I thoughta I saw a Tungusta and some BTRs and a Strella under the Paris Eiffel Tower and BTR-80s coming up The Strip.

We had NATO to clean up after the missions outta Georgia, who's gonna clean up after The Strip gets overrun with bad guys?

Carl 'CJ' Johnson, of course!

Wow, just goes to show you that good things are worth waiting for!

it looks great , but I cant see what all the excitement is about when all it can get used for is wargaming and training. If it were Iran Id be excited. But this , its just a sandbox , not a theater.

It's the perfect location for staging the great CA vs CO war! I'm sure that will happen SOME day...



The Jedi Master

Have you actually played DCS Warthog? It is probably a sim that most needs a war-gaming and training range more than any other sim...

^Ditto! And we can use it for fictional Red Dawn scenarios........... WOLVERINES!!!!!

It's nice of Matt to post something every now and then to show us that things are progressing!

I really can not wait, now just need a Mexico vs US scenerio to add to the new area . Kinda like Red Dawn.



Bullet

The Nellis area needs an update. After the storms a few months back, the sunshades seen at :29 are no longer there.

Amazing job, and I'm excited to see Creech too. Although I didn't enjoy the hr drive to work there, seeing the base in game will be cool.

Im still not hearing any reasons why we need a training area. Train over Georgia , just make yourself invulnerable. If theres going to be a whole new terrain Id have thought it obvious to make it somewhere cool where you can get immersed in what your doing. To me this is a bit like MSFS.Your playing a simulation of a simulation of a fight. lol. Now if this whole exercise is to build the skills and tools to make a kickass Iran / Iraq map . Thats cool. Im getting this map for free since I was in the Beta. ( yes beachav8r I have played this sim) But if I wernt Id be asking why I should pay extra for it. I just cant understand why someone would rather train on a USA map when they could have had a Iraq , Karballa Gap map? That, I would have paid for. Just my 10c worth

I'd say the target is military, not DCS.
While its very unlikely that you actually go into other country and make an air raid on, virtually training Redfrag might be more demanded.. again for military.

The target is DCS.

A clever mission designer could craft a very believable Afghanistan out of portions of the Nevada terrain. And while simulating dropping fake bombs on a simulated test range may not be everyone's idea of a great time, I know there are a lot of folks who are chomping at the bit to get to do just that.

The first time I saw pictures of Afghanistan my first thought was that it looked just like the desert in Arizona.


Wheels

Yes yes yes and more yes. I would play the hell out of that campaign. I've already started thinking about a scenario like that for a campaign, I just hope ED leaves the airfields aircraft-less unless there is some way to remove them I don't know about.

To have quality training map is good but I remember it is you that said creating map costs hell of time and work, the reason why 3rd party people never finished a single map in the past. Now, why chose Nevada first....? took a first place in a community poll or something? I believe there should be more desired place than Nevada, if the target was DCS customer?

dont take this as any offense just a simple question.



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Because that's the job that was started (by 3rd party, BTW) and because material was available.
It is certainly an appropriate place for making training missions for US aircraft, as well as red flag scenarios. And if you have some imagination, I suppose you can invent some afganistani/iraqi types of scenarios

I read you, thanks for the answer.
Im looking forward to it!