Ya I need to make yet another unit for mini mod............soviet reinforcement guys aka conscripts for this mission. On my to do list allready But as far as vehicles go........well with historical on.......thats what makes it expert. But with it off there SHOULD be enough stuff to get thru the mission unless you totally mess up. Also need to update text to reflect that and let player know before they start. Ok get to updating all that this week.

Personally I took The Road for a spin. Gotten 10 out of 13 turns in. I got it right for the most part thru turns 1 - 8. This Will BE A GOOD mission when I complete it. Might be my best so far.......when done. Updating small issues with the mini mod part tonight and probably fix the small errors I made in it as well in mission design. They really are small......I think only I would ever know. =). Oh and I am going to try my hand at custom weather for this one....that should be intereting.

Ok rifle greandes no longer render on rifle before being fired and report ammo wrong. This has been the case since march beta 2 patch. Hopefully gets fixed in next patch. But the rifle grenades now render when fired correctly.......dont get fired sideways anymore. Will have that fix in next beta version. For some wierd reasons muzzle flashes happen in the middle of my g3a3. Unsure why as yet as it appears to be set up correct, but works perfect other than that.

Oh my I allready added that blurb about skill settings in mardga 2.0. Ugh...I thought I had done that to The Road. Can not keep campaigns I am working on straigth in my head. Never work on 3 campaigns at once.....lol.

Ok fixed small issues with The Road camapign....they are vary small indeed and added in iranian air spotters. Have it set up to call in south africian impalas Hopefully have last issues with f5 sorted out by next weekend. Along with some custom weather I hope.

And major thank you to Vitesse, the only one so far that has given any feed back so far.

Well attempting a bit of custom weather now. Did something to cfg files.....no idea what does what but I made my best guess at what is right.

default rain

experimental light rain........needs more tweeking but on the right path.

Looks like mini mod will get a new feature for mission makers....a couple new weather types for susangerd at least.

Hey again Flashburn,

I've played a few more turns and really impressed with the gameplay.

Because of the T62 mixed in I got to play with the isolated platoon as they defended their position. My tank got surrounded and disabled so the two surviving crew surrendered (nice touch) but I was able to watch the rest of the action. I decided to call in the air support and sat back to watch. The battle ended as a surprise major victory but best was the atmosphere of the firefight and seeing those Migs lay down the hurt.

I've just finished an assault against a large group of enemy around Marjah and am ready to turn south and clean up around Mardga. Well, that's the plan.

I can't get over how this game keeps springing surprises. I've never seen tank crews dismount and surrender before. They stayed surrendered even when friendly units were all around them, mind!

I have been playing and messing with SABOW awhile now (apos as well).......it still suprises me. Rarely will the same thing happen twice. Well please let me know how things go with mission and any suggestions for improvement. Be warned.......the further West you go the stiffer the resistance. For final version I may put a little blurb in briefing about a slim possiblity of slipping out east from being surrounded. In the end it is up to the AI if you can pull it off. When the eastern afgan defense get engaged by main body of Soveit assualt the ai *may* decide to send forces to help defend. you have enough fuel to maybe make it to your lines if main body makes enough head way. But all that is a major if.

The migs engaged target for you?! Thats great......they rarly do anything useful for me for some wierd reason. Maybe drop a bomb and fly in circles. LOL. Andrey said air supports get worked on in next beta patch btw.

Oh ifyou are up for it once you are done with Mardga 2.0 want to try my newest version of The Road? Still working it up now. But it should be the last version. Well unless new features of sabow editor require me to over haul the thing. But probably will take a little time to get up to speed on new editor scripting functions and what they do/what is possible. AND ugh........finish freaken playable m113....finally.

I called a halt to the Mardga offensive and sorted out the mod/patch problem. Turns out the beta patch offered on the Graviteam site was not the latest (more likely I picked up the wrong one). I found the one you'd put up and no problem now. Means I've probably missed some content in that camapaign?

I tried The Road next - played a couple of turns and found the air support was pretty poor as you said (looks like you are fixing it though). No problems encountered and with the mixed platoons I've been able to spot the new helmet and rifle you'd built. Looks very good.

I've pushed Eastwards with the recon units and got them pretty mauled so my tank crews are earning their pay!

Edit I did find a couple of small typos in the campaign screen description and there was not room for all the text so it finishes mid-sentence.

No you did not miss much in Mardga with wrong beta........Does explain why air supports worked for you. That is an issue with current patch. The text getting cut off was a non issue (note was) because there will be a large dialog box for text in future patches. But it only cut off part of one sentance. All you missed was a lot of people got killed the end...lol.

Wait till you find the .50 cals. If you get unlucky they chew up BMP's pretty well.

Roger on the typos......wrote alot of that text vary sleep deprived. Ill fix it up soon.

I may see if I can throw a temp fix at the air support issue untill next Graviteam patch. No idea if it will work, but worth a shot.

Also have a newer version of mission if interested. Quite a few small fixes but basicly the same thing. What can I say.....perfectionist <-------- on this one. Biggest difference is stand in iran air support. Using SA impalas in place of F5 which still is not quite none. SO CLOSE though. Just keep doing other things while I should be finishing it.


on mardga any issues or things I could make better?

Mardga is something I've probably played too much... Once you reach the platoon there's not much more to the mission - as you say you can go on and hit the stronger enemy to the west., but they tend to be more of the same you've already faced. I know that's a reflection of the forces involved historically. Maybe I'm missing something?

I do know I've had plenty of seriously good sim moments playing through that campaign.

Yes killing lots of infantry gets old....

[spoiler] dug in AT guns on high ground [spoiler]

You have no idea how much I wish there was a beat up pickup with heavy weapons on it for this mission. Would not stand a chance BUT flaming compact pickups flying thru the air would keep you from getting too bored.

Still for final version that is good feedback. Will consider droppping out some of the end of mission and making it a little shorter. On 2nd thought I will do that. Should offer 3 different senarios of dis-simular combat problems. 1. cut off guys
2. assualt an OBJ on flat ground 3. assualt an OBJ on inferior ground. Damnit where are my SUN-TZU quotes....



Been thinking about this more. Your right. Focus of mission should be saving Pvt. Ivan. LOL I served with a guy from Russia orginally who wanted to be called Ivan. Well he was not a pvt...oh whatever.

Ok going to modify mission. Focus will become cut off recon platoon and assualting threw lines. Reduce turn numbers down to somewhere between 6 and 8. Still need to come up with a good point system for vic/defeat.

Thanks for input on this.