Every time you add another goal to the mission, you double the number of outcomes. For two goals, the table is as follows:

If you have three goals, the table is as follows:

There is a limit to how many goals you can have in a campaign mission. The limit is set by the maximum number of debriefing groups. This number is twenty-four. If you were to have five goals, then there would be thirty-two possible outcomes. The game is unable to recognize that many debriefing groups and so not all those outcomes would be recognized by the campaign. This means that the practical limit on goals to be recognized by the campaign is four, with sixteen possible outcomes.

This doesn't mean that you can't make a campaign mission where you want the player to achieve more than five objectives. You can. You can make the player jump through as many hoops as you like for mission success, but if you want the campaign to be sensitive to all the possible mission results besides total success, there is a limit of four goals.

You may decide that you don't care to distinguish between certain outcomes. For simplicity, let us consider a mission with two goals. Take, for example, the 'First Look' mission that comes with the game. In this mission, you have to shoot down a MiG-29 and bomb a factory. Suppose that bombing the factory is more important to moving your campaign forward and so make that the primary goal. If the player achieves that, then you will consider the mission a success. You will consider the mission MORE of a success, though, if the secondary goal of shooting down the MiG is achieved and will reward the player accordingly. So there must be a separate debrief group for that. What if the player bags the MiG but misses the factory? Well, that would be a partial success, but perhaps not successful ENOUGH to make a difference to how the campaign progresses. This partial success is considered a failure.

This means that instead of a summary debriefing group for each possible outcome, you only need a summary debriefing group for each outcome that you care about. In this example there are three:

Above are debriefing groups that reflect all possible mission results. For this example, this is not the optimal solution.	As the campaign will treat two of the four outcomes the same, you only need the three debriefing groups shown above.

You want the mission to go to the failure debriefing group whenever one of the last two conditions is met. One way to do this is to include two separate debrief logic statements within the group: one for when only the secondary goal is accomplished and another logic statement for when neither goal is accomplished. It is more efficient, however, to have a single logic statement which is satisfied when the primary goal has not been accomplished. This also reduces the chance of an error in the logic statements resulting in no debriefing group being selected. If you wish to let the player know which of the two possible ways to fail was the actual one, put the relevant statements in the detailed debriefing group.

When making noncampaign missions, it is possible to eliminate the possibility of the player seeing the 'no debriefing text available' message by leaving the last debriefing group with no satisfaction conditions. This has the effect of making the last debriefing group the default group, as the game halts at the first debriefing logic statement that is true. Unfortunately, campaigns don't seem to use this neat feature. The campaign ignores the results of the processing of the logic statements that was done at the end of the mission and does the processing again. Instead of halting on the first statement it finds true, it appears to select the LAST group that contains a true statement.

Even when you wish to track all possible mission results, it still sometimes makes sense to have more than four goals, and so more than sixteen summary debriefing groups. This occurs when you only wish to track the four goals in the NORMAL course of events where the player follows instructions and attacks only targets assigned in the briefing. If the player does something extraordinary that renders the results the campaign was following irrelevent, these actions can be reflected in the summary debriefings and hence be recognized by the campaign.

Suppose that you give the player four targets, and you want the player to get a different mission depending on the combination of targets he or she hits. That means that the player will get one of at least sixteen different missions next, depending on performance. In addition, you may wish to include further factors that change the course of the campaign. For example, you may want the campaign to end if the player shoots down a friendly aircraft. As another example, if the player shoots down a neutral aircraft, you may want the next mission to be one where that country attacks the player's side. The debrief groups for these results would be listed above all the others in the mission builder, so that if one of these groups is selected at the end of the mission, the results with respect to the other four goals would be ignored.

In my Karelskaya campaign, in addition to the four goals that are relevant to the continuation of the campaign, there are another two goals that are checked first. One is for the destruction of the USS Reagan and other is for the destruction of the Kuznetsov. If either event takes place during a mission, the campaign ends. Otherwise, the results with respect to the other four goals are recognized and the campaign proceeds accordingly. Including the detailed debriefing group, this makes for nineteen debriefing groups per mission.

If one of the first four debriefing groups is selected in the above example, then the results of the tasked mission (reflected in the last four goals) are ignored and the campaign either ends or goes off in a new direction. If the player follows instructions and doesn't do anything wild, the campaign will proceed along its 'normal' path.