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Welcome to the wiki for 414Ret — the 414th Joint Fighter Group's fork of DCS Retribution, a turn-based dynamic campaign generator for DCS World.

Retribution builds and manages a persistent, evolving conflict for DCS: you plan air operations turn by turn, generate a .miz mission for each turn, fly (or fast-forward) it, and the campaign carries the results forward — losses, captured bases, a moving front line, and an enemy that reacts. 414Ret keeps everything upstream Retribution does and adds the 414th's intelligence, reconnaissance, electronic-warfare, search-and-rescue, frontline, air-defense, and quality-of-life work on top.

New here? Start with Getting Started, then read Air Wing Configuration, Turn Zero, and Your First Operation. If you already know upstream Retribution, jump to What's Different in the 414th Fork.

This wiki is modeled on the upstream Retribution wiki — same topics, brought up to date and adapted to how this fork actually plans and flies a campaign.

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Getting started

• Getting Started — what Retribution is, install, first launch.
• The Retribution UI — a tour of the map, toolbar, and panels.
• Air Wing Configuration — set up your squadrons and aircraft.
• Turn Zero — the special first turn.
• Your First Operation — plan, generate, fly, and debrief.

Campaign mechanics

• Mission Planning — packages, TOT, task types, the auto-planner.
• Air Defense and the Air War — BARCAP, QRA, SEAD, support orbits.
• IADS Engines: MANTIS and Skynet — the runtime air-defense brain.
• Frontline Stances and Movement — the ground war.
• Base Capture — taking and losing control points.
• Squadrons and Pilots — pilots, experience, replacements.
• Unit Transfers — moving ground forces and logistics.
• Fast Forward and Performance — sim, performance, auto-purchase.

414th features

• What's Different in the 414th Fork — the overview.
• Fog of War and Reconnaissance — recon intel-fog, BDA lag, approximate targeting.
• TARPS Reconnaissance — fly the F-14 photo recon; the TARS film engine.
• SCAR — hunt a moving high-value target among decoys.
• SOF and Commander Capture — the finite SOF-team capture/recovery loop.
• Combat SAR — rescue a downed pilot and get them home.
• Electronic Warfare and ISR — the C-130J JAMMING platform.
• Troops In Contact — the frontline battle simulation.
• Map Layers and Interface — the unified layers panel and UI work.
• Drop-Spawn Unit Placement — right-click sandbox placement.

Customization and modding

• Custom Campaigns
• Custom Factions
• Custom Loadouts
• Lua Plugins

Servers

• Dedicated Server Guide

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Download

Pre-built Windows releases publish automatically every time the fork's main branch updates — no GitHub account needed.

Download the latest build → extract → run retribution_main.exe → point it at your DCS World install on first launch.

For engineering internals, see docs/dev/414th-features.md in the repository.