To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) From: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Sender: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@falcon3.k9.com Return-Path: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V8 : I53 Falcon3 Digest Volume 8 : Issue 53 Thu Nov 30 21:34:49 PST 1995 Compilation copyright (C) 1995 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@falcon3.k9.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@falcon3.k9.com" Archives are available via ftp from cactus.org Today's Topics: Bugs in the Kuriles in 3.05 Michael Strauss Re: superior use of radar knutson@perelandra.austin.ibm.com ( falcon utility .... FalcCalc on ver "david (d.) berry" Re: falcon utility .... FalcCalc on James G Schuldes Re: ECM and H2H combat michael.barnes@mincom.com (Michael Books Dan Dimitrescu ~cls XI~ Subject: Bugs in the Kuriles in 3.05 I recently started a mission in the Kuriles after waiting forever to get OFT. Well after getting to the third day, wierd things started happening. During an intercept mission, the sim started me off of the runway 1500 ft up and at 400 knots with my gear down leading to damage on my NWS. It has been doing that for every mission since and it even shows on my waypoint planning that the first waypoint is at 1500ft and i cant change it. Second, the land starts to jump and get that warping effect as though i was playing H2H. It does so so much that i cant dogfight now because the land and planes are all jumping around. Because of this i started back to good old Panama with no problems. Any suggestions? Thanks Michael Strauss misst6@pitt.edu ------------------------------- From: knutson@perelandra.austin.ibm.com (Jim Knutson) Subject: Re: superior use of radar Dan Dimitrescu ~cls XI~ writes: > I have encountered some problems while playing Falcon H2H. This has nothing to do with being h2h. > My opponent was using the ECM during the dogfight and I couldn't > get a radar lock on him. As it should be. > I was able to get a seeker lock but that's > very hard. It's not hard at all, just turn the radar off. > Also, H2H Falcon always starts with both players heading > one to the other at 20 NM. This made my superior knowledge of radar > usage somehow useless. Anybody got a useful idea ? o Read more about radar. o Read more about ECM. o Read more about missile lock. o Forget missles and go for the guns kill. It's the manly weapon. o Setup rules for h2h engagements. Here are some examples. o No firing anything until after the merge (i.e. wingtips pass) o No missiles until N minutes into the fight If you don't like a knife fight, agree to turn away from each other and fly for N minutes after start, then call fights on. You must now find each other and try to kill the other person. Jim blatant ad - http://www.cactus.org/~knutson/UGF3.html ------------------------------- From: "david (d.) berry" Subject: falcon utility .... FalcCalc on version 3.0E ??? Hello, I posted this question a couple weeks ago,,,, thought I'd try again. Im still looking for a version of FalcCalc prior to flclc251. The reason that I think there may be one, is that the DOC has a section called .... "NEW FOR THIS RELEASE"...... Im using Falcon3 3.0e, flclc251 requires at least 3.01 OFT. I've not had Falcon long and dont wish to upgrade solely for the utility :( Thanks for any help.. David Berry. Email dberry@bnr.ca ------------------------------- From: James G Schuldes Subject: Re: falcon utility .... FalcCalc on version 3.0E ??? On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, david (d.) berry wrote: > ... Im using Falcon3 3.0e, flclc251 requires at > least 3.01 OFT. I've not had Falcon long and dont wish to upgrade solely > for the utility :( You can upgrade to the latest version 3.5 (?) without charge and really should for several good features and fixes -- better, more realistic flight modeling. The OFT was a pay-for product but there are various places to download the Falcon 3.x patches which were not "pay-for" (besides your connect time.) The ModemGames forum on CIS and possibly the Falcon directory on cactus.org (ftp site) would be good places to look. sNaK! out. Jim Schuldes ------------------------------- From: michael.barnes@mincom.com (Michael Barnes) Subject: Re: ECM and H2H combat Dan Dimitrescu asked: >My opponent was using the ECM during the dogfight and I couldn't >get a radar lock on him. I was able to get a seeker lock but that's >very hard. Dan, At the 62nd Fighting Falcons, we have a set of rules of engagement that are generally applied during dogfights. At the start of each fight, both contestants type CTRL+K to dump all missiles except 9P's. They then fly straight and level, deviating just enough to avoid collision, until they pass. Once they pass, 'Fights On!' is called. Usually, one pilot or the other gets their nose round faster than the other and scores a head-on gun kill. After a few goes of this, we usually go back to flying campaign missions ;-) >Also, H2H Falcon always starts with both players heading >at one to the other at 20 NM. This made my superior knowledge of radar >usage somehow useless. Anybody got a useful idea ? The problem is that H2H doesn't offer you any scope for manouver. When two aircraft meet, and both are aware of the others existance from before visual range, then you can guarantee that a head-on pass will occur, and that (barring missiles) the best, or luckiest marksman will win. The best solution I could suggest is to instead fly 2-player F16 vs MiG campaigns. If you are mainly interested in ACM, set the campaign to "Easy" and turn off SAMs. To minimise interference from computer controlled wingmen, set them to 'Novice'. Sadly, Falcon doesn't model terrain radar masking, which makes it very hard to sneak up on anyone with more than half a brain. However, some use can be made of the modelling of max. and min. altitude ranges of the radar ;-) I don't know what Tornado's H2H might be like in this regard, as it does model terrain masking in the stand-alone mode. FALCON 4: On another matter entirely, does anyone else here suspect that SH's agreement with TEN regarding Falcon 4 as an on-line service may mean that Falcon 4 will have either no, or crippled stand-alone LAN support? Since neither Su-27, EF2000 or Back to Baghdad are currently offering LAN support that can compare to Falcon 3's (and I'm not talking about reliability here, of course :-)), that's going to leave us with Falcon 3 for our netwoking kicks for many years to come! Regards Michael Barnes [62nd Fighting Falcons, Brisbane, Australia] --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barnes Internet: michael.barnes@mincom.com Mincom Pty Ltd Ph. +61 7 303-3148 Fax +61 7 303-3232 ------------------------------- From: Dan Dimitrescu ~cls XI~ Subject: Books Which is the best book available covering fighter combat tactics? I don't want a Falcon 3.0 only book but a general one. [ Robert Shaw's is probably one of the best, but beware, it can put most anyone to sleep. :-) --Jeff] Dan ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 8 : Issue 53 ]]