Stang~SPARTA~

I've got plenty of popcorn and beer handy ....still waiting for the big boom on this side of the great pond Zeno, hope your out of town when they create the black hole

Happy Birthday Mate Go out and PARTY

Are you kidding me???? After Halli making a speech like that we'd be killing everything, (the enemy, his relatives, the dogs, cats, rabbits, the prostitutes) ...well maybe not the prostitutes

Yup Its going to be good I have it in the version of Air Dom I'm working on

I took the liberty of putting together a Speech for Halli to open the mission with I think he'll do great Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944 I figured I'd open the speech with a simple intro like this.... "We are here to listen to the words of a great man. A man who will lead you all into whatever you may face with heroism, ability, and foresight. A man who has proven himself amid shot and shell. My greatest hope is that some day soon, I will have my own Army fighting with his, side by side." Halli arises and strides swiftly to the microphone. The men snapped to their feet and stood silently. Halli surveyed the sea of brown with a grim look. "Be seated", he said. The words were not a request, but a command. Halli's voice rose high and clear. "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American." The General paused and looked over the crowd. "You are not all going to die," he said slowly. "Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen." "All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling". That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit!" The men roared in agreement. Patton's grim expression did not change. "There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily", he roared into the microphone, "All because one man went to sleep on the job". He paused and the men grew silent. "But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did". The General clutched the microphone tightly, his jaw out-thrust, and he continued, "An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!" "We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world", Patton bellowed. He lowered his head and shook it pensively. Suddenly he snapped erect, faced the men belligerently and thundered, "Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do". The men clapped and howled delightedly. There would be many a barracks tale about the "Old Man's" choice phrases. They would become part and parcel of Third Army's history and they would become the bible of their slang. "My men don't surrender", Patton continued, "I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!" Patton stopped and the crowd waited. He continued more quietly, "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, "Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands". But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits'." Patton paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, "Fixing the wire, Sir". I asked, "Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?" He answered, "Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed". I asked, "Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?" And he answered, "No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!" Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable." The General paused and stared challengingly over the silent ocean of men. One could have heard a pin drop anywhere on that vast hillside. The only sound was the stirring of the breeze in the leaves of the bordering trees and the busy chirping of the birds in the branches of the trees at the General's left. "Don't forget," Patton barked, "you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton'." "We want to get the hell over there", Patton continued, "The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit." The men roared approval and cheered delightedly. This statement had real significance behind it. Much more than met the eye and the men instinctively sensed the fact. They knew that they themselves were going to play a very great part in the making of world history. They were being told as much right now. Deep sincerity and seriousness lay behind the General's colorful words. The men knew and understood it. They loved the way he put it, too, as only he could. Patton continued quietly, "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin", he yelled, "I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!" "When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!" "I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!" "From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that." The General paused. His eagle like eyes swept over the hillside. He said with pride, "There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"

The choice for the HQ Commander is simple For the whiskey drinking, gun toting, foul mouthed, "I'll whip your ass if one of you goobers takes my dam copters again without my F!@King permission, and Hell NO!, I don't need your sorry backwoods ass taking a F!@king A10 to blow nothing up either damit"...HQ Commander you need Halli Just make sure he's a had a few drinks before he records...it'll be GREAT!! Otherwise...I suggest this guy

We're getting close Medic We're getting close Medic

Bollocks... I can shoot the shit just fine anytime ...just can't hit anything

Thanks Rooster, I was just hoping to find someone else with additional skills, so we can get this done. If you have time later today we can jump on Team Speak and I'll give you a run down of what I've done so far and what else needs to be done. If you feel like helping and or have time, I'd sure love the help. Anyone one else with map editing / mission building skills is welcome to help too

Hey Rooster How good are your Map and Mission building skills? See HERE and HERE

I'm still waiting for the non-beta release

Cool Thanks

Hey Durka Thanks for the advice about the book. I downloaded it from iTunes for my iPod and have been really enjoying it while I travel for work. Its a GREAT Book and the guy doing the reading really does a fantastic job. This really helps you appreciate how combat really is. Thanks Again

1.?? Men are NOT mind readers. 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You?re a big girl. If it?s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don?t hear us complaining about you leaving it down. 1. Sunday sports, It?s like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be. 1. Crying is blackmail. 1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it! 1. Yes or No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question. 1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That?s what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for. 1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days. 1. If you think you?re fat, you probably are. Don?t ask us. 1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the?other one 1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done. Not both. And if you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself. 1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials. 1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we. 1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is. 1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that. 1. If we ask what is wrong and you say ?nothing,? We will act like nothing?s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle. 1. If you ask a question that you don?t want an answer to, expect an answer that you don?t want to hear. 1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine? Really. 1. Don?t ask us what we?re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, hockey or golf. 1. You have enough clothes. 1. You have too many shoes. 1. I am in shape.? Round IS a shape!

24.) When you are queried by a buddy's wife, girlfriend, mother, father, priest, shrink, dentist, accountant, or dog walker, you need not and should not provide any useful information whatsoever as to his whereabouts. You are permitted to deny his very existence. 25.) You may exaggerate any anecdote told in a bar by 50 percent without recrimination; beyond that, anyone within earshot is allowed to call 'BULLSHIT!'. Exception: When trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration rate rises to 400 percent. 26.) The minimum amount of time you have to wait for another guy who's running late is 5 minutes. For a girl, you are required to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 babe scale. 27.) Agreeing to distract the ugly friend of a hot babe that your buddy is trying to hook up with is your legal duty. Should you get carried away with your good deed and end up having sex with the beast, your pal is forbidden to speak of it, even at your bachelor party. 28.) Before dating a buddy's "ex", you are required to ask his permission and he in return is required to grant it. 29.) The universal compensation for buddies who help you move is beer. 30.) A Man must never own a cat or like his girlfriend's cat. 31.) When your girlfriend/wife expresses a desire to fix her whiney friend up with your pal, you may give her the go-ahead only if you'll be able to warn your buddy and give him time to prepare excuses about joining the priesthood. 32.) If a buddy is out-numbered, out-Manned, or too drunk to fight, you must jump into the fight. Exception: If within the last 24 hours his actions have caused you to think, "What this guy needs is a good ass-whoopin.", then you may sit back and enjoy. 33.) If a buddy is already singing along to a song in the car, you may not join him...too gay. 35.) When a buddy is trying to hook up, you may sabotage him only in a manner that gives you no chance of hooking up either. 36.) Before allowing a drunken friend to cheat on his girl, you must attempt one intervention. If he is able to get on his feet, look you in the eye, and deliver a "FUCK OFF!" You are absolved of your of responsibility. 37.) Never, EVER slap or smack another Man.

Sorry Guys Found a large bug and trying to get it worked out. I should have this to Zeno tomorrow for the download site coding...what a PIA

HI Guys I am getting to the final stages of the new updated Air Dom mission and I need some "Beta Testers" to check out the flight models. This will be a simple map (Chernarus) at the main base with several aircraft configured around the departure end of the runway. No "Bad" guys. What I'm looking for is feedback on the aircraft's updated flight model. You will find that I have limited the top speed in all aircraft to do two things make it more realistic for helos make it more realistic for jets in a "combat "CAS (Close Air Support) role. balance game play in the new Air Dom Server version Believe it or not, there are no F-16 dropping LGB's at 30 feet doing 1500 knots. My best friend is a Major in the SC Air National Guard and Flys F-16CJ's for a living. He has 7 combat tours, with over 400 hours of actual combat time and over 2000 total hours in the Jet....he knows, trust me and he helped with the speeds. So please no emails or post saying "Stang the new flight models are screwed up as the F-16 can't go over 1500 knots???" I want feedback on the flyability. take offs and landings. BTW, landing are now "Sporty" as in real life. Be ready to actually have to fly the airplane I will get the two files you need (new PBO for the addons folder and a simple mission "map") with the aircraft laid out and ready for flying...ready to distribute "Late" this evening. Today is my wife's birthday so it will be late this evening EST as I have B-Day stuff to do during the day and afternoon. Also, Zeno...would you rather me pm the files to people directly or can we setup a simple download location for them? Guys...Please remember this is a BETA TEST and there are things I still need to tweak in these flight models. This is just a test! Thanks for the help

I'll rebuild it but it won't run/fly as I always have too many parts left over

Come on Kal just re-write the dam thing and make it ROCK the way we want it. We all know you know how to do it, so "Git Er Dunn"

This sounds GREAT Can't wait to give it a go! Bravo Fellas

That's GREAT!! He's a PRO

Holy Hell...TRex and DMarkwick are here too....there goes the neighborhood First off, don't believe/listen to a dang this TRex says, as he's a legal ambulance chasing, word purist court jocky...and no matter what he says, I'm really a nice guy. DMarkwick is OK unless he's been listening to TRex or drinking too much Second off, welcome to the forums Guys. Looking forward to shooting you in the ba..., uh I mean playing with you...in a non-homo, online multi player gaming kind of way Hey SkeleTele, as far as that teaching you guys something...you can forget that, especially Durka, he's already forgot more than I'll ever know . I am working on a Air Dom MOD to update the Air Dom Server and TRex and several others on the BI Forums (no that's not BI-Sexual Forums, its Bohemia Interactive) and The MOD GOD's here, have been helping tremendously. I hope to have it done in about 5 or 6 years and then we can try it out BTW...Hey TRex thanks for hijacking my thread...I wouldn't have it any other way!

Here's a bit more information from the Guys that helped me over at the BI forums. With this information, I think I can get this going....hopefully From [APS]GNat on the BI Forums I think you will find that instead of modifying every original PBO, you can make a couple of new ultra-simple PBO's to "overwrite" the existing config. - Paste the below code into a new config.cpp text file - place the file in a folder named something like STG_A10Adjust - Turn the folder into a PBO, place the PBO into your addons folder in ArmAII Code: class CfgPatches { class STG_A10Adjust { units[] = {}; weapons[] = {}; requiredVersion = 1.00; requiredAddons[] = {"CAA10"}; }; }; class CfgVehicles { class Plane; class A10: Plane { maxSpeed = 400; }; }; From TRex on the BI Forums Excellent! Gnat did what I was going to do. Stang, instead of sending you a config, I'll just use Gnat's excellent example. Plus, maybe someone else can use the info. Think of the config as the portal for the game to reach all the great content elsewhere in the pbos. It tells the game engine what to do with all that stuff. The configs are broken down into sections, depending on what it is going to do. Pay careful attention to the braces {} and semicolons ; because they tell the game engine where the ends of sections and lines are. In Gnat's example, you have 2 sections: cfgPatches and cfgVehicles. The cfgPatches section has generic information about the addon you're making. If your adding units/weapons you would put them there. The required version is self-explanatory, and the required addons just makes sure the right things are added before it loads your addon. The cfgVehicles section actually does the stuff you're interested in. The class Plane line tells the engine a context for your mod - that you're changing the plane values. The class A10:Plane tells the engine specifically what a/c you're going to change. The next section tells it that you're changing the value for the maxSpeed. I noticed the landing speed is high, too, so if you wanted to change both values it would look something like this: Code: class CfgVehicles { class Plane; class A10: Plane { maxSpeed = 400; landingSpeed = 120; }; }; Oh, and another thing, you can actually use a similar process to add your own modified A-10. This could be beneficial because as long as your mod is loaded, ALL the A-10s will be affected. So, if you play a different mission with that mod, it will still have the lower values, which may or may not be what you want. If you want to know how to do that (when you're ready) just post and either I or someone else will show you. Gnat is a serious guru when it comes to this stuff, so hopefully he'll do it.

Finaly... I'm learning waaay too much about this stuff the hard way... I have learned that every aircraft has it's own .pbo file and within that file is a config.bin file. I know this is basic for most of you but I'm still a HUGE NOOB here. I also learned that it takes an extraction program to extract the pbo files,...thus allowing you to see the contents of the "compiled" file. Inside of the pbo file are things like the config.cpp files which contain all the scripting for the main code to follow when it runs the program. Things like colors used, sounds called, properties of items, timings, etc etc. It also contains the "inertia" table that uses values for setting limits in the physics model...like maxSpeed, which is what I want to change. So...... I got the config.bin file open from the A10 in my working folder (this is a copy of my Arma 2 folder on a separate drive) I used "unBuildArmA.exe" to un-binarized the config.bin into a config.cpp file, which I was able to edit with notepad. Whoohoo!, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Below is the section that "appears" to define what I'm looking for From A10 Config.cpp file }; HeadAimDown = 3; armor = 75; damageResistance = 0.00485; armorStructured = 1; maxSpeed = 720; landingAoa = "rad 10"; landingSpeed = 220; flapsFrictionCoef = 0.3; aileronSensitivity = 1; elevatorSensitivity = 0.8; envelope[] = {0.0, 0.1, 0.65, 2.2, 3.7, 5.3, 6.0, 5.5, 5.6, 4.8, 3.6, 1.8, 0}; gearUpTime = 4.5; gearDownTime = 3; The Big question is...Can I just modify the line maxSpeed=720 to maxSpeed=400 and Waaalah, I'm done.....right??? By the way, how do I "re-binarize" the config.cpp file back into a config.bin file??? Thanks again for all the help Stang out ....making progress finaly...Yeah!

Hiya Drew