Battlehawks 1942
LucasFilm Games released Battlehawks 1942 in October of 1988 for IBM PC MS-DOS. Battlehawks 1942 was designed by Lawrence Holland (X-wing) and Noah Falstein, programmed by Lawrence Holland and Michael Breen, and drawn by Ken Macklin, Martin Cameron and James McLeod.
Battlehawks 1942 is predecessor of LucasFilm Games' Their Finest Hour of 1989 and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe of 1991.
Battlehawks 1942 is notable for its historical accuracy and realistic WWII dogfighting and dive-bombing tactics.
Battlehawks 1942 players can pilot six different American or Japanese WWII-era fighter or bomber aircraft in four different WWII Pacific-War battles of 1942.
- Battle of Coral Sea
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Eastern Solomon Islands
- Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
Battlehawks 1942 was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB diskettes or 2x 5.25" 360kB floppy disks and installs to hard disk drive via Battlehawks 1942 Installation. The install size is 760 kbytes and consists of 46 files.
Audio-wise, Battlehawks 1942 features IBM PC Speaker sound effects by Waldo Kagan.
Battlehawks 1942 controls support mouse, keyboard or analogue joystick.
Battlehawks 1942 Features
- Flat-shaded real-time 3D graphics with 3x ground-detail levels
- 16-color EGA, Tandy or VGA 320x200 (and 4-color CGA 320x200)
- Realistic World War II naval flight simulator
- Setting: Pacific War
- 4x Training missions
- 4x Active Duty missions
- 12x WWII aircraft to pilot
- Flight physics: roll, pitch, yaw, thrust, drag, lift, gravity
- Dogfighting, dive-bombing & torpedo-bombing
- Take off, landing, spins, spin recovery, stall, stall recovery
- In-flight Map/Radio screen
- Create & manage pilots & crews
- Medals & Promotions
- Replay Mode
- 6x camera views
Battlehawks 1942 manual: 127 pages.
Battlehawks 1942 copy protection: Reference to game manual.
Battlehawks 1942 Maneuvers
- Side attack
- Stern attack
- Opposite attack
- Deflection shooting
- Overhead approach from the same course
- Overhead approach from the opposite course
- Deflection shooting
- The Scissors
- Immelmann turn
- Split-S
Japanese Aircraft of Battlehawks 1942
- Mitsubishi AGM2 Type O Model 21 "Zeke" Carrier-Based Fighter
- Mitsubishi AGM3 Type O Model 32 "Zeke" Carrier-Based Fighter
- Aichi D3A1 Type 99 Model 11 "Val" Carrier-Based Bomber
- Aichi D3A2 Type 99 Model 12 "Val" Carrier-Based Bomber
- Nakajima B5N1 Type 97 Model 11 "Kate" Carrier-Based Torpedo Bomber
- Nakajima B5N2 Type 97 Model 12 "Kate" Carrier-Based Torpedo Bomber
U.S. Navy Aircraft of Battlehawks 1942
- Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" Carrier-Based Fighter
- Grumman F4F-3A "Wildcat" Carrier-Based Fighter
- Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" Carrier-Based Fighter
- Douglas SBD-2 "Dauntless" Carrier-Based Dive Bomber
- Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" Carrier-Based Dive Bomber
- Grumman TBF-1 "Avenger" Carrier-Based Torpedo Bomber
Japanese Aircraft Ordnance of Battlehawks 1942
- 7.7 mm Machine Gun
- 20 mm Cannon
- 250-kilogram Bombs
- Type 95 Torpedo
U.S. Aircraft Ordnance of Battlehawks 1942
- .30 Caliber Machine Gun
- .50 Caliber Machine Gun
- 500/1,000-pound Bombs
- Mark 13 Torpedo
Japanese Warships of Battlehawks 1942
- Akagi Class aircraft carrier
- Kaga Class aircraft carrier
- Ryujo Class aircraft carrier
- Shoho Class aircraft carrier
- Shokaku Class aircraft carrier
- Soryu Class aircraft carrier
- Furutaka Class heavy cruiser
- Mogami Class heavy cruiser
- Tone Class heavy cruiser
- Fubuki Class destroyer
- Hatsuharu Class destroyer
- Kagero Class destroyer
- Yugumo Class destroyer
U.S. Navy Warships of Battlehawks 1942
- Lexington Class aircraft carrier
- Yorktown Class aircraft carrier
- Hornet Class aircraft carrier
- Astoria Class heavy cruiser
- Atlanta Class heavy cruiser
- McCall Class destroyer
- Sims Class destroyer
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