Mr_Tayto

The first image has just made the penny drop for me as to why the Super Etendard had a droopy nose!

This is great info, I'll try this, thanks!!

Just wondered if you guys had any ideas for managing SF2 mod installs? I downloaded NF5 yesterday and installed it and it nearly maxed out my C: drive. I got a big SSD (my fourth in this machine) the other day and moved every game install out of the C: drive. SF2 and the mods are still the biggest non-Windows group of files. I saw a KB article a while back about a way of moving the mod folders to different drives, are there any other ways or is that the best?

I've done as much as I (think) I can. It's a smallish SSD (250GB). I'm considering cloning a much bigger one

Brilliant post, very entertaining!

Thanks Erik. I'll follow good advice and get the one month sub, in that case.

Hi there, for the first time since I've been here I'm looking to obtain a (short) sub, mainly to download some files but also to show support for maintaining an active SF2 userbase and repository of files. It is very appreciated. What I don't understand is, when I select "2 day subscription" (and I assume it's the same for monthy), it says "6.95 + 6.95 per two days". Does this mean it automatically charges every two days? Do I have to cancel the sub as soon as I pay?

Now I'm confused @EricJ; you appear to have the GK model and cockpit but your radar screen works?! And the moving map display below it is dark?

Brilliant, thanks! Is this how the radar should look? It doesn't seem to pick out targets (or at least I don;t see them on the scope)

Just one question (now I finally got round to installing) - is this how the radar screen should look? It doesn't seem to work "like a radar", I see no targets on the scan, and it's the same for terrain following. I'm sure I've done something wrong!

This is an old thread, so just take the above as "sharing info" as opposed to continuing to cry for help I am comfortable with bombing both strategic and tactical targets using the above methods and, most importantly, knowing the aircraft (especially the F-4 hardwings). The one thing The Range can't do is prepare you for Hanoi, sadly, because that's where you'll come unstuck if you're new to it. Even with "just" optically and radar-guided AAA, and 1st generation SAMs, it's the deadliest environment I've ever flown in in 30 years of playing combat flight sims. I think part of that might be the "squashed" nature of the map, it's so easy to dodge a SAM and find yourself in a flak box over an active airbase.

Beautiful A-6s Which model, please? I have the ROTI ones and for some reason every model is KA-6 with 5 tanks, with the bombs clipped through them every time! (and the cockpit is a bit buggy)

Oh yes I'm aware, and trust me I have researched this method now to the nth degree to try to maximise effectiveness in SF2, up to an including editing .ini files to adjust the mil settings for A2G mode ; it doesn't work, it's still TLAR bombing whatever you do. I did find a couple of bombing charts for shallow (27deg) and high angle (50deg), the last one by Devin Horner. I find for larger, strategic targets, the 50deg method is fine early war but drops off massively a few months in as SA-2 starts to be quite numerous unless you use Hi-Lo-Hi profiles (i.e. ingress at treetop before climbing above 12k ft to initiate the dive). For smaller targets I find the 27deg works really well as if you get the (stock mil setting) pipper on target at release height, but it leaves you very vulnerable in low-permissive environments like RP5 and 6 because your roll in is 10kft. Imagine doing this 5-8 times, once per target, and how many SAMs get fired at you (let alone AAA) - without an RWR! Sometimes the game feels like an art installation, teaching you about the folly of war and the loss you the flower of American youth. From 1968 onwards (imo) in the F-105D, every flight feels like a suicide mission you're lucky to survive, in the unlikely event you do. EDIT: Almost forgot to share the bombing charts!

That's a pretty neat Idea!

Huh, I've never done that yet. Changed weapons in loadout screen and the odd waypoint position, but otherwise just follow the defaults

That looks simple enough; can you select a loadout? Or does it auto-select based on mission type (which seems to make sense). I see there's a "Fast FAC"/FAC loadout already there, I've never had one of those missions.

Ah... It wouldn't work then, because you'd have: Wing outboard x2 (1) Wing inboard x2 (2) Wing inboard heater rails x4 (3) Centreline x1 (4) Sparrow aft x2 (5) Sparrow forward x2/ECM/Pave Spike (6) Otherwise I'd need to delete a station completely

The Triple Nickel test out new tech on the "indestructible" Dragon's Jaw bridge

Coming back to this, on the file you shared the below SparrowStations have the same station group ID: [SparrowStation1] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=6 StationGroupID=5 StationType=SEMI_RECESSED AttachmentPosition=-0.501,5.07,-0.84 AttachmentAngles=2.0,0.0,2.0 MissileRollAngle=45.0 EjectVelocity=0.0,0.0,-2.0 LoadLimit=231.5 AllowedWeaponClass=SAHM,LP AttachmentType=NATO,USAF MinExtentPosition= MaxExtentPosition= [SparrowStation2] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=7 StationGroupID=5 StationType=SEMI_RECESSED AttachmentPosition=0.501,5.07,-0.84 AttachmentAngles=-2.0,0.0,-2.0 MissileRollAngle=45.0 EjectVelocity=0.0,0.0,-2.0 LoadLimit=231.5 AllowedWeaponClass=SAHM,EP AttachmentType=NATO,USAF MinExtentPosition= MaxExtentPosition= for which I assume "groupID" to mean the loadout selector, i.e. both having ID=5 means I can only select them together? I.e. "SAHM" (AIM-7) x2, EP (on station 2) meaning ECM pod (with no mirror on station 1), LP (station 2) meaning Laser pod (with no mirror on Station 1)? So I assume I assign one of these station with a different "StationID" to activate the drop down in loadout screen? incidentally, your F4D_69 has exactly the same station IDs at my (stock) F4D_67.

In that case, I believe I was in a stock WOV E

I've gone back to Rolling Thunder and the (now) F-4D '67, for the moment. I'm trying to build a realistic pilot career starting there and moving through the VN campaigns to Europe. I've also started a 1950s USAF campaign run, starting with the '56 Europe campaign and a different pilot. I didn't realise there were three Es. Does the merged install include the gold expansion?

@daddyairplanes The forum won't let me "like" any more posts, so I replied in text. Before today it had been several weeks since I'd been on here so I had a lot of screenshots to "like".

Reached my reaction limit, so thanks!

Greece? What map, that scenery looks fantastic!