[Skybird]

Oh, I was engaged in a debate about that scenario just days ago, it gave me plenty of headaches. The AI of SBP is not well equipped to deal with convoys moving under fire. do not expect that scenario to be playable like the real thing. Daskal made a great map, 24 km of highway road through Baghdad, but the oppositon is much tougher than it was in reality, and the Ai messes it up time and again. i finally made it after editing the scenario massively, and moving one platoon at a time, manually, sprint and stop, overwatching the movement of others. That way, I needed not 2.5 but 8 hours or so until I reached the airport. In a way it is a great scenario, but it should be split into to sessions.

Use the ambient battlefield sound file for that one, too!

daskal also made a "Iran Thunder run" scenario, which is a little bit shorter, but ends in tanks engaging massive infantry presence in a dense settlement - which is against all military reason. A tbird scenario I plqayed by him, again a convoy but this time in a twiosted valley canyon, also suffered from the fact that tha AI is not well-equipped for handling these situation - or scenarios when the designer creates a situation that somewhat violates military common sense (like the real Thunder run did!) Daskal makes great maps and sound files, but his scenarios are not making good use of SBP's potentials and do not really succeed in evading it's typical limitations.

Many scenario designers seem to set up opposition levels the player is confronted with that in real life no military commander would even consider for a second to attack all by himself with that limited ressources the designers allow in these scenarios. Such scenarios seem to be gamer's approaches to realistic simulations - it does not work too well in many cases. It's not simply a game.