+Hasse Wind Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 (edited) My favourite French Nieuport 17 pilot, Capitaine Pierre Reynaud of Escadrille 26 (7 confirmed kills, 9 waiting) died today. On a rainy afternoon in late August 1916, Capitaine Reynaud and his flight of 4 Nupes were returning from a routine patrol mission (no enemy sighted) and approaching peacefully their home airfield. Everything was perfectly fine when Capitaine Reynaud's plane touched the field – and then everything went to hell. I totally botched the landing, the Nupe turned over and rolled all over the field, breaking completely apart. Then I was staring at the debriefing window, which in its Spartan way told me my pilot had died! Noooo!!! Merde! He would soon have been my best pilot ever! This is the first time I've lost a campaign pilot in a failed landing attempt. I know it's realistic (plenty of pilots were lost in accidents in WW1) and inevitable something like this happens every now and then when you've played the sim long enough, but it's still extremely frustrating. I mean, if my pilot has to die, then better he goes down in flames over the front fighting his opponents to the last bullet, but to crash like this… argh! I guess I was coming in too fast and that made the craft bounce so badly. Now imagine if OFF simulated all the engine problems and other issues those early planes had – how many more dead pilots we would have in our hands! Oh well, now that I've lost my last living Entente turn fighter ace, I guess it's time to go back to the right side and finally start a campaign as a Dr.I pilot in the Kaiser's service. Frogs and crumpets beware… Edits: Problems with text size... Edited April 15, 2009 by Hasse Wind Quote
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