DCS Cold War Intercept with Drewski on Enigma's Cold War - PVO Event

[@Enigma89]

We hope you enjoyed the PVO event! We had a lot of fun, we will be running it against on November 25-26

[@LockheedBlackbird]

Can't wait to join in with the f15

[@aaaaaaaawwwwwwww]

once DCS finishes downloading :l hopefully it doesn't take till christmas, although at this rate I wouldn't be suprised

[@kynanayers8361]

Was one of the most fun sessions i have had, the cold weather made the 14a super sporty. Think its a good thing to not do it too often. Still plans to make some other 24h scenarios?

[@theduck1972]

"Minor" point of order, though using the template makes it easier to build, B-52's do not use a diamond formation. They fly one mile in trail stacked with plus 500 ft vertical separation from the bomber in front of them. This is so there is no jacking around building a formation, at take-off each takes a "fan-heading" on departure then lead turns the direction need to first nav point and the rest turn the same direction then adjust position enroute, and it's more simple for pilots to main a trail formation than watching position to hold a diamond. For A/R with Tankers launching with the cell, it's a matter of 2 & 3 moving laterally and slowing, the tankers come over the top to pre-contact and plug the bombers. Afterward, just a matter of 2 & 3 moving their lateral position reestablishing cell integrity. Three ship cell is the standard but can be much much bigger as the mission that pioneered the tactic demonstrates. The tactic was pioneered for the fire-bombing of Tokyo by the God Father himself Curtis LeMay, instead of wasting time and fuel joining up for formation (the rear aircraft in a formation always uses more fuel than the others), bombers went direct to the target using the one mile in trail, they were also stripped of every gun but tail armament... 300 some odd aircraft in total on that raid I believe. That mission did something else the enemy wasn't ready for with a large bomber strike, came in low-level. Downside was several of the bombers toward the end of the string were destroyed due to thermals coming off the inferno created. Then again, B-52's weren't stripped of their tail armament till after the Cold War, shortly thereafter, so a B-52 in DCS as a Cold War model without the guns is a little bizarre, but that probably just me.

[@broworm1]

Man, can't wait for the F-4E to join this madness

[@rhysgoodman7628]

It’ll be sweeeeet

[@brandonhornung4489]

They already have it listed as required yesterday on the Syria server

[@broworm1]

@@brandonhornung4489 Wdym required?

[@NyteStalker89]

@@broworm1 adjective: required officially compulsory, or otherwise considered essential; indispensable. "eight editions were published, each required reading for trainees" in keeping with one's wishes; desired. "the corset, the garment that ensured the required female shape"

[@OfficialUSKRprogram]

"the tail gunner of the B-52 is obsolete" >Miggies going guns on B-52s

[@stevenshea990]

That event was super fun. More multiplayer servers need to do bad weather scenarios, if not for just high-altitude fights, at least to practice instrument flying and landing.

[@Enigma89]

A big reason why our server does not do bad weather is because the AI in DCS can see through it. So you will be flying in a big fog bank and get sniped by some AI who has no radar assisted gunsight. We used the bad weather on this mission because the focus was on a2a.

[@Nomna_17]

Just a heads up the Tomcat can shoot the Phoenix A’s active off the rail with the ACM switch cover flipped up, meaning the missile will not need to be supported until pitbull as it goes pitbull off the rail. Only really works inside of 15nm but worth noting that it’s slightly different than what was mentioned at 10:00.

[@kekistanimememan170]

Maddog.

[@danielrincon9703]

Wonderful Enigma! I love when you fly russian birds! By the way, your recent video with a full aerial combat against Sabres on a MiG-15 is absolutely amazing...the level of comms between the team and the SA form you all...wow...truly aces! Congrats!

[@Enigma89]

Thanks a lot!

[@cross2four]

Do you guys know what happened with your SARH missiles and radar at the beginning of the engagement? I feel like that kind of systems issue lends to quite a lot of realism when you have to think on the fly as things don't quite go right. Thank you for the enjoyable video - love the MiG-21bis!

[@cross2four]

I've just seen that you diagnose it later in the video... never mind!

[@DTMCRAZYGAMING]

Watching the video now! I really wish I didn’t have a busy weekend when the event was going on so I could also get a recording. Who’s flying around in the F-14 a couple of times it was a lot of fun! Can’t wait for the next PVO Great vid 👍

[@gungriffen]

The upcoming Nam servers are going to be amazing!

[@tobiasmeyer2434]

I was playing on this first bombers round also and had the same problem with my missiles as Drewski, odd. The event was great, I had a lot of fun. Keep up the good work, thank you very much for what you do.

[@madaxe606]

19:11 DC'd rather than eject....

[@captainflipflop]

No way GCI says my name on the video 🤣I was the Mig29 "dancing" as drewski said 😎

[@Wolfe351]

fun seeing both yours and Drewski's POV....

[@madaxe606]

This event was awesome. Kept getting Fox 1'd by the F-14's every time I got close to the bombers. Very, very challenging but very fun.

[@lukalekov1530]

The only F5E you see there was me chasing after Ligma since he shot down one of my own .Great vid and cant wait for the next one Serb 1-1

[@Tiro_Chopper]

This event was just so pretty. Cold temps and everyone over the cloud cover because of the blizzard meant everyone was contrailing, beautiful shades of blue and white constantly. Event really was a blast. Always funny catching your own voice in a Enigma video too lmao

[@overwatch7100]

RIP burrito

[@Drovek451]

"The burrito has been demolished."

[@JR-ut2ne]

It was a really fun event. Blue lost a huge amount of B52s that day.

[@nathanwells4809]

This'll be really cool when CA works again and GCI'ing this is possible

[@bsinforoso]

Another EPIC video!

[@Borel-nv5bq]

Do you guys use VR or the IR headtracking?

[@localracer]

Nice work out there

[@Hendrixdh]

Looks fun!

[@MD92ism]

Drewski forgot a switch :D saw it in his POV :D

[@Culpze]

Hey Enigma! Im also in the discord but im not sure how or where to ask really. But i have a question to you about the F-4 and how you guys plan or want to implement it into the server. I'd like to know like whats the plan for it as in will it be spawnable with points or could you just hop in it like the majority of jets in the server.

[@Enigma89]

Yes it will be in the server as a normal plane

[@Culpze]

@@Enigma89 Oh hell yea! Also Gotta love how active you are in the community! Keep up the amazing work! (Last part being both to you and the rest of the development team working in the ECW server)

[@kingkai83]

Prett cool stuff!

[@TheCth777]

Hi enigma, do you know when this event will run next?

[@Enigma89]

Thanksgiving weekend (25 - 26)

[@TheCth777]

@@Enigma89 damn. Curse traveling to family!

[@monkman911]

What is your official server these days? Thanks!

[@Enigma89]

I don't understand your question

[@theoutcastraven9777]

Wasn't Drewski in a Hungarian skin? Those look like Hungarian roundels...

[@Enigma89]

yes, was my bad

[@ryanhooper4660]

Really cool to see Drewski pop on over for so fun!!

[@KhaledAwni]

CAN THE MIG 21 PF. FLY AT NIGHT I NEED ANSWER PLEASE

[@rafaelaldana1503]

Nice video

[@Enigma89]

Thanks!!

[@artao5]

Have weapon selector on 4? Chuck's Guide says 1 is what you want to use for auto-select-missile "mode."

[@BigHistoryBuff44]

Ya, I think I read 1 as well.

[@Enigma89]

You can have it on 1, 2, 3 or 4 and it will auto-select.

[@trianglepilot]

You got GCI to work? Very nice.

[@leventesapi9882]

I'm sorry but that's the Hungarian People's Army insignia, not Mongolian.

[@treypeters1087]

hey man, i play the server daily, but the new sever is almost unplayable- I'm an IT guy if there is any way I can help I'd love to, but this new germany spot sucks and everyone is complaining- thx

[@Enigma89]

There is actually nothing you or we can do. The German server we have is better than the last server (and more expensive). There are some really bad problems with DCS 2.9 that seems to be impacting the larger servers much more than the smaller servers. I and the other server owners talk and we are all basically out of ideas of what we could possibly do. We were already planning on changing servers and when we switched over to DCS 2.9, we saw the ram usage shot up, which made us switch server boxes so we could have more ram. We are frequently reaching 100GB+ of ram utilization - our last box only had 64gb and our new one has 128gb. So the TLDR is that we aren't unique in this situation and it has nothing to do with the server location. It's an issue with the game right now. The ping numbers being registered in DCS aren't even accurate... Every time you change slots, your ping goes up by 2x. The last time a big patch came out (2.8), the server struggled heavily because of the crater bug which caused perma FPS loss for the server. This took about 2 months to fix. I just mention this to manage your expectations, if history repeats itself, it can take 2 months for this to get fixed.

[@fadinginthenight]

It's a romanian skin, not mongolian :( edit: it's hungarian

[@tibornagy7903]

That is a Hungarian skin. :) It is the HunAF grey paintscheme with the insignia used from the '60s until around '89.

[@fadinginthenight]

@@tibornagy7903 you could be right, with the lighting i'm struggling to tell whether it's red, yellow and blue or red white and green

[@fadinginthenight]

yeah i'm pretty sure it's hungarian@@tibornagy7903

[@Enigma89]

That explains why I could not find it later. I thought it was Mongolian. Thanks

[@tibornagy7903]

@@fadinginthenight either way it is gorgeous, the 21 looks good in any clothes :)

[@yosho43]

wtf does pvo means?

[@Enigma89]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Defence_Forces

[@gungriffen]

Lol What you call a bug I call realism! Know how often equipment just fails lol

[@GogginsMiniTalks]

hiiii

[@yury4344]

Can u make cold war server in wt. WT has more planes then dcs and has map and mission redactor. Also u can make tanks present in dcs cw or warthunder cw, it can work like it works in il2 also it can make bmps and btrs in warthunder actually useful, so they can transport troops like helicopters.

[@GaryIKILLYOU]

lol

[@aaaaaaaawwwwwwww]

war thunder vehicles and flight models are un realistic and you can't interact with the planes cockpit

[@GolddenWaffles]

@@aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwbooooo

[@GolddenWaffles]

that would be cool!

[@yury4344]

yes but that can be more casual version of ecw in dcs also u can fly aircrafts like vark in warthunder @@aaaaaaaawwwwwwww

[@GOZR]

Turn on your Turbulences..

[@Enigma89]

Turbulence lags servers in DCS afaik

[@DCSSicario]

Looks like great fun, will definitely try to join next time 🫡