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From: pomeroy@refine.enet.dec.com (Robert Pomeroy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Their Finest Hour query
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Date: 26 Oct 90 17:38:06 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.203432.721@cbnews.att.com>, wbt@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) writes...
>My questions on "Their Finest Hour"...
> 
>1) During a Luftwaffe campaign; is there any point to assigning computer-
>flown fighters for escort ?   They always seem to get shot down without
>even hurting the enemy.  
I cheated in the game a little. I edited the pilot files with Cygnus Ed
made four killer BF109/110 pilots. In my early Luftwaffe missions, I
would take out one stuka and assign three of my cheat pilots as escort.
They still didn't shoot down much, but they did keep the other guys 
busy. (They were all top rank, a few medals, 10000+ points, 2500+
missions, 2000+ kills) Even these pilots get shot down now and then. I
don't think the game is too good in this respect. When I fly a BF109, I
knock out quite a few spitfires before getting too badly shot up. It
seems that my cheat pilots should be able to knock out a couple per
mission anyway. Oh well.
> 
>I really love this game, BTW, despite the gripes above.  It has some
>realism problems (really... should I be able to score hundreds of victories
>against Spits and Hurri's with an Me110 ?  Even Rudel downed only about
>20 aircraft (Russian, at that) in a Stuka; my Stuka did better than that 
>against Spits, and in less time).  
Yeah, in a BF110, I can easily knock out waves of Spits without sustaining
more than a few hits. Not too realistic, but fun just the same.

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