Looking for an Vietnam era flightsims

[Dowly]

Like the title says, I'm looking for a flightsim concentrated on the Vietnam War. I have the choppersim from the devs of IL2, but I want one where you fly a jet.

[Kratos]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Like the title says, I'm looking for a flightsim concentrated on the Vietnam War. I have the choppersim from the devs of IL2, but I want one where you fly a jet.

The only sim that springs to mind concerning vietnam war, was ''Vietnam carrier ops''. not too sure if it was a add-on or not! for some other game

[XabbaRus]

What about Wings Over Vietnam, more a study sim of several planes than hardcore but fun from what I have read.

[Dowly]

Looked up on the WOV, seems nice. Gonna see if I can find it. Hope there's lots of ground pounding missions.

[Chock]

Wings Over Vietnam is pretty good fun, for stuff like Intruder night missions and the like, the flight model for the aircraft is somewhat generic, but there's enough of a variety between the planes keeps things interesting.

Don't expect it to simulate high alphas, every switch in the cockpit or anything like that (for that you want Falcon AF), but for a bit of turning and burning fun while you listen to a sixties soundtrack on Windows Media Player, its great. WOV can be improved massively with the commercial add on 'Yankee Air Pirate', which adds some very realistic missions.

Good atmospheric radio sounds on it and nice comprehensive wingman commands for a variety of tactical approaches are two major plus points. In this respect it comes fairly close to Falcon. You don't need to learn a million key commands to fly stuff either, which is another plus.

Great things about WOV, (and indeed all the sims from Third Wire, such as First Eagles and Wings Over Europe) are that developer support, modding and freeware is in abundance, and a great community surrounds these programs. There are tons of repaints and new add-on aircraft available for free from the 'net.

Recommended for the price.

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Chock

[Tikigod]

Strike Fighters was another one that was a pretty good for its time. Although its not located in the vietnam theatre it encompasses alot of the technology used between the korean and vietnam conflicts.

http://www.gmxmedia.net/strikefighters/

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Jet combat simulation game set in the 1960’s when aviation technology was still primitive but advancing at a rapid pace.
Fly 10 legendary fighters from the early jet age, each meticulously rendered to every detail. Choose from F-100D Super Sabre, 4 versions of A-4 Skyhawk (A-4B, A-4C, A-4E, and A-4F), and 5 versions of F-4 Phantom II (F-4B, F-4C, F-4D, F-4E, and F-4J).
3-D virtual cockpits with working gauges and dynamic lighting effects.
Engage in blood-draining, G-pulling, action-packed dogfights against 10 different types of enemy, including MiG-17 ‘Fresco’, MiG-19 ‘Farmer’, MiG-21 ‘Fishbed’, Su-7 ‘Fitter’, Il-28 ‘Beagle’, Tu-22 ‘Blinder’, and An-12 ‘Cub’.
Random mission generator for maximum flexibility and replayability.
3 new campaigns featuring high-flying combat action over fictional Middle Eastern sands. Campaign missions are randomly generated for different outcome each time.
Fully scalable difficulty options to challenge both novice and expert pilots.
Open architecture for future expansions and user-mod support. Download thousands of user-created skins, aircraft, terrain, missions, campaigns, and editors already available on the Internet for the original Strike Fighters: Project 1.
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[Kapitan_Phillips]

You can try Battlefield Vietnam, that lets you fly jets, or if you're not fussy about actually shooting stuff, there's a Vietnam aircraft pack for FS too

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

You can try Battlefield Vietnam, that lets you fly jets, or if you're not fussy about actually shooting stuff, there's a Vietnam aircraft pack for FS too

I have BFV, but I'm looking for a pure flightsim. BF series is a bit arcadish.

[Dowly]

Ok, got my copy of WOV today. I like it. Thanks guys!

"This is Papa 34 we are under attack. Requesting CAS, over!"
"Papa 34, dont worry! Dowler's on the way with full load of napalm!"

*Moments later*

"Bombs away, over"
"This is Papa 34, anyone who wants BBQ'd beef, come and get it. The nutjob accidentally bombed a bunch of water buffalos, over."

[Chock]

Don't forget this groovy add-on for it:

http://www.razbam.org/store/product_...products_id=42

Chock

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Chock

Don't forget this groovy add-on for it:

http://www.razbam.org/store/product_...products_id=42

Chock

Looks nice, but 15 bucks is a bit too much for an terrain addon.

[Kratos]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Ok, got my copy of WOV today. I like it. Thanks guys!

"This is Papa 34 we are under attack. Requesting CAS, over!"
"Papa 34, dont worry! Dowler's on the way with full load of napalm!"

*Moments later*

"Bombs away, over"
"This is Papa 34, anyone who wants BBQ'd beef, come and get it. The nutjob accidentally bombed a bunch of water buffalos, over."

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Kratos]

Dowly You better watch out then,Them little fellas will be looking for you.You have just bbq'd there entire livestock

[Dowly]

Oh dang... Better get back to base to refit and bomb the entire village then.

[Chock]

Took some screengrabs of the Intruder getting shot up by a ZSU-23, so anyone who's interested can see what the models and damage look like in WOV. As you can probably gather, messing with those is not a good idea...









Chock