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Just be careful with a lot of the stuff in the flight folder. A modded Nations.ini will take your AEW away and you'll be talking to the Red Crown lady again.

Another BuNo that shows up is 160899 on the cockpit plate. This aircraft was a 105-GR delivered in probably 81 or so. It served with VF-102 as AB110 in the mid 1990s. Like 160406, she never received the digital flight control upgrade and was stricken in 1995 when the Diamondbacks traded in their F-14As for Bs.

Another thing I'm gonna do when I can get a hold of the campaign files is change the carrier and CVW. VF-41 is cool, but I can't stand VF-84. I'll probably change it to the Ike with CVW-7 and fly with my beloved Pukin' Dogs of VF-143.

Fist thing I'm going to do when the extractor is available is correct several of the squadron decals that are reflecting later markings(VF-14 and VF-211 specifically) or add a squadron decal where missing (VF-103's Slugger arrow.). Next, I'm going to make a generic early 80's gull grey low-vis skin and modify decals where necessary to create a low-viz set. VF-41 in this skin would use their Sukhoi Killers markings and VF-143 would not have the blue field on the tail for example. Just some quick, non-work-intensive stuff for starters while the game is new and I want to enjoy it. I'll go crazy later.

Bit of Trivia: If you look at all the F-14 default skins, the BuNo of the aircraft is 160406. Not much known about this jet other than she entered service as an F-14A-95-GR probably around 1980, was AMARCed on 11/27/1997, before the advent of the DFCS, and was officially stricken from the active jet list on 7/06/1999. You've probably shaved with or drank out of her by now. Sad to contemplate. Not that it matters, but I almost wish TK had used a more famous example like 160390, 160403, or 161159.

NA includes the Tarawa-class LHA as an object. It comes in during the campaign to deliver the marines. I suspect there may be conflicts between the TW and 3rd party ships. There are also conflicts between the 3rd party Spruance and OHP, as the use the same folder and data file names.

TU-95 damage model is pretty incredible. I intercepted one and went to guns on it. It's outer port engine took damage and spun to a stop. What really blew my mind was another engine started winding down, but the pilot feathered it and got it started again. Wow! And then I hosed him to death. I did run into the Backwards Buffalo issue. I followed a Phoenix all the way to its target. It missed, but instead of self-destructing it made a wide turn and went back after the target. When it missed the second time, it suddenly flipped backwards before crashing.

Really liking the MTT mode available for the Buffalo. You can lock up 6 targets and ripple-fire your AIM-54s with hardly any trouble. Some of the decals are pretty generic, one squadron has none, and some are just incorrect. As soon as we can extract stuff again, I'm going to pull them all out and tinker a bit. It's a little disconcerting seeing VF-211 using the CVW-1 tail code or VF-14 and VF-32, sister squadrons until 1994, using separate airwing markers. I think I'm going to make low-viz versions of the squadron decals where appropriate and modify the Overall Grey skin to utilize them. Once I'm happy with those, I'll probably post them here for everyone.

Yes. It's specific to the Iceland terrain for right now, but once we figure out how battlegroups work, we may be able to modify ALL the terrains to allow it.

Enhanced flak MOD doesn't totally work. I don't get sounds from flak bursts in this MOD. There's a gun fire warning now, so that pilots will warn each other that an enemy is firing his cannons... or that a AAA piece has opened up.

Anyone notice CAG decal support on the A-7E? I wonder if this brings us to yet another decal level?

Thanks. That did it. Gosh, this is a nice looking terrain now!

I'm getting the same with the Iceland terrain. Otherwise no issues just yet. Haven't tried campaign stuff so far.

Yes! Sort of. The AIM-54 does not require that you be in Single Target Track mode (radar locked on single target) in order to fire. The target must be selected on the radar but you don't have to lock and the weapon will track. AIM-7s still require STT mode engaged in the radar.

OH MY GOD SINGLE MISSIONS FROM CARRIERS!!!!! OH MY GOD AEW MISSION TYPE ADDED FOR THE HAWKEYE!!!! OH MY GOD RANDOM NATION-SPECIFIC AND PERIOD-SPECIFIC CARRIER CAPABLE AIRCRAFT GENERATE ON THE CARRIER AS TRAFFIC!!!!

That's good. Else 100% of the user made terrains would suddenly be incompatible with the game. I'm installing. Guys, just as a quick reminder, be sure to move any 3rd Party AIM-54s, CVN-68, CVN-65, CG-25, EA-6B, and E-2C files somewhere else before installing just in case the Thirdwire objects use the same names and folders.

I'll be up front with the moral of this story first: take time out of your life to learn a few things about your car. You'll be surprised at how much money you'll save doing it yourself. Case in point, the air conditioner on my 2003 Honda Accord quit working. The compressor would still engage, but the cabin blower fan would not turn. Not having several hundred dollars to spend on this issue, I decided to tackle it on my own. You always start with the cheapest thing first, so I checked the fuse that ran the system. It was fine. Next, because it is just easy, I pulled out the blower motor to check it. The shaft spun freely at the slightest touch with no grinding or resistance, with is what a healthy electric motor should do. I got it narrowed down to the transistor, which is a $90 part. Using an Ohm meter, I discovered that the resistor inside was faulty. I bought a pack of two 1 Ohm, 1/4 Watt resistors for 97 cents, soldered a new one onto the resistor pins, and reinstalled the unit. The A/C now works. Going to the dealership may have cost me up to $800 to repair a problem that I fixed on my own with a 43.5 cent part. That's $799.565 I am now free to spend on Thirdwire games.

Hey guys, Is there any way to set it up so that a squadron might have multiple tours in a particular campaign? Also, how do I transfer Navy squadrons between carriers? Let's say I want VF-96 to deploy with the USS Ranger on a tour ending in may of 1965 and then return to the theater of operations in October of that same year on USS Enterprise and depart again in June of 1966. Or can this even be done? Thanks.

The A-4s collectively are my favorites. The Skyhawk was a badass little jet and there isn't a version of it I don't like.

So, my father recently found himself unemployed, and in the search for a new job he had an interview today. Most of the questions were typical, then the interviewer asked him this. "If you were to come into my office and I pulled out a revolver, put three bullets into it, spun the cylinder, pointed it at you and pulled the trigger and it did not go off, would you rather I pulled the trigger again or spun the cylinder again first?" Dad, being an engineer, said he would rather have the cylinder spun again, thus giving him extra time to escape. This apparently impressed the recruiter. I mean, I knew the job market was tough, but shoot... whoa, bad pun.

Hmmm... Jumping off the cliff is a good idea. Get to the ground faster!

Can't be all bad. They want to take him to the next level in candidate path, so he's not complaining. I've just never gotten a query this interesting during a job interview. @ Jimbib: marbles in a tube station?

Heard about it a while back, and I gotta say I'm in. Fleet Command was and still is a blast to play, but it's getting kinda long in the tooth. While the premise is a little depressing, the size of the play area available is definitely attractive. If it's moddable for new terrains and units, I'll be more excited, but right now it looks pretty good.

You weren't living in Georgia in late 2008 when the gas lines were a mile long and gas stations had no fuel for no explicable reason. Literally everywhere in the country except metro Atlanta was getting petroleum while we were busy siphoning it from other people's cars or getting up at 3:30 to wait two hours to fill a tank. People like guns around here, too, so combining that with tempers and frustrations over fuel scarcity was not a pleasant situation I would want to live through again. Thus, screw oil. I want something else.