With zuti`s help i have moved from coop to DF.
When i create a campaign i make a list.
Where
Year
planes used
Primary target for each map
Strength (ballance for both sides)
How far away i want to walk from history facts.
Normaly i start with a homebase map. This is where you get the welcome to bla bla, we use bla bla practice in these areas.
I normaly set up the briefing so i can alow enemy planes at some places, like
Pilots from the navy have been assigned a few captured enemy planes. They get a bonus and some extra leave for each one of you they shoot down (USAAF VS US navy) competitors
Then we use that map the first evening, also to get into the planes used for the campaign.
Next map is here you are, here is where the enemy are, have some flight over the area.
From there the maps escalate towards, the end goal. I create around 10 maps where most of them can be repeatet with nor problem (how i set them up)
The one running right now are about the philipines. Japanese build up to the north, enemy planes flying caps around the frontline and dayli strafing attacks from enemy planes on the allied airfields close to the front. Japanese torpedo boats making raids on the shipping and the IJN trying to blocade Luzon Island.
Next map is escalation where straifing will be more like direct attacks and manila will begin to be bombed.
The campaign will end up with allieds running, but then i move to the next interesting place and build a new DF campaign the same way, just alowoing more and more planes that follows the timeline.
Doing it this wa require you can control your self and accept limitet planes etc.
For the philipine campaign im moving slowly through the 1941/1942 planes, trying to keep it balanced. and keep the 1942 planes in a limitet number so its basicly P-40`s vs Zeros and KI-43`s
well not sure if it helped but this is how i do it
LTbear