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Gephard, So please do not take offense, but I would like to make a few points here. 1. This Midway terrain that I have made resides on my PC at my home in Arizona. It resides no where else on Earth. So considering that fact, is it OK with you if I name the terrain whatever I want. Actually the name of the terrain on my PC is Midway CP. 2. Me thinks US Copyright law forbids the copyright of a title. Like a book or movie. Perhaps this law applies to a terrain name as well. 3. I like to make terrains as part of this hobby. It really doesn't matter to me if a similar terrain exists or not. I just like to make them. 4. I did not create this topic in this forum, it was moved here ... by someone. Did you move it here? 5. It is impossible for an unprivileged user (like moi) to delete the first post in a topic.

Just finished this up a few minutes ago.

I think this post is dead on, and I feel the same way. It makes me want to do a Rangoon mini terrain.

I spent time today painting out all the insignia on the P-39D skin so they don't show whenever you select a nation with smaller roundels. And for some reason, WoX can't locate my WW2 squadron badge decals. Dunno? I got 11 kills in one mission with this bird this evening. Fur-ball had over 30 planes, which is good for my system.

BTW, I meant Wolf did the model. I just added the decals and sharkmouth. Check this. The Germans show up at Guadalcanal.

Hey Gepard! Me thinks Wrench did a remake of your terrain. Here is a link... http://combatace.com/topic/84862-midway-terrain-enhancement-pak-by-wrench/

I didn't know this terrain a remake? But didn't you remake several existing terrains yourself. Me thinks Israel, BoB, and ..., and ..., GERMANY! And did TK, remake your Israel terrain. Dunno? In fact Gephard, you might be the greatest terrain re-maker of ALL TIME. And why did you remake terrains. To make them better? OIC.

One of the main reason for coming by this year was to ask the following question. Do you guys still play WW2 stuff using WOX or SF1. Or has WW2 gone over to SF2?

Now, one of the goals of this project was to NOT add even one weapon to the weapons ini file. And that has been accomplished. Had the stock weapons stuff provided a UK 250 lb general purpose bomb, I would have used those bombs. They date back to 1926. But I used the Mk 80 series, because there are NO CONTRAINING dates to those bombs in the weapons ini file.

Hey Wrench, I hope the authorities have legalized pot in your state. If true, perhaps you should consider some heavy duty medicinal therapy that you can only provide with an appropriate bong. Then, kick back, and check out some of the screenies going forward here in this thread. You might be interested, all this stuff is already finished and operational. I have completed the "first phase". Next phase are just general improvements, etc. I just don't spend hundreds of hours (on anything) especially on hobby stuff. In my terrain, the Martlets are part of the Cactus Air Force!

It has been a long time since I have done any WW2 stuff. Of course, I tried it when I first got the game, but I set it all asside for years on end. So I got a small plan together yesterday, and then I finished up the first phase of that plan today. The plan is a very uniform Cactus Air Force that I can use with the Solomon Islands terrain. To do so, I must allow non-stock birds, but I want to minimize the WW2 footprint, because it will all reside in my existing environment. I have identified all the birds; A6M2 Zero, A6M5 Zero, F4F-3 Wildcat, F4F-4 Wildcat, Martlet Mk.I, Martlet Mk.III, P-39D Airacobra, and P-400 Airacobra. All aircraft are SF1, first generation. The Airacobras can carry 1 Mk82 bomb. All others can carry 2 Mk81 bombs. No aircraft can carry external fuel tanks. Enemy planes come from off-map airbases, and its assumed they have already dropped their empty fuel tanks before they get to Guadalcanal, and Friendly planes are operating mostly over Guadalcanal, and do not need fuel tanks.

Well, this was to supposed to be my annual visit to Combat Ace for 2014. But, I just had to check out the download section, and I found this British Isles terrain by Baltika. I am not sure if I ever saw this one before. Dunno? I always want to do a modern Battle of Britain, but just never got around to it. I fiddled with a few dem files, but that was it. This map from Baltika is very nice. And, I was able to make it operational is just a few minutes. I wanted to make a few changes, because the terrain has many Soviet bases already in England. So, I changed all the ENEMY targets to FRIENDLY with a find and replace command. Then I cloned a nice large air base and added it at the end of the target list as an ENEMY base and positioned three of them in France, but directly south of London. So already, I can fly CAP missions until I puke while the Soviets throw everything they have at me.

Hey Dave, I hope you have been doing well. This site rocks, as before. You guys have done a great job here. The game is timeless and I never get bored, but alot of that has to do with Combat Ace.

I am having a real blast with this terrain. And I didn't build it, Baltika did. And I can confirm he was very thorough and meticulous. Well, I hope to see you guys again soon. It was great chatting with everyone. We have been ordered up again, and it is very real. A CAP mission over John Lennon Aerodrome. Yup! The Empire is back.

Once you have the basic map in, then use Excel to plot the locations of all the target areas you want to indicate on the maps. I use 3 zoom layers, and make each map independent of another. It is just grunt work really.

Just use something that supports layers. I use limp Gimp. Here are a couple I did back in the day. Israel DES was one of Gephards first terrains. It is considered a classic. Then there was Iraq ME. I like to do the Middle East maps. Once and a while I drag these terrains out for some real fun.

Just in case anyone is interested, here is a listing of the total targets in each of the 9 terrains I maintain. I only use stock targets. BritishIs UK = 11,786 Germany CE = 10,350 Israel ME = 8,532 Persian Gulf ME = 8218 Vietnam SEA = 5,098 Cuba CARIB = 776 FalklandIs* SA = 285 Iceland* NA = 257 SolomonIs* SWP = 179 * = These terrains have off map enemy air bases, which have only 1 target each, the runway.

Mai è stato così tanto dovuto da tanti a così pochi.

Me thinks the Americans and the French will fly Super Sabres, but more C models than D models. Ok, so I have cloned over 1962 Red Hammer, and I would expect to have a campaign ready shortly. I will call it Battle of Britain or perhaps Red Herring. Here is a map of cold war airbases in France, that we will assume were captured by the Soviets, according to the story line. I will get the cordinates for these and get what I can into the game.

Uh-huh! [impersonating Barney the purple dinosaur] Now please remember, that I only added a few enemy air bases in France for this terrain. There appeared to be only 1 non-stock target, that I pitched. But, the total number of targets present in the target data file are 11,786.

And it looks like the Dutch have moved in a few squads as well.

New planning maps are started. I will add the air base and text labels when I have figured out where everything is gonna go in France.

Don't worry Gepard, Mig Bashing never gets boring, because now everyone is in Great Britain.

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. I am still playing Strike Fighters, now for over a decade. I thought I might share with everyone a “new” campaign that never occurred to me before. [slaps forehead] The campaign is Falkland Islands 1968. It features several RAF Hunter FGA Mk.9 squadrons against 7 Argentine squadrons, all A-4C, P, and Qs. Missions are usually CAP or Anti-Shipping. There are no IRMs in the game, and each mission is tough and some are just downright exhausting.Your wingies are not much help.

I recently added my second add-on aricraft to my WOV-WOE installation. A F-100C Super Saber. It does not have IRM capability (mainly just for fun) but also based on the following: Most troubling to TAC was the fact, that, as of 1965, only 125 F-100Cs were capable of utilizing all non-nuclear weapons in the Air Force inventory, particularly cluster bombs and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.[2] By the time the F-100C was phased out in June 1970, 85 had been lost in major accidents. The definitive F-100D aimed to address the offensive shortcomings of the F-100C by being primarily a ground attack aircraft with secondary fighter capability. To this effect, the aircraft was fitted with autopilot, upgraded avionics, and, starting with the 184th production aircraft, the Sidewinder capability. BTW, my first add-on aircraft was the Hunter F Mk.6. The D model did have a larger tail, but I am ignoring that and just cloned the F-100D into a F-100C, and then simply disabled the IRM stuff. Also, note the nice clean "no pylon" look when on CAP missions.