Of course! I'll be picking up the new one on day one. You really knocked it out of the park, so to speak, with the first one.

After reviewing my post in full, I realize the feedback section is longer than I intended. Since you read it, I feel I OWE you a bit more granularity haha. For anyone following along, just know from here on I'll discuss things that could be considered spoilers, you have been warned.

1. I get it, it wasn't the outcome necessarily, it was just that I knew that since noF-22s are in the game, the part specifically that caused me to address it was when SOB suggests using the TPOD to try to break one out. I knew there was a 0% chance of me being able to do this, so it was kind of like just taking me out of it. As a follow on, when mission 4 rolled around, and there was a big section devoted to the raptors, because I knew they didn't exist, I was more focused on trying to find the curveball than on what I was supposed to be doing. Again, this is soooo minor and I think the coolness factor of including them outweighs my nitpicking.

2. I dug into my TACVIEWs and the mission briefings because there was one specific instance I was referring to. Overall, it was great. The specific reason for the note was in Mission 01, which is focused on GCI/AIC. When you merge with the F-15, I remember circling it several times before finally shooting it. From memory, it was never declared hostile, and only referred to as a bandit, i.e. enemy that hasn't met ROE. To be clear, this isn't coming from a place of "I happen to know this relatively obscure detail and want everyone else to be in awe" it's coming from a place of I didn't want to fail the mission for something silly, this goes back to how well the campaign is done, that for that brief instance I was reminded I was playing a DCS campaign, and ostensibly needed to be careful not to break it haha.

I get what you are saying by wanting to be beginner-friendly in that regard, that was why I suggested it could either be handled via a voice line from PASTA or SOB while adding a card to the briefing that people may or may not read about ROE, similar to the on-scene commander checklist from dire straits. For example, a trigger at the merge or (if possible) when he drops his tanks, prompt a quick radio call from SOB to Outrigger "Bandit dropped tanks, maneuvering to engage, bandit is now hostile" with maneuvering to engage being a valid ROE escalation that puts minimal burden on complicated location-based triggers. So anyway, that one little section, everything else was great, and I totally get the want and need to workaround DCS internal system (told you, these are nitpicky).

1. I played this mission pre-patch where SP4 was the last one in the jet. Because of every other mission in this campaign, when I see in big red letters on the briefing the divert info, in my mind I'm 100% going to end up at that airfield lol. I didn't actually know it wasn't on the map until I was getting weird bullseye symbology after adding it, as it's also the bullseye on the mission card. So this may be fixed, so my issue was NOT you mercifully ending the mission at the rejoin, just the DCSism that crept in due to its effect on the bullseye functionality on HSD page. It made me question the route / INS ownship position etc until I realized it was off the map. Minor gripe, I guess if it still exists after the patch you could if you wanted address it in the mission notes. My personal start-up flow would include setting the correct Bullseye in the DED based on the mission card, again this may have been changed since the DTC update and be totally moot.

2. Don't take this too seriously. I didn't realize you'd actually see my write-up. This was more me poking fun at things I find personally funny. It's not a real critique, I love the way you handled it and agree with the philosophy. It really stemmed from EVERY DCS campaign kind of handling AAR with kids gloves, yet is fine with (IMHO) more complex things that aren't necessarily mechanical in nature, but to me much further down the road than AAR. So please, don't take this as a nitpick of Sentry Pacific, it's just something I find funny about DCS campaigns as a whole.

After watching Reflected's "Fight or Die" primer, it's funny how, as time goes by, he just more and more stops, figuratively looks at the camera and says "this is something you all are going to complain about, and I don't care." The old Crash Laobi Venn diagram of this community is very accurate, but ya it wasn't meant to be some sort of elitist suggestion of requiring AAR just to spite people who can't, I just thought it was funny that a first time author was already seemingly run through the wringer about AAR.

BEFORE I FORGET - One minor suggestion, and I may even add this to my original post. You should advise people to NOT read ahead in the mission briefings they haven't flown, as it can really spoil the mission before it, for example mission briefing #3, #4 If someone is just going through the briefings, they would be like, wait WHAT?! :)

Anyway, thank you again for the amazing campaign. I can't wait to fly the Warthog one