DOS Games Discussion

Snake · Guest

I have just been going through some old stuff on the drive and found LHX attach chopper simulator.

I loved to play it, but never got around of dropping in the "supply mission". Could s.one tell me how to drop the cargo in the designated area? Actually, it does not matter how close I come to the drop point I still don't get the points for the mission.

And does anyone know, what are all the medals one could get and what it their order of importance? Regardless the difficulty, I could get only four of them.

Many thanks.
M.

dosraider · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:

Medals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX_Attack_Chopper

As for your cargo, from memory I thought you had to land on the spot, could be wrong .....

SNAke · Guest

This I know for the medals. There are nine spots, so I did wondered about what are the remaining ones. I've got air medal, distinguished flying cross, air commision(al) medal and off course, purple heart.

For the landing problem, I hasn't been successful even if I did land cca 5-20 units from the spot.

dosraider · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:24 am Post subject:

*Digs in memory ....
Tour of duty medals?
Courage medals?
Such things .....

The better you accomplish the missions the more medails, as usual.
There even was a postmortem one I thought.

Snake · Guest

Actually, I am also not sure how the points are scored. I am usually flying on hard and the points range lies within 800-1400 pts. This is however, not enought to get anything from the higher ones (Silver star, Air Force Cross and Cong. Medal of Honor).

Secondly, it seems that the score you get does not much depend on how many of the enemies you shoot. You can hower on an enemy airstrip and shoot down everything that tries to escape and the score is not significantly bigger from "just following the mission objectve" case.

I also try to compare cheating situation with the real ones. For the same mission I got on the cheat twice as much points (2200 vs 1200) as for the real (medevac mission europe, very hard), which was sufficient only for the Silver star. Does anyone knows how to get more pts. than 1600? Very hard missions would usually yield arround 1200-1400.

If anyone would comment on this, I'll be happy.

If anyone would add a medal which should be on the list and I did not get it, I'll appreciate that.

So far I've got;
Silver star (for the cheating mission, but not for the real ones)
Distinguished Flying Cross
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Commisional Medal
Expeditionary Medal

Many thanks.

dosraider · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:00 am Post subject:

It's kinda logical you won't get much higher score when shooting down everything you see, the points are mainly accorded for:
Accuraty.
Accomplishing the mission.
And I thought the time you need, and if I remember the time factor swell it's even useless to spend too much time shooting down all you can.
It's the army son, follow orders. If they don't ask you to completely clean an airfield, then don't. Mayby you will kill some hidden friendlies in the cleaning process.

[Edit]
If you like chopper games you should try Jane's Apache longbow.
Or one of the Comanches.

BTW, moved to GHHT, this belongs here I thought.

AdamN · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:59 am Post subject:

I thought they were similar to medals you get in F15 Strike Eagle?

mieswicht · Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 2

I got the game and got addicted like 15 years ago, but like Snake I cannot complete the supply run mission. How the hell do you drop the cargo? I found this: http://takegame.com/simulators/htm/lhx.htm but hitting the x key does not work either. Its driving me insane.

mieswicht · Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 2

ok, i found out myself: You need to hover above the ground in the target region (i guess under 100 feet will do) and then press x.

iwaN · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Snake, how do you commisional medal? thanx

markusb81 · Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

I would really like to bring the medals-discussion to an satisfying end, but unfortunately have some open questions myself.

so first of all here is everything I can contribute.
the medal board looks like:

iwaN · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

markus, you re right, distinguished flying cross is on position six. i got it for shooting down a lot of aircraft, i guess. there is distinguished service cross on number 4, i think. u get it for more than 3000 points. 2 & 7.. yea i got them only once. as far for commissional medal.. i haven't got it.. we share the same question. hope it helps.

markusb81 · Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

iwaN, thank you very much for this extremely valueable feedback!
I will try to get the two remaining medals on 4 (serviceX) and 6 (flyingX) and report again. could take some time...

but in essence so far this means (my opinion, considering the huge space, I labeled 8, is reserved for only one medal of honor), that there is no 'commissional medal'. maybe a mistake in name.

iwaN · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

i think the best way to get d.flyningX is to play on average level, europe, alpha strike. complete the mission task and find an airport where enemy aircraft takes off. find a good position and shoot down as much choppers and planes as u can.