Jihad Opponent Wanted

[Volcano Man]

I haven't messed with Jihad '04 since maybe, six years ago. But from what I remember (it is slowly coming back to me), I experimented with the IF flag and felt that it was unrealistic.

Helicopters fly low enough (through NOE) that radar guided SAMs cannot effectively engage them at the same ranges that they can engage aircraft. They basically need an LOS to the target to pick them up on radar, of course this also has its disadvantages such as with night conditions and SAM units only being able to fire at one hex. It would not make sense to simply give every SAM unit in the OOB the IF rating, because the high altitude SAM units would be able to unrealistically pick off helicopters at 40km range.

That said, I probably went to the extreme by restricting all SAM units from IF capability, I could probably give the IF flag to the short range SAM units such as the SA-8 SP SAM, SA-9 SP SAM and M730 Chapparal SP SAM and that would make more sense. I will probably do that eventually, however there are still questionable mechanics involved where the helicopter must first be spotted by a third party to be engaged by the SAM.

Anyway, I may give the flag to the short range / IR SAM units as mentioned, but in the mean time it won't make much difference since there are only a handful of those units in the OOB.