I used the HTS and TGP to find the SAM, transmitted the Markpoint to my Wingman and he bombed it.
I got the idea when I watched the 10 percent true podcast and Starbaby showed a tape destroying a munition depot in the Balkans with Mk82s from an altitude of over 20000ft
Noice. They did a lot of cool stuff with iron bombs backed by high-end computer systems, from the Norden âdrop a bomb in a pickle barrelâ bomb sights (yeah right!) to the A-6 mechanical bombing computer (âHit it with your fist, itâs in the manualâ) to F-teen fighters and their awesome CCRP/CCIP delivery modes. I guess not everything has to be a âprecisionâ guided weapon and cost $75K each after all.
(Itâd be kinda good if the folks in charge remembered this, since in the latest two sand-colored wars weâve been in we spent a lot of fancy, expensive munitions blowing up cheap pickup trucks and such.)
Went back to the fighting the 29 and while I did get a couple of what Iâll charitably call âmaneuver killsâ (which really were most likely the AI getting so bored of going in circles that it crashed itself into the ground), more often the fights ended up like this.
Iâm really glad that DCS allows more tweaking for AAA. I remember flying across the channel in one of the the low level missions in the Blue Nosed Bastards campaign, and taking a one shot one kill hit to the kisser just before going feet dry.
talking about campaigns. how do I know guys, if a particular campaign is âup to dateâ ? all of em are? or how are those campaigns updated in relation to DCS updates?
You have to do a little footwork. Find out where the campaign is discussed (usually the ED forum or the devâs Discord), go there, and read a bit to find out if there are show stoppers. To be fair, a lot of users either donât RTFM, or donât keep up with the aircraft subject material, and blame the campaign dev for things which are out of their control. Usually, there are work-arounds. Or, if you are enjoying the campaign and a bug is preventing you from progressing, you can just edit your logbook and move on to the next mission.
In the case of Reflected, Greg does a pretty good job of updating them, within the confines of DCS. In other words, if an update to the sim breaks a campaign, there is not much he can do. Which is the same for any campaign designer.
Take the Blue Nosed Bastards campaign. There has been a bug with the Mustang for years which makes the carburetor fresh air intake not function in the aircraft. There are two simple work-arounds, one a quick LUA edit, or the other is to map an axis. You wonât see the control move in the cockpit if you do the latter, but it works. Itâs the difference in about 25% more power above critical altitude, and determines whether you live or die when doing bomber escorts. If you donât know about it, you might blame Reflected that the missions are too hard and that he favors the Luftwaffe. Which is not the case at all. With that control fixed, the Mustang is a completely different animal and it makes the campaign enjoyable. And itâs a fantastic campaign that shouldnât be missed if you are into WW2 flying.
thx. didnt really expect Reflectedâs campaigns to be less than good in regards to updates as they are still active.
on the other hand was surprised that Apache600âs campaign was on the latest changelog. quite old campaign still kept up to date.
but next to Reflectedâs Blue Nosed Bastards, in eshop, is B&Wâs Charnwood campaign and this one, together with their Spit campaign, is not even listed on ED forums. that is strange imo.
I just took this module up for a spin last night. First time doing cold start, then had a blast navigating with all the different radio, TACAN, and GPS tools on this aircraft. Very nice flight model, feels good but am no real pilot myself. Takes a while to climb though due to one small engine and I didnât even have anything hanging off the pylons. Nicely done module for early access.
One thing I forgot to mention about the MB-339 module. They have weathering effects modeled with this aircraft. By that I mean in this mission I had made, I had set up temperatures in the colder realm early morning after having looked up what average temperatures are in Cyprus this time of year in early morning. If you donât have the air conditioning set properly, you start getting frost on your canopy which is pretty cool. If you also look closely at the pics I have above, you can see the frost developing on the nose and the wings and fuel pylons from the cold up high. I couldnât believe what I was seeing thereâŠpretty cool IMHO.