Electronic Art's U.S. Navy Fighters (v1.0 / v1.1 / v1.2)
Hi! These missions (w/ mission briefings) are made for use with a "Fly any
Plane" utility for USNF such as David C. Maschino's excellent USNFPL
(available for v1.0 or v1.1), and won't work without them.
In this collection you'll fly...
CISFAF: A Shattered Peace, Part One - a 7 mission tour of duty.
the original story has been rewritten a bit and definitely fattened up so I apologize for the excess verbiage (call it enthusiasm for the subject).
in addition I include two bonus missions that originally came with missions 1 and 2 of the first CIS preview:
an A-10 for the U.S. Army in Ukraine!*
an A-6 for the U.S. Navy in Vietnam!
* OpticsDude pointed out to me that it is the USAF and not the Army that typically fly the A-10, so yes, I screwed that up. But hey, just go with the "suspension of disbelief" thing and humor me, ok? :) The A-10 mission became infamous on AOL because it was the only widely distributed v1.0/1.1 mission that was able to pit the ground forces in battle against each other, making a spectacular show. (Version 1.2 of USNF/MF now fixes the bug that made tanks below 150 ft ASL refuse to fight.)
Many thanks to David Maschino a.k.a. "Raider of the Lost Aircraft" for making
it possible for anyone to fly the many aircraft of USNF. Also thanks to the
guys at the USNF message area of the PC Games/Flight Sims message board on
America Online for technical help, suggestions, and inspiration!
Unzip all the files into your USNF directory, and the missions will be made
available to you in the Play Single Mission menu, complete with briefings,
maps, and plane arming screens. Note that the plane selection screen has
been disabled so that you fly only the plane the mission calls for.
The missions can be found under the names:
U.S. Army Fighters - CAS in an A-10
U.S. Vietnam Fighters - A6 Dual Strike
The CIS missions will all start with the title:
CIS xx
where xx is the mission number; easy, huh?
Suggestions for play:
- Many of us at the AOL USNF area have found it more accurate and comfortable
to fly at the -33% cockpit view magnification (hit "-" twice while in the
cockpit). Bless the guys at EA, who have finally made it remember this setting,
because you used to have to do it each time you start flying.
- For maximum realism/play value I recommend you stick to the weapons that are
recommended in each mission, even if better/more advanced weapons are made
available in the arming screen. Like using AMRAAMs on a MiG-31, now that's
not too realistic. I know Russian weapons aren't that reliable, but hey,
that's part of life being on the Russian side, make do!
- if you have difficulty finishing a mission properly there's a hint on the
mission failure screen on how to succeed, so take note of it and try again...
- for the CIS missions, make sure you have read the CIS.TXT file so that you
understand what's going on.
thanks for checking these missions out! let me know what you think of them,
and I'll know better what to work on in the future...
