I wanted a real challenge and got it :)

[+1977Frenchie]

After making the skyraider flyable in various campaigns, i thought i might do a Rolling Thunder Campaign with the old reliable spad (god i love this plane). After installing the great SF2V Expension pack a long time ago and flying different aircraft, why not? Could be fun :)

 

So i went for it and the first 4 missions were pretty easy as they were concentrating on the South portion of North Vietnam (no big AA and AAA threath out there). The fifth was, well, the hardest so far...

 

Having to bomb a bridge in Hanoi with an A-1... Who asked this mission! :)  Well, i planned to breach in a zone less covered by the enemy, only to be fired upon from everywhere by everything 10 miles from target (they even throw rocks at me, i swear!) I bombeb the target, missed, AAA got me pretty hard, wingmen been destroyed by flak... I managed to fly about 15 more miles then a Fresco joined the party, put me on fire and.... I bailed out and made POW...

 

It's only a game, but the adrenaline was to the top. So hat's off to those REAL pilots in real war who faced danger at every mission.

[+Dave]

Ole SF2 Can throw you some real curve balls at times. 

[Emp_Palpatine]

SF2V with the expansion is among the most challenging things around here. 

[KJakker]

There should be a lot of AAA. I recall Robin Olds saying in an interview that according to his intelligence reports there were more AA weapons within 100 miles of Hanoi than the Germans had in all of Europe in WWII.   

[+eburger68]

I think it was Olds who, in his account of the approach to Thai Nguyen during the March 1967 raid on the steel mill there, described the flak cloud above the area as an "angry, boiling black mushroom of smoke."

 

Eric Howes