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Didn't the A-7 actually have a better power:weight ratio than the F-8? I never understood why people called the A-7 ugly. I allways thought it was elegant in it's simplicity, and I liked the solid, clean lines. If I was gonna fly an attack airplane off a carrier, I think the A-7 would be one of my first choices.

wait... I'll have MiG du jour. or maybe the special. Two '23s for one sparrow! WHAT GOOFS!

Baseball? Baseball is kinda like a long range strike mission- hours of boring split only by sudden seconds of sheer terror and exileration. That doesn't mean I don't like baseball. The best thing about october is the pumpkins. They just explode if you hit them just right. WAY more exiting than shooting my 22 at beer cans or styra-foam targets.

Ok, after another couple missions the new MiGs started to show up, so my original problem is solved. I was also thinking of downloading a MiG-29. If I get an SU-27, I'd much rather fly it than shoot at it. It's WAY too nice a piece of engineering to (try to) blow out of the sky. the Uber-opponents sounds tempting, but I'd like have better wingmen instead. Also, I've done my own bit of suicide missions, between an intercept of 16 TU-22s plus their 8 MiG-21F-13 escorts with me and my wingie in F-8Es, and a CAS mission in an A-10 against a bunch of tanks with unexpected AAA support (and I have the "more effective flak" upgrade). btw, I have Strike Fighters Project 1.

If I was looking for a suicide mission, that'd be grand. But all I want is a couple different MiGs to shoot at.

I need more targets! I've been finding that MiG-21s aren't the challange they used to be anymore, especially against my F-14. For a bigger challange, I downloaded the MiG-23 package and installed it. However, I flew five or six missions and the new MiGs still didn't show up. I'm sure I was flying in their era. Is there something I did wrong?

Just a thought... but I've found that the Sparrow makes for a decent air to ground weapon. Would it be possible to use it as a starting point and modify the preformance and looks to make a cruser?

When you install WOV, it should ask you if you want to install Hyperlobby (or in my case, Gamespy), and it should put a shortcut icon on your desktop. Click on this to enter Hyperlobby, and from there you set up multiplayer. That's what I do and it works every time.

I had that problem after i got a service pack for Strike Fighters. I re-installed and it worked fine. Have you used multiplayer successfully before? You might want to try Gamespy or Hyperlobby.

Yep, they can load the '15 up with as many Iron buckets of sunshine as they want, but it's still an air-to-air plane. I once took out a MiG-17 and a TU-22 with maverics, but no screenshot. Also, if I have an extra sparrow after a fighter sweep, I allways take out a flak cannon or a ship with it.

YES! I FOUND THE SWEET SPOT! I had one or two really nice dogfights (see "How do you like your MiG?" thread), untill my joystick wonked out... Planes won't bank right anymore! Dang! Anyway, Thanks for all the help, and If I ever have problems with the GAME again, I know who to talk to!

It looks like a giant aero-leech! would the military version carry bombs in place of the passenger pods?

I'll take mine waxed. Or mashed. (I'm beginning to like the F-14...)

F-105, eh? I'm not a huge fan of the thud. Still, I'll try to ge my havds on WOV. First I have get a new joystick, though. Mine's on the fritz.

Tallyho, But I'd rather buy the boxed version. Or just get a Vietnam terrain map for Strike Fighters.

And where could I find that?

Just SF. It's good SF, though. I wish I had WOV, but I don't. I don't like the radar wars that are moderen combat sims, and if I waned to fly a bedsheet held together with toothpicks, I'd rather fly one WITHOUT the targets on the wings. And with a more reliable engine. I wouldn't mind a WWII third wire game, but WWII flight sims are monopolised by Microsoft.

wow, it should be called the Undersea hawk. Well, If a plane is an easy target, it should at least have a good ejection system (looks accusingly at the Douglas A3-D).

Nevermind, I found the F-8 skin. Is there a campagin for area 88? sorry for the double post....

...I'm not out of the woods yet... ok, so strike fighters now runs. (YES!!!! ) but now, there's another problem. Whenever I get into a dogfight, or within 0.1 NM of an enemy aircraft in my favorite F-8E (from Column5.us) while over a city, The sim goes all chunky, aka the frame rates drop like an F-4 after a SAM strike. I dropped the ground object detail to minimum, but it's still pretty bad. Also, It runs chunkily ( is that a word?) if I put quality on max. I don't think this $100 video card should do that. Am I expecting too much? Is there anything I can do about this? on the bright side, even if it is chunky, I'm back to slashing MiGs in my Crusader. At lest I can still do that!

The Crusader was allways my plane of choice. I like the way you can just haul it around and get out of any situation, which is usually what I have to do after I run into a gaggle of MiG-21F-13s. Those four guns sure come in handy when I'm making my "slash" kills, but why only 144 rounds, eh? At least my F-8E for SFP1 carries 6 'winders. Somebody should make a skin for the F-8 so it looks like the one from "Area 88" (see here ).

JHC, that's like the B-36 of acronyms.... WAYYY too big to be useful. hey.... here's a new one that I use all the time- JHC- Jesus Hannah (or any other name that starts with H) Christ sry if that offends anybody....

Bioshock or oblivion? If I played those, I wouldn't be on this site. I can be a person in real life. I CAN'T take out enemy fighters in real life (yet), so I'm forced to fly a desk. I'll track this sucker down and try it out. A million thanks, RWS!

yeah, I've got the stock onboard video, I think it is an 810e. This looks pretty good, it's not overkill or anything. It has kinda low ratings on that site, though. How reliable is newegg.com for ordering online? I kinda hafta... uhhh.... convince my parents.... heheheh.. Anyway, thanks for the help.

I have a story and a half.... I was flying an escort mission in an F-14 and we ran into a large group (10) of MiG-19s. I got four with 'winders, two with sparrows, then I took a hit and lost the other two sparrows, so I got 2 more MiGs with guns, but then I was out of ammo, or my gun jammed. Not sure which. Anyway, I saw the last MiG was lining up on the last bomber I was supposed to be escorting (out of two-one was now a smoking crater), and I didn't want to put a 'failed mission" on my profile, so I came up fom below on the '19, rolled over and pulled back, and my port wing hit the cockpit while my port vertical stabilizer hit around the engine bay. He blew up promptly, and I went into a bit of a cartwheel, but I still managed to get on approach to base with one wing and one vertical stabilizer, untill I stalled and had to punch out. I died. Bugger! Anyhoo, now I know that neither of these phenomina are unusual. I would have posted my screenshots, but I lost them. Is there a fix so bailing out is more survivable? Dang, that's a long post. is that allowed?