BH&H 2 Screenshots and Movies Thread

[Ricketycrate 2]

Great stuff guys! Everything is looking  fantastic! I was at the other site trying to watch the small vids and I thought hey, wait a minute.... Sure enough nice large picture vids to be had here at CA. Thanks for sharing.

[AlbertTross 82]

Started a campaign flying the Pfalz EIII around Ypres with FFA3.

 

The modelling is SO good.

[JFM 18]

RTB during a Home Defense campaign mission. Not an action-packed screenshot, it just looks great to me. 

[Adger 85]

Jasta 12....

 

 

[Hellshade 110]

The end of the brief but glorious career of Johnny Tripehound.   

So we get a re-run on the airfield attack.  As we close in for the first run, I see a number of Halbs way up above and behind us closing in on our top cover.  Great....start my strafe run. 

I spot several Halbs on the flight line ready to take off so naturally I for them.  By the time I make my pass and circle back around, the airborne Halbs have descended and are among us.  Dogfight right over the enemy airfield.  

After some modest marksmanship on my own part, I set one ablaze and he falls from the sky, but when I gaze down at the end of the airfield where the parked Halbs I had strafed a few moments ago were....they were gone.   Wonderful, now they are airborne too!

No time to waste, more Habs are closing in and I pick a new target to pursue.     For a low level combat, he did an amazing job tossing his crate around in the sky.  I actually had some admiration for the Bosch, but it was still my job to do my duty.   

In the end, he too would succumb to my gun and crash right into the end of his own airfield.     Sometime during that fight, someone crashed right into an enemy building, nearly destroying it and setting it too on fire.   The damage to their airfield was mounting!

I look up from my latest victim and what do I see high above me but a pair of Rolands coming in for a landing.  With them descending and the natural climb of my triphound, it wasn't long before I was closing in on the trailing ones tail and sending tracers into his fuselage. 

The rear gunner immediately went into action returning fire.  As I closed the distance until I could see that he had blue eyes, my peppering spray of fire appeared to take its toll as the craft pitched down hard just as I veered off.  It was only then did I see his rear gunner found his mark and I was trailing smoke!

Worse, the hun recovered at low altitude and seemed to be flying away.   I have no idea if he went down as I lost track of him soon after.   Why?  Because a Halb DII was zooming in at me at full speed and firing away.  We missed each other by a matter of inches, narrowly avoiding a deadly mid-air collision. 

With smoke still trailing my craft, I should have broken off and headed for home.  My fear was that the enemy pilots, seeing me break off and trailing smoke would chase after and make quick work of me before I could get anywhere near to my own lines.   I had to duke it out. 

Still just a few hundred feet above the enemy airfield, I was able to lay in a long burst into his engine and fuel tank.   The withering fire finally had its effect and flames licked both sides of his fuselage and poured out his cockpit.  At least he didn't have far to fall before his suffering was all over. 

He too burst into a ball of fire, falling like a meteor from the sky just before impact, once again right into the end of the enemy airfield!  Smoke plumes were billowing up from several sites but I could see the air battle was still raging on just above the far side of the field.

At least 2 or 3 more Halbs were angrily buzzing around and firing menacingly at my squadron members.   I picked another target and turned in behind him to fight, my snake-like tail of long dark smoke twisting behind me.

Just a few hard rounds into his engine was enough to set him ablaze and he fell flat from the sky.  I didn't see where he crashed but it too must have been near the airfield itself if not, once again right in it.   It was just then that my own engine conked out!   

As my propeller wound to a halt and my glide speed slowed low of the enemy field, I had to make a hard right turn to try and land on the enemy field rather than risk crashing into the forest surround it.   Even as I did so, enemy tracers zipped past my head and plane, barely missing me.

It sounded like a rear gunner from one of the two seaters but I never saw who it was.  My full concentration was on trying to land without crashing.  With several columns of smoke billowing upward to both my left and right, I managed to bring her in for a landing and stop right next to the destroyed building.

 

The Huns ran out and surrounded Johnny immediately, and he surrendered without any further fight.  Given all the damage he had caused, the Germans kept a close eye on him and made sure he never escaped.  He remained a POW until the end of the war.    A sad but glorious end to his brief career!

The only really bad thing was I was getting some micro stutters that I had never gotten before in BHaH II.  Well damn it if I hadn't forgot to shut down some background tasks before launching WOFF and they were the culprit.  They weren't too bad at first but at the very end as I was trying to glide it, the gunfire of the enemy aircraft turned it into a slideshow for a couple of seconds.   I was so mad I had made such a dumb mistake but it was truly a glorious airfield mission.   THE BEST AIRFIELD MISSION I EVER HAD.  THANKS OBD.  THIS SIM IS BEYOND AMAZING!!!

 

[Rick Rawlings 136]

Taking one for the team...

Goggles are dropped down to 7 here.

Edited April 13, 2021 by Rick Rawlings

[catch 81]

"Jenkins, don't just stand there gawping! Fetch the ladder and inform the rigger I believe the kite is somewhat tail heavy and requires adjustment."

 

[Adger 85]

Haha any landing you can walk away from is a good one Catch 

[TROOPER117 146]

Are you sure that tail section isn't made from ''Stalin Wood?''  

[Stache 10]

12 hours ago, Hellshade said:

The only really bad thing was I was getting some micro stutters that I had never gotten before in BHaH II.  Well damn it if I hadn't forgot to shut down some background tasks before launching WOFF and they were the culprit.  They weren't too bad at first but at the very end as I was trying to glide it, the gunfire of the enemy aircraft turned it into a slideshow for a couple of seconds.   

Hi,
As always great videos.
May I ask what these background tasks were?
Regards,

[Hellshade 110]

Stache, 

Steam was on, several chrome browser windows were open.   I forgot to turn on Game Booster which frees up a bunch of memory and turns off some things that may interfere with games.  

 

[Hellshade 110]

So I take off for a solo flight and noticed Fe2bs well above me. I don't pay them any mind because....they are Fe2bs. Those guys never attack so I wasn't even recording anything yet.   

LOL. My bad. In BHaH II they have developed a bit of an attitude.

 

 

 

[TROOPER117 146]

Awful weather when we left Furnes for our daily line patrol... we aren't far from the front and as we approached we spotted four DIII's and gave chase.

One of them broke off and ran for the lines. I gave chase... not sure if he was having engine problems but I was slowly gaining on him.

Almost there...

I've got you now my friend...

One good long burst and he flipped straight over...

No recovery for him... he dove straight into the ground!

[catch 81]

If there's anything sexier than a Tripe, it's a wet Tripe!  Great pics Trooper. 

[TROOPER117 146]

Wet?... soaked more like 

One thing about WoFF flying... when I see I'm going out on patrol in those sort of conditions, I actually feel down, as if I am actually going out in it.

Isn't it funny that a flying game can make you feel like that!

[Rick Rawlings 136]

Still testing things out with 40 Sqn. We were headed off for a line patrol when we ran into a flight of recon craft about halfway there. Usually this ends with us getting shot up quickly and landing, as per my last video. This time however, there were escorts that attacked. Seeing that the rest of the boys seemed to have the matter in hand. I pushed through to follow the recon craft but they were so far ahead that after crossing the lines I was about to give up on them when they suddenly turned and started to land. I attacked one and then tried to make my way home before over-staying my welcome.  Just then, an errant flight of Albatros scouts that I had spotted heading away a while earlier decided to head back my way and dove down. On me. Alone. Also, watch the end-of-flight review for that cracker-jack observer/gunner, hitting me at nearly 1400 feet (!!!) out! Sign that guy up for the Olympics!

 

[+elephant 36]

Fantastic mission, Rick!

I admire how you ceep your cool against so many opponents!

[Rick Rawlings 136]

1 hour ago, elephant said:

Fantastic mission, Rick!

I admire how you ceep your cool against so many opponents!

Yes, as long as you don't check my trousers, that's exactly what I do...

[Adger 85]

Ernst Udet..Jasta 4

 

[AlbertTross 82]

Smashing pictures mate, distinctive bird that Dr1.

 

With my DID campaign being seemingly non-stop action at the moment. I thought I'd also have a more.....quiet.... sedate jaunt going on with C42 in September 1915.

 

I say quiet, that is until my gunner decided to remove nearly half my top wing 

 

Thankfully I managed to get down ok and I think I found out why the gunner went crazy.

 

He's obviously a filthy spy as it's the same pilot as the one flying my DID campaign .

Edited April 16, 2021 by AlbertTross

[TROOPER117 146]

lol... no tea and medals for him!  

Good pics, but I can't help thinking those struts and wires would have been ripped to the rear, not standing to attention!

[AlbertTross 82]

Yeah probably. If not from the original removal of the wing itself, but from the force of the wind as I flew back.

[+Polovski 458]

Great pics.  On the ripped wing, if you look at busy 1.bmp in 

...\WOFF\OBDWW1 Over Flanders Fields\campaigns\CampaignData\Nations

You can see an Alb with missing lower wing, and landed upside down the struts all intact complete with wires and fittings  ;)  also the lower wing came off beautifully clean.

(thanks to JFM for those, hope it's OK to post it here as an example).

[AlbertTross 82]

Cracking colourized picture that one Pol (as are the rest in the game as well).

 

I realised that I'd torn the lower wing canvas off on landing as well. The progressive damage in BHAH II is another great feature.

 

Shows off the framework very well indeed, like a fish skeleton.

 

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by AlbertTross

[AlbertTross 82]

Flying with Jean Navarre in Esc 67 near Verdun in April 1916. Great skin on Navarre's aircraft.

Downing an Eindecker, it was only when I got close up to the Eindecker I realised you can actually see the bullet wounds on the pilot..... amazing details