Have you flown BOTH stock CFS2 Campaigns?

What stock CFS2 campaigns have you flown?

  • I have flown only the stock CFS2 USN campaign

    Votes: 20 24.7%

  • I have flown only the stock CFS2 IJN campaign

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • I have flown both stock CFS2 campaigns

    Votes: 45 55.6%

  • I have not flown either of the stock CFS2 campaigns

    Votes: 14 17.3%
  • Total voters
    81
I flew the USN side years ago and when new ships and planes came out I replaced the stock ships and planes with them. To bad I lost it in HD crash years ago but I may do it again.


Talon
 
After reading this thread I decided to fly the USN Campaign again. It's been years since I've flown it. I also found the changes I made to the ships and planes I thought I lost. Now I have updated it again with some of the newer ships and planes and it's even more fun.


Talon
 
Ok, just for you Dirtman. Flown USN many times and have reincarnated several times. Never the IJN. Don't care much for the Zero. I actually think the f4f was, all in all, the better fighter and I prefer to fly it. Although statistics can be made to say almost anything they bear me out. And this was in the earlier stages of the war when we didn't have air superiority. :guinness:
 
After a few trys, I did manage to complete the U.S. side (finally) , still working on the IJN.
Gives you an idea of what it would take to be a fighter pilot.
I would have had a short career !

OTTO :wavey:
 
OTTO said:
After a few trys, I did manage to complete the U.S. side (finally) , still working on the IJN.
Gives you an idea of what it would take to be a fighter pilot.
I would have had a short career !

OTTO :wavey:
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Naw OTTO, you would have had more training and a lot of stick time before seeing any enemy aircraft. It would have given you and even chance!
 
Better late than never?

Per the question-poll I have played both many times.

But the reason I respond is that something "happened" over Christmas break and I would like to share it. USC (not southern Cal) shuts down from Christmas to new years (the kiddies are gone). This time off was a thrill for me. Simonu had asked that I help with the Ju-52 panel. To have such a project before me, and in such "tall" company - well I don’t know what I did to be so lucky.

Somewhere in those two weeks, after so many hours a day, I just needed to take a break and fly. Now what I like is dog-fighting. So I fired up my own lone uploaded mission ("SlotMachine" - self indulgent?). But then, as these things go, there was another idea - something I had never done. Wouldn’t it be a blast - just this once, to cheat a bit and fly a Spitfire? I selected a Rebuffet Spit and hit "fly now!".

Early in the mission I was on the tail of a Zero and closing. I was cocky. After all, I was in a Spit and why shouldn’t I be? Just as I was getting near range the Zero pulled up and over. I could not match this move. We all complain about the AI - but this time was it real? I have read, from many accounts, that Zeros actually did this. So light (no armor), it was a tactical evasive maneuver which usually worked - "hanging it on the prop".

A bit later in this same mission I was again closing on a Zero for the kill. This time, as it was pulling upward too, I gave it a sizable lead. The Zero started to pull up and over but my timing, for once, was perfect. Just as it moved through my sights I fired a quick burst and there was a huge fireball and of course I pushed the stick forward to miss the debree. A chill that ran up my spine. It seemed too real, it felt real - and I had just killed another lover of wings?

I guess that’s what it is for me. That one moment in the game when maybe I know what they did -that one moment when it hits me so hard how much I miss the days when I did fly - and I wonder did I ever fly with them?


AC
 
Great post, I think this is why I like CFS2 so much every once in a while I find something new. Not bad for a sim that has been around the block a few times.

T.
 
Ali Cat said:
A bit later in this same mission I was again closing on a Zero for the kill. This time, as it was pulling upward too, I gave it a sizable lead. The Zero started to pull up and over but my timing, for once, was perfect. Just as it moved through my sights I fired a quick burst and there was a huge fireball and of course I pushed the stick forward to miss the debree. A chill that ran up my spine. It seemed too real, it felt real - and I had just killed another lover of wings?
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Ahh... the memories, used to love doing that in probably my favourite campaign, DoA. (with KM P40 substituted)

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I'll have to get CFS2 up'n'runnin' again and relive those days.

Jamie
 
Ali Cat said:
Early in the mission I was on the tail of a Zero and closing. I was cocky. After all, I was in a Spit and why shouldn’t I be? Just as I was getting near range the Zero pulled up and over. I could not match this move. We all complain about the AI - but this time was it real? I have read, from many accounts, that Zeros actually did this. So light (no armor), it was a tactical evasive maneuver which usually worked - "hanging it on the prop".
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I've flown both, but not in the stock Zero, which I consider a cheat plane. I generally use Bruce Thorson's airfile (works well as AI; takes off and lands!) or the 1% airfile, so maybe that isn't a "stock" campaign. Bruce Thorson's Zeke will do this same evasive manuever as its bread and butter.

Ali Cat,

You're in Columbia? My mother's side of the family is from Columbia and Cayce, but I haven't been to SC for years.

JAMES
 
JDTinballs: And I’m sure they’re great memories indeed. Glad to see you getting back into CFS2. With all the recent mod’s I’m sure you have great ones yet to come.

Eoraptor1: Yep – pretty much a local through and through. My line runs back in SC to well before the Revolutionary War. Worked in Texas for 6 years right out of college but then got a job offer in of all places Columbia. Thanks for the tips on the airfiles – I’ll give them a try.


AC
 
I have flown for both sides and thats one of things that I love about this Sim. You can fly for almost any Airforce that flew in WW2 and in the right location in the World.
 
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