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"Good Evening" Mission is broke There are two insurgents just before the main group near the river. No matter what weapon you fire at them, and hit them with, they will NOT die. It prevents the mission from being complete. I've tried three times tonight alone. Any suggestions?

so, having 4GB of RAM as a limit for 32 bit versus virtually infinite physical RAM for 64 bit doesn't matter??

Awesome! Thanks for your service. I personally haven't deployed with the A-10's, but was part of a unit for 5 years. We recently converted to an Airlift wing.

Sorry you feel that way, but you are wrong. If it wasn't the first time you were in control of a moving vehicle (car) that was illegal, and you didn't know what you were doing. True, it is a beta, but that isn't any excuse to not have the proper control mappings correct, I develop myself and that is the first thing I make sure of. Not sure where YOU grew up, but up and forward and VERY different things to us here in the U.S. You are the one assuming, not I.

It is an AWESOME sim. Having seen these bad boys close up for 5 years with an A-10 unit gives me some credibility, and I have to tell you they got these things dead on when it comes to looks/sounds at least. I'm not a pilot but have had flight training, and it flights very, very well, too. Well worth the $60 if you have a capable computer.

Er....The actual controls the pilot would be using = what the the HOTAS replicates physically. It assumes you are using the $499 replica of the stick/throttle. If you don't see that, well I'm sorry. But the fact is it does assume you have it. Why else would it refer to physical buttons on that HOTAS for the A-10 if they didn't assume you had it? Also, the lack of accurate keyboard mappings to the various HOTAS controls further affirms they assume you have the hardware. Beta or not, not having the exact verbiage/ability to map to keyboard is a huge oversight.

Exactly my frustration. I have figured it out, though. Thanks!

1)I have read the 19 page manual. It was somewhat helpful. 2) That takes major assumption. Forward and up are not even remotely related in terms of x y z coordinates. 3) My English should suggest the United States. And if you are referring to the U.S. that statement is total nonsense. Our graduated drivers licensing system is total crap. Don't get hung up on that, we are talking about a flight sim. 4) I figured out how to fire the mavs, and fire them well, from the helpful posters here. To those folks I say thank you.

I have a saitek throttle quadrant (three levers plus 3 rocker switchers), and a CH products flightstick pro with 3 buttons, trigger, and a hat. edit: not that it matters much for this discussion, but I have saitek rudder pedals as well.

Outstanding response, much appreciated. I'll try what you suggested.

That was a rather snarky response, not appreciated.

Let's clarify a few things. I have pilot training, so I'm not a newbie at flying in real life, nor sims. I was also with an A-10 unit for 5 years, the 172nd out of Battle Creek, MI. I know more about the A-10 than your average person, but a pilot of that rig I am not. My main issue is that, while this may be a "study sim", nearly 700 pages is a bit excessive. Hell I didn't do that much reading for my masters degree. A clear, concise, newbie manual for this particular sim is in order, regardless of the rather elitist opinions out there. Moving on, I know what TMS is. I know what HOTAS is. Simply saying, "TMS forward" doesn't help much considering the verbiage doesn't match the sim's keyboard mapping prefs. They call it "TMS up". That is not the same as forward. The analogy about the car doesn't work here, sorry. Everyone knows how to drive a car. Not everyone knows how to fly a combat aircraft. Don't take this as ranting, kylania, take it as constructive criticism (it is always hard to decipher someone's tone on the Internet). I do, however very much appreciate the reply and will take a look at the links you provided.

Hello there. So, I've been reading the manual, doing the training exercises, viewing the videos, etc. What I have found is that all of these are, in a word, unhelpful. We need a beginners guide to the sim, period. For example, everything regarding launching maverick missiles references this magical "TMS forward". That is great...after 5 hours of searching I've found that this is a special piece of hardware not listed under the games hardware requirements. I don't want to put the money into another joystick. I have several I use for X-plane 9. In addition, there is zero reference to TMS forward in the controls setup for DCS A-10C. My question is, how in the friggin' world do you launch a damned maverick missile WITHOUT the special A-10 hardware? Please don't point me to another youtube video or PDF, I've viewed them all, seriously.