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King_Zog · 03-27-11, 04:42 PM

Press M to review the radio messages, you have to follow the orders in those messages exactly otherwise you'll fail the training mission. I found those acadamy missions pretty pointless and annoying as they don't really teach you how to play the game hehe! Well the convoy attack mission at the end is worth doing imo... you can also use the mission editor to setup some easy targets for yourself if you want to practice manual TDC.

As for mods which help plotting/manual TDC, I find the OLC MKII (With ACM Reloaded) mod for GWX pretty useful.

You get a very handy and easy to use range finding/Aob finding wheel which slides over the attack scope. It is a faster and in my opinion a more immersive and fun way of gathering data for the TDC than the vanilla notepad method. And you also get the famous attack disc whizz wheel to help you with plotting. You can use it to quickly find and plot a target's true bearing without having to mess around with measuring angles, and it can calculate a target's course with just one observation needed which is rather groovy. Also it has more advanced uses like calculating firing solutions without using TDC if you are so inclined. You'll also get a 360 degree draggable protractor overlay for the map.

(You should already have a protractor tool to mark, measure and find angles in vanilla, along with a compass and ruler -although I might be wrong as I only played vanilla for about 30mins before installing gwx)

I also use acm reloaded for OLC which makes it extra shiny, along with ACM Lite map, (as while I like to play with map contacts off I'm not hardcore enough to do without my World War 2 gps system) It returns your position/orientation map marker which is otherwise removed by the mod.

Hope this helps...

PS, I think the Range Finding/AOB wheel and attack disc is pretty much a standard feature with many of the gui mods out there, so try a few maybe and see which one you like the best.

(edited for clarity as my original reply was a bad bad mess)

03-27-11, 04:42 PM	#2
King_Zog Soundman Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: London Posts: 143 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Press M to review the radio messages, you have to follow the orders in those messages exactly otherwise you'll fail the training mission. I found those acadamy missions pretty pointless and annoying as they don't really teach you how to play the game hehe! Well the convoy attack mission at the end is worth doing imo... you can also use the mission editor to setup some easy targets for yourself if you want to practice manual TDC. As for mods which help plotting/manual TDC, I find the OLC MKII (With ACM Reloaded) mod for GWX pretty useful. You get a very handy and easy to use range finding/Aob finding wheel which slides over the attack scope. It is a faster and in my opinion a more immersive and fun way of gathering data for the TDC than the vanilla notepad method. And you also get the famous attack disc whizz wheel to help you with plotting. You can use it to quickly find and plot a target's true bearing without having to mess around with measuring angles, and it can calculate a target's course with just one observation needed which is rather groovy. Also it has more advanced uses like calculating firing solutions without using TDC if you are so inclined. You'll also get a 360 degree draggable protractor overlay for the map. (You should already have a protractor tool to mark, measure and find angles in vanilla, along with a compass and ruler -although I might be wrong as I only played vanilla for about 30mins before installing gwx) I also use acm reloaded for OLC which makes it extra shiny, along with ACM Lite map, (as while I like to play with map contacts off I'm not hardcore enough to do without my World War 2 gps system) It returns your position/orientation map marker which is otherwise removed by the mod. Hope this helps... PS, I think the Range Finding/AOB wheel and attack disc is pretty much a standard feature with many of the gui mods out there, so try a few maybe and see which one you like the best. (edited for clarity as my original reply was a bad bad mess) Last edited by King_Zog; 03-27-11 at 05:29 PM.