To: hitech-sim (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Reply-To: hitech-sim (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@onion.rain.com Precedence: bulk Bcc: hitech-sim-out Subject: Hitech Simulation Digest V1 : I35 Hitech Simulation Digest Volume 1 : Issue 35 Wed Aug 25 21:58:22 PDT 1993 Compilation copyright (C) 1993 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "hitech-sim@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: Tornado ADV strategies... Andrew.Stevens@prg.oxford.ac.uk Tornado news from \\illiam of SH, o jjsterre@acs.ucalgary.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew.Stevens@prg.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Tornado ADV strategies... After some particularly harrowing interceptor missions in my last campaign I was wondering what strategies people had come up with for interception... The only method I have had noticeable success with is ``boom and dive'' i.e. sneek up, accelerate, zoom to altitude, light up the radar, pickle off a few missiles and then run away toward the deck (preferably taking advantage of convenient terrain). This works quite well, but somehow I'm left feeling that those 4 side-winders might be there for more than decoration. Has anyone out there worked up some more aggresive strategies? I've found dodging missiles with a forward aspect *much* harder than those coming from behind... Andrew ------------------------------- From: jjsterre@acs.ucalgary.ca Subject: Tornado news from \\illiam of SH, on AOL (\\illiam is Spectrum Holobyte's support person on America On-Line; this is from a conference on 8/24/93.) DI is expected to send SH a Tornado patch this week; there are apparently a few last problems caused by the patch that are being ironed out. I recall hearing that the SH and DI versions of Tornado are slightly different; thus I presume that there will be a short delay beyond that before those of us in North America get it. There will probably never be an Allied mode for Tornado. William explained that DI does not seem to have considered modem play when writing the program; the H2H portion of the code was added at the last minute on the insistence of Spectrum Holobyte. William said it would require a major rewrite of the Tornado code (not just comms code) to allow for Allied missions; from this I deduce that it ain't gonna happen. 8( Not much we can do about it - except hope that maybe DI will decide to do the work.... James "Overload" Sterrett jjsterre@acs.ucalgary.ca ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 35 ]]