SelenicMartian

SelenicMartian is a Let's Player from the Something Awful forums, known for his extensive knowledge of the Strike Fighters series, Cold War-era military aviation, and having a unique accent that is largely unplaceable. His LP of Strike Fighters 2 completed in August 2014, and was widely regarded as one of the most informative military-oriented LPs produced on the forums. The LP ended with over 1000 posts and over 50,000 thread views.

Strike Fighters 2 LP Links
Contents: Video 0: Test recording with poor sound, in which a P-51D amuses a Soviet aircraft carrier in Iceland. DO NOT WATCH!

Subtitles FAQ : red - player related, yellow - player squadron related, blue - friendly squadron related.

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259#post420148934 Season 1. Operation Kadesh - A Lovely Hebrew Mass (P-51D Mustang) S01E01: 1956.10.29] S01E02: 1956.10.29 (Still) S01E03: 1956.10.29 (Yet again) S01E04: 1956.10.30 S01E05: 1956.10.30 (But a bit later) S01E06: 1956.10.31 S01E07: 1956.10.31 (We do advance about 2 hrs per mission now) S01E08: 1956.10.31 S01E09: 1956.11.01 (A six-pack) S01E10: 1956.11.02 (The End)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=2#post420858649 Season 2. Operation Kadesh - Go down, Moses (Meteor F.8) S02E01: 1956.10.29 (It's THAT day again)] S02E02: 1956.10.29 (Twists of F8) S02E03: 1956.10.29 (Alarm!) S02E04: 1956.10.31 (Falling Stars) S02E05: 1956.11.02 (The Other End)

Vote #1

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=4#post421401664 Sub-Season 3A. Red Tide - Fetchez la Vache! (Mystère IV A)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=5#post421464091 Sub-Season 3B. Red Tide - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? (F-100A Super Sabre)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=5#post421567996 Season 3. Red Tide - I Never Met a Man I Didn't Mutilate (Hunter F.4) S03E01: 1956.11.17-18 (Assault & Battery)] S03E02: 1956.11.19-20 (Leaking & Vertigo) S03E03: 1956.11.21-22 (Cross & Distinguished) S03E04: 1956.11.23-30 (69 & DP) S03E05: 1956.12.01-07 (Fire & Drizzle) S03E06: 1956.12.08-24 (Hunters & Hunters)

Vote #2

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=7#post422206239 Sub-Season 4A. Red Thunder - 5 O'Clock Charlie (Hunter FGA.9)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=7#post422222574 Sub-Season 4B. Red Thunder - Cooking With Gas (F-100D Super Sabre)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=7#post422385356 Sub-Season 4C. Red Thunder - Thorsday (Lightning F.1)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=8#post422488074 Season 4. Red Thunder - Rain-in-the-Face (F-105D Thunderchief) S04E01: 1962.10.26 (Live Long and Prosper)] S04E02: 1962.10.27-28 (Fiery Rain) S04E03: 1962.10.29-30 (Speedy Delivery to Your Doorstep) S04E04: 1962.10.31-1962.11.07 (Tape Measurement Medallist) S04E05: 1962.11.08-14 (Will Somebody Shoot Me Down, Please) S04E06: 1962.11.15-21 (It's a Fighter, Jim, Not a Bomber)

Vote #3

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=10#post423131466 Season 5. Rolling Thunder - Weapons of the Future (F-4B & F-8C) S05E01: 1965 (Write "Fuck" on their planes)] S05E02: 1966 (SHOEHORN'd) S05E03: 1967 (Minor Inconveniences) S05E04: 1968 (Weird Shit) S05E05: 1968 (A Realistic Outcome)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=11#post423651520 Sub-Season 6A. Rolling Thunder - Bait and Switch (F-105D Thunderchief (66))] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=11#post423739307 Sub-Season 6B. Rolling Thunder - The Lord Baldrick (A-7A Corsair II, also featuring A-7C Corsair II)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=11#post423941731 Season 6. Rolling Thunder - A Classic Vespa (A-4B) S06E01: 1966 (Turning With the Best)] S06E02: 1967 (An Even Wilder Weasel) S06E03: 1968 (Wind Up) S06E04: 1968 (Plague of Locusts) S06E05: 1967 (Pinpoint Accuracy)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=12#post424543165 Season 7. Six-Day War - A Jew? Here? (Mirage IIICJ Shahak) S07E01: 1967.06.05 (Day One - Introduction To Mayhem)] S07E02: 1967.06.06 (Day Two - Battle of Jericho) S07E03: 1967.06.07-08 (Day Three & Four - Slow Days Are Here Again) S07E04: 1967.06.09 (Day Five - Counting Marks) S07E05: 1967.06.10 (Day Six - Everyone Strikes Back)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=13#post424911772 Season 8. Red Hammer - Supercruising For a Bruising (Lightning F.3) S08E01: 1968.08.23 (Getting Nowhere Fast)] S08E02: 1968.08.24-25 (He's Firing His Guns... Eventually) S08E03: 1968.08.26-27 (Velites) S08E04: 1968.08.28-29 (Can't They Just Send the Phantoms?) S08E05: 1968.08.31 - 1968.09.16 (The Mad, the Lazy, and the Stupid)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=14#post425545147 Season 9. Red Hammer - Join the Navy (F-4D Phantom II) S09E01: 1968.08.21-22 (Fantastically Failing at Falconry)] S09E02: 1968.08.23-24 (Laser Pointer of Doom)

Bonus 1: A Floral Arrangement

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=15#post425914265 Season 10. Linebacker I - Across Her Nose, Not Up It! (F-4J Phantom II) S10E01: 1972.05.08-10 (Jesus AIM-9H Christ)] S10E02: 1972.05.12-14 (Hungry For Jam)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=16#post426178539 Season 11. Linebacker II - Goons For Hire, Thugs For Rent (F-8J Crusader et al.) S11E01: 1972.12.18 (The Other Side)] S11E02: 1972.12.19-20 (Contrast Shower) S11E03: 1972.12.20-21 (Money, And How Not To Do It) S11E04: 1972.12.21-22 (Flight of the Kiwis) S11E05: 1972.12.23 (Nevermore)

Vote #4

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=17#post426853331 Sub-Season 12A. Yom Kippur War - A Manly Chin (F-4E Kurnass)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=17#post426897507 Sub-Season 12B. Yom Kippur War - A Red-Hot Poker Up My Ass (Nesher)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=17#post426981095 Season 12. Yom Kippur War - Hump or Death (A-4H Ahit) S11E01: 1973.10.06-07 (I Hate Sand)] S11E02: 1973.10.08-12 (Miscellaneous) S11E03: 1973.10.13-16 (The Many Ways To Fail) or (The Ace Summoner) S11E04: 1973.10.17-20 (Testing the Ejection Seat) S11E05: 1973.10.21 (The Hunchback of Negev)

Bonus 2: Balloons, Biplanes, Bridges

Vote #5

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=19#post427895462 Season 13. Red Lightning - An Office On the Top Floor (F-15A Eagle) S13E01: 1979.09.26-27 (Flyswatter)] S13E02: 1979.09.28-10.02 (The Fastest Bar) S13E03: 1979.10.03-06 (Slow and Steady) S13E04: 1979.10.07-10 (Eagle-coloured Skies) S13E05: 1979.10.11-28 (Ace Combat)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=20#post428812163 Sub-Season 14A & 14B. Red Lightning - Hot Fuzz (Lightning F.6 & F-4M)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=21#post428932379 Season 14. Red Lightning - Not Supported By This Engine (A-10A Thunderbolt II) S14E01: 1979.09.27-28 (Getting Acquainted)] S14E02: 1979.09.29-10.01 (Casual Eradication) S14E03: 1979.10.02-07 (Surgical Firestorms) S14E04: 1979.10.08-09 (In Maverick We Trust)

Bonus 3: Homeworld

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=22#post429622309 Sub-Season 15A & 15B. Red Lightning - Continental Breakfast (Mirage 5BA & F-4F)] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=22#post429755919 Season 15. Red Lightning - Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (Harrier GR.3) S15E01: 1979.09.18-19 (Tree-hugger)] S15E02: 1979.09.20-21 (Lightweight) S15E03: 1979.09.22-23 (Bloody Miracles) S15E04: 1979.09.24-25 (Coming From Behind) S15E05: 1979.09.26-27 (Deutsche Welle)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=24#post431210948 Season 16. Northern Sabre - You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (A-7E Corsair II (74)) S16E01: 1979.09.19 (Niceland?)] S16E02: 1979.09.19-20 (Aircraft Carrier Theme Park) S16E03: Furiously Undershooting

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=24#post431744612 Season 17. Northern Sabre - Always Underpowered, Never Outgunned (F-14A Tomcat (77)) S17E01: 1979.09.19 (The Fat Cat)] S17E02: 1979.09.19-20 (Still No Phoenix) S17E03: 1979.09.20 (The Fleet Offender) S17E04: 1979.09.20-21 (Guns, Guns, Phoenix) S17E05: 1979.09.21 (And the Kitchens Sink)

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=26#post432663672 Season 18. The Lebanon War - Duck Tales (Kfir C2) S18E01: 1982.06.06 (Kfir Is the MiGkiller)] S18E02: 1982.06.07 (Kfir And Loathing) S18E03: 1982.06.08 (No Kfir) S18E04: 1982.06.09 (Another Kfir In the Wall)

Bonus 4: Generation One

[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573259&pagenumber=27#post433413824 Season 19. The Lebanon War - A Viper's Bite (F-16A) S19E01: 1982.06.06 (Overstocked)] S19E02: 1982.06.07 (NovaLogic-style) S19E03: 1982.06.08 (Final Approach) S19E04: 1982.06.09 (The Last Itch)

The tale of our evolution We ditched the piston engine and the propeller in favour of the jet turbine, prepared for the high speed with swept wings and stabilators; our afterburners took us to Mach 1; we received aiming assistance from a radar, streamlined our bombs and learned to pack our rockets tighter, let loose some heat-seeking missiles, dabbled in supercruising, pondered the advantages of spoilerons, hit the targets beyond visual range with semi-active radar homing missiles, deployed retarded and guided bombs, taught our missiles to sniff out the enemy radars and backed that up with inertial guidance; our computer helped us aim our unguided bombs; we played with the elevons on a tailless delta wing, aimed our bombs with our own laser, used the Doppler effect to clean up the noise on our radar screen, hit them with guided air-to-ground missiles, asked a computer to help us control the plane, tried out thrust vectoring, sampled the magical speed of a phased array radar and put some radars into our missiles, envied the speed of cruise missiles, wore canards because they look funny, and finally went full fly-by-wire.

The pilot room

Emir "Killer7" Parkreiner (retired after surviving Operation Kadesh) Karim "Sphynx" Ibrahan  suggested by Veloxyll (retired after surviving Operation Kadesh with 37 air kills) Jack "Goldfish" Harkness  suggested by SSJ Reeko (stopped the Red Tide with 39 kills) Bruce "Footlong" Goosby  suggested by Leif. (became an ace and crashed on landing on the last day of service) Quincey "Deadleye" McGraw. born of sunburstbasser and Soup Inspector (returned to Vietnam, got captured, but started a small personality cult in the jungle) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Wilbur "A Great Santini" Meechum  kinda suggested by Bacarruda<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (proudly wore a tight-fitting plane to Vietnam) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Peter "Fizzy" Wiseburgh  suggested by Suspect Bucket<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (got 14 kills in six days) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Earl "Grey" Assam (builds a post-nuclear tea empire) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Flash "Lionel O" Storm  inspired by Cooked Auto and Makrond<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (retired in the middle of a war, with 15 kills) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Don "Dingle" Berry  suggested by The Casualty<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (tells tales of flying through the forest of smoke trails) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Che "Rebel" Castro (retired to his plane breeding ranch) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Ilan "Senator" Sharon  suggested by Leif.<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (rode his A-4H for so long, it became a hunchback) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Randall "Duke" Cunningham  suggested by Dusseldorf<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (got zapped by Red Lightning, and helped his unit to achieve 216 kills) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Toledo "No Callsign" Conway  suggested by Strabo<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (crushed the Soviet forces in Germany in two weeks) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Barbara Millicent "Barbie" Roberts (searches for the Pegasus turbofan sister) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Martin "Scuba Tank" Brody (chills watching the world burn) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Pete "Maverick" Mitchell  suggested by Bacarruda<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (departed Iceland leaving a trail of crashed Tomcats behind) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Donald "Canard" Duck (says no to re-visiting Cyprus) <span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Avi "Anvil" Lieberman  suggested by Leif.<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;"> (recommends the Lebanese airspace as a relaxing holiday destination)

<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:19px;">Special appearances by Sodoff "Baldrick!" Baldrick.