Returning flyer

[paulca]

Hi guys (gals?),

 

I originally bought the V1 Ka50 Black Shark and enjoyed it. I later bought the A10C Warthog, but didn't really play it as long involved learning curve was not what I was after at the time.

 

Steam then installed DCS World on my account and moved my A10 over, not sure the order this happened in but I recently decided to start playing again and thought I'd start with the Su25T.

 

Out of interest I don't know what happened to my original Ka50 but I don't think it appears in my Steam library and I certainly didn't get the new Ka50. Not to worry.

 

So I'm having fun in the training missions for the Su25T and have found the 10 part YouTube tutorials for it.

 

My trouble comes when I try the combat missions where people shoot back. I had similar trouble with the Ka50 but at least with that I could pick an appropriate hill and hide while I sorted stuff out, pop up, acquire my target and launch before hiding again. With the fast movers this tactic doesn't really work, though I can obviously still use terrain.

 

I have come far enough to know that running in without a clear plan will almost certainly result in instant death. But I'm having trouble with some of the tactical basics. At the moment, I have trouble finding and identifying targets at any range, so I use labels, even then at 400kts by the time I find any target I'm usually getting way too close and it's just a random target not the one I probably should be aiming for. Invariably by the time I get a weapon ready to fire and off the rails they start shooting at me and I have multiple SAMs as well as AAA fire on me and it ends in a firey mess.

 

Can anyone direct me to some useful tactical tutorials that might be geared towards the Su25T missions or the campaign?

 

Also, I'm not sure what version I have and I can only seem to find old Su25T forums. Is the su25T deprecated or just an unsupported freebee?

 

Do you think I should move on to the A10C or is the Su25t okay to relearn my combat craft in?

[159th_Falcon]

Tough choice between the SU-25T and the A-10C, and here's why;

 

The SU-25T, as an aircraft, is quite easy to learn to fly and fight.

You probably already learned most of what you need to know.

What makes it hard is that you need to know, before taking off, where

you can find the targets that your after.

 

The Skhval is a targeting system, and not really suited to searching for them.

 

The A-10C is the other way around in a way, its a good bit harder to learn to fly and even harder yet to fight whit because of its advanced systems.

Though, once you master those systems its a much more suitable platform to start searching for targets if there location is not already known.

 

It's also very helpful that you can use markpoints to store location of various targets, similar to the ABRIS of the KA-50 but much more advanced.

 

The best though, is to have a multiplayer flight of all three;

SU-25T, KA-50 and A-10C.

Here the SU-25T will have to rely on the KA-50 and the A-10C to talk him onto the targets.

Unless your doing DEAD, so that the A-10C and other planes can move in.

 

To be honest though, the possibilities are endless and there really is no good or wrong overall.

Its all dependent on the exact situation.