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From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F-18 INTERCEPTOR
Summary: Sink the sub
Message-ID: <2042@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 90 08:52:02 GMT
References: <358@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> <1990Sep2.205627.13310@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
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In article <1990Sep2.205627.13310@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paulg@frith.uucp (Gregory R Paul) writes:
>In article <358@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> vervalin@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Paul Vervalin) writes:
>>Does anybody know if its possible to sink the submarine in mission 6 of
>>F-18 Interceptor.  And, if it is possible how do you do it?  I have owned
>
>  The game was really quite bad about this whole thing.  I played it a long
>time trying to figure out how to sink it (even went so far as to land on
>the sub without arrestor-hook -- yes, it was quite insane -- and pummel

Difficult, but not insane - the worst that can happen is that the game
will call you a rookie and remind you that jet fighters are not plants.

>the conning tower).  After a little more work I came to the realization
>that all you have to do it hit the sub with a single missle.  Then you 
>return to your carrier and the game will end (no scenes of sub sinking or
>anything).  It really was anticlimatic.

Actually you have to shoot down at least 3 planes as well (in my experience)
to get the mission completed.  This gets extremely tricky after 3 or 4 times
through when they only give you 1 or 2 planes.  (I've noticed that if you 
play the missions over and over again they get noticably harder)  The only
workaround I've discovered for that is to make sure you destroy the plane
at a high altitude, then follow it down and keep shooting it over and over
again.  Each time you hit it will give you credit for a kill, and eventually
you'll get enough to complete the mission.  

I still play F-18 (when I play games, which is rare these days) because a
little imagination can add a whole lot of life to it.  For example, try
to challenge yourself in different ways - take out the cruise missile 
without using the afterburners, or shoot off all your missiles before
engaging the first plane and make yourself use the guns, or cut your
engines 20 miles from the carrier (at your ceiling) and try to glide
to a safe landing.  Or hit your ceiling, point straight up, shoot off a
missile and then go catch it... (I've never managed this myself - I
don't think the game allows for you to be hit by your own weapons)

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