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From: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JET
Message-ID: <827@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 88 10:04:02 GMT
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Reply-To: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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>>       What I'd like to know is how these people "easily" dodge the Migs'
>>missiles and what success rate translates to "easy."
>>       joe piazza
>
>I'd like to know that too.  I can *never* avoid the bloody things, on the PC
>it was a piece of cake to avoid them.  (I would aim myself squarely at the
>missle and shift to the left or right and roll just before it was going to
>hit).

  The clues are actually given in the documentation. If you do
*EXACTLY* as your manual states, you can easily dodge enemy
missiles.  You must continue doing what the manual states until all
of the missles are unlocked (green).  When five or so (or more)
missiles are locked, you're going to take a few hits unless you were
well above mach 1 before taking evasive action...
  After playing a human being between two computers, the
computer opponents are no challenge (at least for us).  Our missiles
almost always hit, theirs are easily avoided, we have guns, they
don't (a major flaw! they never seem to run out of missiles, another
flaw [unless you are close range, then they are cake for your
guns]).
  Level 9 clue: when first starting a sortie, sit and wait for the
enemy configuration to get real close (bunched up).  When they stop
approaching, launch your jet, and fly right into the mob.  Get off
as many locked missiles as you can, evade their salvo, then when in
close, finish them off with your guns.  You can use this technique
to rapidly advance past level 9 and beyond...(I haven't tried this
tactic with the f16, just the carrier f18)

  John