Paper Tiger Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I'm sure you'll want to change this sometime in the future. At present, when the Syrians ARE given air support by the scenario designer absolutely anybody and his brother can call it in EXCEPT the FO. I was puzzled when it wasn't available to my FO unit but when I clicked on an HQ unit, it became available. And then again with a squad and then with an AT team. That's fine for the US but it feels a bit weird as the Syrian side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Tiger Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 I did some further testing this afternoon and it's not everybody that can do it but HQs and full squads. BTW, I am using Special Forces and haven't tried this wil other Syrian units yet. I'll report back later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marwek77 aka Red Reporter Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Air support? As i know you can only asign US air support. What i am missing is original Red Air Support! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Check out the scenario "Black Bear Down", there you can find a trick to do it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Where can I get this scenario "Black Bear Down"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 If you start with one side American and buy some air, you can then switch to a red on red scenario and they will have air. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webwing Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Originally posted by SgtMuhammed: If you start with one side American and buy some air, you can then switch to a red on red scenario and they will have air. Really!? That is cool! :cool: -- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 It's kind of the CMSF version of the CMx1 "Time Shift." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marwek77 aka Red Reporter Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Yes but its still only trick. Its so difficult to repaint AH-64 blue badge to Mi-24 red one? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I've been having fun mix & matching sides. In one of my scenarios I've got Syrian special forces playing Blackwater mercenaries for the Blue side. its a hoot to have them hop into a Stryker and retrieve a Javelin Haven't dared mix artillery and airpower though. Syrians have such a different spotting chain-of-command. I recall one 3rd party scenario i was playing my Syrian FO got killed off early and I was stuck until an American Humvee inexplicably arrived as a Red reinforcement. I immeidately bailed the crew and used them as spotters since they were the only guys with access! Can't exactly blame BFC for this when we're the ones twisting the deployment rules so badly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAI Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Now that's..... interesting I see a story line for alternate history novels here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Tiger Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Marwek77 aka Red Reporter: Its so difficult to repaint AH-64 blue badge to Mi-24 red one? Yeah, I'd like to see something like that implemented too. However, it probably won't happen because SF is really about a lightning campaign in Syria in which the Syrian Air Force is knocked out on the first day. We can create scenarios in which Red force fight with other red forces but to do it, we have to use the US air units. I don't think Battlefront are going to budge on this issue. It's a bit of a shame because it does cramp the creative abilities of scenario designers somewhat. But I understand that there's only so much that they can do and this is a bit of a fringe issue. There are probably a LOT of people in this forum who'd like to see some Red air power included later just for such situations. I'd settle for access to be denied to all but HQ units. At the moment, I have a self-imposed restriction where only the Syrian HQ's can do even if the squads can too. Anyway, using the US air power what would be the rough equivilants for the Syrians, anybody? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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