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Posts posted by wombat1417
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There's no need to strike the Red airfields. Besides their being so far away, you have enough in the way of fighter assets at Keflavik to keep a strong CAP up, and your AWACS should give you plenty of warning about approachng bombers.
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It's "normal" in the sense that it does, as you mentioned, happen from time to time. Is there any good reason for an empty tanker to remain with a group, none that I can think of. Even if the way home is through perilous airspace, it would make more sense to detail a couple of fighters as an escort than to have it tag along.
The problem I see most often is when after a refueling is done and you approve the split, your RTB options do not include the carrier you launched from, but airfields hundreds of miles away.
Tanker ops have always seemed to be on the hinky side, so much so that I try to avoid using them at all.
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File Name: Sixth Battle
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 20 Mar 2011
File Category: IOPG
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Les
Battleset-IOPG: .sc8 - HDS1 - HDS8
From 1993. A work around: The USN tries to save South Africa from a Soviet-backed invasion by its neighbors.
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1,000,000,000,000 to 1 against !!!
Still, as Jim Carrey said to Lauren Holly's turn-down in "Dumb and Dumber",
"but there's STILL a chance!"
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Meanwhile, on the suck/rock front-----
give the "Reflex Crown"scenario I posted on Sunday a try.
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File Name: Reflex Crown
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 13 Mar 2011
File Category: GIUK
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Cobalt Shiva
Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1
From 1993. An exercise in symmetry: you and the enemy have equal forces. Play Blue or Red - you make the difference.
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File Name: Save the Queen
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 6 Mar 2011
File Category: NACV
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-NACV: .sc6 - HDS1 - HDS6
From 1994. Protect the Dutch Royal Family as they head for Canada.
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File Name: Accident!
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 27 Feb 2011
File Category: MEDC
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-MEDC: .sc7 - HDS1 - HDS7
From 1992. The Sea Sparrow incident escalates.
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Subhunting has always been my bane, and watching torpedoes vanish from the screen after finally locating a target can result in impulsive, unspeakable acts against an innocent computer.
1000 yards doesn't seem to be so much of a fudge as to tip the balance critically. I'd got for it and hope for more "booms" in the end. (Of course, when one of MY subs gets nailed....)
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File Name: Southern Watch
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 20 Feb 2011
File Category: IOPG
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-IOPG: .sc8 - HDS1 - HDS8
From 1993. The January 1993 enforcement of the no-fly zones in Iraq.
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When do the Matador/Harriers arrive?
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Guess I'll have to strengthen that patrol line, then.
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I'm working on upgrading on old scenario. A Red search aircraft has detected a Blue surface group, and visa versa. There are Red submarines in the area of the contact, but watching with the Cheat Key, it seems that they don't seem to make any kind of move to intercept but keep following thier pre-programed courses.
Is this the proper behavior according to the programming, or is there something wrong with this scenario?
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File Name: Royal Canadian Rant
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 13 Feb 2011
File Category: NACV
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-NACV: .sc6 - HDS1 - HDS6
From 1993. Three small scenarios from a guy with a 'tude.
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Post-it it is, then.
Thanks.
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I can't seem to find the video on line. Can someone provide a link?
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Tony;
I went to use the Issue Tracker this morning and saw all sorts of other issues. I can't remember when I got an update: I guess I blightly assumed all was well on the bug front until I encountered one.
Anyhow, I figured figured my subscription had been cancelled somehow, but when I tried to re-up, it said my subscription was still active.
Can you look into it?
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File Name: Third Balkan War, Part II
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 6 Feb 2011
File Category: MEDC
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Jake Grafton
Battleset-MEDC: .sc7 - HDS1 - HDS7
From 1992. Airpower:a Balkan alliance against Turkey.
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Well, Gol-ola-lee, Sergeant Carter.
Thanks, Brad. I reclassified it.
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File Name: The Price Of Tomatoes
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 30 Jan 2011
File Updated: 1 Feb 2011
File Category: GIUK
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1
From 1993. Prevent an invasion of Iceland while avoiding being blown to bits by CIS airpower.
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File Name: Midway '92
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 23 Jan 2011
File Category: GIUK
DB Used: N/a
Authors: Charles Tomaszewski
Battleset-GIUK: .sc1 - Orig - Original
From 1992. A 50th Anniversary tribute in the Far North.
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An article in the Washington Post implies that he sent the message on his own initative.
I remember all the way back to Walter Lord's DAY OF INFAMY (required reading for freshman history in 1967!) that Admiral Pat Bellinger (d. 1962) wrote up the message and had it sent. There was even some question over the wording - was it "NO DRILL" or "NOT DRILL"?
By the way, Billings MT, is the home town of David Thatcher, the "Ruptured Duck" gunner from "30 Seconds Over Tokyo".
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Before they got the 3 ILLUSTRIOUS, I remember reading that the Royal Navy had been reduced to an ASW force in the North Atlantic. I guess it's deja vu all over again.
By the way, what happens to the former Harrier pilots?
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File Name: Rev 6 8
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 16 Jan 2011
File Category: MEDC
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Shawn Abagail
Battleset-MEDC: .sc3 - Orig - Original
From 1992. The USSR vs. Israel.
The Century Series
in Military History
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Back in the very early 60's, Monogram had a box-scale Thunderchief that featured the internal bomb bay from which you could drop a model nuclear device. It also had a working ejector seat, which eventually vanished after a few uses.
Super Sabres look best in Thunderbird markings!