10C's & A-10A's

Bug fixed in Mission 5. New versions uploaded, see the first post.

Many thanks for these - will give them a spin.

Nate

In case you are still working on this:

in the 5th mission, the Tanker did not spawn. Was not available for wingmen and in the Comm Menu. I told them to hold position and they had enough fuel for the rest of the mission, so it worked out in the end.

The mission itself was pretty cool:)

Thanks Comes, for finding this bug. I've temporarily suspended work on "Steel Winter" until later in the year or early 2018 because I have to pack up and make a cross country move soon. The tanker bug was easily solved and I have repaired mission 5 for the A-10A and A-10C and uploaded new versions to the first post.

BTW, were you able to steal the Fullback and get it home safely?

I failed the mission three times.

First I did not have enough ammo to destroy the reinforcement tanks and the Fullback got destroyed.

On second try I rearmed before calling the C-130 but got shot down by a tank.

On third try I rearmed but somehow managed to miss a few of my Mavericks, so again, I did not have enough ammo.

I have to admit, I got frustrated after that and cheated a little:unsure:

I removed two of the reinforcement tanks at the end.

After that, I managed to complete the mission successful and get the Fullback home with all my wingmen still alive.:)

But that was a really interesting Mission with nice voice acting etc...

I am really enjoying this campaign, also liked the change of season (brings a bit more variety).

I just wish you could send your wingmen home to rearm in DCS.

If only we could get our wingmen to rearm. :yawn: I'm guessing ED hasn't given us this option over all these years because the AI is just too stupid to do it!

I completed the last Mission now.

Just 2 little issues I had:

Before the mission starts, I had to select one of two (identical?) A-10 flights. Don't know if this is intentional or just some copy and paste error in the Mission Editor.

Another problem that I had was AI related.

The second Convoy was close to Kobulete Airbase, so my wingmen where always engaging the enemys at the Airbase and not the Convoy. Also it seems, that all the Units that I destroyed in the previous mission at the airbase were back in this one.

Maybe it would be better to remove them, just to make things a little more believable and easier for the AI.

I was lucky and the general was in the second convoy.:)

And of course I checked out the Easter Egg:thumbup:

Thank's a lot for the campaign, I am always happy to see a few missions for the A-10A.

Comes, there's an extra set of A-10's, "Thunderbolt Flight 2" for you use if you got off to a bad start or loose your wingmen and don't want to start the whole mission over. Simply press "Esc" and then "Select Role" and you can jump into Flight 2 and it's like starting over with two fresh wingmen except you won't loose the progress you've made so far in the mission.

Mission 6 takes place 1 month after mission 5 so the defenses at Kobuleti are somewhat replenished. Yes, it is hard to make sure your wingmen attack the moving columns of vehicles and not the airbase defenses. These are a port of multiplayer missions and in multiplayer you can talk your human wingmen to the proper target. So in singleplayer try enabling "Cockpit Visual Recon Mode" and using it's features to let your wingmen know which targets you want them to attack.

I'll be back at years end or early next year with more "Steel Winter" missions. :pilotfly: