[this is part one of a ongoing series, which will hopefully continue, support and schedule willing.]
ok, here's the short version of the intro:
In this set of missions you will be flying on the Russian side, more or
less in the same campaign as the original USNF Ukraine 1997 missions.
So instead of flying for the U.S., you now fly for Russia, a member of
the CIS--that means Ukraine and its allies are the enemy. You will be
flying assorted Soviet-made aircraft in the Russian inventory, and
face assorted enemies who will be flying both Russian- and American-made
aircraft.
Requirements: Electronic Art's USNF
David C. Maschino's USNFPL or other "fly any plane" utility
*** important notes ***
1) In order to play the missions which allow you to fly the Russian aircraft
other than the Su-33, you will need to use a "fly any plane" utility for
USNF such as David C. Maschino's USNFPL, otherwise your game will crash
or not work. I haven't tried any other utilities other than USNFPL that
might exist to do this, so I can only recommend this one.
2) Note that you are playing the Red (Enemy) side, and your adversary is Blue (Friendly). Thanks to Bart Kamps for the inspiration to swap colors.
3) USNF does not include full fledged support for this kind of side-change,
so you'll have to bear with some quirks. Use the American Mk iron bombs if
you're required to carry iron bombs, use American fuel tanks if necessary,
etc. If you want to play "fair" or "authentic" you should stick to the
realistic weapons choices as much as possible, i.e. no AMRAAMS on Russian
aircraft, use AA-8's and AA-11's, not Sidewinders, etc., etc. But hey, it's
a free country and you can do as you please, this is just a suggestion for
the most enjoyment/challenge out of these missions.
4) These missions were tested on v1.0 of USNF, I assume they will work also
with v1.1, and any other future version. I had upgraded to v1.1 but decided
to reinstall back to v1.0 because the upgrade did nothing much for me but
lower my frame rate! Update: I have tested some, but not all of the missions after upgrading to U.S. Marine Fighters v1.2, and they seem to be working just fine. Let me know if you see anything wrong that I missed.
ok, here's the long version of the intro:
DATE : Feb 1997
SITUATION
Ever since the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold
War in 1989, economic conditions in the former Soviet republics have
steadily worsened as citizens who lived under socialism for decades
struggled to adjust to capitalism. In the early months of 1997,
democratic elections brought an overwhelming call for a return to
hard-line Communism, and Boris Yeltsin and his failed capitalist
regime were ousted from power. Yet the Ukraine, heavily influenced
by Western Europe, remains loyal to Yeltsin and refuses to recognize
the newly elected government of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Ukrainian rebels seek to violently overthrow the
democratically elected Communist Party and secede Ukraine from the CIS.
In the last few weeks several public buildings have been bombed by the
rebels, causing the deaths of many innocent civilians, and a
horrifying number of injuries.
The CIS Council of Ministers has vehemently condemned the
actions of the so-called "democratic liberation movement" as nothing
more than cowardly terrorism. The remaining states within the CIS
have all pledged their resources to combat the insurgent movement
within the Ukraine. Unfortunately the United States, misled by
incompetent leadership and carefully crafted propaganda from the
rebels, has found itself backing Ukraine.
The CIS has warned the U.S. that interference in this civil
rebellion would not be tolerated. The U.S. is trying to rally
together a coalition of UN forces as a "peacekeeping force", but so
far the U.S. has not been able to raise much support within the UN.
CIS leadership plans for ground and air forces to cross the
Ukrainian border and secure Ukraine. The plan is to eliminate
the rebel forces quickly and restore peace and order to the
Ukraine.
Matters have been complicated by the presence of an American
Carrier Group, consisting of the USS Eisenhower and several escort
ships. The group has entered the Black Sea despite the protests of
the CIS Council and it looks like they won't be leaving soon.
YOUR ROLE
You will be playing the role of one of the CIS's finest jet
fighter pilots, serving in Russian Frontal Aviation. You've
flown virtually every Soviet-made fighter still in the military's
inventory, and earned quite a reputation as a feared and skilled
aviator from your tour of duty in the Bosnian Escalated Conflict
back in '95. For the last year and a half you've been training new
Russian cadets in fighters such as the Su33, the MiG29, and the MiG21.
With the situation in the Black Sea quickly escalating into
a serious crisis, your superiors have brought your squadron to near
full-alert in the event hostilities break out. It is expected that
your squadron will be providing air support for Russian ground forces
when they move into Ukraine.
[You'll also be moving around a lot, flying whatever you have at hand.
The campaign in USNF more or less assumed you were the same pilot flying
all these missions (albeit unrealistically flying several different
aircraft while real pilots stick to one bird), and so will this set of
missions. You'll be one busy guy hopping all over the map to fly some
radically different aircraft, constantly following those pesky Americans
wherever they go. Think of it as a personal vow or mission to stop each
and every attack or action done by the USS Eisenhower.]
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Plato Mok is a graduate from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in Political
Science, and is currently enrolled in Law School at Santa Clara University, CA, where he will have virtually no life but studying. Well, maybe just a few flight sessions here and there :)
I'm not looking for any money for making these missions; if you're as
much a USNF nut as I am you can understand why I spend so much time
doing things like creating missions. I just hope you enjoy it and
send me feedback, criticisms, suggestions, praise, etc. If you have
any of that or really feel you have to recompensate me or something
send email to PMok@aol.com. Thanks and have fun! Serve the Rodina well!
