Greetings, fellow CFS enthusiast, and thank you for downloading this mission.
This is a CFS1 stock campaign mission originally titled Thar She Blows!. It is the flipside to Hunter and Hunted, which is also available.
It has been converted and modified to play in CFS2.
You will be flying from the British side, so the mission will be found under the British section in the mission setup screen.
The objective in this one is to save the destroyer, and also destroy at least one of the u-boats. Your main focus here is to save the destroyer first though, so choose your strategy wisely.
Just extract the contents of the zip file into a temp folder and then cut and paste or drop and drag the .mis and the .dyn files into your CFS2 mission folder.
You will also need to copy a few sound files from your Cfs2 Sound folder into your Cfs2 Sound/Action folder, if you'd like to have some status messages while flying. (Specific files listed in the sound.txt file included in this package)
I also recommend the British radio calls by the Ground Crew, as I did use several of those sound files in this mission. They are not absolutely required, but they do add some flavor to the mission. They are in the CFS2 section under CFS2 Stuff.
You will need Akemi's Bf109e-7, the VB_Spitfire MKI from Sim-Outhouse, and you will also need Stev Fairs' Ju87 Stuka also available at the Sim-Outhouse. You need the Ju87b-2 model.
***If these links are dead or inaccurate, try getting help on one of the CFS forums out there for updated locations.***
This mission is the flipside to Hunter and Hunted. The Microsoft guys did a lot of this sort of thing with CFS1, where they would offer both sides of a particular mission. It is an effective way of maximinzing your time, and is pretty neat to boot.
Sometimes just switching the sides of a mission can make it seem drastically different, and sometimes it offers a unique perspective to missions.
This one turned out to be fairly similar from both sides, but both have their own unique qualities, such as the choice of airplanes used. Instead of using the Arado Ar-196 for this one, I chose to use a Stuka, which is what the Hunter and Hunted mission called for to begin with. The Stukas are pretty easy to shoot down, but there are some Bf109's in the area to offer them some assistance, so be wary of them. Even worse, these guys are from the famed JG26 squadron, and know a thing or two about blasting you out of the sky.
The coding went pretty well again, and I seem to have found my stride. Hopefully, it will continue, and I won't have to end up spending much longer than I'd like on every single mission I convert.
Here are a few tips, but you'll have your most fun experimenting for yourself.
As always it was designed to be played at 100%. It should play fine on other settings as well, but it was not tested on any.
This mission was designed and tested using warping, I can make no guarantees how it will play in real time.
****If you modify this mission, make a backup copy first. Some hand edits were done to the mission and
dynamic files. I eliminated the automatic "you must survive goal", and I also adjusted the ai skill levels.
Plus there is some weather in this one. These things will be overwritten if you run this mission through the mission builder.***
I would suggest either editing by hand or using Keith Bedford's mission editor to make most adjustments.
I deleted all ground objects from the mission file.
I have included ditching (like C. Burgess uses in his missions) in these missions, as I like it, and find it helpful in the cases where you just can't make it home. You just need to be outside the base area (about 1 mile from base or less) and come to a stop, then cut off your engine. I have found that doing this inside enemy territory miraculously let's you evade capture. At least it has every time I've done it so far.
There are several more of these CFS1 stock converted missions also available, and possibly more on the way. It just depends on the potential of each one. If I discover some aspect of them I like, then I will invest the time necessary to complete some more.
I also have other "experiments" sitting on my hard drive if I can get around to completing them, stay tuned...
Enjoy, and go and sink you a nice u-boat or two.
This package is freeware and cannot be sold for any reason. You may post it where you like, just so long as all original documentation (this HTML file!) is included as well.
If it blows up your pc, it weren't me that caused it. If my puny, ancient, much neglected pc will run it, then yours should too.
Use at your own risk, no warranty implied or offered. It plays fine on mine own system.
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Designed and tested on a PIII 600, windows 98 SE, 128 RAM, Voodoo 3 2000 system. (You can stop laughing now, I can hear you!!!) The same system I was playing the original versions of these CFS1 converted missions on. As the saying goes, "She ain't much, but she's mine".
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