Old times sake

Its been months since I last played a helicopter mission in Arma 2, mostly because the flight model is not all that amazing, and I still remember when the EW campaign came out. Arma creates a great blend of infantry, mechanized, air and naval combat, but is only really good at infantry combat. That's not to say that you can't have fun with any of the other areas, so I decided to play the "Ground attack" scenario from Cold War Rearmed 2.

Lets get to it, shall we.

The bird of the day is the AH-1S. Designed from the Hueyobra, the AH-1 has been around since Vietnam, and this variant shares some parts with the UH-1 Huey. Its is equipped with a cannon, a few TOW missiles and a few rockets.

The CRW2 team did a great job at modeling the cockpit. Although the avionics barely even work, it still looks nice. Too bad the only Arma helicopter to ever have proper avionics will be the AH-64 pack in development... http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?107995-AH-64-Pack
Anyway, our mission for today is to destroy a convoy heading North.
Simple enough.

Firing a TOW missile at them. They don't seem to have AA. ATGM's in vanilla Arma are fairly unrealistic, you just cycle through targets and fire. Mods like Mando's missile mod and ACE change this a bit.

Some more townage. (That was bad.) Don't mind the buggy chat, its beta after all.

Firing some FFAR's at them, which are also unrealistic, they lack proper CCIP reticles and release cues.
Not much resistance to now, I sense some difficulty flaws with this mission...

Well that was that, RTB.

CWR2 has some nice scenery, they really retain the OFP feel.

Landing attempt. Landing in Arma is far, far easier than in proper helicopter sims, although there is no trimming or autopilot options, you don't really need them, mostly because the aircraft have barely any weight to them.

All these faults aside, I liked this mission.

CWR2 is available for download from "PlayWithSix".