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An ace over Hanoi

This is a very short and simple scripted mission loosely based on the events of July 8th 1972, when Capt. Steve Ritchie from the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron scored his third and fourth Mig-21 kills in the Vietnam war. He would go on to become an ace on August 28th, when he shot down his 5th Mig-21 of the war.

The idea was to play with scripting events in the mission editor. This mission, as it is now, is just composed of scripted dogfights.

There are now 3 versions (inside a drop-down list called An ace over Hanoi):

This is the original (not extended) mission. It is deprecated and you should play the extended V2 instead.

This is the preferred extended version, with teleporting and added voiceovers specific to this mission, like radio messages. You should play this, unless you hate voiceovers.

For those that don't want to hear the modded voiceover messages.



I created an audio mod that adds voiceovers specific to this scenario, like radio messages. No actors here, it's just me with some Audacity editing and effects :D
There is an extra version of the same V2 scenario, if you prefer not to hear the modded voiceovers.
Note that you need Sea Power patch 0.1.0.6 or beta version #97 or above in order to hear the modded voiceovers. If your version is not updated yet, the scenarios will still work, but you will not hear the modded audio.

All V2 versions use spawning of new enemies at specific positions, which could only be done by adding the altitude manually in the .ini file. I don't consider it experimental anymore, so I maked the original, non extended version of the scenario as deprecated. Play V2 instead! Also, an unhistoric E3 may join you as a failsafe, in case you can't find the bandits!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stephen_Ritchie#Vietnam