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Ah. I was familiar with colour and armour. This one is new to me, however. Thanks for the correction.

Upon loading Ground Combat I just noticed that the description says that the primary goal is collecting alien "artefacts" rather than "artifacts". This isn't really a bug though...so where to post it?

Wow! Much easier. I sent out to F17s and de-selected one missile as suggested. By the time i closed the distance the Scout had already been dropped by the three missiles. Nice! Finally I can see some ground combat!

Thanks for all of the tips! That was fast! For a game that hasn't "officially" released there must be some real traffic here. Glad to see it. Anyway, I didn't even realize you could zoom in. I will definetely give that a try. I have tried both the Mig and the F17. Both have been destroyed a couple of times. The one time I killed something I think it was the Mig and the ship was completely destroyed. So far i think i have only seen Scouts. I'm not sure how i got too close to fire...I haven't changed the selection collors too much on the Missiles. I tried clicking on them, but I thought it was either selected or de-selected. It sounds like (based on your color descriptions) that there are more settings than that. Laslty, I wondered if you could send out more than one ship at a time but hadn't tried it yet. I'll go give that a try. Thanks again!

Considering how much people seem to like the air combat I feel like I must be doing something wrong. So far I have shot down 1 alien ship and lost like 5 aircraft. I didn't even notice the roll button until just recently. It helps, but I still struggle. I keep finding myself trailing closely behind an alien ship; too close to shoot it. I turn left to engage, it turns right to try to circle around. I turn right to engage, it turns left to try to circle around. I literally went right off the grid trying to line up a shot. Finally, my ship ran out of gas and the game prompted me to return to base. When I clicked on ok the game froze and I had to close it. Anyone have some tips? It can't be as hard as I'm making it. Is there more to it than just Space Bar = Pause, click Afterburner, Click Roll, click to select/de-select Armaments? Is there any way to slow down when you're tailing to create a firing lane? I tried to disengage (and then re-engage) to create a little distance, but I quickly found out that this doesn't work (as it did in Xcom).