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Sky Crawlers Mission 7
Mission 7 is a reward for finishing Mission 6. Its location is Lake Naburu (which translates as something like teaser), in the general location of the Cheimsee on the German/Austrian border area. It’s a bit of a giggle, best described as a wet towel fight between you and Oroshina. You are testing two prototype Sanka…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 5
Mission 5 is a fighter sweep over Yaura, an old samurai castle on the Rhine, near Darmstadt. The initial briefing is a little odd. Rostok is responding to “a large number of enemy fighters are airborne over Yura.” A better way to describe it is that “we are making a major show of force, hoping…
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Cougar Base update
NOTE: This entry has been superseded by a more current one. Well, Google updated their photo, and the description in my original post is incorrect. Now, there are nineteen or so helicopters parked on the NW pads. They are mostly Hinds, I think, with the typical Russian design odd number of blades, but there are…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 4
This is the first ground attack (GA) mission in the game. The industrial center at Kiriki (on what is probably the Elbe River, near real-world Magdeberg, Germany) is held by Lautern forces, and your attack is part of the effort to drive them out. It’s a pretty straightforward thirty minutes: sweep in and kill some…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 3
Mission 3 is a 30 minute mission to intercept a group of enemy transports who are trying to make an airdrop at the Lautern base at Maimahara (the last kanji in the name implies farmland) in the vicinity of real-world Nurenberg, Germany. This is the first combat mission for the new kildren, and there’s lots…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 17: Togakuten – Beloved Enemy
Mission 17 is another fighter sweep, this one prearranged, far from the Cougar base and over medieval Mont St Michele, the famous French island abbey with the high tides – here called Togakuten. The mission turns out to be a three parter. It’s tough enough that I haven’t finished Part 3 yet, but I thought…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 2
Mission 2 is a 30 minute fighter sweep over a major city in the vicinity of the real world Weimar, Germany. In SCIA the city is Ubasama, which as far as I can tell might mean honored grandmother (but the last two kanji on the title page seem to be “mawa” and “toi”). The sweep…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 1
Herewith I am starting a writeup of my impression of each of the missions in SCIA. It’s not really a review, and it’s not really a collection of hints. Call it ‘thoughts while crawling’. Mission 1 is as close to a training mission as you get. You have flown from your base in the Czech…