firehawkordy

The Super Bug just went operational in the past 4 years, as for the Tomcat, I know the Delta models were flown not sure about the Bravos, Google can be your friend in this case. The only missions the F-14 flew were Escort, BAR CAP and Intercept, and they didn't have the luck in finding their prey like the F-15 had.

I've got that pack installed to the other games but was under the impression that WoI was incompatible with it. Going to install now. I know the Navy 60's don't mount gun pods, but in HCS-5 the was a running joke that our Command Master Chief, and Honorary Ordnanceman, was going to have the AO's mount forward firing ordnance like we had in the Huey's. That seemed to make a lot of former HS pilots very nervous. Would love to do the gag in the game at least once.

Update; As far as I have been able to ascertain this bill is still in committee hopefully it will make it to the next stage.

Besides the Mirage Factory pack what other packs work in WoV? Need a gun pod with an M134 mini-gun for an H-60 load out.

Forgot the pilot squadron ini edit lines for the Seawolves Black Ponies, this is waht happens when I'm up late and drinking. [squadronxxx] Name=VAL4 DisplayName=VAL-4 Black Ponies Nation=USN [squadronxxx] Name=HAL3 DisplayName=HA(L)-3 Seawolves Nation=USN

Storm, I can ask my connection at Razbam about the A-4, Aerosoft has a Falcon for X out and VRS's Super Hornet is available for X as of a few months ago. Have you looked at Flightsim.com's FSX library? I have a weekend planned to reinstall FS9 and install X in a new dedicated HD. Got a 1TB external, hopefully I have enough room for everything now.

I found that in the WoV Air and Ground expansion HA(L)-3 and VAL-4 are both represented. Once in a while in a CAS mission I get sent to to some areas in their AO but not often enough and or near Rung Sat. SPADS are deadly in the expansion. If you don't have I highly recommend it. As for me trying to use an editor, better give a monkey the controls to a real fighter, same result only the monkey is more amusing.

@ Dave, never mind with the paint job, found the Seawolf skin in the WoV Air and Ground expansion along with VAL-4. Thanks for the offer anyway, I may need your services if I the TH-1L can be armed like the 1B. IF it can I'll get post pics of HAL-4 and 5, the Seawolves prodigys. Added these lines to the Squadron ini so the squadrons show up, also changed the A/C's ini so the Navy units are the default.

When I was in high school there was some expose on the "dangerous" Punk Movement. This was in 1977-78, that was the first time I heard of X-Ray Specs, at the time I started wishing my girlfriend could be like Poly Styrene. Sadly Poly Styrene lost her battle with cancer yesterday. http://www.spinner.c...profile_oneline

Then I'm a 'holic because I can't afford a new system do to the 2nd gen games justice

Well, bit the bullet and I am now the owner of WoI, figured that I might get at least all the base games, saw some interesting mods for WoI the other day. So now it's official, I'm FIrehawkordy and I am a Third Wire addict.

First screen of any TW game I've posted in a looong time.... WOV Gold addon, VAL-4 CAS mission.

No problem, glad I could help, I saw it the other night looking through the D/L pages for something else. Happy that I could remember where it was.

Neither, my Pastor friends had no trouble with it especially when I told them that I had got fed up with more than one person forcing their idea of God on me last week. One thing I can understand needing a Pastor, I know three also a Priest but he quit and got married, but where does a head shrinker come into play?

Nope , don't have that addon, if you would be so kind to make it I'd be very grateful. Should be released to the community if it is made, the Seawolves are a very unique group of gents and I'm proud to count some of them as friends and mentors.

on my Face Book page on Good Friday? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1loyjm4SOa0 One of my friends said I was definitely going to Hell for this one

Would anyone be interested in skinning the UH-1B in Seawolf paint? HAL-3 is the progenitor of ALL US Navy CSAR and NSW helo sqadrons ie; HAL- 4 & 5, HC-9, HCS-4 & 5, HSC-84 and soon HSC-85. Since the Seawwolves' fixed wing contemporary, VAL-4, is represented with two very fine skins why shouldn't HAL-3 be also honored? This is what the Seawolves flew..... http://www.seawolf.org/aircraft/p32.gif And this is their history.... http://www.seawolf.org/history.asp As a proud descendant of the Seawolves, HAL-5 and HCS-5, I respectfully make this request.

Yeah I kind of found out last night got zapped by triple A 5 minutes from my IP. On the next two missions I brought back my birds with so many holes that TK should include the sound of wind whistling through the Swiss cheese. Seriously, I did a Huey CAS mission and ended up with a bird that looked like some of the pics I have seen of the Seawolves birds after a mission. Seeing that green sh*t coming up at you and hearing the pinging of the round on the aircraft's skin is terrifying and this is only a game. I now have even more respect to my Brother Firehawks and Redwolves that did this stuff for real. All that aside, that addon truly changed the games dynamic for me and I have had to rethink my tactics and make sure the weapons I take are the most effective for the mission chosen.

Did you try this in the CA downloads section? http://combatace.com/files/file/7407-colour-picker/ Description A little app for managing, viewing and modifying TW game colour swatches Probably only really useful (maybe) for those playing with environments and effects It’s a little rough so let me know if anyone finds glaring errors or thinks it could be better … anyone being the 1.5 people who find it useful ;-) “Features” RGB colour sliders (RGB conversion) Copy and paste box for TW colour “code” eg 0.045, 0.34, 0.59 Forty-two editable swatches for your comparing pleasure All swatches are nameable Save out all swatch/names to a txt file Load in saved txt files IYAOYAS!

You do understand that the guns used in WWII were for the most part rifle caliber, anywhere from 7.62mm to 12.75mm, while cannon were predominately 20mm. The reason for the smaller calibers were higher rates of fire and the ability to carry more rounds into combat. Push up the time frame 5 years and you have on the MiG-15 two sizes of gun while on the F-86 there were six .50in M2 guns. The Saber had a higher rate of fire and took out a lot of MiGs but if a MiG hit you with the slower but larger of it's guns it was lights out. The reason the US and NATO switched to 20mm cannon in their new jets was that the west built on the cannons that the Germans had developed in the 40's. The Colt MK2 was one of the first used and then GE came up with the best and fastest gun at the time the M61A2 Vulcan. Another reason guns got more lethal is the fact that you can put nastier ( read better explosives) into the rounds so you get API, APHE, AP-T and so on. In this game, as I have said before, there was a lot and I mean a lot, of input by gents whose jobs it was and in some cases still is handling and loading aircraft ordnance. Killer Bee, ArmorDave,wpnssg and myself all had input as to how effective and realistic a weapon should be. If you think that what is used in the game is overkill, then get the editor out and make some changes but don't think you can improve on what was done. It's just a game but a real good one compared to others that you can get.

Yep downloading it now. Looks as good as ODS did when I was playing that after it came out.

So it's been a week since I started in with the game and I play it at least a couple of hours in the evenings. Just made a copy of WoV, renamed it and installed Brian32's tiles and Stary's Green Hell V2 as well as the mods for them. Add in Dueces effects that I have used from the first time he released them and the Weapons packs, the game just got better. Now all I need to remember is that ONLY era specific aircraft are to be put in the folder. Anything I forgot to add to WoV? Now to get started on the SP1 and WoE, I still need to get WoI.

I admit to being guilty of that but at least I and some others admit the mistake and move on. What gets me is the snarky and know-it-all attitude displayed. Hey, if you know everything why are you asking the "old" guys for help? Maybe it's the fact that the older I get the less tolerance I have for fools. Those of us that were in the service got spoiled by having younger folks that would listen and not give an attitude about what you were trying teach. F*** it, I'm going to run a sim and kill something.