Wargame: Red Dragon

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Give War Thunder a bash.  It's free to play and offers up different modes from arcade battles to full real sim mode (think sim lite like Wings of Prey or Third Wire titles).   You can unlock new planes, missions and dynamic campaigns that you can play solo or online.

[undercovergeek]

i did indeed give this a bash and enjoyed it but then felt the usual feeling of multi player gaming - everyones out for the points and the k/d ratio, i should have a wingman, or a partner but hes gone off to get himself some points for his next machine gun upgrade and now im dead - i suppose this has answered one of my questions, i think im looking at modern/semi modern - tornados and harriers and upwards

[Boggit]

I clicked on Tutorials and apart from some manual looking screens nothing happened, so i tried the first campaign thinking it might ease you in. However I seemed to only have one unit? and then I was swarmed by the enemy. I probably need to search for some lets play videos.

Good start is 200-Page Guide to Wargame: Red Dragon
By SandyGunfox

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=247884292

Thanks Fran, very useful!

Great find. A really comprehensive explanation. :)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

i did indeed give this a bash and enjoyed it but then felt the usual feeling of multi player gaming - everyones out for the points and the k/d ratio, i should have a wingman, or a partner but hes gone off to get himself some points for his next machine gun upgrade and now im dead - i suppose this has answered one of my questions, i think im looking at modern/semi modern - tornados and harriers and upwards

Have you tried the dynamic campaigns?  You can play them solo. 

[GDS_Starfury]

surely you're a little bi?

[undercovergeek]

would you be disappointed if i said no?

[Gusington]

Not in the fact that you said no but in the fact that you were lying.

[undercovergeek]

oooooo, harsh!  :)

are you guys skirmishing or campaigning?

[Gusington]

Tutorializing.

[undercovergeek]

did you ALB?

[Gusington]

No this is my first one in the series.

[undercovergeek]

right, the flight sim urge has come and gone (it was close) and ill be getting this tonight, no game has ever come with a stronger tag line or recommendation

'it's got boats, dude'

just put that on the box

[Nefaro]

i think im looking at modern/semi modern - tornados and harriers and upwards

If you ever find a decent modern flight sim with Tornadoes modelled, let me know.

The only place to do so is with Strike Fighters 2 by downloading the user flyable ones.  The SF2: Europe version and the campaign editor if you want to do a dynamic campaign with them IIRC. 

A sizable portion of the flyable aircraft mods for SF2 can be a pain in the ass to implement, but some are just dropping files where they go.  As an example, I downloaded the mods for a Mirage F-1C, Marine Harrier, a couple different F-16 models other than the vanilla -16A that comes with SF2: Israel, a Tornado GR.1, a Jaguar, a Buccaneer, and one or two others (MiG-21?).  Out of all those, the only one that was a matter of unzipping was the Mirage F-1C (with it's own cockpit that looks amazing, btw).  The others usually involved more work or something. 

I still want to drop in more, including MiGs now that I have the campaign editor to fly the Red side, but I gotta be in the mood to screw with "Mod Soup" first.  Also.. I really want to push the hi-res terrain "bubble" out further but it requires a hex edit of some file since there is no in-game option.  I recall trying it a couple years ago and not getting it to work properly.  Haven't found a pre-modded file for d/l yet either, which is surprising.

That one does come with British Harriers in the vanilla version, however.   So there is at least one British a/c and I think you can also get a DLC with their older BAC Lightning.

[Shelldrake]

Just learning my way around WRD. Playing co-op with some buddies against the AI is a lot of fun.

[Gusington]

^Once I get up to speed I'll be happy to MP with you. Got my regular internet back too :)