it was gutting to see the Phantoms go, but they were retained land-based for some time after as I recall. The Buccaneers on the other hand stayed front-line for years despite having no carrier, if you remember they were indispensable in Gulf War 1.

Now there's an idea for a CFS3 mod; Phantoms, Buccaneers, Shackletons, all the old kit from when we were boys and the world was a simpler place.

I feel like putting a total exclusion zone around Falkland Base and trashing the Outcast cruiser "Generally Belgrauniad" and I'm sure that one of the Outcasts leaders must be called Galtieri or Maradona.

yeah it was, do u like the lancaster bomber from ww2?

I'm not THAT old! however my dad flew on Lancs during the war, also Halifaxes, and one of my best mates from school was a fitter in the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for a while so I have been in the preserved Lanc City of Lincoln, unf. not when it's been flying. Wouldn't mind 'though.... having said that they were apparently murder to get out of on ops if you had to bale, due to the mainspar lying transverse across the main cabin. Fortunately my old man never had to bale.

Tawak, I know why you couldn't fire off those exocets!!

You didn't have a team of French technicians from Aerospatiale working on installing them properly on your Super Etendards, like the Argentinians had during the Falklands War.

No wonder the Alliance didn't invite those snakes along to the Sirius Sector !!

oh yeah that's true, isn't it... I'd forgotten that. Yet another reason to boycott Golden Delicious.

Mind you, some Frenchies might have sneaked aboard the Liberty disguised as Canadians. And I wonder what nationality the saboteur on the Hispania was, my moneys on him NOT being Spanish, prob. French from Andorra or Biarritz, putting bombs on ships is a French speciality after all. Rainbow Warrior come to mind?

Most likely an ETA saboteur.

p.s. If you look at the Liberty names, you'll see every nationality there ... Brit, Froglais, German, Hispanic, Irish, Polish etc. Only way some nationalities survived apparently. Lots of black folks too. Note Mickeysoft's political correctness in making the only black woman in the game a brilliant PhD, while the head of the Order -- the real good guys -- is black. Haven't noticed any black Bretonians around. No more boxing champions ...