Exhibit - Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3
MiGMan's Combat diary: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 (2002)
Next it was into the campaign... I picked a likely squadon name...
... and allocated my 10 attribute points. I favoured G tolerance as
I loathe blacking out in a dogfight. It always happens just before a
great guns kill... or just before I run out of ammo!
No fear of that this time as I selected "unlimited ammo" in the
options menu.... (hey it's a game!)...
"MY AIRCRAFT" informed me that personal aircraft are only
available to pilots who earn personal prestige points. Sounds like a good
incentive to try and get through the missions successfully.
Squadron - Aircraft showed that the squadron standard a/c is the
Typhoon IB
, and they also flew the
Spitfire IXC. The Roster shows about 40 pilots... and some of these guys
are real aces with the top scorer Flying Officer Walter Pembroke having
22 kills chalked up!
Simply moving the mouse cursor over the map causes pop-up windows to
display showing force disposition and strength... hey there's my squadron !
Clicking on map sectors along the front line (shown in RED) changed the list
of available missions in the drop down menu. I chose a
"destroy ships at.... " mission for my first sortie, reasoning that
I'd brave the FLAK and AAA on the mainland when I was comfortable with the
aircraft. Besides... ship strikes are generally fun.-