Ammo Conservation: The Mission. A skill I often lack, as a commensurate missile spammer, but quite critical here - if you don't want to spend 10 minutes waiting for your wingmen to kill the AWACS. That happened to me once, but what was most interesting about that is there were some 8 minutes of unique lines - stuff almost no one would ever get to listen. If we criticize AC5 for its heavy scripting, then imagine the amount of dialogue in well-paced missions hidden minutes deep into them because no one can play them that slow. Good lord, Kono, what were you thinking.

Also, I have a soft spot for this Su-35. On top of my fondness for Flankers with canards, the Super Flanker's a forsaken, forgotten aircraft. The new Su-35 retconned its designation, lowering it to a measly variant ("Su-27M"); and the Su-37, which is actually just Su-35 #11 fitted with thrust vectoring and an upgraded FCS (which later crashed), is the only memory people bear of this variant. 15 prototypes build, now languishing under the shadow of Sukhoi's new favored child, and of their long deceased brother. Not for me, though. You can't retcon real life, and you sure can't retcon my memories of using it in AC2.

Finally, my apologies for the glitched cloud shadows. The issue that causes it has been fixed by the most recent emulator dev built, but it was too late to recap the mission.

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