TheBeeze

That falls under Aerial Missions.

FRAGO #001- Off Roading MAP NAME: STUDICA GRID: F3 - G3 Captain Beeze and his crew were pulled off of their checkpoint duty to investigate a nearby anomaly. With the recent news breaking on the missing drones from Spriznulo, multiple nations have organized searches and Filace is no different. Being a COAC Ally of Spriznulo is one thing and they will get the drone returned to them if we find it, but command is expecting a detailed study and analysis of the drone before it is returned. The team was relieved to be doing something instead of standing around waiting for the war to come to them. Command had received reports of a radar anomaly in the area and figured the team was close enough with their mobile radar site to check it out. Once they found a good elevation, they settled in and deployed small UAV, a comm relay, and turned on their radar site. The team sat until dusk when they finally got a hit. They packed up their gear. ] And headed out on their way vowing to return for the radar site.

There are are ways with the current side missions where you could show these things. Be creative and think outside the box. Special Ops missions are assigned by the staff (similar to FRAGOs) when players hit the necessary rank and this is not what they are. I would like people to avoid jumping ahead of rank as much as possible. With your specific example, showing a boat being built is walking along a fine line. Your focus should be on other aspects that you have already ranked up to. Foreshadowing and previews are okay as long as it is not the primary focus. If you go off track, your score will reflect that. This is an interesting point. Perhaps we can find some middle ground to smooth this out. Let me think about this a bit. Thank you.

My sabotage mission has brought up questions. Again, I ask that all questions be posted here. If you're worried about OPSEC (Operational Security) then don't name names in your question. So to the point, no you cannot have sabotage missions with agents of your country carrying out attacks. The builds are limited to rebels, freedom fighters, underground resistance etc. No foreign agents. If you wanna funnel them money or guns, knock yourself out. But that shouldn't be in a sabotage build, you should show that through other types of builds.

So the Sabotage side builds say that you are using resistance, rebels, freedom fighters, etc in other countries to cause internal mayhem in a country. So we should be titling the builds based on the country that the turmoil is happening and being represented. .......Labeling this as a Filace build would insinuate that Filace was involved somehow. Obviously, there is NO chance of that being possible. At all. In any way. *Takes napkin and wipes sarcasm off of keyboard* Now obviously in future builds when countries start invading other countries, they will want to label their builds based on the country they are representing even if say Filace pushes halfway through Briolui..... Everyone was saying they wanted more categories of side builds but no one has done one of these yet.

The Darker Side of Life Map Name: Studica Grid: H3 Throughout northern Briolui, scattered oil derricks and pump stations litter the arid lands providing the country with the fuel it needs to carry on. Jack: What do you make of all this? Chris: What, you mean us being here? Jack: Yeah, what do you think of our assignment. Chris: Well I'm bored sir. I'd prefer to be headed off to the front if I'm being honest. Jack: I got news for you kid, you're on the front lines. Any day now tanks might come rolling across the plains over there, or planes might come over the mountains. Keep your head on a swivel. Chris: Is this a delivery coming in? Jack: Yeah. He's here all the time hauling huge crates with his tiny tractor. Jack: Good Evening Abjan. Abjan: Good Evening my friends. Jack: A little late for a shipment tonight, no? Abjan: I don't ask these questions. With a war coming it, only makes sense that oil production will increase. They call me to drive you barrels, so I drive them. Jack: Okay, bring em in. Chris: *Whispering* You're not gonna check the truck first? Jack: No, we checked his truck for months. All it did was slow down production and waste our time. Besides, old Abjan is nothing to worry about. He's a relic of an old tribe who used to live up here in the North. For a long time they had a lot of influence in the area until they got cozy with some rebels. His family was killed years ago in a raid by our forces into his village looking for rebels. They were caught in the crossfire. I feel bad for him really. His business was ruined, he used to have one of the largest farms in the village. The old man barely scrapes by and lives alone to himself. Abjan: Hello George. George: Abjan. What are you doing here so late. Abjan: I don't ask these questions. They send me to deliver barrels, so I deliver them. George: I understand but, we just got them this morning. We don't even have anywhere to put them. George: I'm gonna go call this in and see why they sent you. Abjan: Do not make me use this George. I don't want to, but I will. If you stay out of our way, you won't get hurt. George: "Our" way? Abjan: We are here to take back what is ours. Abjan: For too long our people have stood by having our lands taken out from under us and our families killed by your government. We have laid down for too long and now with the support of your enemies, we finally have an opportunity to stand. Abjan: My men are redirecting your pump station to send the oil down the old pipeline which runs under our village. I have trucks coming to lock this station down. George: Just kill me now. Don't draw this out. Abjan: George, my friend. We are not going to kill you. You are one of the few with a brain, like Jack. You show respect to our people and know that your just our guests. No you are being spared to send a message to your government that we are through being walked on. They are going to be so tied down in their war, they won't have time to fight us too. MEANWHILE Jack: Something is wrong here. Chris: Huh? Jack: He's never here this long. I'm going to see why George isn't answering his radio. Abjan: GO! GO! Don't let them over here. Stop them! Jack: What the......

No problems at all. That is why this was posted here for the player base to see; so we can avoid any mishaps in the future.

More on this. You are correct that more intricate details will earn you more points in a campaign vs a side build. So if you've got some big bomber or a Destroyer you're working on, it might be wise to save it for a Campaign or to foreshadow/preview it in a side build. However, vehicles and the like can be reused. If something is brand new, it will certainly help your originality score. Reusing vehicles will not hurt your score, but it won't do much to build it either. The goal of your builds is originality to build great stuff. If you've had the same tank as the primary focus of your last build, don't make it the primary focus of a new one. Have it square off with another tank, have it get blown up, have it drop some guys off and then they go do something else. Hope this helps.

Please see my below response to a question which was raised in the COAC Comm Net:

Leaning more towards the "or so" side of things.

You can cover things like that under Media or Supporting the War Effort Builds

What colors did you use under the Trans Light Blue Tiles?

Read up on the FRAGO missions in the rules area. We did not do any before the first campaign because 1. We wanted everyone to get off to a nice rolling start and 2. We're unsure if people were ready for them. Like I said, we will definitely be rolling these out soon.

I'm writing all of this down. Note we do have some unlockable side missions already. And I also want you guys to read up on the FRAGO missions. They will be coming, so you may want to setup notifications for your team's chats so you don't miss out on those. I have a few ideas for other side missions.

I speak for the staff when I say we are very proud and humbled by the response we've received to the game in general and today's campaign. You guys are doing great. Before we start scoring builds and get you guys on our bad side, we wanted to reach out to all of you and ask what you think about the game so far? are you having fun? are we varying things up enough? what can we do to make it better? We want your feedback- good, bad, or otherwise.

Exactly, our tanks will drive over everything including your military.

"If" being the keyword.

Oh.... so this is LDD... you didn't label it and I thought it was a real build. Note to others, this is what your LDD stuff should look like. Nice job.

Just looked over this thread briefly while updating other things. Please ensure that your posts are accurate and have all of your builds listed. I see some of you recently edited your posts, but builds were missing. Please make sure these are up to date. Thank you.

Builds for CP1 are now closed. Thank you to all who have participated. You guys did a great job. Please allow the staff some time judge all of the builds. We anticipate releasing CP2 in about a week or so. Everyone's side build count is reset to zero now and you can build up to four before the next campaign is due. Those of you who did complete builds are eligible for the custom tag above. If you would like the tag, please comment here and we will get it done at some point. Those eligible are Beeze BobKid Brickmasterben Brickwolf Captain Genaro Elisss_2 Faladrin jansued Leonardo Maxim I paintballman Phadeout Sigpro Silvasio Spud the viking Stash2sixx Umbra-Manis

As of this writing, you have roughly another 11 hours to submit your builds. So far, I'm very impressed. Those of you who've submitted builds already set the bar high for this game.

Okay, did you laminate the map? or what? I did a double take when I saw the map. Nice.

Shutting Down the Highway Map Name: Studica Grid: F3 Captain Beeze made his way from the far end of the country from deep in the jungle to take command of a new infantry unit. Their task was to guard and shut down the highway coming into Filace. There was a problem though. Late last night before the unit setup the position, a suspicious crate was left in the road. An EOD unit was called on scene to take care of the crate. Then there was an explosion. Beeze ran out from behind cover to see what was going on and the EOD Officer stood baffled and in shock. He walked down the road since the danger had clearly passed. And inspected the damage..... He thought to himself: Shiiiii.... Well I dont have to worry too much about blocking the road now. But if command finds out, they're going to blame me for destroying the highway. One hell of a first day with these new guys. The crews continued to man their posts looking on at the captain wondering if this was a sign of the things to come. There were men running a small border radar site... Some soldiers stood atop a guard tower and ran a radio relay.... Others patrolled... For the time being this would be their home and duty until command sent them to do something useful.

You need to specify that in your build as well as in your title. The campaign is due today. Please recheck the rules for the campaign. Thanks.

New Countries are available for selection and can start participating in builds after today. Please refer to Round 2 in the initial post to see which countries are available for new players.