Hints and Spoilers

There's really no one magic secret to getting through the missions in this campaign succesfully, of course (unless it's making your plane invulnerable and giving yourself unlimited ammo!) In general, the best thing you can do is be aware of the mission objectives and keep an eye out for whatever action will best help you to meet them.

For example; in a ground attack mission which requires the elimination of a large number of enemy units, it is often a good idea to take a look at the whereabouts of friendly ground units first. Are there German Panzers already advancing on that row of American trucks? If so, forget about wasting time and ammo strafing the trucks - the Panzers will do the job of wiping them out for you. Concentrate instead on enemy units which might be a threat to the Panzers (particularly any enemy aircraft on ground attack duties, also enemy tanks or, to a lesser extent, artillery in the area), pick off any M16 halftracks which might shoot you or your wingmen down, then switch your attention to ground units which are objectives but which are far enough away from friendly tanks that they may escape attention unless you deal with them personally.

All the missions included in the campaign pack are listed below, along with a brief description of the action involved in each mission. So if you don't want to know what's coming up ahead in the campaign, read no further!

Campaign Flow

The chart below shows the overall flow of missions within the campaign, depending on mission success or failure. The campaign is divided into three stages, which are seperated by branch points. At each of the two branch points in the mission, the path is taken which reflects the number of losses the player has suffered in the proceeding stage of the campaign.

The filenames of the actual missions are all in the format bhfw[number].mis, where [number] equals the number depicted on the flow chart below.

Note also that the "special mission" (bhfwsp.mis) will be called if at any point in the campaign the player has lost more than 3 missions in total. Success at the special mission means the player continues on thereafter from whatever point in the campaign they had previously reached; failure means a premature end to the campaign.