Nuts is nuts! I searched and found very sketchy info on this mission, so here is the goods. I wasted about 10hrs beating this mission and discovered the secrets doing it, none of which is listed anywhere. You start with 3 wingmen. Take care of them as they are all the help you are going to get. You are confronted with 3 incoming 109s head on and are instructed to engage. Tell your wingmen to get the target. Don't engage them head on but turn in behind them and get on their tail. 2 will say together and 1 will turn off by himself. Go after the 2. They will chase one of your wingmen and can both be downed quickly if you are up to snuff in sim. Then go get the other guy. You have to shoot these 3 down or they will follow your flight and pick off your wingmen. Do it as quickly as you can! They will destroy or damage your wingmen in short order and you will lose them for the duration of the fight. If you lose your wingmen, you may want to restart.
Next you will hear your men on the ground could use your help and you make a choice. It is optional. If yes, as I did, there are three targets on the ground. A bitch to locate if you don't know what to hit. The game gives no clue. One is a gun battery. Located by the town in a typical round encampment. NOT with the antiaircraft unit!!! The other two are trucks. There are two battlefiilds with a lot of tanks on either side of the town. Each battlefield has one gasoline truck. One is in the middle of the tanks, and the other is on the edge of the tanks on a little hill. They blow up nicely with gunfire! Fly low and slow and they are not too hard to find as they are the only trucks there. Ignore all other targets.
Next proceed to meet the transports. This part makes no sense so just do what you need to do. You are told to escort the transports. Stay in the center of the formation at the same speed. Don't pass them. The transports do a funny "dance", change direction twice. It is a glitch but tells you the FWs have arrived. 2 come at the formation head on. Keep your wingmen with you or they WILL be gone! Let the FWs circle into the formation and they will get in behind the leading transports. Then come get them from behind. At this point confusion reigns. The transports will break in all directions. From this point on, timing is the key to winning. Watch your map! Battle with the FWs for a few minutes until the 3 drop points show up on your map and you are told to clear the drop zones. Tell your wingmen to cover you if they are still alive. They will be shot down, damaged, or be too far away when you need them if you tell them to attack the FWs. Head for the drop points immediately! Don't worry about the transports. You cannot protect them as the FWs just keep coming and ALL the transports are heading AWAY from the drop zones in small, separated groups.
The transports are all going to get destroyed. Your goal is getting to the 3 drop points and clearing them BEFORE the transports are destroyed. Period! About 10 or 12 minutes is all you have after the drop points show up on your map, so don't dilly dally. Also, do not leave the transports and fly to where the drop points are before they show up on your map, or they won't show up at all and you will lose! As you approach the 3 yellow dots, drop zone 1 is the center dot, drop zone 2 is the dot on the right, and drop zone 3 is the dot on the left. Get there as quick as you can starting with 1, then 2, then the third one. When you arrive, you will be told to clear the landing zone. The targets are once again gas trucks! Tell your men to attack, if you have any left. Watch where you are on the map and look for the trucks. Ignore everything else! Do it as fast as you can. They are easy to spot if you are in the right place. Just watch the map and fly low an slow. When the yellow markers on the map are gone, you have destroyed all the targets for that zone. Go to the next zone. You have to clear them before the transports are destroyed. Repeat for all three zones. If you do, you win. If you receive a message that you messed up and the transports are gone, you lose. Good luck!
Last edited by lost cause; 12-22-2009 at 07:28 PM.
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12-13-2009, 12:15 AM
. I just completed the Campaign portion and will prepare for grief from Free Hunt on Single Mission . I have a decent 26" HD monitor, but I still have great difficulty distinguishing friendly fighters from enemies. If I'm not sure, I usually give a short burst and see if I get the "Check your aim" message. I should probably bone up on my plane recognition skills.
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