Ah, makes sense now, gotta test the slav/bore method and practice ambushing a bit more. The 9x doesn’t seem to care much about that stream of fireworks (flares) coming out of the enemy’s plane but it’s better to have “him” unaware of my whereabouts and hit him defenseless. They did that to me many times, it’s only fair to return the favor :D. Thx for answering my question.
Latest posts made by Sath
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RE: HMDS targeting
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HMDS targeting
Isn’t dogfight mode supposed to be “Radar off”? Radar is off when we engage it but as soon as we TMS up to bring up the targeting oval for the HMDS the radar activates, only then will it automatically lock up targets. I doubt the radar can look at targets so far off boresight but yet we get a lock over the shoulder. I thought the HMDS directly controls the seeker-head of the next 9x in line. I ask because locked targets are alerted targets which makes ambushing in dogfight mode harder than necessary. Switching the radar off manually and uncaging the 9x doesn’t lock up targets inside the targeting oval, so an active radar is required for HMDS lock-ons i guess.
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Kill stealing, lol
Ok, in Balkans i’ve found a flight of 2 Mig-21s, told my package to hold fire so i can destroy them (for practice and points) but my fellow warriors didn’t realize that i was the dude in charge, they kept firing and firing. All of them were like Fox 3 long, Fox 3 medium, Fox 3 close. I guess we wasted 6+ Missiles on 2 3rd gen fighters. I know they will defend themselves regardless of my commands in case of emergency but this situation was quite under control. Do i really have to burn ahead of my flight to get the first high-hit-probability-shot off?
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RE: What am i doing wrong?
OMG, in “Under Siege” the Yugoslavian Forces surrendered after 3 days (auto fragging).
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RE: Element target assignment
Ah ok, thx for the replies. I am actually thinking about joining an online squad, but i wanna be sure to reach a certain skill-level first to be of any use, lol.
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Element target assignment
Is it possible to give orders directly to 1-3 or 1-4? It’s often a wasted second Harm or other weapon when assigning a target to the element via E.
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RE: What am i doing wrong?
Umm, i wanted to fly F-16s not play General Schwarzkopf, lol
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Huge lake in Sarajevo?
Last time i checked in Google maps there was none. Is it the engine filling everything at sea level with water or something? Even that can’t be because Sarajevo lies at 500 meters above sea level average. Or is the entire map just “hand-made” unlike FSX. No offense intended, still glad to have a Balkans map after all.
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RE: I got spoiled by the GBU-39
I think it can be programmed to drop at a 90 deg angle after a shallow approach. Release distance will acommodate for that, pickle time is slightly later. But since you didn’t know there were obstacles there is no need to change the default settings anyway, lol. Yeah, reconnaissance is a mighty sword.
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What am i doing wrong?
I left the campaign (powder keg) in auto mode and just flew my missions. All good until the friendly troops stopped at Novi Sad to protect a bridge there, i mean all of them, others stopped far in the south-west.
Falcon squadrons have huge fragging gaps and keep getting sweep mission after sweep mission although the enemy air force is long defeated and ground forces down to 10% strength at best. Now i am trying to manage the ground forces myself and sent them to Belgrade to capture it but now they just sit there idling. I am already fragging my own squadron to get more interesting ground missions in order to reduce the enemy’s ground forces even further. I wonder if the enemy has 0 ground forces left is a winning condition or is conquering Belgrade or some other cities mandatory for victory? I know it’s either Belgrade or a few other cities i can’t remember. Some airfields are being ignored by friendly troops because they can’t capture them due to routing issues. I am lost at campaign day 16.