Toko-Ri facility?

Squiffy

Squiffy

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Hi gang,

Nonato and I have been working on a Toki-Ri mission. We have the Saratoga installed in the gsl, good wind for takeoff and landing and the target area in some workign shape. I wanted to have some land graphics so I modified the large shipyard which is not used in DPC. Does anyone know how to build a new facility that will include ground paint? The smbridge2 buildings worked well for now. I found a good valley in the area north of Hungnam where they were in real life. No river in DOC so I added it to the ground tile. It's ok but could be better. I may change the shape of it. It's been fun complete with MiGs. I'll post some shots later.
 
happy to sse some news on korea. I recently read some books about air war over there and they were really untreseting with this mix of jets and propellers, B29 and Mig 15's, night low evel and dog fight... hope you can go further with some other missions squiffy!
 
Squiffy-Ri! He-he, that's a good one. Or maybe Kim Jong ill Ri? No missle shots or international incidents. I may just let it go as a facility only since there is no river up there in the mesh. Anyhow, it's been fun playing. Here's a carrier shot and then I need to work the target some more.
 
OK here are some more pics. I kind of like the last one best. The stock radar sites are cool and a welcome addition. Sure my gray tile border was the typical PITA, but I dont really like the hokey tile in the middle of nowhere look either. At least the radar has a reason for being carved out of the woods. Without the real river valley and geography, I think it looks better just overtop of the mesh. I need to add tracked aa for more rapid fire. The big guns were just too slow.

And there's this spot;

http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/korea,_north/map/m289098/toko-ri.html

Or this one which sounds right following the real story by Capt. Paul Gray

http://www.uss-bennington.org/non-benn-bridges_at_toko_ri.html
40.396568, 127.369008
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hungnam%20korea&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
At the thre rivers valley between the two lakes. That's about 50 miles north of Hungnam as the Capt. said. Canyons and all.
 
OK update, new target area and buildings. I repainted L'Arc de Triumph and used it as a building block. Nice chunky bridge now. I could borrow the Aqueduct but this was on hand. better than Blackfriars and the other stock buildings.

I did some more reading on the target area and realized our sim map is not to scale. The town that shows up on MapQuest may just be the right distance from Hungnam and Wonsan. There's a line in the film when a pilot says, "Wonsan is just over that ridge." That's the last ridge before the hilss drop down the river valley to the sea. Wonsan is over the ridge AND across the bay but who's counting? It works pretty well, not as steep as further north. We don't have much room on our map anyway.
 
Squiffy


This is more Squiffy-Ri than ever!!!!! It's looking really good!
:bump::jump::applause::karate::wave::hand:

Did you manage to take off from the Carrier too? Are you going to put a William Holden figure on the cockpit :)? (with your skills I think it will be possible!)
 
Thanks Non and Pat,

I have a headache to proove it right now. :taekwondo: :karate:

Yes the takeoffs are fine. I reduced the wind to 15kts. With full throttle, brakes on, max rpm, 2 notches of flaps, brakes off...lifts off the end of the carrier with rockets and bombs. Now your flightmates will roll along the sea and take off when they're good and ready since they don't know how to do that stated above. I may be able to help that by shortening the runway object. I need to extend the landing end more so they don't blow up when they touch down.
 
Pat,

There are clips of the film on youtube. Check it out. THe auquaduct is close but maybe too narrow and short? It looks like the two bridges in the film are angled towards seach other. We coudl do that too. The funny thign is the mission was actually flown by Skyraiders. If you want we can use those instead! Decisions decision... I'll work on the landings a little bit. Spawns too. For some reason my wingmen keep blowing up when they reach the coast on the way home. Then the spawns for migs are actually spawning friendlies. Too may variables, not enough Advil.

Ow! :karate:
 
Progress

Clive gave the go ahead to use the Antheor viaduct so we're fine there. No more fussing with bridges in a bridge mission! So I went ahead and tweaked the shipyard facility into a river tile for use in mission building. A little more work on the mask and here you go. You can turn them and drop them wherever you want. Pretty cool.
:wiggle:
 
Squiffy said:
Clive gave the go ahead to use the Antheor viaduct so we're fine there. No more fussing with bridges in a bridge mission! So I went ahead and tweaked the shipyard facility into a river tile for use in mission building. A little more work on the mask and here you go. You can turn them and drop them wherever you want. Pretty cool.
:wiggle:
Click to expand...

Squiffy

Are we going to Toko-ri in a Skyraider, anyway? I know that's what happened in real life... but I was so glad we would make a panther take off from a carrier...:help:
 
Oh yeah, we're still flying panthers. That was just a low and slow observer ship to practice placing tiles. Here's some new shots including a new rescue mission. Remind me how you had the goals set up would you please? Nice little package coming together now...

Cheers! :friday:

p.s. Thanks for the help with the S-51 guys. Chime in here to help me remember who!
 
Squiffy

Again, it's marvellous!
I tried to order the DvD but it seems to have run out in every store I searched. Unfortunately I cannot by from Amazon or suchlike because the DvD zones are different from ours. I guess I'll have to be contented with youtube for now...:bump:

I set up the objective of the rescue mission as "reccon" and tried to make some explosions around to spice things a bit, do you remember?
 
Hey Sqiff, your perseverance is always pushin' the cfs3 envelope and much appreciated!!!:ernae:
Don'tcha think our carriers should or could be a bit longer/larger? ...also, whutz the good word on
that cool ska-ska-skakorsky? ...ALSO, haz anybody had success wit that "make water" biznez or
the like? Not I sayeth the blind man... -cheers
 
I brought her down...

amidst the dust 'n dirt, and that is where I REMAINED!
Oh well...:p:
 
Ah nuts! Sorry Pops, maybe try wheels down next time? Guess how many times I tried setting the Dragonfly down after crashing the first time before I realized I have to put my "gear down" even on land?

:caked:
 
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