Mission types in career mode

[migmadmarine]

Do we have a cohesive list of what missions are available in the new career mode? Would be interesting to see what is available. I've tried starting some coastal/naval squadron bomber careers, in the hopes of getting some naval interdiction type missions, but so far they seem to have behaved the same as any other bomber squadron. Anyone gotten to attack ships yet? 

what I have seen so far missions wise:
Cargo delivery (land at airport w/Ju-52)
Bomber escort
Attacker escort
Bomber intercept

Attacker intercept

Cover for ground troops

Cover for "Ferry Crossing" (got excited at this one, thinking ships, but no, it's an Engineer's pontoon bridge. Think this this one could be named better)
Attack "Ferry Crossing"

Attack enemy artillery

Bomb ammo dump

Bomb railway facility

 

Also, I recall them saying there would be ~20 something mission types in career upon release, but how exactly are they parsing this? Are Bomber and Attacker escorts considered one type of mission (ie Escort) or two, since one has bombers and the other attack aircraft? 

[LukeFF]

1 minute ago, thenorm said:

Are Bomber and Attacker escorts considered one type of mission (ie Escort) or two, since one has bombers and the other attack aircraft? 

 

They are separate mission types. Also, there are transport escort missions for the Luftwaffe.

[migmadmarine]

Can anyone confirm if they've gotten any anti shipping missions on Kuban yet?

[No601_Swallow]

I read somewhere that not all of the mission types would make it into the 3.001 release, but the others would be added over time.

[migmadmarine]

Yea, that's right, believe they said their would be 20 or so in the initial release, with more added later, unless they rolled that back further. 

 

[senseispcc]

One type of mission I did not see at all, of the 50 missions I did in a fighter role, is a sort of "interdiction" mission?! Where the goal of the mission is to intercept any enemy plane(s) over a certain geographical region or travel course.

I also did have;

Attack ground convoy missions.

Escort ground Attack planes.

Intercept enemy ground Attack planes.

but I never had;

Attack train(s)?

And because I did begin my campaigns again in 1941 at Moscow;

All the ship related ones?! Logical.

 

Great Campaign for the moment and I have the principle that I shall play all the mission of one day at a time per real world day not more. Strange but fun!

Also I play other type of missions in between.

Thanks to the creators of the new campaigns and hope for more…

 

[Scottvdken]

1 hour ago, senseispcc said:

 

but I never had;

Attack train(s)?

 

 

 

In my E7 campaign I got a mission to attack a railyard, but the train is stationary.

[ATAG_Flare]

I've had "attack soft convoy" in a MiG-3. It was a fighter bomber attack.

[dburne]

Just flew couple more missions in my Spit Kuban career, both were fantastic.

 

First was a cover ground troop mission, second was a bomber intercept mission. I got a few kills and there was plenty of action in both.

 

Nice reprieve from some of those escort bomber missions I have been having.

[kalbuth]

1 hour ago, ATAG_Flare said:

I've had "attack soft convoy" in a MiG-3. It was a fighter bomber attack.

I have the same mission type awaiting me in my current career. I'll be flying an i16, in a mixed Ishak/mig flight. I play ironman on full real (no nav icon) on hard.

None of our AI i16 in mixed sorties have returned alive so far.

 

I don't dare launch the damn mission for 2 days now. I have a very, very bad feeling about it

 

Edited March 23, 2018 by kalbuth

[sevenless]

13 minutes ago, kalbuth said:

I have the same mission type awaiting me in my current career. I'll be flying an i16, in a mixed Ishak/mig flight. I play ironman on full real (no nav icon) on hard.

None of our AI i16 in mixed sorties have returned alive so far.

 

I don't dare launch the damn mission for 2 days now. I have a very, very bad feeling about it

 

Valhalla is waiting for you, eh?

[dburne]

17 minutes ago, kalbuth said:

I have the same mission type awaiting me in my current career. I'll be flying an i16, in a mixed Ishak/mig flight. I play ironman on full real (no nav icon) on hard.

None of our AI i16 in mixed sorties have returned alive so far.

 

I don't dare launch the damn mission for 2 days now. I have a very, very bad feeling about it

 

 

Perhaps there is another pending mission you can join instead?

[kalbuth]

We can choose to fly in other missions?

I didn' t even checked that possibility!

A carefully planned crash land earlier in the day could make me avoid Valhalla!

[dburne]

Just now, kalbuth said:

We can choose to fly in other missions?

I didn' t even checked that possibility!

A carefully planned crash land earlier in the day could make me avoid Valhalla!

 

Yep I found this out by accident the other day, saw another pending mission and a little "add pilot" tab. Clicked on the tab, and it let me select my pilot to add to the other pending mission. Got out of another bomber escort mission that way LOL.

[sevenless]

1 minute ago, dburne said:

 

Yep I found this out by accident the other day, saw another pending mission and a little "add pilot" tab. Clicked on the tab, and it let me select my pilot to add to the other pending mission. Got out of another bomber escort mission that way LOL.

 

Wow. Didn´t know that. Thanks! Need to check this out when I´m assigned to the next boring bomber escort. 

[Feathered_IV]

4 hours ago, senseispcc said:

One type of mission I did not see at all, of the 50 missions I did in a fighter role, is a sort of "interdiction" mission?! Where the goal of the mission is to intercept any enemy plane(s) over a certain geographical region or travel course…

 

 

I noticed there are mission and briefing templates for a "free hunt" so you might still encounter those later on.  

[Swing]

there's "change of airfield mission" too when you are relocated

[migmadmarine]

You can only re-assign what flight you're on if you're squadron commander. 

[Micromagos]

So has anyone encountered an attacking enemy ships mission yet on either side?

[sevenless]

On ‎23‎.‎03‎.‎2018 at 5:58 PM, senseispcc said:

One type of mission I did not see at all, of the 50 missions I did in a fighter role, is a sort of "interdiction" mission?! Where the goal of the mission is to intercept any enemy plane(s) over a certain geographical region or travel course.

 

I had something like that 2 or 3 times already within my 60 odd missions. It was called interdict recon plane or something. Also I had several airfield switches with my squadron. And in one occasion got bounced by enemy planes while being in landing procedures. Career is really a lot of fun.

[dburne]

I would like to see more " intercept enemy bombers" missions in my Spit Career.

I have a ton of escort bomber missions, but rarely so far any intercept enemy bombers - in fact not sure I have seen one yet. Have come across some bombers loitering near the target area that I went after, other than that think that was it.

 

Am on my third Career now, probably around 45-50 missions total so far combined with the three.

 

 

Edited March 27, 2018 by dburne

[OrLoK]

hows your frontline density set? On "dense" im regularly encountering enemy patrols in my p40 moscow sorties.

[dburne]

2 minutes ago, OrLoK said:

hows your frontline density set? On "dense" im regularly encountering enemy patrols in my p40 moscow sorties.

 

I think it is on scattered. I thought than had more to do with ground units?

I encounter plenty of 109's and a few 190's, but that is about it. 

Edited March 27, 2018 by dburne

[OrLoK]

hmmm, I cant confirm that but IMHO it *appears* to add air units as well, Ive seen many an enemy flight on ops near me since ramping it up.

Edited March 27, 2018 by OrLoK

[dburne]

1 minute ago, OrLoK said:

hmmm, I cant confirm that but IMHO it *appears* to add air units as well, Ive seen many an enemy flight on ops near me since ramping it up.

 

Ok will take a look thanks, again though mainly I would like to see more bombers. Don't need more 109's lol.

[seafireliv]

Isn`t great being GIVEN missions instead of boringly (and unrealistically) picking them?

 

Makes my day this Career.

[MarderIV]

 

On 3/24/2018 at 5:57 AM, Feathered_IV said:

I noticed there are mission and briefing templates for a "free hunt" so you might still encounter those later on.  

 

Free hunt as in Combat Air Patrol tasks? That would be refreshing. Missions right now seem to be one of two things - intercept bombers, attack planes, or "aircraft spotted over important area", or Ground/Ferry cover missions. These are pretty much reactionary sorties, so it would be interesting to have missions where we can go on the offensive and run sorties with the sole intent of hunting down aircraft in kill boxes or maintaining air superiority. 

 

 

[Feathered_IV]

It looks like there are quite a few yet to be added, however I found what appears to be the full list in one of the packed files as I was working on a mod.

 

MissionTypes
{
 101 = "Intercept bombers";
 102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 103 = "Intercept cargo aircraft";
 151 = "Escort bombers";
 152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 153 = "Escort cargo aircraft";
 201 = "Enemy column attack";
 202 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 203 = "Enemy train attack";
 204 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 301 = "Ground troops support";
 331 = "Cargo delivery";
 332 = "Cargo supply drop";
 351 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 401 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 402 = "Enemy railway station bombing strike";
 403 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 404 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 405 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 701 = "Skirmish";
 702 = "Duel";
 703 = "Free flight";

 1101 = "Intercept bombers";
 1102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 1103 = "Intercept reconnaissance aircraft";
 1104 = "Intercept transport aircraft";
 1121 = "Area patrol";
 1122 = "Ground troops cover";
 1123 = "Free hunt";
 1124 = "Ships cover";
 1125 = "Ferry cover";
 1151 = "Escort bombers";
 1152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 1153 = "Escort transport aircraft";
 1154 = "Escort reconnaissance aircraft";
 1155 = "Escort artillery spotter";
 1201 = "Enemy transport column attack";
 1202 = "Enemy armor column attack";
 1203 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 1204 = "Enemy frontline attack";
 1205 = "Enemy railway junction attack";
 1206 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 1207 = "Search and destroy";
 1208 = "Attack enemy ferry crossing";
 1209 = "Enemy troops concentration area attack";
 1301 = "Advancing troops support";
 1302 = "Defense lines support";
 1401 = "Battlefield reconnaissance";
 1402 = "Communication lines reconnaissance";
 1403 = "Photo reconnaissance";
 1501 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 1502 = "Enemy frontline strong point bombing strike";
 1503 = "Enemy troops concentration bombing strike";
 1504 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 1505 = "Enemy ferry bombing strike";
 1506 = "Enemy railway junction bombing strike";
 1507 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 1508 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 1601 = "Cargo delivery";
 1602 = "Cargo paradrop";
 1603 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 1901 = "Relocate";
 1902 = "Moving out";
}

[dburne]

Our Spitfire flight group got transferred to an airfield closer to the front thank goodness, shorter ingress to target area now.

Since the transfer, I am seeing more variety now - getting a few bomber intercept missions finally.

[=gRiJ=Roman-]

2 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

It looks like there are quite a few yet to be added, however I found what appears to be the full list in one of the packed files as I was working on a mod.

 

MissionTypes
{
 101 = "Intercept bombers";
 102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 103 = "Intercept cargo aircraft";
 151 = "Escort bombers";
 152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 153 = "Escort cargo aircraft";
 201 = "Enemy column attack";
 202 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 203 = "Enemy train attack";
 204 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 301 = "Ground troops support";
 331 = "Cargo delivery";
 332 = "Cargo supply drop";
 351 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 401 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 402 = "Enemy railway station bombing strike";
 403 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 404 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 405 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 701 = "Skirmish";
 702 = "Duel";
 703 = "Free flight";

 1101 = "Intercept bombers";
 1102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 1103 = "Intercept reconnaissance aircraft";
 1104 = "Intercept transport aircraft";
 1121 = "Area patrol";
 1122 = "Ground troops cover";
 1123 = "Free hunt";
 1124 = "Ships cover";
 1125 = "Ferry cover";
 1151 = "Escort bombers";
 1152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 1153 = "Escort transport aircraft";
 1154 = "Escort reconnaissance aircraft";
 1155 = "Escort artillery spotter";
 1201 = "Enemy transport column attack";
 1202 = "Enemy armor column attack";
 1203 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 1204 = "Enemy frontline attack";
 1205 = "Enemy railway junction attack";
 1206 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 1207 = "Search and destroy";
 1208 = "Attack enemy ferry crossing";
 1209 = "Enemy troops concentration area attack";
 1301 = "Advancing troops support";
 1302 = "Defense lines support";
 1401 = "Battlefield reconnaissance";
 1402 = "Communication lines reconnaissance";
 1403 = "Photo reconnaissance";
 1501 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 1502 = "Enemy frontline strong point bombing strike";
 1503 = "Enemy troops concentration bombing strike";
 1504 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 1505 = "Enemy ferry bombing strike";
 1506 = "Enemy railway junction bombing strike";
 1507 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 1508 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 1601 = "Cargo delivery";
 1602 = "Cargo paradrop";
 1603 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 1901 = "Relocate";
 1902 = "Moving out";
}

This is what we needed.

[sevenless]

8 minutes ago, PA_Spartan- said:

This is what we needed.

WOW! By that list it seems career is getting better and better. Not that it´s bad in its current state, quite the contrary.

[migmadmarine]

Interesting, will be nice to see the list grow. Interesting that that list includes "Ships cover" but not apparently any sort of attack on ships. 

[dburne]

On ‎3‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 11:37 AM, sevenless said:

WOW! By that list it seems career is getting better and better. Not that it´s bad in its current state, quite the contrary.

 

 

Agreed, looks like some even more exciting times ahead for the Career fans.

[Feathered_IV]

Some night missions would be a good addition.  Particularly for some of the heavy fighters, and as a way of taking advantage the excellent flak and searchlight effects that we rarely see in the game.  

 

"Night - Intercept".  The current career has a spotter mechanic that guides you to the target.  Perhaps this could be expanded for night ops?

"Night - Point Defense".  Provide air cover to a town or factory area and work in cooperation with ground controllers and searchlights.  

 

There must be more mission types that can be added.  Perhaps "ratcatcher" missions for Bodenplatte?

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Feathered_IV said:

There must be more mission types that can be added.  Perhaps "ratcatcher" missions for Bodenplatte?

 

That, and airfield cover missions for Me 262s taking off and landing.

[Feathered_IV]

Good idea!

[migmadmarine]

The night flight ones would be very good to see. Kuban has the BF-110 labled as a nachtjager squadron, but they behave as normal fighters at the moment.