We are proud and happy to release the final mission set we will sell for Yankee Air Pirate*. It has gone on sale at
www.yankeeairpirate.net.After Rising Sun is out, we hope to offer one last set as our gift to our customers. It is not certain that we will and it is, as usual, a secret.
Here's the final set. The Briefings are included in the installer instead of on the website. The website is being torn up and rearranged for Rising Sun so watch your step and wear a hard hat.
First, the toys:
The last of our Essex Class carriers, the Bonnie Dick
The still floating Kitty Hawk. (Thanks for the jet, Nils.)
And our flagship from beginning to end, the Midway.
Also, our excellent AC-130 and CH-53.
The stories:
Moving Mud. An early mission from Dixie Station into the Mekong Delta ten years to the day before our last Midway mission.
Okay. It IS a first person shooter...
Song Be 1, 2 3 One of the first places that the South Vietnamese stuck and beat the VC. You fly a B-57, A-1E and a UH-1B.
The Secret. An early mission into northern Laos against a town...a thing we keep secret.
Targets of Opportunity. Take your Spad up to North Vietnam and "deter" river traffic.
Uong Bi. A raid against the main power station from the Enterprise.
Midnight at Uong Bi. What the Scooters could not do, the Intruders could.
Cam Pha BDA. Tired of bombing? Try taking a few pictures. If you do not refuel, you will not be able to use AB. If you do not light the AB, you will not get back to the ship. And when you get there, you have to land one heavy, fast jet...our most challenging trap.
Northeast Railroad. We have to send you. It's a long way. But they did it every day in a Thud.
North of the Z...the DMZ. The USMC flew regularly to North Vietnam into a very dangerous part of the world. It looks simple. It is not. Just find things to hit and hit them.
Dragon's Jaw 3. Put a Walleye on the Ham Rong bridge. This has to work. Right? No. Not the right weapons yet.
Alpha Strike. A sky full of aircraft and AAA.
Bed Check, Lights Out, Looksee. Recce the generators...all three...at night and trap in the dark. Then hit them. And then just when you know they know you are coming, go take pictures of the strike and get back to the Coral Sea.
Sitting Ducks. One of my favorite missions...killing planes on the ground.
Prince of Darkness. Our best night mission. Early Night Owl strike on the Northeast Railroad.
Red River Rats
LZ Prep...or Commando Vault. Drop a HUGE bomb to clear the way for a helicopter assault. The briefing tells you how.
Surprise Package. Hammer trucks in Laos a mile up.
Laredo. High speed FAC mission in the PDJ. Keep it moving and you will make it home.
An Loc. A huge battle destined to be forgotten...except by those of you that fly these missions.
Dragon's Jaw Finale. This time? Yes. This time it goes down. This mission is the precursor to how the US fights air wars. It is a huge mission with a sky full of planes all doing their jobs. Yours is to fly in formation, wait until Lead illuminates and drop your Paveway's on the bridge and watch it fall into the river.
Semper Fidelis. Only the Marines would be airlifted into a city that is surrounded and on the verge of falling to protect people. You just have to land in a tiny spot and put them there.
Fall of Saigon. Their motto was First In; Last Out. Fly an Air America Huey into Saigon with battles being fought beneath your skids to find and land on the apartment building. Then head for the Midway to land. (you can finally hover over the ship)
Here's what happens just after you leave.
and then what?
Go home.
and the war ended.
It has taken us a long time to get you here. But now you know how to fly, how to trap, bomb, dogfight, intercept, refuel, build a fire support base, resupply a camp under fire and rescue men in trouble. And you know history as it happened as told by the men to lived it.
It has been my honor to have met and entertained you, our customers. I'll let Mike speak for himself.
zerocinco
Yankee Air Pirate