Fast Missin = Fast Death

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I'm at the point in skill that I can call up the appropriate weapon and get it off the rails onto target. I don't have the finesse of all the battlefield awareness, and all the junk packed into the CDU.

 

When I fly Fast Mission Easy, Airborne, I'm instantly thrown into the center of battle with Migs having air superiority. Any CAP that exists, is shot down within two minutes, leaving Migs shooting up all remaining ground attack aircraft.

 

I have tried these tactics:

 

1) Charge straight in while Migs are engaged with ATA and try to pick off the 1st ground target I can find and escape. Result: The Migs have battlefield dominance by the time I get to the front lines and I'm jumped by multiple bogies.

2) Instantly reverse, extend and come back around with ATA enabled and try to help thin out the Migs by taking one or two out myself. Result: By the time I've dropped a Mig, they have air dominance and I cannot disengage.

3) Reverse and extend back behind my AA/SAM defenses and try to wait out the air battle while picking off nearby intruders and sneak in to ground attack. Result: The Migs attain air dominance within 2 minutes of the battle and enemy lines are unapproachable.

4) Instantly reverse, extend and land. Result: I get medals for flight time.

 

If this is EASY mode, I hate to imagine MED or HARD.

 

Fast Mission seems a waste of UI space.

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[schkorpio]

Try the instant action missions for the A-10C instead :)

 

Its all clear skies letting you do pure ground attack.

[Tone71]

You could reduce the number of enemy aircraft, or disable them completely, in the options.

[Bushmanni]

Remove enemy fighters from fast mission by modifying the mission generation parameters as A-10 isn't supposed to fight fighters. Fast missions aren't built just for A-10 but they are randomly built according to the selected parameters. With default settings you often get some pretty hard if not impossible missions regardless of difficulty setting.

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"you often get some pretty hard if not impossible missions regardless of difficulty setting"

 

This confirms others got the same impression I do. I'm aware of the "Instant Actions" and agree they are very good for training. Being canned, I was hoping the random generator would provide more interest, but it seems very limited in its capability (only kinda works when dumbed down to lowest optional settings.)

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Generated a few more with opfor fighters set to min and friendlies set to max.

8 F16 swooped in firing a wall of missiles. None hit. The two Mig 29s shot down every friendly plane within about two minutes.

 

Doesn't seem right.

No more Fast Missions for me.

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[JetlinerX]

Just FYI, for your first post, bogies are unconfirmed enemies, and bandits are confirmed enemy aircraft. So when you say:

 

"The Migs have battlefield dominance by the time I get to the front lines and I'm jumped by multiple bogies."

 

You are technically saying that you are getting jumped on by aircraft that you cant confirm are enemy, but also claim they are MIGs, so I think you mean bandits. ;)

 

Ya learn somethin new every day!