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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: harpoon
Message-ID: <317@victoria.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:07:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.225341.13085@midway.uchicago.edu> <14587@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991Apr30.002437.22993@cs.columbia.edu> <48155@ut-emx.uucp>
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In article <48155@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <1991Apr30.002437.22993@cs.columbia.edu> gdm@liberty.columbia.edu (George Michaels) writes:
>>tactic.  When the poenix missiles are about to wipe out a wing of
>>your aircraft, duck down to VLOW altitude.  The missiles will miss,

>How long can you leave them at this altitude?  I may be a bit careless, but 
>I've lost a bunch of Sov planes in the drink at VLOW altitude.

Leave them there for as short a time as possible.  Only go down to VLOW when
the phoenixes are about to toast you.  When they miss, pop back up
to whatever (with backfires, I prefer high or very high on mil or afterburner).


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Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

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