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Who ya gonna call....??? "GUNFIGHTERS"..

Some B/C ponies...

A few from Da Nang & the surrounding area. Is that Monkey Mountain in the background...?? Marble Mountain Marine Air Facility ....still wip. Da Nang Airbase 1967...ish.... Still wip.....but life would be a lot easier with a TOD editor.....or if I could get to grips the Terrain editor..

Random shot time.....

July 1 1915 Very rainy day Capitaine Fauvre lead us. Mission patrol between Arras-St.Vith. Artillery barrage continually at the front. No enemies in sight. July 4 1915 Capitaine Fauvre's claim went through and now he is our "ace".And generally the only one to have received air victories! Mission patrol between Arras-Lens.Destroy enemy planes. I working as a flight leader. Very nice day.No clouds. Near Arras ,over the front we saw enemy.The wind drove us to the side of enemy.It does not scare us because we noticed there are only two enemies. And those are Aviatik B1.No armed,piece of cake! We catch them and flew between them.Jean peppered them and EA disappeared somewhere. The second EA was very low.When we were close,we saw that the propeller had stopped.We gave her coup- de- crace! Aviatik made forced landing. Our ammo was empty and not much the fuel ,so we headed home. Boche made forced landing The anti-aircraft fire intensified when we got over the front.Suddenly strike hit an engine. Mon Dieu!The fuel handler fell in instant. Eventually the engine stopped and it was clear that we would have to make a forced landing on the enemy side. My biggest concern was getting the bird down intact.It is not easy due to trenches and barbed wire. Somehow we did it and we were that we live.Shouts were heard up close and we have not even matches that we could destroy the machine. So we became prisoners! Luckily Jean and i had to work in the clothing store.After 3 days in prison dressed as Germans,we managed to escape. The joy was great when we arrived in Bryas.Bad news was that our victory claims rejected! The guys of the same squadron demanded those machines for themselves!The end result was that no one get the credit.

Oh boy, everybody has been so busy flying DID! And we have our first losses and victories too! No mean feat scoring a kill when flying these early war crates, so congrats Seb! Excellent reading and pics everybody. I look forward to more. Raine in particular is off to a great start with his pilot's story, but he's definitely not the only one. The story of Auguste Besson continues... The War Diary of Auguste Besson, Escadrille MS. 23 June is turning into July and at this point, it should have become obvious to everybody that this war is not going to be over anytime soon. I have been meaning to start a diary of my war experiences for many months now, but something always seemed to get in the way. Well, here we are! This Great War is without a doubt a turning point in the history of our civilization, and I owe it to future generations to leave some record of the small part I had to play in the great events of these times. (Sounds pompous, but my purpose is noble!) I arrived at the airbase of Esc. MS. 23, located in the commune of Lahoussoye, on June 1, 1915. The area is located roughly northeast of Amiens along the Amiens-Albert road. To the south flows the river Somme. The region is densely populated and distance to the frontlines around Albert is about 20-30 km – close enough that we can hear the guns, but far enough to be safe from them. The escadrille is equipped with two-seater Morane Parasol monoplanes – the pilot sits in the front under the protection of a single wing (which does resemble a parasol!) and the observer sits behind his back, facing rear, armed with a gun. It’s a decent enough machine with very sensitive controls, unless there’s a malfunction in its 80 hp Le Rhône rotary engine. Fortunately this engine type is quite reliable! There are hangars for the machines and proper housing for the pilots and observers. Currently we have eight of both, sixteen flight personnel in total, that is. Compared to life in the trenches, we are a very privileged lot indeed! Even the ground crew live comfortably, and there’s a whole company of them. A taxi from Amiens brought me to the field, where I reported to the commanding officer, Captain Schlumberger, at noon. The captain welcomed me with a firm handshake. He’s a veteran pilot from pre-war days, and has been in the air service since its creation in 1912. After paperwork and other necessary formalities, the captain gave me a tour of the field and introduced me to his subordinates. Most machines were on a mission, so it was only later in the day that I was able to meet all of the pilots and observers. It’s a mixed bunch of officers and NCO’s. Some of the fellows are rather eccentric, but I’ve learned that is perfectly normal, and in fact something to be expected in this peculiar field of business. Everybody was more than welcoming, so I had an easy time of finding my place in this unit. The real challenges waited for me elsewhere! TO BE CONTINUED...

With all the recent additions to this venerable sim by OBD, along with BB's excellent cloud mod, I'm gradually falling back in love with WOFF. For some reason I thought I still had my custom preload file running, but it turns out I did not! I've updated it to include the newly added cloud.dds files. If anyone is curious to try it, it's here... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eGe4ZaKYw24a6TofBHgUNmYB3jEFCYWd/view?usp=sharing I believe it adds a further degree of smoothness to the performance the SIM, and compliments BB's cloud mod quite well I think, possibly reducing cloud popping even further (although it does nothing to help with the occasional patterning from the darker clouds). Mission load times are a little longer, and you need to have a decent amount of RAM installed in your PC. Your mileage may vary. Simply rename the existing preload.xml and copy my replacement file in its place here: C:\OBDSoftware\WOFF\OBDWW1 Over Flanders Fields\preload.xml

Fairey Gannet AS.52 - Flotille 6F, Aéronavale, 1985

I finally continued my long term project - Skins for all A-4 Skyhawk squadrons/deployments in Vietnam. New skins aswell as a rework of my older (lower resolution) skins will be included. Have fun! Some progress: VA-15 Valions, 4/1966 - 11/1966, USS Intrepid, A-4B CAG: Line: VA-95 Green Lizards, 4/1966 - 11/1966, USS Intrepid, A-4B VA-153 Det. R Blue Tail Flies, 6/1964 - 12/1964, USS Kearsarge, A-4B VA-12 Flying Ubangis, 3/1970 - 12/1970, USS Shangri-La, A-4C CAG: Line: VA-22 Fighting Redcocks, 3/1965 - 11/1965, USS Midway, A-4C VA-22 Fighting Redcocks, 6/1966 - 2/1967, USS Coral Sea, A-4C CAG: Line: VA-22 Fighting Redcocks, 11/1967 - 5/1968, USS Ranger, A-4C VA-76 Spirits, 1/1967 - 8/1967, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4C VA-172 Blue Bolts, 6/1966 - 2/1967, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, A-4C CAG: Line: VA-172 Blue Bolts, 3/1970 - 12/1970, USS Shangri-La, A-4C CAG: Line: VA-195 Dambusters, 1/1964 - 11/1964, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4C VA-195 Dambusters, 4/1965 - 1/1966, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4C VA-195 Dambusters, 11/1966 - 5/1967, USS Ticonderoga, A-4C VA-195 Dambusters, 12/1967 - 8/1968, USS Ticonderoga, A-4C H&MS-15 Det. N Angels, 8/1965 - 3/1966, USS Hornet, A-4C "Fanny Hill" "Ko Sisters" VA-113 Stingers, 1/1968 - 7/1968, USS Enterprise, A-4F VA-93 Blue Blazers, 1/1968 - 10/1968, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4F CAG: Line: VMA-211 Wake Island Avengers, 10/1965 - 7/1966, Chu Lai AB, A-4E VA-212 Rampant Raiders, 1/1968 - 10/1968, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4F VA-212 Rampant Raiders, 8/1969 - 4/1970, USS Hancock, A-4F VA-212 Rampant Raiders, 10/1970 - 6/1971, USS Hancock, A-4F VA-212 Rampant Raiders, 1/1972 - 10/1972, USS Hancock, A-4F VA-192 (Worlds Famous) Golden Dragons, 1/1964 - 11/1964, USS Bon Homme Richard, A-4C VA-106 Gladiators, 6/1968 - 2/1969, USS Intrepid, A-4E to be continiued...

The story of a pilot Sous Lieutenant Armand Bertil Bouchant Born in Rouen 8\6 1896.Son of a winery ,he expected to continue his father's work. But then came a summer 1914 and everything changed.He served in the cavalry and took part of Plan XVII. The end result was so murderous and terrifying that Armand decided to join Aeronautique Militaire. After a long training and many crash landings Armand was commanded to Escadrille MS 15 at Bryas Aerodrome.

I'm working on a major expansion of the Speech Enhancement mod. Next version will include rather complete and correct speech packs for Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese and Arabic languages, obviously taken from different sources which will all be credited. A modified Nations.ini file, based on the one from my Nations Expansion mod, will add all such languages to the proper nations where these languages are official. I would like to add Russian, German, French and other speech packs, but the ones we already have are either much incomplete, a total mix of random words, or whatever. So I will not add those. The ones I will include are mostly complete and meant to be proper, not just for immersion. I also found what appears to be a Persian speech pack (from the Multinational Speech Pack available here at CA, it was wrongly classified as Arab, no idea where it comes from or who made it). No idea if it's coherent or if it's just a mess of casual words. Can someone tell if it's proper? In such case, can anyone help me transcribe which the callsign names are? Without a transcription, I cannot fix in-game speech subtitles and callsign names to reflect those of the speech files.

The distance where M2 Machineguns start being effective...

Thank you for this Harry - one of these days I will roll your improved/refreshed preload.xml file into my various enhancement packs and tuner packages for WOFF/WOTR, since I currently have an older preload.xml file in those - WOFFers/WOTRers can of course replace the slightly older preload.xml file available in my various tuner/enhancement packages with your newer one, if they like, prior to loading said packages via JSGME. Happy flying all, Von S

My brain is simply to small to keep all the infos and details. Even with the spreadsheet things get lost sometimes. You should never get old!

Fairey Gannet AS.51 - 310 Indian Naval Air Squadron, Indian Navy, 1971 Skin Credit: Charles

One the last helicopter without turbines .... Well, Jarek's job ofc .... testing FM.

Seeing how you, Gepard, Menrva or Wrench struggle with TODs I wish Mue to find some time to finish his editor, that would be amazing. In the meantime, I attack some Banana republics with some unlikely attack planes.

Jarek's helicopters ...

Thanks for the kind words. Seems like, theres still some interest in those skins. You'll need patience though...as you can see, there's still enough to do. Hangarscreens and stuff like that are also still missing for many skins. Green = Skin ready Dark Green = same Skin for 2 variants needed (for the faulty SF2 upgrade-function in campaigns -> only plane OR skin can be upgraded) Blue = 2 Skins for 1 deployment (gray + camo) Orange = older skin in lower resolution has to be reworked. White = not done yet. Nevertheless, I just found some more skins in a backup: VMA-214 Black Sheep, 6/1965 - 2/1966, Chu Lai AB, A-4C VMA-214 Black Sheep, 3/1966 - 4/1967, Chu Lai AB, A-4C VMA-223 Det. T Bulldogs, 10/1964 - 5/1965, USS Yorktown, A-4C VA-56 Champions, 11/1966 - 7/1967, USS Enterprise, A-4C VA-212 Rampant Raiders, 10/1964 - 5/1965, USS Hancock, A-4E

July 7 Armand's Diary Jean and I were called to the commander's room.He was not in good mood. He shouted so loud that our hair fluttered backwards. "It is not enough for you to fly a fruitless flight far to the enemy side but to lose your plane intact to the enemy!" "Boches dropped this picture our field yesterday.Now they get all info from it. The next time you get captured you can stay there! Dismiss and get out!"

Nice Job Paroni!! Feels good to be on this side of the war (at the moment...) Great escape, though sorry about your claim! Vive la liberté 01/06/15 - 01/07/15 A good month. Some exciting moments particularly forcing down the unarmed Aviatik! Mostly patrols and reccy. The weather has been very mixed. Jefferson and I became firm friends - He is currently on leave and I have a new chap 'Davies' who doesn't say much at all - The patrols take longer without Jefferson. As I step into July I look forward to taking the war to the Hun. Grotty June weather

Stunning! Detail at its best!...............Bravo!

June 30 Armand's Diary Lovely place this Bryas.I was well received.Maybe it was because i brought a box of champagne! No much time to get acquainted with the new machine.Tomorrow is the first combat flight. My observer is Lieutenant Jean Perron.Our craft is Morane Saulnier L. Observer uses the only weapon. Bryas July 1915

@EBW For troubleshooting and support, you might want to post in this topic instead of the review section. Thanks for the positive comment, though! No idea why the mod does not work on your end, but if you have an old low-end system, you might try to set all graphics settings to Low. This is not stock Strike Fighters 2, the mod is much heavier on resources than stock ThirdWire games, hence you might not be able to use the same settings between the two. Also, you must have a dedicated GPU. Intel's integrated GPU is not supported and never will be, it simply cannot handle a big number of polygons and high resolution textures on this old game engine. Let me reiterate to anyone; Minimum Requirements about video card and CPU are what they are, minimum requirements. If you're just above them, don't expect to be able to run this mod with settings on High or Unlimited. Strike Fighters 2 is one thing, this mod is another. If you can run Strike Fighters 2 on High and Unlimited, the same cannot be directly applied to the mod. It all depends on your system. EDIT: Mod page appears as updated, but I simply added some more info in the Suggestions for CTD issues section. Mod package is the same of December, please do NOT re-download.

During the break before DID began I did practice my aerial ramming...We'll see if it works as intended!

The jungle. Tiles size is 1024x1024 pixel, merged from tiles of Starys Green Hell 3.5. TOD trees are completly taken from Green Hell 3.5

23 June 1915 St Pol-sur-mer 0500 The C.O. Christopher Cleaver, standing ramrod straight and impeccably dressed, briefed us. “Morning Gentlemen, hope you slept well after the fun and games last night. I’ll be flying with ‘B’ today” He began. “Our mission is a patrol deep into Hunland, we believe there is a large troop movement near Lager Abchnitt. Headquarters wants information, details and timings as soon as possible. You’ll have noticed that the Huns are not happy with us crossing their lines and are taking every opportunity to shoot at us with Archie and ground fire. Let’s be careful. And look sharp!” With that we strode with purpose across the dewy airfield to our waiting warmed-up aircraft and look to the azure skies. We spent 20 minutes. Climbing over our airfield, the ground crew and airfield paraphernalia becoming smaller and smaller each minute. It was another good flying day, only a few majestic clouds above us and a light breeze to hinder our return. We crossed the lines without incident and Cleaver set a course for Lager Abschnitt. As we were closing on the Archie that surrounds Ghistelles airfield I spotted two small dots flying directly towards us and slightly lower. It was far too early for our chaps to be heading home. Thinking it must be German Aircraft I cursed myself for forgetting my rifle. As we began to close I could clearly see the black crosses and quickly identified two Aviatiks flying within 500 yards of us. I couldn’t bear the thought of those Huns either photographing or bombing our chaps so Jefferson and I turned to engage. Diving between them Jefferson started shooting. The noise was deafening! I hadn’t quite appreciated how close the Lewis was to my head and very quickly my face was covered in black soot and the cockpit filled with the wonderful smell of cordite. Jefferson and I worked as a team, him telling me where to fly and taking wonderful shots at them me manoeuvring for all I’m worth, dodging puffs of menacing Archie and lining up our BE2. After about 5 minutes of shooting and dodging Ghistelles’ flak one of the Aviatiks, either damaged or scared stiff by our plucky antics retreated east. But the other fellow wasn’t for quitting. So again and again we dived and turned and turned and climbed on the other Aviatik. At one point Jefferson swears I looped the BE2 - maybe he's right, I was lost in the dance - though I’m told it’s impossible. (5:30-5:45 in the video below) After about twenty minutes of this Jefferson shouted above the wind in the wires, “We’ve hit the cads engine!” Sure enough, his prop was stubbornly still, his engine seized, he was hors de combat and descending towards Ghistelles. We closed on the hapless Hun, Jefferson taking the odd pot shot just to make sure. “Cut it out Jefferson ” I shouted, “We’re sailors, not bloody butchers!” The Aviakit landed softly. As we flew over the stunned Germans we could see the observer clutching his shoulder and appearing in pain. The pilot grimaced as we flew by cheering and making hideous soot-stained faces at the vanquished foes. It felt like a huge victory. Our first aircraft downed and one forced to retreat with its tail between its legs, unable to fulfil its mission. The squadron crowded around us, cheering as we landed and we told the incredible tales of our cunning and heroics. An incredibly good day!

1979. Border War between China and Vietnam. (Terrain WIP, very early stage) Vietnamese Tigers intercept a squadron of H-5 Beagle Fox 2! Beagle down! Next Beagle down! And kill number 3.

I was just busy trying not to get shot down........... And I kept the Migs on the ground.....

P-40L in USAAF Desert Camo (North Africa, 1943)

My thanks to you for the kind words. It's nice to see our dedication being recognized. Some might take it for granted but should remember that many payware products don't get the same amount of bugfixing and end-user support. We are doing it for free, all for passion and fun of creating new virtual experiences. The mod also got its own page on ModDB, but just for spreading news about it. It's only available here. Got a pointless comment by a Guest user claiming that the mod is a scam, requiring users to buy it on the other site where it is hosted. We modders got no single dime from it, even though I'd need some for a new crate; ironically I can barely run the mod on my decade old PC due to excessive loading times. Maybe I should pride myself in seeing some amount of false and/or hateful statements. If we attract both flak and praise, it means we've done something special, I guess. In other news, I just added Suggestions for CTD issues at the end of the mod's description page, above the Hotfix. Those suggested settings should help end-users experiencing crashes to desktop.

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Sea Furies Over Socotra

Thank you very much as well!! merry xmas!!saved me buying 2 modules at dcs and having a real one like this. The beauty of sf2 is that you can fly ALL planes in ALL eras.. past, present and future, no pressing buttons and readying hours before takeoff, no expensive module buying, SF2 is my real go to when you want to just, fire up, take off, fly and complete your missions without worrying about avionics and systems, and the graphic , effects and map mods are FANTASTIC!!

here are the LAU-118 , i made 2 folders one for the white and one for the hill-grey one , includet are the templates , lod´s and max files this is not a high poly model LAU-118.7z hope that this is what you are looking for