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Plan a campaign

Set up a campaign of three to five missions, its AOs, and the missions in the order they will be played.

Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Web — 🗂️ Campaigns → Campaigns

How to do it

  1. Go to 🗂️ Campaigns and fill in New campaign: a name, the era and theatre, and how many missions you plan.
  2. On the campaign page, add the areas of operations it is fought over.
  3. Under Plan the next mission, give the operation a name and its op date, and press Create mission. The wizard opens.
  4. Back on the campaign page, ↑ and ↓ put the missions in order, and Schedule opens each one's back-schedule and drops.

Worth knowing

  • A new mission copies the details that stay the same week to week (time zone, orders time and H-Hour, AO, unit, support, radio plan, loadout and so on) from the mission before it. The story, intel, orders and AAR start empty.
  • The next mission's date is suggested four weeks after the last one, the length of one cycle of drops.
  • Creating a real campaign also sets one up in the Kill Tracker under the same name, or links the one that already exists, so stats land in one place.
  • Set the campaign to Archived to fold it away on the list without deleting anything.
  • Tick Test campaign to try things out. A test campaign is not added to the Kill Tracker and its drops never post publicly. Delete test campaign removes it with one press, and Delete all test campaigns on the list clears every one — with its maps, its posts and the ORBATs the planner made for it. An ORBAT you only linked stays. Make it real keeps a test you want after all.
  • Deleting a real campaign asks you to type its name. Its maps go with it. Its Kill Tracker campaign goes too if the planner created it and no recordings have been added; one holding stats, or set up in the Kill Tracker by hand, is kept. Its missions' ORBATs and its posted drops stay.
  • A campaign closes itself: once every planned mission has been played, its AAR day has passed and its OCAP recording is linked (or a week has gone by), it is marked Complete and the mission team channel is told. Set it back to Active to keep it open; it stays open until another mission is added. Switch this off in Campaigns → Settings.

See also

Write a mission in the wizard Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Six steps from concept to after action, saved as you type, with each drop previewed exactly as it will post. Plan on the campaign and AO maps Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Draw the AOs on a greyed-out campaign map, then plan each one on a detailed map of its own with a layer per phase, drawn into the leaders' pack. Set up the campaign planner Admin Choose who may plan, where the weekly drops are posted, and when they go out.

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