First Eagles - WWI and Early Years 1914 - 1920

Hi Folks,
 
this is the first belgian skin pack, other are under construction. For the lovely modelled Hanriot HD1 is the only belgian plane, i decided to change this circumstance.
 
Hereby you can fly your Nieuport 17 under belgian colours. There are the following 4 skins included:
 
- Camo Skin with the insignia of the 1st Escadrille, the scotish thistle, choosen by André de Meulemeester for the 1ére Escadrille de Chasse in 1917. The 9th Escadrille used the thistle as well.
- Camo Skin of the 1st Escadrille with the logo "Vampire" flown by Abel de Neef.
- 1st Escadrille Skin flown by André de Meulemeester.
- 5th Escadrille Skin flown by Edmond Thieffry.
 
Installation instructions are included, hope you will enjoy the skins.
 
Look out, for there are outher skins available, the Morane Type H and the Nieuport 16 skins will follow. A Nieuport 11 Skin Pack is under construction. A medal pack will be either made by Capitaine Vengeur or by me, and will be released as soon as possible.
 
Cheers,
 
Herman the Hun

Admins - please delete this file.
It was double-posted back then, but I only saw that now. Sorry!
 
Olham

Hi folks,
 
this is a repaint of the Siemens Schuckert D.III in Jasta 12 colours. The fuselage shows the default personal insignias and the tail fin is numbered consecutively from 1 up to 32. I hope you will enjoy it, happy hunting.
 
Cheers,
 
Hermann the Hun

here are
SE5 with 150 Hp Hispano-Suiza
SE5a early
SE5a
SE5a VIPER
 
from peter01's FM

This Albatros D.III is said to be from Jasta 36 in the Spring of 1917.
 
The pilot, sadly, is unknown as is the serial number. The colors are believed to be a black and yellow checkered pattern.
 
 
Enjoy,
quack74
 
 

Fokker D.VII 6-Pack
 
Marine-FeldJagdstaffeln I, II, III (September 1918)
 
MFJ.I:
 
a) Ltn.z.S Gothard Sachsenberg - Yellow and Black checkered fuselage
Commander of all Marine-FeldJadgstaffeln
 
b) One generic MFJ.I D.VII with single black stripe on both elevators
 
MFJ.II:
 
a) One generic MFJ.II D.VII with two black stripes on each elevator
 
MFJ.III:
 
a) Oblt. Franz Mayer - White fuselage with black diagonal bars along fuselage and three black stripes on elevators.
 
b) Ltn. Hans Goerth - White fuselage band with large black heart. Three black bands on elevators.
 
c) One generic MFJ.III D.VII with three black stripes on elevators.
 
MFJ.I - One black stripe on each elevator.
MFJ.II - Two Black stripes on each elevator.
MFJ.III - Three black Stripes on each elevator.
 
Enjoy, quack74
 
 

This is a 12-Pack of Jasta Boelcke Fokker D.VII's in the Summer/Autum of 1918.
 
Sadly the pilots and serials are unknown
 
Only two can be identified AFAIK.
 
Oblt. Carl Bolle - Black fuselage with yellow band
Ltn. Alfred Lindenberg - Yellow and black striped fuselage
 
Edit:
I fixed the rudder cross. It's now a little bigger and extends onto the tail fin
 
 
Enjoy,
quack74

Gibraltar Buildings & Trees.
 
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Bien, creo que el titulo expresa lo que contiene este paquete... :)
 
Estos son mis primeros "tod" files completamente nuevos y originales. Poco a poco
estoy ganando la batalla al "terrain editor"!
 
Cualquier comentario o sugerencia es agradecida y bienvenida. Animo!
 
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Well, I think the title expresses what is inside this package ... :)
 
These are my first completely new and original ".tod files". Slowly I'm winning the
"terrain editor" battle !
 
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated and welcome. Courage!

Fokker D.VII's of Jasta 26 in the summer/Autum of 1918
 
*10-Pack*
 
Most are unidentified. Only five are known AFAIK
One generic Jasta 26 skin included.
 
Oblt. Bruno Loerzer - Black and white horizontal stripped upper wings and lower underside wings
 
Ltn. Otto Esswein - Large "E" on fuselage sides and center section of upper wings
 
Ltn. d R Franz Brandt - Thin black stripe
 
Ltn. Theodor Dahlmann - Winged helmut
 
Ltn Otto Fruhner - 4-F cross ( made to look like his Alb D.V)
 
 
Edit:
 
I fixed the tail crosses on all the skins and added three more ace skins.
 
 
Enjoy,
quack74

Lt. Rudolf Wendelmuth of Jasta 20. Autum 1917.
 
Albatros D.V, 1111/17
 
 
Enjoy,
quack74

This is a mod of the original Nieuport 11 to present:
 
Nieuport 16 C.1 110hp
Nieuport 16 C.1 130hp
Nieuport 16 RFC
Nieuport 16 C.1 Dual Lewis
Nieuport 16 C.1 Lewis Late
Nieuport 16 C.1 Vickers Late
 
thanks to :
 
MontyCZ and Texmurphy for the original Nieuport 11
Whiteknight06604 for the N17 with uper gun
peter01 for is flight model
 
instalation:
Recommend you back up your install first.
just drop in your main First Eagles directory
You will be prompted whether to overwrite files, confirm to overwrite
 
Any questions or comments
Combatace handle christian59
 
hope you will have good time with this fighter
 
 

It seems that I inadvertently removed the QHuts from the types ini.
Also, the Ashqelon fuel dump was too far inland.
 
This pak will fix that...it's the
 
Palestine_targets.ini
and
Palestine_types.ini
 
A couple of destroyed effects, in the types ini, have also been 'repaired' (ie: spelling eroor)
 
Just unzip to a temp folder, your desktop or directly to the /Palestine terrain folder. Allow for the overwrite.
 
My sincere apologies for this mistake!!!
 
(no screenie included)
 
Wrench
kevin stein

This is just a mod of the original Nieuport 17 to represent the 17/23 familly
a C.1 model
early model with lewis wing gun "*"
model with 2 uper gun "*"
model with a uper gun and a fuselage gun"*"
model with 2 uper gun and fuselage gun"*"
 
"*" upgraded cockpits, so the gun on the fusselage must be carried out of sight
 
thanks to :
 
MontyCZ and Texmurphy for the original Nieuport 17
 
Whiteknight06604 for the N17 with uper gun
 
Aligator devil for is cockpit works and upgrade and hangar
 
peter01 for is flight model
 
please direct any questions about this mod to me at the below places.
 
 
instalation:
 
just drop the in your FirstEagles folder
 
and add all in the weapons folder in the weapon folder of your game and say ok to overwrite
 
 
if you add N17 in a campaing dont forget to add
 
Supply[001].WeaponType=lewis01
Supply[001].Quantity=240
 
a supply of the lewis in your squadron or the ghost lewis will come one more time
 
 
like this
 
[AirUnitxxx]
AircraftType=Nieuport17b
Squadron=139AS
ForceID=1
Nation=USAS
DefaultTexture=ESC124
StartNumber=1
BaseArea=Toul Aerodrome
RandomChance=100
BaseMoveChance=10
MaxAircraft=16
StartAircraft=16
MaxPilots=16
StartPilots=16
Experience=50
Morale=100
Supply=50
Intelligence=20
MissionChance[sWEEP]=90
MissionChance[CAP]=90
MissionChance[iNTERCEPT]=60
MissionChance[ESCORT]=70
MissionChance=10
MissionChance[CAS]=10
MissionChance[sEAD]=0
MissionChance[ARMED_RECON]=25
MissionChance[ANTI_SHIP]=0
MissionChance[RECON]=50
MissionChance[bALLOON_BUSTING]=15
MissionChance[bALLOON_DEFENSE]=10
UpgradeType=NEVER
Supply[001].WeaponType=lewis01
Supply[001].Quantity=240
 
 
Any questions or comments
Combatace handle christian59
 
hope you will have good time with this fighter

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Nieuport N 17/23 Familly for ThirdWires First Eagles The Great Air War 1918
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File version 2.0 release date 15.11.2010
 
This package contains flyable 5 Nieuport 17 and 3 Nieuport 23 plane with cockpit
 
about authors:
Flight model peter01, member of CombatAce.com
3D Model and textures Monty CZ, member of CombatAce.com
any sugestions can be posted at combatace forum.
any changes of this file must be authorized by authors
contact us at combatace.
 
thanks to :
 
MontyCZ and Texmurphy for the original Nieuport 17
 
Whiteknight06604 for the N17 with uper gun
 
Aligator devil for is cockpit works and upgrade and hangar
 
peter01 for is flight model
 
 
please direct any questions about this mod to me at the below places.
 
 
instalation:
 
just drop in the C:\Users\username\Saved Games\ThirdWire\FirstEagles2
 
 
 
Technical data of the real plane:
 
Nieuport 17
 
Type single-seated fighter
Power plant one air-cooled Le Rhone 9J (9-cylinder radial engine)
with 110 HP (80.9 kW) alternatively
a Le-Clerget engine with 130 PS (95.6 kW)
Year of construction 1916
 
Perfomance
 
Maximum speed 177 km/h from ground proximity to an altitude of 2,000 m
Rate of climb climbs to 2,000 m altitude in 5.30 min
Ceiling 5,300 m
Operational range 250 km
Endurance 2 hrs
 
Weight
 
Empty weight 374 kg
Take-off weight 565 kg
 
Dimensions
 
Length 5.77 m
Height 2.44 m
Wing area 14,75 qm
Span 8.17 m
Crew 1 person
 
Useful load/armament
one or two Lewis machine guns or one Vickers
machine gun. Fixedly mounted on the fuselage and
firing in synchronization through the propeller arc.

********* The Battle of Caporetto **********
 
*Version 2.0*
 
By quack74
 
November 2010
 
This download contains a new campaign data.ini and Config.ini for the "Battle of Caporetto" campaign made by quack74.
 
The upgrade to 2.0 contains German air units that participated in the great battle. Along with a few aces.
Most of the markings are not historically accurate due to lack of detailed information and photographs. The names of the aces are accurate. All the units that I have included are accurate.
 
**You MUST have "The Battle of Caporetto" Version 1.0 (the original download, part1 and part2) for this to work properly**
 
These German units were sent to reinforce the Austrian campaign against the Italians soon after the collapse of the Eastern (Russian) Front. These units would start to appear in September of 1917 and last till the end of February 1918.
 
Jagdstaffeln (fighters):
 
Jasta 1 - Albatros D.V
Jasta 31 - Albatros D.III
Jasta 39 - Albatros D.IIIOAW
 
FeldFleigerAbteilung (ground attack):
 
FFA.2
FFA.14 - All DFWC5
FFA.17 -
FFA.39
 
Kampfgeschwader 4 units (bombers):
 
Kagohl 19
Kagohl 20 - All AEG G.IV
Kagohl 21
 
 
Also included are one more French air unit and one more Italian air unit.
 
French: Escadrille N392 (N24bis) standard markings
 
Italian: Squadriglia 79a (N27) Camouflage pattern with four known aces, including one ace skin.
 
Enjoy everyone, quack74
 
 

This is Part2 of the "Battle of Caporetto" campaign, Version 1.0, done by quack74
 
Part2 contains all the ENEMY (Austrian and German) aircraft files. Except for the Decal folders. They are all in Part1 download.
These files could not be included with Part1 only because of size.
After dowloading both Part1 and Part2 you should merge the two together to keep it all organized before installing. It could be confusing if you dont. Just copy all the aircraft files in the /Objects/ Aircraft/ folder from Part2 and paste them into the / Objects/ Aircraft/ folder in Part1. It's that easy.
 
Enjoy, quack74

The French had three versions of the Strutter. The 1A2 for recon and artillery spotting, and two bombers, the 1B2, which carried a gunner, and the 1B1 which had only the pilot. The French prioritized delivery of the 1A2. The 1A2 Strutters, like the English 9400 series, had a fuel tank between the pilot and the observer. Consequently the 1A2 had greater range than the 1B2 and 1B1, which carried internal bomb bays in that same area.
 
France began building Strutters under license in April 1916 to replace obsolete Farmans and Caudron G-4s. As the first French built Strutters were tested ten months later in February 1917, a 1B2 Strutter broke up in mid air. The British insisted over stressing by the pilot caused the crash but the French demanded a total design review. The review resulted in few changes, but French built Strutters were not put into combat until the Spring of 1917, when they were significantly outclassed by enemy aircraft.
 
Bombing squadrons were routinely equipped with a mix of the 1B2 and 1B1 variants. and the 1B2 was often used to escort the 1B1. I find no evidence that the French mounted any external stores on the 1A2 or either of the 1B Strutters.
 
The French produced approximately 4,500 Strutters through April 1918. Some American units were provided with French built Strutters, which they intensely disliked, in part because they were initially delivered without weapons. All versions of the Strutter had air brakes on the inboard lower wings, which are not operational on the model; these brakes were often not favored by the aircrews because they created “mushy” handling. Many pictures of Strutters nosed over, perhaps document this characteristic.
 
The flight models attempt to reflect the known variations in the French aircraft.
 
The windscreens on French Strutters were different (some would say more graceful) than the British. That, unfortunately has not been modeled in this version. Dagaith, my original partner in this project left to join the army before the 1A2 model was started. Perhaps one day I will become sufficiently adept with 3dMax to make the adjustment, but that is not possible today. I'd love to have some help with that, if there is someone interested who can make 3dMax sing and dance.
 
 
 
We may eventually have a 1B1 Strutter, but, meanwhile there are production delays. . .
 
Thanks to Dagaith for the original model, Peter01 for the flight model, Laton for the additional LODs, , Gustav for conseils français, as well as beta testing by Southside Bucky (for the original English versions) Panama Red and Ojcar, who prompted me to get this bird out of the coop.
 
The included skin sets for the 1A2 depict aircraft flown by two French Escadrille, Sop 226, with silver dope and Sop 284, which operated 10 camo 1A2s from March 1918, the date the unit was formed, until the end of the war. Some sources incorrectly depict the Esc 226 aircraft in clear doped linen or light yellow dope, a mistake I made before discovering more recent and authoritative information. There are two files sets, on for FE2 and another for all previous versions of FE. Just drop them in and go.
 
 
 
 
sinbad 3 Nov 2010
 
 

Here's a little bit of fun for Halloween.
 
I first saw this D.VII marking in a German magazine published in the late 1930s. Later I found it had also been included in a Windsock Datafile Anthology vol III.
 
August Hartmann served late in the war with Jasta 30, after that unit had moved on from the Pfalz D.IIIa and the orange diamond markings that are probably better known than the yellow fuselage and tail seen here. Some believe the nose and tail colors were orange because the previous markings featured that color, but a British intelligence officer reported that the fuselage was brown and the nose and tail were yellow.
 
 
 
 
After only a few weeks service, Hartman was wounded and never had any confirmed victories, so, you can conclude that the witch either helped or saved him!
 
There are two files sets, one for FE and the other for FE2. Just drop the appropriate file set in the Objects folder and you should be good to go. Both the FE and FE2 file sets include Halloween Fokker D7 Loading screens. All you need to do to get rid of them is delete those files. If you have special loading screens for the D7, back those up before installing. If you rely on the stock loading screens, those will reappear as soon as you delete the special Halloween screens.
 
Enjoy!
 
sinbad
 
 
 
 
 

This is a Nieuport 16 of the RFC in mid 1916.
 
A handfull of these Nieuports were painted in this two-tone camouflage of brown and olive green.
 
No.2 and No.11 squadrons would be equipt with these such Nieuports.
 
Ace Albert Ball would be one to fly Nieuport A134 with No.11 Squadron.
On June 2, 1916 he would down a Roland C.II and an Aviatik two-seater.
The following day of June the 3rd, Ball would be armed with Le Prier rockets and attack an
observation balloon near Pelves.
 
 
Enjoy, quack74
 
 

This is a pack of No.60 Squadron S.E.5 and S.E.5a skins.
 
The "Early" skins are from mid July to the 26th of August, 1917. Red=A flight, Yellow= B flight, and Blue=C flight. Markings were on the nose, wheels, and fuselage.
 
The "Mid" skins are from the 26th of August, 1917 to the 22nd of March, 1918. A white disc just aft of the fuselage roundel and on the upper fuselage
decking just behind the cockpit. The wheels displayed the flight colors. A=Red, B=White, and C=Blue

Sopwith Camel F1, 210 Sqn, RFC, March 1918
 
This is simply a new skin for the Camel F1 at Combat Ace created by Mikewhl and uploaded by Capun..

This is a bit much I know. But if you like the Pfalz D.III types then this will be good for you. I've created a way to utilize the game generated National marking system (with marking changes for the Germans in March 1918) while using new "Pfalz" markings without the white boarders (for some Jasta's anyway).
 
I had to create new "Nations" for each Pfalz Jasta that uses different markings. Ex: Plain Silver Grey will use the "Germany_Pfalz" nation which will create black iron crosses (no white boarders). And for instance Jasta 77b will use the "Gemany_Pfalz_Lozenge_White" nation which will have white boarders on the wings but not on the fuselage and tail. All in all I think I made 4 new "Nations" for the Pfalz. You have to use the new decals that are in my "Decals" folder for this to work. Drop them into your "Decals" folder.
 
It just sounds complicated.... because it was :)
 
Anyway I've included folders with all the files you'll need. Really all it is is a copy and paste task for you. Just follow the folder structure thats in my download and follow the readme files. Ex: Create the new "Nations" folder. And put the new "Nations.ini" into it. Thats all.
 
*** Staaken & HP400 Formation ***
 
I've also created a "WWI_AIRFIELD1.ini" for the Staakens and HP400.
Their wingspan is too big to use the GothaGIV formations that I posted at CombatAce. I've created a new "Nation" for the Staaken called "Germany_Bombers" for the Staaken only. And I also created a new "RAF_Bombers" nation for the HP400. In the HP 400 and Staaken's DATA.ini and each of their skins' "TextureSet" the nation name should be changed from "Germany" to "Germany_Bombers" or "RAF" to "RAF_Bombers". This way the game will find the new formation setup (thats included in this download), for these particular bombers.
 
 
Enjoy, quack74
 
Edit: 9/11/10:
 
I added an "Italy2" to the Nations.ini and the Decals folder. It will make Italian markings with a green outer and red inner roundel. Any aircraft you want to use for ITALY just change the texture folder's TextureSet.ini to Nation=ITALY2. Now you have two Italian markings.
 
 

Read Me for First Eagles Spring, Summer, and Fall modded town and water tiles by Bandy.
 
These tiles only go with Jan Tuma's seasonal terrain tiles mod.
As the title says, these are only for Spring, Summer, and Fall;
winter is a work in progress.
 
Many thanks go to Jan Tuma for creating his FE seasonal town tiles that,
to me at least, have made a huge difference in the feel of the sim.
Thanks to TK and friends, and all 3rd party modders who make this a great community.
 
The town tiles are 1024 x 1024 in order to improve certain textures.
All other non-town tiles in this mod are 512 x 512. Resize as you require.
 
The water tiles replace the "turquoise" shaded water with a darker blue-gray.
If you like turquoise, then let me know and I will render a version with that colour.
I noticed a long time ago that one of the Flanders Town.tod files was mislabelled; a
replacement is provided.
 
To Install:
1) Back up your terrain folder.
2) Unzip this download and drag the corresponding folders into the
/Terrain/seasonal_tiles folder, and the /Terrain/Flanders folder
overwriting the files when prompted.
3) Fly!
 
Caveats:
I could not extensively test these tiles in all seasons and all terrains, I simply do
not have that much free time, so please post any errors or tweaks you think are required.
 
Some trees and buildings do funky things at the tile margins; short story, this is unavoidable.
I would like to have shifted the "statues" or monuments in some of the town squares,
but did not. If you can do this, that would be sincerely appreciated.
 
Dog fighting over towns is really enjoyable!

This is a skin ONLY add-on to the Pfalz DIII created by the
SFP1 Dev A-Team's Skunkworks.
 
Thanks to Capun1950 for permission to use the skin template.
And thanks to the entire SFP1 A-Team for providing the Pfalz DIII model.
 
This skin and decals pack was created by quack74. Not for profit nor intent to sell. Only as a download for those who registered at SFP1A-Team Skunkworks site and have downloaded with permission the Pfalz DIII. http://cplengineeringiic.com/SFP1/
 
For FE2:
 
This Pfalz D.III pack is of Jasta 10 from late 1917-1918.
 
1. Ltn. Hans Klein (solid black fuselage line)
2. Vfw. Friedrich Rudenberg (diagnal black band w red tail)
3. Jasta 10 generic (chrome yellow nose and tail)
4. Ltn. Aloys Heldmann (blue tail)
5. Ltn. Barth ( black bar-bell on forward fuselage & yellow tail)
6. Vzfw. Hecht ( green tail w black fuse bands and upper wing stripe)
7. Ltn d R Grassmann (brown and white stripes on tail)
8. White Tail (pilot unknown)
9. Jasta 10 Camo (with yellow nose)
10. Ltn. Aloys Heldmann (Camo with light blue wheels)
11. Ltn. Gustav Bellen (Camo with white fuselage band)
 
This is a newer version of my first "6-Pack". All 11 Pfalz D.III skins have been redone.
 
Enjoy again, quack74
 
 

This skin depicts the camo and markings on Albatros D.Va flown by Leutnant Walter Böning with Royal Prussian Jasta 19, his first assignment, where he downed 6 enemy aircraft between April and October 1917. It has often been misidentified as a plane he flew with Jata 76 later in his career. More than one source incorrectly suggests blue and white Jasta 76 markings (and I did a draft in those colors). Greg VanWyngarden and Bob Pearson both hold what I believe is the better view, rendered here, with the yellow and black horizontal stabilizer of Jasta 19 and red trim for the fuselage markings.