Starfighter

Not mentioning any names, but someone got shot down today while trying to take on a pair of MiG-17s. Would any of y'all like to share tips for ACM and the like while being stuck in a Super Sabre?

Woohoo, Voodoo!

Wrench: Is all still going well with this? I was hoping to hack an F-104C into the Burning Sands campaign. :D

So after a bit of practice in the ol' Hun, I decided to go back into campaign and try the evil mission that pits me against MiG-17s as primary targets. I lost my wingman right away, with nary a peep of "I'm hit". But luckily, the other two guys I brought with me survived and did some good on their own. It was early morning and I managed to pop the first Fresco with an AIM-9B. The second, as you can see, had the luck of the devil: I managed to catch him in the vertical and sawed off the outboard panels of both wings, clipped an airbrake, and did sufficient damage to his engine that he started smoking. End of the second MiG, right? Wrong! I was headed away and so forth when I noticed "Hey, he's still up..." To make a long story short, I had to follow this fool around for another four or five minutes trying to get him in range for a gun kill. All the while, he's making big circles and slowly descending at a fixed speed while enemy AAA hunts for me. Eventually, I manage to get within 500 feet of him and tag the guy with another burst. Finally, his right wing falls off and I get to go home. I had maybe one more burst left in the guns, and then I would have had to shaken a fist at him or tried to make him spin. Any pilot good enough to handle that wreck of an airplane shouldn't have been cannon fodder for me.

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Yeah, the mission demanded that I (and a worthless wingman who died without a peep) take on some MiG-17s without so much as an AIM-9B available. BnZ'll probably be my only option when I try again. I really need to re-equip that squadron with F-104Cs. Thanks for the tips! It was fun running away from a MiG-17 in an earlier mission where the #2 ship crashed in the midst of trying to get me off his leader's tail.

Splendid! I hate to be such a droning bore about it all, but I'm not experienced enough in this stuff to fix the data.ini files myself, and so I have to trust good people, i.e. you to help me. :D Thanks again for the pod and for your kind assistance!

I'm stuck, again. Via the quick mission generator, I'm trying to make a quick Marineflieger anti-ship mission, using the stock F-104G and the Kormoran ASM. The AI aircraft load them just fine, but the squadron supply of them reads '0', so I can't load any. Short of using a mission creator, is there any way I can force the mission generator to provide some Kormorans in the squadron magazine? Thanks.

OK, hakuna matata, and all that. I'm glad you, and everyone else, took the time to help me with this. They're actually kind of fun to use, but I do believe I need a bit of training with acquiring targets for them. Visual acquisition ain't what you're supposed to do, I don't think. :o

I just tried that, and voila! They were there, but the pylons read 'EMPTY' and I couldn't select the AS.34 from the pull-down menu. That has me rather confused, to say the least. Do you have any idea what's causing that? Now all I need to do is find out if someone's done Marineflieger-style drop tanks with those Day-Glo bands. Thanks very much for your help!

I presume Wrench's setup is correct and I presume that the weapons pack is correct as well. What can we look at to see if the former is properly communicating with the latter? I suppose that I'll have to be the pathfinder for the rest of the flight, and designate for them, if this doesn't work. :P

I'm working with the 3W F-104G, and I'm using Wrench's data. All I want is a simple Marineflieger Kormoran mission; how bloody hard can it be? He plainly says, "As usual, even though the aircraft is 'nationed' as West Germany, it still gets USAF missiles and such EXCEPT for the inboard station, with have the 'W_Germany' attachment for MarineFliger units that carried the Kormmoran AS missile." The Kormoran data, stolen from weapondata.ini, is as follows: I first changed the availability to "very common" for both national and export, and I put something like 100 in base quantity. No dice---still none available, despite me setting the year to be ~1975. I then said to myself, "Well, the Kormoran's weight is 656; the relevant pylon says 500 is the limit. Let's change that and see what happens." I changed the weight limit of the pylon to 700, saved the ini, loaded the game, and could load Harpoons there, but not Kormorans; to add insult to injury, the Kormoran didn't even bother to show up in the base inventory page. At this point, all data have been reverted back to where they were before I started fiddling. I'm officially stumped.

OK, so I've got the latest patch and service pack installed for SFP1. I also pulled the weapons pack from 03 July 2006 and installed it. I then followed that up with the F-104C and F-104C-10. I've got a sneaking suspicion that the F-104C has an incomplete loadout, because about all I can pick is F-84F rocket packs from the Korean War and some drop tanks for various aircraft. If I read it right, that's all I can choose throughout the aircraft's availability. Secondly, the F-104C-10 behaves funnily between player and AI aircraft. I can't load wingtip AIM-9s, but the AI apparently did; I saw the second ship in my flight carrying them. Meanwhile, I get the choice of drop tanks. Everything else seems fine---lots of unguided ordnance and a centerline B61 are available. So er, what gives? My highly uneducated guess is that I need to tinker with loadouts, but the specific changes I need to make are beyond me. Can anyone help? Meanwhile, does anyone know of a Vietnam F-104 campaign?

Oh, splendid. What did you do specifically to adjust that tank? I'd be likely to put the thing on top of the wing or level with the tail if I tried to eyeball it.

Wrench, I appreciate your help! I hope you'll forgive me asking this---is your data for the F-104C or the F-104C-10? I er, can't tell the difference between the models.

Apologies if this is covered somewhere, but I figured I'd ask here. Based on this, I need to remove the entire thing and start over before reinstalling to catch up to current standards. I've made a few modifications under the hood of my SFP1 installation---mostly renaming an aircraft or two---so what do I need to backup to avoid losing data? Thanks in advance.

Is there one for the F-104C/F-104C-10 in there? I think I looked at all of the loadouts, and there didn't seem to be one for the two TAC birds. I could be wrong, though. The SFP Wiki doesn't have anything for them, either. Bother. Thanks for the help on other things---I'll get the hang of that as soon as I everything working on the aircraft themselves.

Excellent; thanks to the both of you. Got something to read while running around the North Atlantic in SHIII. :D

To be truly honest, I don't think I've done much to it. What would I have edited to remove the trademark designation from the F-104? Thanks for the reply.

Hooray. There's never been much in the way on the Stratojet for flight simulation, and I appreciate these efforts.

One word applies: Bravo. I've loved the Luftwaffe/Marineflieger look ever since I saw it in a book at the library back in the mid-1980s, and this improvement is yet another reason to stick with SF no matter what. Thank you!

Yahoo! I've loved the F-8 since I used it in USNF '97 to kill MiG-17s and the like; On Yankee Station made me think all the more highly of it. I've still got the old Monogram model kicking around my home somewheres, hoping for a restoration. It was the F-8E/J that introduced me to that lethal weapon of death, the AIM-9B. ... ... ... :D Anyways, I'm eagerly hoping for the Crusader to come in. Hooray!

Never! Death to the 'stang and all its adherents! LONG LIVE THE DORA-NINE AND THE GUSTAV! Muahahaha---I reckon you can figure whose aircraft I like to fly. :D

It is a good sound. Nonetheless, I'm awfully partial towards that jet engine sound, for some reason. 'course, having the Hun in the startup screen can't hurt, either. :D savagkc: "An awful screeching sound" is bad yet you like bagpipes? Uh, last time I heard, there was an interesting correlation between the two... Heh heh heh.

I'm for the F-4C in Selfridge livery. Mind you, I don't like Phantoms, but that's the one that catches my eye the best.