- Mission Making Standard Reference Best practices for making missions in CSG8, including how to setup the mission and aircraft configurations
- Mission Maker Checklist Checklist for mission makers to double check their missions are ready for operations
- CSG8 Communication Plan Standard communication plan setup for all missions in CSG8
- CSG8 Laser Deconfliction Plan Standard laser deconfliction plan for all missions in CSG8
- SCL Codes How to read and use SCL Codes in ATOs for quick notation of loadouts
- Jackal Lua Mission Manager Library for CSG8
¶ Mission Planning Timeline
For standalone missions, the timeline for making a mission will go something like this:
- You tell
@Mission Making Committeeyou are making a mission, if you are not a Mission Making Committee member. - Reserve your mission slot once you have a date you want to do it with
#mission-opsor@Mission Making Committeeif you don’t have direct access - No later than Monday, create a new thread in
🗫 operations-roomand provide a minimum of the Map name and general era. - Have an attendance post be created, which should have a link to the
🗫 operations-roomin the description. - Provide an Intel Drop to flight leads in the
🗫 operations-roomon Friday when the RSVP closes, or Thursday for a Friday mission or campaign mission. Make sure you ping the appropriate role(s):@Wave1,@Wave2,@Friday Op. - Try to create a Frag Order: https://fragorders.com/login, and provide that in
🗫 operations-room. - No later than 2 hours before the op, post the completed briefing document and Frag Order to
#air-tasking-orders. Make sure you ping the appropriate role(s):@Wave1,@Wave2,@Friday Op. - On the day of the operation you need to provide the final miz file to
@Dedicated Server Accessand confirm that someone has loaded the mission onto the server, and that someone with@Dedicated Server Accesswill be present for the operation to flip the mission over on the server at the correct time.
¶ Template Briefings
You can utilize the below Google Slides templates for your own briefings in CSG8 missions. Simply use File > 📄 Make a copy > Entire Presentation within Google slides and you can start editing your own copy!
- CSG8 Briefing Template Dark Mode
- CSG8 Briefing Template CSG8 Blue and Red
- CSG8 Briefing Template Light Mode
Some notes on using this:
- Go into Slide > Edit Theme and update the OPCODE on the master slide (the topmost slide). Set the OPCODE to the shortened version of your operation name. For instance “Operation Constant Thunder” might become OCT, may include a date if desired, or a mission number. Changing it in the theme page will change the OPCODE on every slide.
- Make sure you review the Required Mods page carefully, and delete any mods that are not necessary for the mission.
- Use ChatGPT or similiar generative AI to create the METAR from a screenshot of the weather and time set in the Mission Editor if you don’t know how to write a METAR. Or just don’t include the METAR, it’s kind of just there for flavor.
- For every distinct task type (CAP, SEAD, etc), create duplicate the
Task Gameplanslide and re-title it to$Task Gameplan, for instanceSEAD Gameplan. - Delete
Tactical Assetsslide if no supporting AI combat flights - All C2 Agencies other than the AIC are really meant for campaigns so you can typically delete those agencies for weekly missions.
¶ Template Missions
Thank you to @Grizzly "Checklist" for making these template files. Each file contains everything you need to get started making a vCSG-8 mission:
- Carrier
- Jackal
- AWACS
- All standard flights and their radios setup
- Tankers
All you need to do is add the enemy and make the briefing!