Missions in 'Career'

[AngleOff]

Hi guys,
just wondering if any work has been done on career missions, and
how the missions are set?
If you read the career screen of the squad you select, it's missions
sometimes do not match the description. As an example, a typh squad
that is supposed to patrol sounthern England against incoming raids,
has it's first several missions as fighter sweeps. (Actually, almost
every squad you can choose, all do several fighter sweeps before
getting a mission they were set up for.)

Actually, I'm just curious how this works. Offline, I prefer career-mode.
I enjoy the 'continuation' and progress of battle. I never really liked
add-on campaigns where you chose the next battle in single-mission
screen, although I have only tried a few, albeit long ago.......

I guess I'm just looking for something to keep the same-ole missions
from becoming boring. Escorts would become much more special if
intercepting fighters attacked you more random, and possibly even
more than once, so that you had to fly the whole mission and remain
vigilant. Knegels ground explosions near frontlines has added a very
nice dimension to the visual. It seems like now there is a ground war
going on.......now I would only like to see the vehicles and guns that
are making the explosions. I know....I know....... "If you want
all this, make it!" ........Wish I had the time.........AND knew how!

AO

[rotton50]

AO,

I've worked with the campaign editor quite a bit over the years. It does allow you to vary the 5 types of missions in EAW.

BUT, there must be something elsewhere, I guess in the exec, that influences these settings.

For example, even if I set the P-51 B and D slots to 0% escort missions I will still get anywhere from 30% to 60% escort missions.

Other slots seem more accepting of the changes and are more easily customized.

There are other ways to force the issue. For example in the case of the A-36 in the P-51B slot I define the plane as a bomber in the planes.dat file and that completely removes the "endless escort" problem.

And for some reason it seems that all planes get assigned a fighter sweep on the first mission regardless of slot.

Ah, the mysteries.