In the Europe Map 1 and 2, at the bottom of the screen you have several red and blue carrier groups.

These carriers are loaded with Vipers, Super Cobras, Hokums, MI-28, etc etc

The only time those choppers ever get assigned a mission is for escort duty.

They are escorting choppers on SEAD and CAS and BAI and Insertion missions taking off from FARP and airbases on land.

Is there any way to change the codes so these carrier based air assets can take some of the SEAD and CAS and BAI and BDA and RECON and CAP and TRANSFER missions that are available but not being filled by the land based air assets due to those assets being either busy or shorthanded?

In the Europe Campaign 1 and 2 folders, you have 3 types of files: Bin, CHC, SID.

Which one of these affects the missions and what missions will each air asset take and not take and what lines or codes in those files need to be changed and to what?

Can I change them with Notepad or Wordpad or do I need a special program?

One more thing: there are Ospreys on those blue carriers.

It seems to me they only do transfer mission in the Europe map and in most of the other campaign maps too.

Can Ospreys be changed to do supply and recon and BDA and Repair missions?

EECH\common\data\FORMCOMP.DAT is default config file. if you want to make adjustments of some specific campaign/mission, you can copy this file into campaign/mission folder and edit as you like. if you interested in it you can try to make better default dat file, as you can see it's not really perfect. if you wish to make some changes in the code in this direction I can help you.

In EECH\common\data\FORMCOMP.DAT , The only ones that I see that have VIPER and OSPREY and MI-28 and Hokums on Carriers, Using the word MARINE, are:

:FORMATION_COMPONENT
:TYPE HELICOPTER_MARINE_ATTACK_GROUP_A
:TYPE ROW_LEFT
:COUNT 2
GROUP_MARINE_ATTACK_HELICOPTER
AIRCRAFT_AH1Z_VIPER
AIRCRAFT_MI28N_HAVOC_B
AIRCRAFT_AH1Z_VIPER
AIRCRAFT_MI28N_HAVOC_B
:END

:FORMATION_COMPONENT
:TYPE HELICOPTER_MARINE_ATTACK_GROUP_B
:TYPE ROW_LEFT
:COUNT 2
GROUP_MARINE_ATTACK_HELICOPTER
AIRCRAFT_AH1W_SUPERCOBRA
AIRCRAFT_KA52_HOKUM_B
AIRCRAFT_AH1W_SUPERCOBRA
AIRCRAFT_KA52_HOKUM_B
:END

:FORMATION_COMPONENT
:TYPE HELICOPTER_MARINE_ASSAULT_GROUP_A
:TYPE ROW_LEFT
:COUNT 2
GROUP_MARINE_ASSAULT_HELICOPTER
AIRCRAFT_CH46E_SEA_KNIGHT
AIRCRAFT_KA29_HELIX_B
AIRCRAFT_CH46E_SEA_KNIGHT
AIRCRAFT_KA29_HELIX_B
:END

:FORMATION_COMPONENT
:TYPE HELICOPTER_MARINE_ASSAULT_GROUP_B
:TYPE ROW_LEFT
:COUNT 2
GROUP_MARINE_ASSAULT_HELICOPTER
AIRCRAFT_MV22_OSPREY
AIRCRAFT_KA29_HELIX_B
AIRCRAFT_MV22_OSPREY
AIRCRAFT_KA29_HELIX_B
:END

Do I just change

HELICOPTER_MARINE_ASSAULT_GROUP_B

to

HELICOPTER_HEAVY_ATTACK_GROUP_A

and

GROUP_MARINE_ASSAULT_HELICOPTER

to

GROUP_ATTACK_HELICOPTER

to make them take more primary missions instead of them sitting on the carriers doing nothing but Escort missions?

???

Also after editing it, where in the Europe map, C:\Razorworks\common\maps\map32 do I put it?

Thanks thealx!

I think it will be bad idea to rename current groups, they will be just missing. try to replace current group members with specific helicopter. like from



to



look formcomp files from other maps (from map01 to map03), maybe there will be different combinations of groups.



C:\Razorworks\common\maps\map32\camp01 or camp02

I will play with it and see what happens.

Thanks again.