Tactical Air War

[Cpt_Siddy]

On 10/31/2021 at 7:17 PM, FTC_DerSheriff said:

The K-4s do not fit in the MG theatre. Push them to Map 2 imho. Tempest mk V too.

I agree, it will make more pronounced progression.

 

Also, if possible, make a fighter only version from p-38, so i can chose it as a principle fighter, perhaps even +1 plane. Bombs and rockets locked, fighter only.

There are people who wish to fly it in fighter only role, but the current systems makes that very difficult because its so high up the food chain because its excellent bomb load.

[JV44HeinzBar]

S!,

I know this topic has probably been mentioned, but I'm not good at searching these forums. Has TAW considered adding player tanks along side planes for the campaigns? I apologize if this topic has been answered, but I couldn't find the answer when I did a search. With 540 pages to search through, I got tired of going page to page in order to find the answer.

 

HB

[todeskvlt]

4 hours ago, JV44HeinzBar said:

Has TAW considered adding player tanks along side planes for the campaigns?

 

There's no plan for that.

Edited November 2, 2021 by todeskvlt

[Doc62]

Hi guys, not sure if this is the right place. Yesterday I registered as Doc,

I fly as Doc62 but was unable to register as Doc62, is this going to be an issue, I tried to join server yesterday with a m8 but got a registration message and was kicked. Any help appreciated.

Doc.

[Willy__]

4 hours ago, Doc62 said:

Hi guys, not sure if this is the right place. Yesterday I registered as Doc,

I fly as Doc62 but was unable to register as Doc62, is this going to be an issue, I tried to join server yesterday with a m8 but got a registration message and was kicked. Any help appreciated.

Doc.

 

Yes, your registered name must be the same name you use on the forums (which is the same name for ingame anyways). If you registered to a diferent name then you will get kicked every time

[Doc62]

Thanks for the reply, the problem is it doesn't like Doc62, I've tried to edit my profile from Doc to Doc62.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[=LG/F=Kathon]

1 hour ago, Doc62 said:

Thanks for the reply, the problem is it doesn't like Doc62, I've tried to edit my profile from Doc to Doc62.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There is already Doc62 registered: 

 

Edited November 2, 2021 by Kathon

[JV44HeinzBar]

8 hours ago, todeskvlt said:

 

There's no plan for that.

That's a shame. I know the name says it all, but it could add an interesting element to server. Perhaps, call it Total Tactical War

 

HB

[Doc62]

OK guys,  the issue is sorted.

Thx for the comments.

Cheers a happy Doc62 ? 

[Toots_LeGuerre]

No plans for tanks, which is unfortunate.

But every airfield needs a runabout, or a hack, and when the SD. KDF Flak 38 gets her to balance the GAZ, I think one or two such vehicles should be made available

for airport defense as well as a 'FOLLOW ME' vehicle at each on the operational airports.

A Jeep and Kubelwagen would be even better.

Be fun to drive around the perimeter and greet the landing planes, or even go to town for the evening.

 

[Chivas_Regal]

Is server down?

[todeskvlt]

55 minutes ago, Bugs_Bunny said:

Is server down?

 

it's working now

[Mad_Mikhael]

Should be working.

 

EDIT: Double post. Adding meme then.

Edited November 4, 2021 by Mad_Mikhael

[CSW_Hot_Dog]

On 9/18/2021 at 2:22 PM, JGr8_Leopard said:

The absence on map1 of 109 (at least in the G6 version without Mw50) in the basic set is a miscalculation. For the P47 there is an analogue of the 190-A8, for the Spitfire-IX there is no such analogue for the blue side. In case of death, the red pilot immediately has a fighter and an assault aircraft, the blue pilot does not have a clean fighter - do not make me laugh about the A8 ... 

 

On 9/20/2021 at 1:24 PM, JGr8_Leopard said:

Oh yeah, 262 has not even appeared yet, and the activists of the red team remind of him in fear. Balance, fairness, haha Typhoon in the basic set, against Fw-A8 haha. Blue side attendance will be weak on Map 1. 

 

So one more again please, If I may ask, what exactly is so bad about A8 "Not - A - Fighter" on map 1 ????

 

[JG7_X-Man]

Hey guys! Any plans of fixing the TAW Mission map? without out it - I will be sitting this out.

[[GCA]T1m270]

On 11/8/2021 at 4:02 AM, JG7_X-Man said:

Hey guys! Any plans of fixing the TAW Mission map? without out it - I will be sitting this out.

The mission planner?

 

There is a alternate one, although not as nice. https://www.il2flightplanner.com/

 

Not really hard to navigate without these though..

[=TF=Kaiza]

7 hours ago, [GCA]T1m270 said:

The mission planner?

 

There is a alternate one, although not as nice. https://www.il2flightplanner.com/

 

Not really hard to navigate without these though..

Very cool, thanks for the link. 

 

I see it displays the Finnish Server mission. I hope LG considers getting TAW supported. ?

[=GEMINI=IngegnerTommy]

Background: When GEMINI registered to this campaign, we choose simply to go for the side with less players. Situation shown on TAW website was ALLIED 71 - AXIS 117 (I still have the screenshot), so we picked ALLIED

 

Problem: Lately is quite often to see server overpopulated by ALLIED during EU late evening time, and it's not really fun for either side; yesterday in particular situation was very critical (and one user on the other side saw appropriate to insult us and other squadrons for this reason...)

 

Solution: Can you implement simply a step in Registration phase where players/squadrons have to select their most common playing time (e.g. in slots of 2 hours)? That way when you enroll you could see not only the GENERAL balance, but also the balance specific to your PLAYTIME. I think this could help balance

 

 

Thank you !

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

2 hours ago, =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy said:

Background: When GEMINI registered to this campaign, we choose simply to go for the side with less players. Situation shown on TAW website was ALLIED 71 - AXIS 117 (I still have the screenshot), so we picked ALLIED

 

Problem: Lately is quite often to see server overpopulated by ALLIED during EU late evening time, and it's not really fun for either side; yesterday in particular situation was very critical (and one user on the other side saw appropriate to insult us and other squadrons for this reason...)

 

Solution: Can you implement simply a step in Registration phase where players/squadrons have to select their most common playing time (e.g. in slots of 2 hours)? That way when you enroll you could see not only the GENERAL balance, but also the balance specific to your PLAYTIME. I think this could help balance

 

 

Thank you !

 

You have been very polite, especially after the unfair situation you suffered yesterday.
 

Regarding how to solve balance problems, it is difficult to say. It does not matter how many pilots register in the TAW or at what Hours time, if then nobody flies when they are at a disadvantage.
 

Some squadrons fly whenever they can despite the numbers (like the GEMINIs, my respect) but other pilots decide not to fly if there is no chance of winning.

And now there are a few squads that are completely decisive in winning or losing maps.

 

Perhaps a greater diversity of ground objectives or mission possibilities would encourage more people to fly, or at least could make the action of one or two squadrons alone not entirely decisive. But it's just an opinion. I understand that administrators do everything they can to keep TAW active.

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

3 hours ago, =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy said:

Background: When GEMINI registered to this campaign, we choose simply to go for the side with less players. Situation shown on TAW website was ALLIED 71 - AXIS 117 (I still have the screenshot), so we picked ALLIED

 

Problem: Lately is quite often to see server overpopulated by ALLIED during EU late evening time, and it's not really fun for either side; yesterday in particular situation was very critical (and one user on the other side saw appropriate to insult us and other squadrons for this reason...)

 

Solution: Can you implement simply a step in Registration phase where players/squadrons have to select their most common playing time (e.g. in slots of 2 hours)? That way when you enroll you could see not only the GENERAL balance, but also the balance specific to your PLAYTIME. I think this could help balance

 

 

Thank you !

And regarding the "balance problem" yesterday, wich make some of you kicked off.... just add one thing ... (you know "who" I say it for ?)

[FTC_Prancing]

When a side is in numeric disadvantage, most of the solo pilots or very small groups will not want to fly alone, since they'll most likely meet a lot of enemies, so what should be encouraged is to join other squadrons in their missions, in order to do that there should be way more usage of the comms channels like TAW TS and TAW SRS, and the will of cooperation with people that is not from your squadron. Be that squad that is decisive on winning the map gathering as many pilots as you can, and lead them to appropriate targets.

Edited November 11, 2021 by FTC_Prancing

[JG4_Matthias]

Thank you 72AG for the fights and the fairplay.

[453=SGII_Wotan]

Gday lads

 

Just joined from the land of Aus

How did you know I was bald?

 

Wotan

[CSW_Hot_Dog]

On 10/27/2021 at 11:14 AM, Kathon said:

New western TAW campaign starts on Friday 29.10 at about 16:00 UTC. 

 

We would like to fly it one more time on the same conditions but this time players change side. It will be kind of test if players or plane set has greater impact on the final result of the campaign. There are some squadrons who fly exclusively only on one side (that's ok) but I hope most of us will fly on the opposite side this time.

 So I think output of the test is more than obvious, right? Red planes are absolut OP, they cannot be compared to german underdogs like A6/A8/G6/G14, right? One and only problem, which lead to defeat red side was that blue pilots have no dual throttle quadrants for operating Prop Pitch and Throttle on Allied planes?

Edited November 20, 2021 by CSW_Hot_Dog

[Wester]

Previous TAW (#26) team balance numbers:

 

Here is the data of player counts/team balance for Allies and Axis on TAW #27 (TAW 2.0 III) (Western Front)

STARTED 2021-10-29 18:00 (6:00 PM Central European time)
ENDED 2021-11-20 22:40:00 (10:40 PM Central European time)

Duration: 22 days

 

Scan interval was once every minute

Map #1 (Market Garden) (2021-10-29 to 2021-11-05) <6 days>

Map #2 (Battle of the Bulge) (2021-11-05 to 2021-11-11) <5 days>

Map #3 (Stalemate at the Rhine) (2021-11-11 to 2021-11-20) <9 days>

 

Raw Data:

Preview

Online version:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QDr5iwD8w6AO-zcNcDihXd1xdcUXF0ywg-vt5b_u80o/edit?usp=sharing

 

csv file also attached to this post

 

TAW27_PlayerCounts.zip

[Norz]

Do we have a chance to see an East Front in 2021?

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

2 minutes ago, Norz said:

Do we have a chance to see an East Front in 2021?

=/Hospiz/=MetalHead — h

Longer break this time. We are working on some major changes to the overall gameplay. Probably early 2022, January if all goes well.

According to TAW Discord

[Norz]

1 minute ago, E69_Falke_Wolf said:

=/Hospiz/=MetalHead — h

Longer break this time. We are working on some major changes to the overall gameplay. Probably early 2022, January if all goes well.

According to TAW Discord

 

Oh... Ok, than my Geforce 3080ti is going to ebay:)))))

[messsucher]

On 10/13/2021 at 4:54 PM, IRRE_golgoth21 said:

Hello,

 

Thank you for this huge team work. TAW is a must for any team.

 

Though, i would like to know why parachute killing is permited ? It is very enraging to see this absolute lack of fair play.

 

No safe (air) space for you roflmao.

[JG4_Matthias]

Hello, please also show the "best surviving pilots" for the statistics. Please also insert ships as normal targets. And are there no more awards posted here? .

[JG4_Matthias]

Hello is there anyone else here? Are you all still sleeping? please wake up.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

21 minutes ago, JG4_Matthias said:

Hello is there anyone else here? Are you all still sleeping? please wake up.

Guten Morgen ?

[LLv44_Oke]

Here we are waiting new campaign...happy new year !

[Cpt_Siddy]

 

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

My biggest mistake of 2021 was modding my large screen infotainment system to stream YouTube videos and have voice recognition input via GA while driving. The kids love it, and I thought about noise cancelling in-ears already. It's not like I can hear the outside world anyway, but I at least will have peace while driving.

 

--- That's how the TAW mods must feel about reopening the forums between season.

[Crious]

Hi 

Reading carefylly taw manual i was astonished by the amount of effort the developers put in the game. WHAT A HUGE WORK!!! I have a question and two suggestions. My question has to do with the ammount of gk a pilot receives after a kill. While you describe the amount of cp for kills i cant find anything for gk appart from a tank is equal whith 9gk and a depo building equals to 3gk. What about the other targets? Do i miss something? My 2 suggestions: 1 ranking system sould take into account the playing hours factor and not just the summary of each player achivments ments. This way all of us shall have a picture in terms of productivity witch in my opinion is more logical than try to compare teams with match less playing time (due to life difficulties) than others 2. Cp and advanced aircraft may it would be better to reset after the loss of the third life and the 20 hour penalty. I am not against the 800 points penalty at the loss of one life althought 500 would be a nice approach. Keep up the good work!!! 

[SAG]

Any news on when the next campaign will start?

[FTC_Riksen]

2 hours ago, SAG said:

Any news on when the next campaign will start?

 

One ... No, no, no ... Sorry ... Two. Yes, that's more like it ... Two weeks, Sir.

[SAG]

1 hour ago, FTC_Riksen said:

 

One ... No, no, no ... Sorry ... Two. Yes, that's more like it ... Two weeks, Sir.

J..J.....Jason...Is that you?

[=/Hospiz/=MetalHead]

Okay, it's time to put an end to the long silence.
 

First, I want to clear up few things
Back in late 2021 we announced that we're working on new, reworked Eastern Front TAW. We've made serious progress on that, but at the same time, we've hit several unexpected obstacles. Overall, that rework turned out to be a bigger challenge than expected and it's still at least few months away. Not only the map rework is time consuming, but there are serious scripting alterations that are a must if we wan't to move forward and make certain features. Kathon is a god of programming, yet even he has a finite output. Our attempts to clone him have failed so far ?
We'll put our best efforts to make it happen, but the sheer amount of work required means it will take a lot of time.
 

Of course we won't keep you waiting that long without anything going on. ?
We plan to launch an Eastern Front campaign. Of course it will be more in line with previous western seasons.
When?
 

The short answer is NEXT WEEKEND. ?
 

The longer one is that's the plan. We still need to work out few things and do some tests, but no matter what, next season is coming soon.
There are some minor tweaks, fixes and updates as always. We'll provide a complete changelog at launch as always.
The most noticeable change will probably be a reduction of map number. Only 5 maps this time, so the campaign will be shorter but more intense and enjoyable.
It is still an 1941-1943 campaign, just without repeating maps. Planeset also has seen some changes. It's now unrelated to certain map. Instead it's related to timeline, so it may change mid-map. This feature was actually made for the major rework, but since it was easy to put it into current system, it made it. We'll see how it will play out.
There are also some tweaks to AAA, changes of TOP5 rules (back to old, dead is dead style) and many more small things. Stay tuned for more info.
 

For now, there's one more important thing.
 

There's a never-ending discussion about team imbalance and as you know we tried to implement some regulations to address this problem. Creating a perfect balance is impossible, especially on a 24/7 server with open registration. However, we can try to do our best to ensure that at least the organized teams will spread more or less  equally between teams. Hopefully at least the bigger ones.
 

Therefore, I ask squadron commanders, to send me a private message (discord or forum), with information about expected number of players, timezone, expected total flight time of the squad (I know it can't be predicted, but a very rough estimate 100h, 500h or 1000h is completely fine).
Plus, of course the side you plan to fly. Please specify whether you will definitely fly on certain side regardless of numbers, or you are open to balance out the teams if needed (provide preferred team anyways). We'll collect that data and help to organize the registration so at least the larger squads will be somewhat balanced.
 

That'd be all for today. See you in the skies. Soon.