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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ Aug. 08 2002,00:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Isn't it usually red only at night? You know the old saying: "Firey morning, sailors warning Firey night, sailors delight"?<span id='postcolor'> "Red sky by night, sailors delight. Red sky by morn, sailors take warn" Is the way I've always learned it. And speaking as a sailor I can tell you we couldn't care less if the sky is red, blue, black, green, dotted, missing as long as we're in port

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (UKSubmariner @ Aug. 07 2002,20:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was just re-reading this old Tom Clancy book and I gotta say, it's got all the Flashpoint Elements... Huge Tank battles and Spec Ops actions... Anyone else read this? Anyone think this'd be a good couple of missions?<span id='postcolor'> If you like that then definately read "The Bear and the Dragon" I just read that book several weeks ago and I have to say it has all aspects of a good Flashpoint campaign (without the quitting to desktop). From spec ops missions (Russian, American, British, NATO specops teams jumping into a Chinese Nuke site trying to blow up the nuke silos before the missiles launch. WITH Apache support above) to large scale tank battles in trecherous (northern china, siberia, southern Russia) terrain.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (.236 @ Aug. 05 2002,20:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just for those interested in the real thing: http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/air_combat/basket/ "Somewhere in the world, right now, a naval aviator is flying steady formation behind a refueling tanker plane. Using a 4-way switch atop the control stick, he?s trimming every ounce of stick force out of the flight controls and making minute changes to the throttle settings as he stays in close trail formation with the tanker plane while he consciously refrains from attempting to squeeze the black dye out of the control stick grip. He?s also wiggling his toes inside his flight boots, trying to relax his muscles, gather his courage and focus his mind in preparation for an intentional mid-air collision with a heavy, cone-shaped metal basket that is hanging from a 40 foot rubber hose, gently swaying in a 250 knot slipstream just ten feet in front of his windscreen. His goal is to gently slide his jet?s refueling probe into the center of that basket, connecting his jet?s fuel tanks to the large supply of jet fuel in the tanker?s bowels. If he misses on this attempt, he may damage his plane. If he fails to get his refueling probe into the basket at all, his jet will eventually run out of gas, flame out and plunge into the unforgiving ocean below? " "Navy tanking is normally done in complete radio silence, something naval aviators have always taken great pride in. In this case, our tanker was orbiting at 7,000 ft above the ocean, in a 30 degree angle-of-bank turn, at a steady 250 knots airspeed. We joined up on the left side, close enough to see the necessary hand signals from the S-3 pilot." "Then it was our turn at the basket. Sluggo cracked the throttles back a tiny bit and put the refueling probe switch to EXTEND. The probe door flicked open and the probe rotated out of its bay along the right side of the forward fuselage. Accompanying the probe was the rumbling sound of disturbed air as the slipstream dealt with this new impediment to its smooth and orderly flow across the forward fuselage, a sound not unlike that of rolling a car window down at 30 mph. Thumbing the wings back to 40deg and deselecting the right engine as a source of cockpit air conditioning, Sluggo had effortlessly completed his refueling checklist as we slid back behind the S-3 in one fluid motion. Once behind the S-3, he bumped the throttles back up a smidge and stabilized behind and just below the S-3 and its awaiting refueling hose, it?s basket gently swaying in the 250 knot slipstream. Before we could plug,"<span id='postcolor'> Yikes!! I click on a harmless looking link next thing I know I'm reading an article from my boss! Anyways, I think that airplane refueling in OFP is not really needed or useful at this point due to the size of the islands. Chopper refueling would be useful though, so maybe a KC-130 or even MC-130P Combat Shadow?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Foonslice @ Aug. 06 2002,16:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Untrained reinforcements? Wow, so does that mean that your surviving men from each mission actually increase in skill as the campaign progresses. I've got a medic who can only carry one weapon so I made him a sniper. So far he's been kept alive throughout the whole campaign and he's been quite a big help so far. It this because his skill is actually increasing!<span id='postcolor'> Whoa, you got a Medic?? If I had a medic I would be golden, all I have is 3 Jaroslavs...

One of my favorite moments in OFP:R was when I was doing the mission where you have to take over the airport. We parked our truck behind one of the hills and ran forward till we were on the hill overlooking the hangers and barracks. As we crawled forward we spotted one of the enemy infantry squads ahead of us. Before I could order my sniper to start picking them off the "Jaroslav twins" (who I outfitted with matching PKs) took it into their own hands and opened up. It was so great, one on each side of me booming out on my Klipsch Promedia 5.1s they unloaded and took out EVERYONE. Another favorite moment was when I was doing the bridge destruction mission. I had ordered all my men to stay up on the hill overlooking the bridge and took out all the enemies myself. I had run to the shore on the near side and (I thought) picked off all the enemies stationed on the other side. I ran across the bridge to put satchels on the support when suddenly an enemy officer stood up before me and began turning towards me with his AK74. I was out of bullets for my Druganov and had dropped my handgun earlier. It was one of those moments that goes on forever as I frantically smashed the prone button (hoping to hide behind the BMP wreck) when suddenly I hear a crack, the officer drops, Number 6 (my M21 sniper) calls out "I've got him!", and I let out a sigh of relief. An unfavorite moment is the unfailing markmenship of the enemy troops on the mission where you get the ammo off the beach. It seems no matter what I did they would shoot me while I hid behind the truck. I caught a break when the BMP came over the hill behind them and crushed the majority hiding in the bushes. Maybe that was a favorite moment after all