Does the Kuwait theater not have its own subforum here, can’t seem to find it ?
Thx,
JB
That’s really a thing that should be created here by the Admin. Kuwait is one of the most complete theaters, both winnable and challenging.
Does the Kuwait theater not have its own subforum here, can’t seem to find it ?
Thx,
JB
That’s really a thing that should be created here by the Admin. Kuwait is one of the most complete theaters, both winnable and challenging.
You can look up the objectives to be taken for victory in the according *tri files (just open with notepad). If they are not commented, you may look for the IDs in MissionCommander.
Now you have reached a comfortable point where you can do what you want: you may do Interdiction or search the map for very high value targets for deep strikes. But it seems, that you have not attrited the enemy airforce enough: China and Russia would have entered the war. Then you will be busy to fight their enormous number of aircraft or take out their bases. You have just eliminated the SAMs near the FLOT? Do the same with the dangerous sites in the north to ease the work of other deep strikes or for CAS aircraft when your ground troops advance (control them manually for quick results, but be careful not to let them destroyed by too strong opposition).
Cockpit items like bobbleheads or Han Solo’s dices. Oh, and of course a squadron of Millenium Falcons and X-Wings.
Kool beans, just be careful on the SEAD missions if using HTS. If you use attack targets, and he has HARM’s he’ll probably shoot both at the same target.
And not to forget if you have a SEAD/DEAD four ship and you order your element to attack, you will soon afterwards hear 2 “Magnum”. But as long it is so highly effective to take out the FCRs, who cares
Thanks Stalker, but I’m only single non-MP… trying to make a living on BMS with my fellow AIs…
Basically what are the tips and techniques and strategy to survive (and hopefully win) a campaign with only AI as my wing men / flight.
As mentioned firstly I’m concentrating on air to air missions first in a campaign.
Tried a few times flying campaign but it’s not just the AI, but the opposition and environment is just overwhelming… all my training never prepared me for this.
This is a very hard way to try to win a campaign while flying A-A only. You may be just a little wheel in the big machinery, but if you hunt down the most dangerous SAMs, you make the fighting for all other AI flights much easier. In the beginning of a campaign, there are very much enemy aircraft, so it’s advisable to take out the runways of some of the most dangerous airfields.
But it’s surely interesting to fight down the enemy airforce just with A-A. This strategy could be the fastest way to reduce the number of aircraft (since they can only be destroyed it the air, not by bombing hangars) and then it will get more and more easy until you will face almost no opposition anymore.
You could try to concentrate on defensive counter air missions in the beginning. A sweep on day one against a fresh enemy (SAM and aircraft wise) over let’s say Wonsan or Pyongyang is absolutely deadly.
EDIT: Early versions of Falcon 4.0 would have been a dream for you. Flaws in the campaign engine tended to give you just Barcaps when the bug hit.
Known to cause seizures in 17% of listeners…
My wife says also known to cause insanity in parents
That’s a well orchestrated symphony compared to playing Tetris!
Good Day, Atze. With the utmost respect to your feelings and your opinion of the author (he’s a fighter pilot, and a Weasel, that’s how they’re made ) , I’d like to focus on HARM effectiveness in hard kills. Is there a place from them in SEAD-absolutely. But…
From: White Paper - Air Force Performance in Desert Storm, Department of the Air Force, April 1991. :“High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Its hard to assess the success of the HARM missile due to the Iraqi tactics used to counter it. The Iraqis understood that if a radar went on, a HARM was on its way. This deterrent kept them from using their operable radars and control centers. Throughout the war, surface-to air missile (SAM) sites would turn off their radars after launching missiles, leaving SAMs unguided as they flew toward their targets. Lethal SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) permitted us to operate from the mid to high altitude where aircraft were beyond anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) range.”
The first sentence is key for me. My experience in BMS gives me the impression that the hit ratio of HARMs in BMS against Sam vehicles is about 50%. That’s a subjective opinion and the opinions of the Group are most welcome. But, whatever the effectiveness of HARM, and not denying their value in SEAD,my main point is this-You shoot a HARM from 40 miles away and you don’t know what happens. You drop a bomb/Maverick/JSOW/whatever on it, you know what happens.
And, for me at least, it’s a lot more fun in BMS !
Oh, I really enjoyed the book and respect Two Dogs for beeing one of the highest decorated F-16 pilots. Sure, without beeing such a hot spur, he couldn’t have done this below 100 ft convoy strafing in the midst of a heavy sandstorm.
Battle damage assessment for the HARM is very difficult. It is not easy to find facts of hit ratio, could anyone help me with that? But it seems, the AGM-88 is far away from “just beeing useful to hit someones cell phone”, like Hampton suggests.
In BMS, I have a far higher hit ratio than 50%. The key is to lure the enemy SAM to lock up and fire at you. It also seems a bit like you must not point your aircraft against the SAM after launching the HARM because it increases the probability they will not shut down. But for sure, if they do the HARM will most probably miss. It is also good to take out the search radar first because they then have their FCR exclusively to track you.
See page 15 here: https://www.dsei.co.uk/__media/libraries/west-theatre/Lt-Col-Robert-Russell.pdf
One funny mishap: Tornados were not used in the GDR, that would have been MiG-29 :uham:
The eastern GDR ceased to exist in 1990, right would be FRG or just Germany.
Hampton is a good reading, although I like the more serious tone of Keith Rosenkranz in Vipers in the Storm much more.
Although I have a very dark kind of humor, this sentence let stick the laughter in my throat:
“If your country is attacked you stand up and fight. Except you are French. Then you surrender and eat cheese. Very good cheese, though.”
I’m also not sure about his conclusions about the HARM. It sounds that he didn’t like it because he didn’t see things getting blown up from so far away. He is more the “strafe the SAM” guy, a wild cowboy.
Although wacco deleted his posts, I had a thought about the lower maneuverability and speed in the Rafale he experienced:
Could it be the CAT I / III setting? That could explain it even if there was no code change. The key shortcut could solve this.