@AUTigerGrad

So I haven't played around with the Asymmetrical warfare yet. I'm just trying to get my head around the basic conventional back and forth.

For the stratis one I linked above I was just trying to go Army vs. Army like Blufor is Invading stratis. I have one Huge rectangle AO over the island, with 2 small ones to catch 2 outlying areas that wouldn't fit in the square.

I have a Military Civ and a Military Mil connected to all 3. Mil is 200 I think, and 100 for the civ.

So its sounds like breaking those down even more would be better?

So is my understanding correct here in this example:

One Mil objective of 200, with 4 TAOR. When the mission spawns does it break that 200 out across all 4? So 25 units for each TAOR?

Also, how exactly does the limiter on the AI module affect things? Say I set it to 25. Does that mean only 25 groups can be spawned in my spawn radius? Or does that mean the Virtual AI will only spawn 25 groups over the WHOLE map for both sides?

I've noticed a lot of peoples missions keep the limiter to 20-25?

Thanks so much again for all your advice! I'm getting sucked in hahahaha. And you're right, ALiVE is SO GREAT!

So just to be clear. When you say "spawn over map". You mean the virtualized units you see when you turn ai debug on.

Your not referring to "spawning into real space". i.e. Only 25 groups are allowed to spawn in 1500 of me.

So what is the unit placement size for. So if I put down a 1200 platoon but have the limiter set at 25?

Is that my total force pool? So if I want logistics to keep supplying I need to set to infinite?

Aaaah. Got it. Makes sense. And as to the limiter I forget that a lot of people play with larger groups who might not necessarily be in the same part of the map together. So if you have 3 groups spread out across 3 areas. Each group may have 5-10 groups of AI spawned in. I could see how that would start stretching a server, and thus the limiter.

I haven't gotten to work on it in a few nights and I'm having withdrawals lol. I keep refreshing the forums to get my ALiVE info fix haha

Hmmm....I guess since we just beat y'all in basketball I can let go of my anger from last football seasons lol.

Sure thing man! I'll definitely look you up! Thanks for you're help!

That's a great idea about the base. Hadn't thought of that. I might make a TAOR over the top of Agia Marina and blacklist it from my normal 10% CQB module, and then make a new 30% CQB module BLU_F,OPF_F and connect it to Agia Marina and my main base (air base).

But I will need to make a new Mil Civ module specifically for the marina huh. As my other one is connected to the main AO. (My mission is linked a few posts up)

Thanks again!

Finally got a play test in of my Bornholm map this weekend! Thanks to you all for your help!!

My buddy and I got in for only 30-40 minutes but it was hella fun. I did CQB across the island at 2% with Pairs. They have some pretty dense cities so that is plenty. We left the SW airfield and headed into the city just NW of it. Its a GREAT urban warfare environment. Lots of walls, scale able buildings, hedge rows, etc. On top of that I put ASR AI on the server too. Soooooo...yeah...we got the shite flanked out of us. I had basic ACE medical on to ease my buddy into it, and that lead to a few deaths haha. We didn't even finish clearing the city (couple of tanks ahead of us if I remember right) before we saved it out.

So of course now the tweaking keeps going. Some issues I've seen so far:
1.) My starting force of about 400 blufor are up against about 800 opfor. (bornholm is a big map, and had to do 400/400 mil/civ to get the density needed). Blufor is attacking, but they aren't really taking objectives and moving onward. Is this maybe due to how compact the cities on bornholm are? Or should I maybe up the level of blufor? The only reason I didn't is if I go the direction of the main force and I get within 1100m I despawn half of them due to the limiter. Thoughts?

2.) I tried to the helipad reload/rearm script, but it didn't work. I created a tricker, made it about 10x10 and set it right over the helipad. Gave the trigger what it says, and then the on activation what it says. Activation repeatable by anybody. Left type as none.

3.) Even though my base is inside a 1500m square, I still get a decent amount of OPFOR spawning into it on the start of the map. This may be due to the road in front of the airport. Honestly not that big a deal because now that I think of it, it makes the spawn in feel like we just took the airfield and are pushing inland dealing with the last wave of a counter attack.

4.) Load issues for the mission. When I load the mission I see the picture of the map, load bar goes across, then I load in on my player unit start position. There's FNC Curator error, then a few seconds later I bounce back to the map and it goes through another load. Then the game finally starts up and I'm standing on my respawn marker. Now I have the respawnOnStart = 0 in the description.ext. Is this just CBA, Alive, bornholm? Its caused some angst when I've tried to load a dedicated server with TADST, then load in. The map loads with an unknown name and author, then loads again with the actual mission name and me as the author. Then it gets to be the briefing screen, and I hit continue then it goes back to the map screen to load again. Then it just sits there on that screen. Last night to get it to work I had to close arma client with the task manager and load in a second time before it worked. The first time my buddy logged in it said there was no respawn available, and kicked him back out. However, the second time he loaded in fine. Respawn was working normally.

Anyhow, sorry that was long! Any advice would be appreciated, and thank you again for such amazing tools to make these missions.

I'll have to put a copy on the mission templates forum when I get a chance.

So the respawn issue is. When the mission loads. For about 10 seconds I've spawned into the world with gun in hand. I'm standing at the same location the unit is in the editor.

Then the screen goes back to the map load screen. Then I spawn in at my respawn_west marker, and I'm ready to play.

Not a big deal, its only like 20feet difference. Its the fact that I have to go back to the map screen the second time and sit through another load screen. Again respawnonstart = 0

I have 400 troops and about 50 objectives so I don't think it's a size problem, but I can try upping to 600. Opfor is 800.

Opfor = occupy
Blufor = invasion

Blufor starts at Sw airfield with a few towns around it. So I didn't want the opfor overwhelming them.

Correct. I have 2 air trigger and 1 land trigger.

I'll have to fiddle with it some more.

Regarding OPCOM and objectives, how do you lower the count of them? When I start up Op Landlord It says that "Opcom has too many objectives, lower the amount for better performance, 80 is recommended" I believe that's what it says anyway