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The mission sounds cool, submit away. I would use a traditional MIG-21,23,29 instead of a fictional MIG-28 just so more people can get into it. My only suggestion..

I was leading a flight of four F-14s ( I had fired all missles at a MIG-23 flight a few minutes before and was about to turn home , when ground control mentioned more enemy planes in the area), we then engaged a flight of MIG-21s, after a few turns, I almost had a mid air with a MIG-23 that came out of no where and a friendly F-4 in hot pursuit (we were not escorting we were on sweep). The sky is full of planes, the radio is off the hook with ?he?s on your tail? he is firing a missile? I?m hit ?I?m hit?all hell is breaking loose. I do not ever remember having 4 plane types, all dog fighting in a relatively small area in the game like this before. I realized I better pause and snap a few shots. It was a massive MIGs up , like I do not remember before. What a cool game SF1 is. You will see here all 4 plane types in one shot, A Mig-23 in the upper left, and inverted F-4, F-14s of course and a MIG-21 breaking hard to the right. Here is the same scene as seen from the F-14 approaching the fur ball from the other side. Keep in mind that there are other planes not in view. Finally here is my last kill of the engagement , a gun kill on the MIG-21,a few seconds after the first pictures were taken .

do you have the latest weapons pack installed? is it just some of the weapons or all of the weapons? Basically more details if you can provide them.

Cool stuff... it is a whole new art form...

Ramp, You have to go to the campaign_data.ini file and add it like this, notice the F-4 squadron in the upcoming Iran Iraq campaign below (have the latest weapons pack installed, go to a file called weapondata and study it, use the same spelling to add the weapons like you see below, ): [AirUnit005] AircraftType=F-4E Squadron=11TFS StartDate= ForceID=1 Nation=Iran DefaultTexture=Iran StartNumber=1 BaseArea=Mehrabad Intl RandomChance=100 MaxAircraft=16 StartAircraft=16 MaxPilots=16 StartPilots=16 Experience=60 Morale=100 Supply=50 UpgradeType=Never MissionChance[sWEEP]=50 MissionChance[CAP]=50 MissionChance[iNTERCEPT]=50 MissionChance[ESCORT]=20 MissionChance=50 MissionChance[CAS]=50 MissionChance[sEAD]=50 MissionChance[ARMED_RECON]=50 MissionChance[ANTI_SHIP]=0 MissionChance[ANTI_SUB]=0 MissionChance[FAC]=0 MissionChance[RECON]=50 Supply[001].WeaponType=Mk81 Supply[001].Quantity=2880 Supply[002].WeaponType=Mk82 Supply[002].Quantity=1440 Supply[003].WeaponType=Mk84 Supply[003].Quantity=240 Supply[004].WeaponType=LAU-3A Supply[004].Quantity=480 Supply[005].WeaponType=Tank370_F4 Supply[005].Quantity=480 Supply[006].WeaponType=Tank600_F4 Supply[006].Quantity=240 Supply[007].WeaponType=AIM-9P Supply[007].Quantity=640 Supply[008].WeaponType=AIM-7E-2 Supply[008].Quantity=480 Supply[009].WeaponType=Mk82SE Supply[009].Quantity=240 Supply[010].WeaponType=Rockeye Supply[010].Quantity=360 Supply[011].WeaponType=BLU-1 Supply[011].Quantity=240 Supply[012].WeaponType=AGM-45A Supply[012].Quantity=240 Supply[013].WeaponType=M36E2 Supply[013].Quantity=480 Supply[014].WeaponType=AGM-65A Supply[014].Quantity=180 Supply[015].WeaponType=CBU-29 Supply[015].Quantity=180 Supply[016].WeaponType=CBU-49 Supply[016].Quantity=140 Supply[017].WeaponType=CBU-52 Supply[017].Quantity=180 Supply[018].WeaponType=CBU-53 Supply[018].Quantity=180 Supply[019].WeaponType=CBU-54 Supply[019].Quantity=180 Supply[020].WeaponType=CBU-58 Supply[020].Quantity=180 Supply[021].WeaponType=CBU-59/B Supply[021].Quantity=140

Fubar, amazing, out of curiosity, do you like the mig-17s and 19s , do you like all MIGs or the Mig-21? (My favorite is the 17 and the 21 hands down...)

Hi rampstrike! I certainly love campaign editing! My best advice is for you to download an existing campaign (anyone). Observe the files use to make it, open the files, explore and change stuff?I know this sounds strange but do this first then come back with specific questions and I will be glad to help. 1. download a campaign 2. see what files are needed to affect the campaign 3. open them with something as simple as notepad Your specific question centers around the campaing_data.ini , you need an extractor found in the download section to find this file. (or you will find the file in a downloaded campaign) If you open the *_data.ini file (whatever it is named) These are the parameters that control time: [CampaignData] StartDate=012/04/1981 StartDateDeviation=0 ForceWithInitiative=0 MaxMissions=75--------------------------------------------------------------------------* NormalMissionRate=5--------------------------------------------------------------------* NormalMissionRateDeviation=5-------------------------------------------------------* OffensiveMissionRate=5------------------------------------------------------------------* OffensiveMissionRateDeviation=5-------------------------------------------------------* CampaignEndWinScreen=Winner1.bmp CampaignEndLoseScreen=Loser1.bmp CampaignEndStallScreen=Loser1.bmp CampaignEndWinText=IIwin.txt CampaignEndLoseText=IIStall.txt CampaignEndStallText=IIStall.txt I will upload editing notes (not created by me)to the forum tonight. Have fun!

You know even after working with Starshoy to correct inaccuracies (like pointing out the weak default Japanese AI settings..) for months after PFs release, I have never tried the single missions, sounds real cool. Can you let me know what file to post this to? thanks

Do you think we might be able to upload it here?

The title says it all, please pass this info along to the other forums. We have dedicated bandwidth for the IL2 series fo games. Please make sure to upload your skins, missions, and campaigns for all to enjoy. Upload other freeware files but please credit the author.

Wow Mav outed quickly, as the infamous maverick form simhq. let's do this, anytime you have a problem e-mail me at mk2(at)bellsouth(dot)net and resist the urge to drive everyone else crazy. Just -email me dude....I'll bear the cross, no prob...

Hi Fabbio and welcome to one of the best games ever , it is primarily a single player game that is fully modable, hundreds of planes, terrains and campaigns have bee added. Feel; free to explore the world, there are some multi layer servers up , but it is primarily a single player game with an amazing amount of things to find, install and explore.

The Mig-19 is finshed and wrapped up!

Spectre keep an eye out for possibilities in Vietnam 1984 campaign Mod., I am kind of busy right now and won't be able to test it for a while. let us know :)

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And he can fix the stock ones! Before: After:

Changed flight names in game to VPAF names.

Fubar upload!!!!! Very nice , all of it!

This is a much better representation of the skin .

Scout I loved your reply so much(good stuff) that I feel like giving you my opinions on each and everyone. ....but I'll stay on the subject...here is more good stuff (I am trying to locate the complete interview). Robey Price Aug 6 2001, 9:58 am hide options Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military From: (Robey Price) - Find messages by this author Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:46:57 GMT Local: Mon, Aug 6 2001 9:46 am Subject: Re: Colonel Tomb Just to add to the confusion...in Steve Ritchie's _Oct 72_ interview for the USAF Oral History program says, "As it turned out, we engaged a flight of four MiG-21s with two MiG-21s and two [MiG] 19s high and in trail with the first flight." >IMHO, a rather probable version is, that Lodge and Markle have got >both MiG-21s, and Ritchie - which followed rather a radar than visual >contact (!) - has got Nguyen Hong Son on MiG-19, shooting it finally >down by a Sparrow. Respectfully, Ritchie reports that Lodge and Markle took face-shots killed two MiG-21 then the 4-ship coverted to the rear hemisphere on the second pair of 21s. Ritchie had a 'tally' on the MiG he shot down. A MiG-21 from about 5000'-6000' feet aft. >Of course, these are only names starting with T, but, knowing about so >many different (and partially completely wrong) English spellings of >certain other names (for people, places etc.) I wouldn't be surprised >if some misinterpreted name was indeed the reason behind the whole >legend behind the "Col. Toon".... Again from Ritchie's perspective (as indicated by his interview), Q: Are you familiar with Nguyen? SR: Yes, he's called several different things--Tome, Colonel Tome, General Nguyen, and the Red Baron. Q: When you left [sEA], was he back on flying status? SR: As far as I know. Q: As far as you know? SR: That's right. Q: Do you know who shot him down? SR: Do I know who shot him down? No. It is my understanding that he has been shot down, since early in the war, a couple or three times and that he ahs a number of F-4s to his credit. I've seen him a couple of times. Of course, I didn't find [that] out until after the action. The guy can really turn the airplane--really maneuver the airplane--but he loses wingmen on a regular basis. He has little concept of mutual support and doesn't care anything about his wingman. He'll save himself, but he just leaves his wingmen and his wingmen normally get shot down.

Starfighter I think everyone here understands that. We're trying to help uncover the identity of the pilot Cunningham shot down. BTW I will post an Interview later tonight with Steve Ritchie , in 1972, a debrief for history done by the USAF and he discusses "Colonel Tomb" he ran into that VPAF pilot twice in his career (he was told after he landed both times) and even discusses his flying characteristics "He can really turn that air plane" He cared little about wingmen". So there was a hot shot pilot identified by the US, obviously not 13 kills, but some of the piltos we are disucssing had 2 or 3 kills to their names. Whoever the pilot was, he was good, we know that much. There were very FEW VPAF pilots so the fact that Ritchie and Cunnigham ran into him is not far fetched at all.

Here is a post by Tom Cooper who has written several OSprey series books on Iranian F-4 and F-14 units. I had just found out about Le Than Dao this evening and was doing research. Tom Cooper Aug 5 2001, 7:37 am show options Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military From: muf...@yline.com (Tom Cooper) - Find messages by this author Date: 5 Aug 2001 07:37:19 -0700 Local: Sun, Aug 5 2001 7:37 am Subject: Re: Colonel Tomb Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse IMHO, the matter is slightly more complicated if all aspects that matter are taken into the context. As first, by early 1970s, different US services listened very intensively to NVAF comms, simultaneously also working with the help of such devices like "Combat Tree" etc. While this is still not widely known in the public - nor is the importance of such operations really recognized as such - it sounds very plausible Lets go through some stuff in chronological order. 08:45 The first US kill on 10 May 1972 was scored by Lt. C. Dosé/Lt.Cdr. J. McDevitt which surprised two MiG-21MFs of the 921st FR, flown by Dang Ngoc Ngu and Nguyen Van Ngai at take off from Kep. Missile fired at Ngu hit the ground under his MiG, while Ngai was shot down by the second Sidewinder several seconds later. At the time, two other MiG-21MFs were readied for start at Kep, one of them piloted by Le THANH Dao (the other by Vu Duc Hop). Le Thanh Dao was indeed one of NVAF's leading aces at the time, and finished the war with six claims to his credit. But, in this case, warned by Ngu, he aborted the mission. 09:40AM Then came the clash between "Oysters" and what - apparently (according to Toperczer's book) - must have been either four or six J-6s (MiG-19s) and two or four MiG-21s, which ended with three Vietnamese and one Phantom being shot down (by Pham Hung Son). One of the Vietnamese MiGs was shot down by Capt. S. Ritchie/RIO Capt. C. DeBellevue, for their second kill. Ritchie was to reach the status of an "ace" only during the summer of 1972 (followed by DeBellevue, which - as RIO for Ritchie and John Madden - became the US "leading MiG-killer" of that war, with six kills), not on 10 May, and they flew for the USAF. 01:00PM For the rest of the day, the NVAF increased the pace, starting with another foursome of J-6s which - at 10:14AM - intercepted the Harlow flight (USAF), out of which Nguyen Manh Tung downed the F-4E flown by Capt. J. Harris and Capt. D. Wilkinson (both KIA). Around 01:00PM, during the battle of Hai Duong, seven MiG-17s were shot down by USN Phantms and one damaged (by an A-7 of VA-147). This is the moment in which Lt. R. Cunningham/RIO Lt. W. Driscoll have scored their 3rd, 4th and 5th kills for becoming first USN aces of the war. However, the battle went not - as officially (and so often) explained - without air-to-air losses for USN Phantoms. To contrary. And, this is the point where Le Thanh Dao comes into the game for the second time, but this time flying an MiG-21PFM of the 927th FR, together with Vu Duc Hop. Dao and Hop sneaked upon two F-4Js of the VF-92 and attacked them at the same moment Phantoms came under a heavy flak fire. Le Thanh Dao fired the first K-13, damaging the Phantom of Cdr. H. Blackburn/Lt. S. Rudloff; his second K-13 blew the fin of the F-4J (Lt. Rudloff believed that an 85mm shell shot the fin off) and the Phantom crashed, killing Cdr. Blackburn. Seconds later, the F-4J flown by Lt. R. Dilworth was hit by an K-13 fired by Vu Duc Hop. The damage shut one engine down. Dilworth - which never saw any of the two MiGs - managed to land safely back at USS Constellation (and almost shoot down the A-7 flown by Lt. G. Goryanec - the pilot which previously damaged an MiG-17 - by the Sparrow he ejected!). Yet Dillworth's Phantom (155560) was subsequently w/o. Consequently, we have here a name Le THANH Dao, which certainly sounds similar to "Toon" for somebody listening to comms from hundert or so kms away, at the time Cunningham/Driscoll were in the air. Thus, if the intelligence about "Col. Toon" was foremost based on listening NVAF comms, then it sounds plausible, - that "Toon" - but actually Le THANH Dao - was understood as flying (at least) two times that day; - that "Col. Toon's" first - but actually that of Le THANH Dao - sortie would then be the one in the morning, when he rolled to the start at Kep, right after Dang Ngoc Ngu and Nguyen Van Ngai which were attacked by Dosé and Hawkins. US-services could hear even comms of NVAF fighers while these were still on the ground, no prob with that; - that "he" - but actually Le THANH Dao - was understood to have been in the air again at the time Cunningham/Driscoll shot down their fifth MiG. The only differences would be, that he flew MiG-21 and never meet them, but passed nearby just some 30 seconds before future USN aces were to engage their 5th MiG. Considering the available informations, that sounds as most plausible explanation to me. Regards, Tom PS Oh, BTW, the first "US ace" in Vietnam were actually not Cunningham/Driscoll, but an AQM-34L recce drone of the 100th SRW, which caused a loss of five MiG-21s and MiG-17 during recce missions over North Vietnam between March 1970 and mid-1971..