Anyone else remember 'playing' Digital Integrations Tornado ? I really do think theres a gap in the flightsim market for a cold war scenario flightsim. A sim where most advanced weapon is paveway and you have to get down in the weeds to deliver your weapons.

Still one of the best !

Wings Over Europe is enough for me. Yes, it's a 'lite' sim (well, a game actually) but I can't be bothered with 400 page instruction manuals! Plus you get to fly just about anything and with any markings!


RAF Tomcat FGR.2 - 92 'Adversary' Squadron.

I remember DI's Tornado very well. I still think it had the finest mission planning and campaign coding any flight sim has ever had - I don't know of any since that have had a campaign even close to the complexity of that one. If you hit a target, it stayed hit, and it affected everything else in future missions. Seems pre-scripted simplicity is all anyone else has managed since.

Believe the RAF were so impressed with the mission planning aspect they contracted the writers to do some mission planning software for them!

I remember reading something similar. That was the part of the game I enjoyed most, there was a lot of satisfaction to planning a six ship co-ordinated attack on a well defended target.

Flightsims nowadays are visually exciting and some complex ones like allied force are superb in regards of aircraft systems. I would love to see that level thought added to a Cold War British based scenario flying Jags, F-4's, Bucc and Tornados striking Warsaw Pact targets.

I've still got the original game with 3.5" disks, maps and user manual...bought it back in '93 if memory serves me correct?

Mick

Its available as a free download from Home of the Underdogs , you will need DosBox to run it though.

It was a very advanced simulator, with updated graphics it would still be very good today.

Speaking of the mission planning tools being used by the RAF, well a similar thing happened with the campaign engine from DID's EF2000 - the virtual war in that simulator so much impressed the RAF they commissioned DID to make a special version as a training tool for their planners.

Oh-oh , now you've done it- there goes the weekend!

Googles "DosBox"....

I remember that - I was quote good at lobbing my iron bombs at the target. Flying over the runway dropping JP233 was a blast. Timing was definitely critical - one time I timed my approach wrong and I overflew my strip of the runway too late - and the other 'Fin flew under my 233s and was blown up - definitely gave me an appreciation for how difficult and dangerous the job of a fighter pilot was.

One of the best sim's I ever played

An old one i liked was A-10 Tankbuster by Sierra IIRC think i had that on Amiga back in the day

Russ