Arrigo

He is only ramping up (it is an english word? ) the stakes... he want to seems really meaning and then extort a bit more for the rest of the world... business as usual I fear, with a en entire country payng the price. This is sad.

Hello ladies and gents I am slowly starting on a campaign project... the basic idea is well nailed down and I think to have understood the basic of campaign editing to the point I can proceeed from tutorial to trial and error (but having a referenced map of Dhimar and Parani with grid coordinates would be good...I haven been able to find one), but still I have some issues that will benefit from other people inputs... The basic assumption is a new flare up of the tension between Dhimar and Paran in 1996... the US, UK and some samller NATO countries send an expeditionary force to support Dhimar, but thanks to woefully divided western government a an unwillinginess to commit units to direct operations the NATO forces are kept in the defensive. The burden of the cross border operations in this first stage of the war is put on the dhimar air forces... now... except from some elite F15A units the rest of the Dhimar squadrons are unbelievably poor, undersupported, understaffed and underfunded notwithstanding years of US and western backing. So for day to day operation several Combat Support Squadron are created with western pilot and machines to ostensibly support the Dhimari (they are reprensented as auxiliry or training units, but are mixed combat forces...) staffed by a lot of NATO and Allied pilota seconded to the Dhimari Arir forces on temporary assignement... now the idea is cool... but... What planes the actual dhimari are flying? I have settled for the 1st and 2ns Fighter squadrons (1st Royal Dhimari TFW) equipped with F15A, and a detachment of E3A to gave AWACS support... but of the run of the mill attack and multirole ( big word for the dhimari)units what I can use? any suggestion I want to give them an almost obsolete look... but not soo old at the moment I am thinking on Hunters, Lighthing (UK), maybe A4, F105 or F5... suggestions? Remember the CSS flown a mix of F4, A7 and early marks F16 in the beginning of the campaign. Arrigo

I suppose a weaposn pack for SF2 will be shortly released by te community... can wait for Aim120, AGM88 and some other nice stuff...

Actully they didn' make some many huge holes (ok except for the Kaga...), but the one they did were critical. As Parshall and Tully have pointed out the Japense carriers had a lot of safety problems and a lack of a policy of damage control. It was like they had been carried too far by the idea of first strike to the point of not considering the eventualirty of being hit... couple that with poor AA weaponry and you were pretty much dead. But when the japanese were confronted by the choice between SBD and TBD diuring the yorktown attack (the only coordinated one of the day) they opted for TBD as ezlead has pointed out... but in the end torpedoes were more dangerous the problem at midway was the poor performance of both torpedo planes and american torpedoes...n BTW I have to try this mod...

welcome in a furball! A good way ius to try to keep situational awareness in combat (on of those things that made you appreciate two seater in real life, two more eyes searching for the baddies...) also if the enemy are too many try to limit yourself to wuick missile pass and the rapid spearation... that way the most porable direction from where the enemy will fire will be six o'clock, so you then can evade right or left... take care of your RWR and remember that is usually an impecise instrument. Even today whit the most sophisticate ones that can detect the change between scan and lock in enemy radar emission you do no have 100% certainity that every missile is tracked or that every Firecontrol tracked is actually amiming at you. When i Play WoE wit more modern planes and missiles the I try to keep dogfight short... better to get out empty but alive than to be shoot down... also, excluding some rare exception, dogfighing will blee western fighters energy very very quickly leaving you forced to fly straight until you recover speed... for SAM be proactive... carry a lot of antiradiation missiles! If you put out of service their radar they will not annoy you

I was thinking on those lines (played it on a friend copy year ago...) to be quite honest we need something like that today with updated graphics and engine... maybe someone will do a mod for SF2 along these lines. Or maybe I have to dig out CFS2 and check mods for it... who knows... BTW any modder here can recommend something? To be quite honest I have decided that Strike fighters has much more soul than Pacific Fighter... the immersion facto is bigger...

Maybe I am an old whiner... but I am still searching for a definitive PTO flight simulations... yes I have played CFS2 to the death and have Pacific Fighters... but... CFS2 was a bit weird and I find PF like an half finished products... some of the campaigns, esecially the carrier based ones, seems bland, the aircraft slelction is weird, I can't fly torbedo bombers, some planes aren't here (Ki 45, Catalina, Helldiver) and a lot of ships are missing... so I am still waiting... there are other possibilities for a fanatic PTO fan even as far adding contenent to other sim is concerned or I have simply to whine?

Uhm... I have some doubt on your question... if you ask how much effective is missile avoidance in reality and how it works the reply is "it depends". From what I have read and have been told missiles were not the end of the world... during vietnam war, the best SAM defensive tactics was to fly in close pod formation and trust your jammers. Missile avoidance were perfomed as a last resort. And usually I do the same thing in WOV with realistic results (much better if I can spot the SAM launch... much worse if I don't...) Also even in the textbook says turn hard to outmaneuver the incoming missile that work only if you see it. More often than not if there are too many planes and missiles around even in the old Janes F15 missile avoidance was worthless... they are two faces of the same coin... remember that the missiles are no only very fast, but... they are usually guided and can sustain more G than you... and that a lot of missiles, and not only the older ones, are easily fooled by jammers and chaff/flare. The end results is that more often than not avoidance manuvers are a last stand if the normal defensive stuff doesn't work. It also depends on the plane you are flying and on what the bad guys are shooting at you (and also the reverse, shooting sparrows at a SU33 will not be really effective even in WOE...). If you ask if the missile system of SF series need a rework, i think that for what I have seen missile modelling is accurate enough and with the available weapons pack it reflects the development of the missile technology pretty well. The only Thing I miss is the automatic chaff\flare release of modern planes, but from my experience the missile effectiveness ratio is looking decent (much more than other games... I can complain on problems in LOMAC with F15C radar and AIM120 having problem to deal with MIG23...) and you chanches to not get it are realistic if you do the right things at the right moment (and if you aren't unlucky... once I did a perfect missile avoidance over germany in a Strike Eagle only to see a little nice Zoo 23 targetting me...).

Ok, I know it is a silly question... but after a year I have finally decided to equip my laptop with a joystick and play flight sims even when I are away from my trusty desktop at home... need to shot down people sometime... I am eyeing SF2 beacuse it will be fully vista compatible (the new thing has vista...) and I love the SF series... but I want also to add some mods (My original SF1 copy was stuffed with new planes, maps and campaigns...) so what I definitely can add and what I don't want to add to a new fresh SF2 install? Arrigo

Any news on the appearance of this plane for us poor players? And there will be an VF111 skins (I need it for a weird project needeing a series of good screenshots)