Lone Wolf

[Gous 0]

How often do you get assigned Lone Wolf patrols? I have never had any of these in campaign. (well I can always leave my formation and go on my own but a genuine lone wolf mission would be better)

[appraiserfl 0]

How often do you get assigned Lone Wolf patrols? I have never had any of these in campaign. (well I can always leave my formation and go on my own but a genuine lone wolf mission would be better)

 

I usually get one after I did really bad on a mission! I usually lone wolf it anyway when they try to assign me the suicide missions deep into enemy territory. Usually I will just find a nice set of FE2s, Be2cs or N17s and exhaust my ammo and then take it home...my DIDs a premadonna lol.

[Duce Lewis 3]

How often do you get assigned Lone Wolf patrols? I have never had any of these in campaign. (well I can always leave my formation and go on my own but a genuine lone wolf mission would be better)

A lot depends on what time period you're flying

In summer 1918, I never get assigned Lone Wolf missions

Probably by then they'd realized by then they were losing too many pilots

In Rolands, 1916, I was assigned Lone Wolf once in a while

[Gous 0]

Interesting...Maybe the devs may explain to us if the LW missions are randomly generated or are date/squadron/etc. etc. dependent.

[Von Paulus 8]

I'd only LW missions in 1916 period. But that might be a coincidence.

[Creaghorn 10]

as long as i've seen LW missions are part of the mission file till 1916. from 1917 on there are no more. at least for german missions. that's about historically correct. though the LW are somehow weird, because they send you hundred of miles all over the place if warping. deep into enemy lines, from there deep into open water etc. most of the times your fuel will run out before the waypoints are done.

what also would be cool in some future tweakings or P4, to see enemy LW missions. Especially recon two seaters, who are loitering alone at very high altitude, like it was in real.

[Von Paulus 8]

though the LW are somehow weird, because they send you hundred of miles all over the place if warping. deep into enemy lines, from there deep into open water etc. most of the times your fuel will run out before the waypoints are done.

Yes that's true unfortunately.

[Olham 164]

Gous, I have been flying mostly in 1917, and never got one.

But then I have recently started a British campaign with RFC-24 in 1916, and there,

the second mission was a 'lone wolf'.

Try 1916 - maybe they didn't do them later no more.

[Gous 0]

Damn! I don't fly early aircraft...(well until the Parasol is added) I can always leave my formation though hehe..! 

[Olham 164]

Gous, try the Airco DH-2, spring 1916. I like it somehow - much better than anything else

of that time.

[Gous 0]

Yuk! This thing is just ugly.

[Olham 164]

Hmm - I don't see it that way, but tastes are different.

(Like some say, the American "Phantom" was an ugly crow - I find her beautiful).

 

You could try the Halberstadt or Bristol Scout then.

[Duce Lewis 3]

Hmm - I don't see it that way, but tastes are different.

(Like some say, the American "Phantom" was an ugly crow - I find her beautiful).

I was never a Phantom fan til the Dogfights series came out

More for how the pilots took on the much more manueverable Migs

 

Always thought she looked like a freight car from the side ...long, thick, & straight

But she had an intersesting head-on view

The inverted gull wings and the downward rake of the horizontal stabilizers

[Olham 164]

The Phantom is a warbird, that isn't so obviously beautiful as a Sukhoi "Flanker".

But like with girls - the hidden beauty may last longer. I always liked her powerful look.

 

And as I just mentioned those two: I saw both performing on the ILA near Berlin, with the

new Eurofighter. The Eurofighter, and instable plane, was a crazy show. The pilot pulled the

throttle back (or how they call it in jets) and let the craft fall out the sky like a tumbling leaf.

70 meters above ground, he pushed throttle full forward, and the jet shot up into the sky

almost like a rocket. It's made of most modern components and maybe a great fighter -

but it's ugly as hell.

 

Then came the Flanker and did the famous "Z" manoeuver. Starting at the bottom line of the

"Z", the pilot pulled back stick and she went up like a wild mustang, underside against the air,

cockpit further behind than the engines, and then up he zoomed, backwards, until he pulled

back throttle, layed her right forward again, and off he shot away. A perfect "Z".

 

Now came the Phantom, and I knew she is a Fifties design, like me. Of course she cannot

perform neither the Flanker's manoeuver, nor the Eurofighter's.

But what they did, was coming in in a shallow dive, and close above the runway, he pulled

her up, until she zoomed into the sky like a rocket! Afterburners firing, a roaring thunder

like a thousand lions, and a climb, that was definitely forbidden for a 50s craft other than a

Lockheed Starfighter. But they wanted to show everyone on the ground, what a powerful

aircraft they flew.

A great Goodbye for a great bird!

Edited November 17, 2009 by Olham

[Duce Lewis 3]

Yes, she's growing on me

Her power saved her in many a Vietnam dogfight

I've never seen her at an airshow

Seem most of the other US hardware but the F4 was relegated to National Guard duty by then

 

I remember reading a ironic story of US fighter competitions years ago

Many experienced Air Force pilots were frustrated because they got less stick time as they rose in rank

Their solution was to retire and join the NG where they could fly much more often

These Vietnam era vets in F4's would wax their newbie replacements in F15's