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Mission 7 failure conditions too harsh?


cuervo111

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Hi,

I've flown the mission a couple of times. Both times the results were similar. The escort and sweep flights did their work and the air was clean. However Dodge came in before SEAD flights had clean all of the SAMs and some of the strike fighters were lost so the missions were failed.

 

I think this is not really fair because the mission was failed for reasons out my control. The escort flights responsibility was to clear the skies and that was successfully achieved on time.

 

Is it maybe an issue with timing? Maybe the strike packages should come a bit later so that the SEAD can have enough time to do their part?

 

Awesome campaign so far anyway!

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  • 2 months later...
Did you have a chance to actually succeed with this one? My Mudhen flights get eaten by the SA-15 and the SA-10 every single time.

 

I didn't try again sorry.

 

The only tip I have is being very precise with the timings.

 

TBH I just skipped the mission after trying several times

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For anyone who stumbled upon this (that your Strike Eagles fight just keep getting knocked down by the SAM). PUSH EARLY.

 

The wording on the manual can be a little off about pushing away from marshalling point, you don't have to push while keeping an eye on the Strike Eagle flights. Just know roughly where they are and just push ahead when the times come. The key here is you clearing all of the threats ahead of all strike packages (even for the Hornet and Falcon flights and let them focus on knocking down the SA-15/SA-10).

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Good to know, mission 7 is my next mission, so the Sweep/Escort is more a Sweep than a Escort then ...

 

It's funny looking the TACView after the missions, how some missiond succeed by luck because a teammate saved your ass uppon a mistake, and you didn't realize during the mission.

 

Edit: Here is starting to become hot, I got killed twice, I think because of over-confidence, AI level seems better on this mision, so I'll have to be more cautious.

Tomorrow I'll try again, I like this mission.


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The "sweep ahead/push early" strategy makes sense to me for dealing with the air threats, but how does this help with the SAMs? Are you trying to draw fire away from the strike package?

 

Just mentioning here that my strike eagles get eaten by SAMs before or right after they get their ordnance off (and hornets too). There are Mig-31s lurking behind the SAMs that start trying to attack once they get close, but it's the SAMs that actually kill them. I'm not sure if I should be zooming through the SAM WEZ to get to the Mig-31s -- is that the way this mission is supposed to work?

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Even pushing early, I fail this repeatedly. Kill all A2A threats, no planes shoot down F-15E's. One strike eagle flies into the ground, the other two drop bombs WAY off target, mission fails. Impossible for the player to make this work because it's your friendly AI that cause the failure. Is there a way to fix this mission?

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Is there a way to fix this mission?

You mean fixing that yourself? Because it looks like abandonware. You can probably add more Strike Eagles or change their weapons. You can't save the changes in ME so fly it after the changes.

Or you can consider it beaten and move on to the next one. If you want to stay at campaign mode, though, you have to edit logbook file or replace mission 07 file with another one that you are able to complete.

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