Warbirds Game System: Atari Lynx Cheat Category: Hint Game Company: Unknown Game Category: Unknown Hint, Cheat, Walkthrough:   Warbirds ======== Tip for new players ------------------- When playing alone, pause the game and you can still look around with the B' button. This may help new pilots so they can pause the action, look around and plan their route. To kill the Red Baron: ---------------------- First select unlimited damage, 200 rounds of ammo, no collisions, unlimited men if you're not good at landing, and a dueling start. Once you're in the air, fire your machine guns at the Baron. After he flies by, waste your ammunition on purpose. Next, land. While your men are trying to fix your plane, the Baron will crash trying to shoot you on the ground. Single player grave sight ------------------------- For single-player Grave Sight, as soon as you die (when the roses and skulls border appears) quickly pause the game. 'A' button will change the viewpoint from plane to plane (And to the point where you died). Look around with the joypad. Hints: ------ Regarding the head on confrontation, I don't like them. I prefer to have an advantage in position so my philosopy is to get out fast, especially if you are well matched. An important thing to remember here is that almost any aircraft can pull harder inside g's than outside g's. What I like to do is roll upside down while still at a rather large separation. This gives you the ability to pull back on the stick and dive in an inside turn. If your planes are equally matched, your opponent will be unable to track your turn with his gun (since for him, he will be trying to pull an OUTSIDE looping dive, in which he cannot pull as many g's as you). To pull this maneuver off correctly, you have to do a couple of things. 1) get inverted cleanly. Don't loose much altitude in the rollover; you want to meet your opponent at equal or slightly greater altitude and at EQUAL OR GREATER AIRSPEED. 2) Roll before your opponent can see you clearly. If he is a human and not a computer, he won't know your inverted till he has a good look at you. 3) Start your dive just as you come within weapons range. You are executing a DEFENSIVE manuever. You must pull it off cleanly and don't try to fight at the last minute because you think you have a good shot. You have placed yourself in a weak offensive position by inverting, so remain on the defense. 4) Determine as best you can your opponents actions after you whiz beneath him and move to obtain an offensive position. About going inverted. I haven't played warbirds yet, but normally the "snap roll" is the quickest way to invert without loosing significant speed or altitude (you will have to see if it is possible to execute this maneuver in the game). How to snap roll : 1) increase airspeed 2) pull up slightly on the stick. 3) roll to either side. 4) level in an inverted position. COMMENTS: --------- It takes some practice to do this cleanly and finish on the same heading you started. The momentum from the snap helps to flip the plane. I have heard the warbirds simulates propwash (the rotational torque effects of having a single spinning propeller and the spiraling air stream it generates). The propwash & torque should make it easier to roll in one direction than the other. Use the faster one. (note: I have tried to snaproll in accurate biplane simulators before with great difficulty. If it works, use it). THE BIG ONE: ------------ If you remember nothing else, know these two things.... 1) Altitude is Airspeed. If you have altitude, you have the advantage. 2) Speed, NOT MANUEVERABILITY, gives the combar advantage. Don't forget rule number two! You wouldn't believe how long it took the armed forces to realize that speed is what counts in air combat. For years planes were designed with manueverability over speed in mind. You should know better! I have heard that it is possible to turn the engines on and off during flight. This is not much of a throttle, but it is a tool in your bag of tricks so make use of it where appropriate. The good pilot knows his plane inside out. LAST WORD: ---------- One of my favorite combat manuevers is the low-g-yogo. Use it when in turning pusuit of a plane when you just can't seem to turn hard enough to 'sight him up'. While maintaining the turn, roll down a bit and dip towards the ground. THis will in effect give you a tighter turn. After dipping, while still turning, pull back up on his rear and let him have it! Doing a vertical ---------------- Doing a vertical inside loop gives you more speed in the end than when you started. When you start with Dueling Start, you have time to do two of these loops before you get close enough to shoot, giving you a tremendous speed advantage over the other plane(s). I can always kill a single novice pilot in a very short time starting this way. I can also kill the Red Baron pretty consistently. Going against two or more planes is a little iffy still, the best strategy I've come up with so far is to fly between the planes trying to get them bunched up, then getting behind them. Not always something I can manage... But still, the speed advantage is pretty helpful.