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Question on Typhoon rockets
« on: October 24, 2000, 08:19:00 AM »
What convergence are these things set to when fired in pairs? I've been doing practice firings offline on halftrack objects, and can't even get them to converge at what I'd guess to be 1000 yards! (Firing innermost pair first too) Weren't they set to converge fairly close up? Could they even alter the convergence?

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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2000, 08:24:00 AM »
I have been succesfully killing tanks/osties with tiffies rockets from 1.5k, with 4 rocket at a time.

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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2000, 09:20:00 AM »
The rockets don't seem to converge.  I don't know how it was in real life.

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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2000, 01:56:00 PM »
After watching gun camera films of rocket attacks on buildings and shipping during WW2, it appears that there is no convergence to the rockets.  In fact, when launched with minimum intervals (or all at once), they appear to fly in formation with slightly diverging flight paths toward the target(s).  Now that I think about it, there seems to be more good-quality film footage from British rocket attacks than from any other country.  Lots of Beaufighters and Typhoons.

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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2000, 02:24:00 PM »
OK, thanks for the information  

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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2000, 08:04:00 PM »
I doubt you could make rockets "converge". Because of the fins, don't they try to fly in the direction they were travelling when released, not the direction they were pointed in?

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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2000, 06:55:00 AM »
Yes the rockets that we see in AH, works like dart. Its aerodynamically impossible to guide rocket/missile that has wings only on its rear.

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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2000, 11:59:00 AM »
Whoops, hadn't thought of the airflow   Thanks for clearing that up.

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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2000, 02:01:00 PM »
Duma - how do you get a ground vehicle in the offline mode?

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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2000, 06:00:00 PM »
Dowding - they're on a custom H2H terrain called Practice. (not mine). It's basically two fields at about 10k overlooking a city, with a convoy of halftrack objects to the western side. If someone can tell me which files I need to send, I'll send the map over to ya  

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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2000, 07:15:00 PM »
Duma!~!!

pass that one around please!! +)

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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2000, 02:24:00 PM »
That sounds great Duma - I really need something like that!  

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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2000, 02:51:00 PM »
OK here you go:

Put in Aces High\Terrains directory, select from offline setup.

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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2000, 04:54:00 PM »
Thanks for the post Duma - but when I try to switch terrains in offline mode, my computer freezes. Might be my computer, but I have no problems with the other terrains.

Anyone else get the same thing?

Thx anyway Duma.  

<edit> the file is named ".res..re" so I renamed it with ".res" and it works fine. Except the gvs don't blow up! Good for target practise though.  

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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2000, 07:28:00 PM »
At first fix the typhon , it was not that bad plane  but the low speed handling was terible !!!! in Ah just a oposite it need some fix