How to complete a mission and some other questions

[williamsw2 10]

I am attempting to create an instant action mission where we have to eliminate the enemies from a town.

My main question is that I would like to know when we have completed the mission by eliminating all or most of the enemies? How and where I do make that happen into the editor.

I have never used any type of editor in any game before so I am completely new at this. I have some ideas of things I want to do but not sure how to do them. I would also like to add this to the mission:

Once we take the town, it triggers within say 5 minutes reinforcements from the town just to the north. I would like to have the OPFORS vehicles come down the road and we must set up an ambush just north of the town we took.

I would like to keep this to a 4 person mission but don't know how to change the weapon loadouts? Or how do I place supply crates outside of the town so we can choose our gear at the beginning of the mission?

Thanks for the help.

[kylania 568]

Welcome to ArmA2! Search is your friend. Every question you asked has been answered recently on this very board. Try looking around and reading some.

Probably the best source of help would be an old ArmA Editor Tutorial, which leads you step by step through how to make a mission with almost the exact same scenario you described. You can download it from here: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=1157

Keep in mind that the editor is slightly different, the map will be wildly different but for the most part things will be similar. I've been tempted to rewrite one of these ArmA tutorials for ArmA 2 but have been so busy answering the same questions over and over I never get the time. :)

Search a little, check out that old tutorial and let us know if you still have questions and most importantly, ENJOY ArmA2! The editor is pretty amazing.