Mission 3 Rockeye

[Tblue282]

Is it possible to swap the rockeye out for a CBU-99?   Without an Height of Function option on the Rockeye fuse it is very difficult to use.   Also, when asked to attack the APC with a maverick it was impossible to tell what I locked as somehow the “road” in the middle of winter has a giant heat plume????  Can target the lead apc with pod in ccd.   It once the maverick is on it I can’t tell what it’s locked on to.  I hit the bus.  

Edited December 15, 2024 by Tblue282

[Tblue282]

Guys, does anyone else have the road showing bright hot on there flir and Mav display.   My Mav cannot see the apc.   It’s all one bright color.  

Edited December 15, 2024 by Tblue282

[Tblue282]

As you can see I can see the vehicles on the pod but Mav is washed out.  

[jmarso]

Targeting the lead vehicle in the convoy is a real bitch. And if you hit the wrong vehicle (which I did about half the time), re-attack is made even harder by the smoke plume from the first hit. 

 

Agree that the CBU-99 would be a better choice for cluster munitions, but a 2000 lb dumb bomb would actually be easier and faster. 

[Tblue282]

Agreed, what was odd was I made my own mission, same date and weather on Kola.  Roads were not showing hot in that one and the IR Mav worked great.   I was able to GBU-12 the apc, hit the next tasking and the Rockeye hit the vehicles at the shack.  CCIP mode, 35 degree dive, 450 knots or so.   Now that being said the state of cluster munitions hasn’t been great and the coverage and results I got were fantastic.  So not sure if Baltic had some handy work there in the mission editor or if I just got lucky.  But overall fantastic campaign and love the setting and situation.   I was going to do both campaigns simultaneously, however I am less fluent in the F16 yet so I figured I better concentrate on one at a time.  

[baltic_dragon]

19 hours ago, Tblue282 said:

Is it possible to swap the rockeye out for a CBU-99?   Without an Height of Function option on the Rockeye fuse it is very difficult to use.   Also, when asked to attack the APC with a maverick it was impossible to tell what I locked as somehow the “road” in the middle of winter has a giant heat plume????  Can target the lead apc with pod in ccd.   It once the maverick is on it I can’t tell what it’s locked on to.  I hit the bus.  

Hey! As indicated in the intro mission, do not swap any load-outs as this will very likely break the mission. You fly with what you are assigned and that is part of the fun / challenge!

[Tblue282]

10/4    That’s what I did and is my preference too.  All good, when the fuse options came out I had some bad experiences with how that altered missions for a while.