To: falcon3 (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: falcon3 (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@onion.rain.com Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V3 : I45 Falcon3 Digest Volume 3 : Issue 45 Mon Jun 14 20:10:27 PDT 1993 Compilation copyright (C) 1993 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@onion.rain.com" Archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: there I was ... garton@jeeves.UCSD.EDU (Simon Garto What is the way to attack an armour Jason_Burrell@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Ja How to make WINGMEN avoid SA-7? Korhonen Tommi CAS Mission at Front - Help needed "Pete Williams" Wingman messages and stuff am18572@equity2.sbi.com (User - Ale ------------------------------------------------------------ From: garton@jeeves.UCSD.EDU (Simon Garton) Subject: there I was ... a friend wanted to see what the f3 graphics were like, so I jumped into Instant Action and flew around a bit, ending up high over the Tu 22's. Dived past them about 600 knots, having hit all 3 and watched them dump their bomb loads .... somehow someone got a missile on me, and I ejected at the bare minimum ht for a successful ejection. Floating down a couple of hundred feet off the ground, I'm showing my friend how to rotate the view when all these green objects streak past me .... and then boom, concussion waves, debris all over the place and game over ....somehow I must have beaten the jettisoned bombs to the ground but in the same place they were heading..... never been killed like that before .... Simon ------------------------------- From: Jason_Burrell@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Jason Burrell) Subject: What is the way to attack an armour column>? In the FalcCalc v.2.51 documentation, it says that you can change the flight route of the B52's, and that you can direct armor columns to attack. I'd love to direct them to break through and harass the rear areas! So how do you do it? I just sent off my registration to 74650.746@compuserve.com but neglected to ask this I'm running a campaign in Israel and at Dakweh NDB there are over 40 units. (Yes I went over and counted them all ) Problem is that Dakweh is adjacent to 3 or 4 of my targets who have 3 to 9 units.. Instant death. So I figure if I can knock out Dakweh, we can maybe take it and break through...... Any ideas? (And Yes I know this won't get in till Tuesday - -- Jason_Burrell@fcircus.sat.tx.us Device Driver Stacker.sys not found. Hit (P) to panic! -- Any information provided in any note written by this user ID is under the standard disclaimer. The author is not responsible for negligent use of ANY information given in said note. ------------------------------- From: Korhonen Tommi Subject: How to make WINGMEN avoid SA-7? I have read the thread about avoiding sams and especially SA-7. But how to keep the wingmen from running into them? I had a ground support mission, where I set one major strike flight, one two plane CAP and then one pair of wild weasels. I falccalculated everything exactly: Cap arrived a few seconds before the SEAD-team, and in less than 20 seconds the main strike force was pounding enemy tanks. Everything went fine, cap took out 4 Mig-23s and sead blasted the two shilkas found. And then the air was filled with mavericks. But when the sa-7 seven squads situationed on the small hills openen fire I lost two planes. And the sead team hadn't (and couldn't) suppress those. Is there any way to avoid these? Or are they the unavoidable casualties of war? I think that if I had arrived with the main force just seconds after the sead, and then used CBUs to kill the armed ground forces, we might had have change to kill the tanks without a problem. but it turned out to be not so... Suggestions? T.Korhonen *** If ever any beauty did I see, *** k138836@cc.tut.fi ** which I desired an got ** Physics & Something *** 'twas but a _dream_ of thee *** ------------------------------- From: "Pete Williams" Subject: CAS Mission at Front - Help needed I've recently started spinning off flights wherever possible to help things at the front (thanks to FALCCALC). But I'm only 1 for 3 in my attempts to find the enemy positions. They don't show in recon, and in 2 of the 3 missions I couldn't find any during the flight either. The one time I found the enemy I was successful in reducing their numbers, and ended up taking the position, but lost one of the others despite 4 successful missions. The day went like this: day 4 0600 - Intercept the 2 TU22's .... Give this one to 2 computer flights, I take off with 2 flights to help out at Kimpo, where FALCCALC says the allies are outnumbered. I made a mistake and assigned 2 of the 4 planes to a separate computer flight - when we got there the enemy was about 10 miles north of the waypoint, and the computer flight gave up and went home. The enemy 'appeared' after we overflew them (pretty much as Bill says in the docs), and we turned around and engaged. My wingman and I got a pretty good bag and we ended up taking Kimpo at the end of the day. 1200 - Defensive screen. Since I was bound to lose this anyway (I never successfully complete these..), I again sent out 2 computer flights to do the screen, and I set out with 4 planes (in just one flight this time) to help out at Hoengsong. But I never saw any enemy. Spent 10 minutes flying around at 500 feet trying to wake them up, but not a dogone thing. Ended up going north and taking out the radar installation 20 mi. N. FALCCALC reported the enemy strength undiminished at the end of the mission, and to throw salt on the wound, my two computer flights SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE DEFENSIVE SCREEN!!. Maybe next time I'll just sit on the runway.. 1800 - Escort B52's.... F3 is throwing in 2 F15's for free, so I once again take off for the 3rd of 3 listed hotpoints, Samcheog. Nope, no joy on the NK's. End up working over the airbase to the N. 2300 - Another intercept. I don't feel up to trying to ID hostiles/friendlies at night, so we just do the main mission (anybody out there try to run S&D or CAS at night?). All 4 missions were successful, but although we pick up two positions (Kimpo is one), we lose Samcheog. Anybody have any better luck doing this? Regards; Pete Williams ------------------------------- From: Richard.Marejka@Canada.Sun.COM (Richard Marejka - OpCom Staff) Subject: Falcon3 hanging Does anyone else find this... Sometimes I run Falcon3 in IA mode with auto-pilot, just as background while I work at my desk. On occasion (about 1 in 5 times) the system grinds to a halt where even (Ctrl+Alt+Del) will not reset. The display is frozen with no way to recover (the display will be a frozen cockpit frame). If I run in non-IA the probabilty of failure is considerably less, perhaps because I don't survive as long as the auto-pilot :-/ The facts: DOS 6.0 (although this happened under 5.o as well) 386 @ 33 Mhz 387 32 Mb RAM 2-105 Mb SCSI drives 1 Mb video ATI Wonder card Soundblaster MS Mouse EMM386 w/ 2Mb of EMS emulated memory Observations: It seems to be related to EMS usage. On a different note, if I run Turbo C/C++ for DOS (v3.0) which uses DPMI after F3, it (Turbo C/C++) hangs. ------------------------------- From: Kris Ong Subject: top100 list I was wondering why Falcon had Spectrum Holob./Micropros [1005] as publisher. Why microprose?? - -- krismon@quack.kfu.com An eye for an eye will make the kris.ong@rose.com whole world blind. Prodigy: GRTV13B -MLK Jr. ------------------------------- From: am18572@equity2.sbi.com (User - Alexander Mirante) Subject: Wingman messages and stuff Hi, Can anyone tell me what "Alpha Mike Foxtrot" and "Watch the Canopy when you punch out Jack" mean. I can't seem to find these in the manual. [ Watch the canopy is a quote from Top Gun I think... The other is slang for AMF, or Adios Mother F*cker. -Jeff ] Also, does the difficulty setting in OFT have any affect on the types of missions that are given out. I am playing at Easy level (I know, I know) and I get boring Defensive screen missions practically every other mission. Is there a connection? Thanks for any info. Alex ---- ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 3 : Issue 45 ]]