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Wow :) such a cool mission, I can confirm it still works properly in 1.2.10 like a charm. Im similar to the below psoter when playing it myself; you do get smacked alot but patience and trail and error and im getting the hang of it. Im also a newb and helis and cant flt for @#$^ If anything is going to make you get into VRS this mission will do it ;) at least Im starting to know when its coming and how to avoid it. 2 options for you mate. try opening your cockpit doors when rearming/refueling (Rctrl C). Some maps you have to do this for ground crew to respond. Second, go into the mission editor and just add door gunners to all the helis :) I did and its awesome coming into the hot LZ and these guys pumping away :) Dont feel so vulnerable

thanks, will try hitting them from higher/further away

hey guys, amazing forum, ive already learnt so much since getting this last week.. I've been trying to complete the serpents head mission the last 2 nights and I keep getting smacked by Manpads after/while dropping the gbu38. Ive tried a couple different tactics - 200ft agl and fast - still got hit turning over the city. 2000ft agl - sitting duck launched 2 maveriks (at the troops) in the same run as the gbu (decent work load at 400ft agl 290knts for a newb) and still some survived and got me. does anyone have any suggestions other than targeting and then running back down valley, climbing above clouds and dropping from above the cloud cover. I know it works but its sort of cheating, i imagine the mission was design around nape of the earth flying. I really dont know much about Counter measures (which i lloked up tonight) it seems i should be running a flare program on my in run and then a more intense one just after i release and try to escape. Cheers, Damo :joystick:

I'm very much still in the beginning stages of learning how to use the hog. All this is very fresh in my mind as I only got the game last week. 1 - searched for and set up hotas profiles for my x52 controller. printed out said controls and stuck above my monitor. 2 - had a quick flight to see what the flying and graphics was like. (flying is familiar to me from fsx). I loved the hog and the vc cockpit!!!!! 3. completed the tutorials once each. realized how important mastering hotas was going to be!!!!!! 4. found this graphical hotas I didn't understand 80% of what was on it at the time this has been the most important item in my whole learning experience in being proficient in bringing great fury and vengeance upon thee. 5. tried the first mission of the campaign and got smacked :/ and was completely out of my depth. 6. went on-line looking for written tutorials and campaign guides (live in regional Oz and have limited internet downloads so no Youtube for me) and found this great forum. 7. Flew the weapons training mission (not tutorial) a lot to learn how to brrrrp, laze, gps inertial bomb (which doesnt work on moving targets), CCRP/CCIP and where the above mentioned document started to help. 8. found derelor's hideout and serpents head guides (which are great). 9. completed the hideout mission after a couple of goes. It taught me heaps about comms, nav and using the wingman. 10. currently trying the serpents head mission which to prepare myself I have researched about JTAC's, 9 line targeting and starting to use the cdu (which I have realized is very important). I got schwacked 6 times in a row tonight by man pads just after dropping the gbu38 on the compound (trying multiple tactics ie 300ft agl, 2500ft agl, maveriks first at the soldiers and then the gbu in the same run which is a decent work load). 11. this has led me here to join this forum to say thankyou for how much knowledge is shared on here. 12. im currently researching countermeasures at the moment to try and stop my bottom getting blown off :) somewhere along the lines i ended up with alot of WarriorX's pdf guides which are also really good, Thankyou. Overall all I would say its working for me. Im finding out skills im not proficient in very quickly and learning them in manageable chunks while constantly improving my situational awareness and HOTAS coordination using the a-10 systems. Damo