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Now that I remembered what day it is....I'd gone after this target with a B-52 flight and got shot down. Tried it with F-100's and just couldn't get past all the SAMS and fighters that seem to love that area. So today was the F-105's turn, and it was a nice clear morning to go and kill this Communications Facility. At about 25 miles, my wingman started yelling about SAM Launches, "enemy planes were detected in my area" and since between the two of us we had exactly 0 AA missiles, I'd had about enough of that nonsense, and this was close enough. About a minute later, I cut of communications to a significant portion of the country, ended the SAM & Mig threat, and other than some temporary flash blindness, had an uneventful ride home.

Who said that you couldn't do much damage with a Starfighter? Especially to a fuel depot!!!!!!!!

There's also an article in the SF2 Knowledge Base somewhere too. (don't remember where, but it's there somewheres!)

FAC

I think so too Alby. Recon, photography and arty spotting were the main functions of the air services and of vital importance to the PBI. Get me up in that Quirk quick and let me at 'em ! Mind you, it's dangerous stuff and not for the faint hearted. Have you got the right stuff chaps ? Will you do your duty for King and country ? Yes ? Well then, grow a moustache. Your country needs you !

Usually it's just simpler to paste a link to the original post, but I am nonetheless flattered to see you ventriloquating on my behalf Crawford. Cheers all and happy posting in various voices, Von S

Albert – Welcome to Sergeant Grace. He did brilliantly downing that Aviatik on his first operational patrol in a Caudron. And then you followed up by downing a Fokker! Lovely skin on that machine, by the way. Seb – Some excellent Christian advice from Davies, there. But something tells me that FLt Andrews is still working on a delicious revenge plot. That is a lovely livery on your Nieuport. Paroni – Condolences on losing Henri after such a good start. He was not far from the 30 hour mark when you can “improve your eyesight” by increasing the dot visibility range. But let’s welcome Bastian. Hasse – It took a special breed of man to fly as an observer in the Spad A series machines. As with the similar BE9, there are just so many ways to kill yourself in those machines. MFair – I absolutely loved Gallagher’s prayer. That was a new one to me. Sounds Irish – is it? Gallagher and Hawkwood are stationed not too far from one another and I have occasionally passed a BE that I suspected came from 8 Squadron. So far, I have not encountered any Fokkers in our sector, but Gallagher has now had that experience and has lived to tell the tale. Albrecht – Jean-Fidele has a very sinister looking Nieuport now. Congratulations on your eleventh victory. Outstanding for 1915! Good to see he made it through what appeared to be a pretty bad smash-up. I hope everyone has noted the announcement on the OBD website about the upcoming patch. As many of us are still flying two-seaters, the changes could be very entertaining. War Journal – Sergeant David Armstrong Hawkwood 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Allonville, France Part 9 November ended with a period of foul weather. To my delight, however, Ned and I were moved into billets in the nearby village around this time. We are sharing a small bedroom belonging to a family called Blandurel. Mr and Mrs Blandurel speak no English so we search painfully for words our languages have in common. They have given us to understand that their son is serving in the French army and they are very concerned for his safety. Apparently, it is the son's room that we are living in. The room has only a single bed. Ned and I flipped a coin to decide who would get the bed and who would have to sleep on their camp cot. Ned won the toss and will have the bed for the month of December. We have resolved to change places at the end of each month. We are in a fortunate position. Most of the other NCOs have occupied several new Armstrong huts with canvas sides. They have coal stoves that are simply not up to the task of keeping the winter chill out. The only NCOs in warm billets like ours are two technical sergeants and our two sergeants-major. We get quite a laugh out of imagining Sergeant-Major Parson and Sergeant-Major Tinker as roommates. The former is an ex-Guardsman, disciplined and demanding while at work, but relaxed and almost “one of the boys” when at sport. The latter, on the other hand, is an ex Royal Engineer and believes that the only enjoyment in life is to be found polishing one’s boots. They have already started a feud over the decoration of the mess. Tinker has claimed the dining room and insisted that the only proper decoration should be a picture of the King and several hunting prints he has acquired. Anything else is either frivolous or filth in his view. Parson has claimed the anteroom and bar and given the mess members licence to hang all manner of risqué prints acquired in the shops of Amiens or cut from the pages of French magazines. The two men chirp away at one another about their diverging tastes nearly every evening. We continue to fly every day or two and so far my luck has held. I have encountered enemy aircraft on only two occasions in December. On both occasions a formation of Hun two-seaters passed overhead and we paid no attention to one another. They were more recent models with big, nasty machine guns operated by the observer in the rear seat. The only way for a BE2 to get a crack at them is to fly ahead of them and below. The Hun machines, regrettably, are faster than ours, and such a tactic would be invite disaster. Thus, we embrace the opportunity to be gentlemanly about this whole war nonsense. Lieutenant Clapp went as far as to stand up and lean over to where he could salute the passing Huns one day. The gesture very nearly ended in disaster as he gave the back of his right hand a good smack with the spinning propeller. Fortunately, he lost neither his glove nor his hand, but saluting Huns is no longer an item on his agenda. Mr Clapp has turned out to be a thoroughly sound fellow. When he meets me at the sheds to relay our orders for each patrol, he is good enough to ask my opinion about various approaches and has often deferred to my views. He takes great interest in technical matters and has been known to spend his off hours watching as the ack emmas do their work. We observed Christmas comfortably despite having to put on a two-hour reconnaissance patrol at dawn. The wing padre held a short and informal service in the late morning. Christmas dinners began at noon. All the NCOs served the men in the finest tradition of the army. There was goose with chestnut stuffing, turnip and peas, a gravy made with red wine, Christmas pudding with plenty of brandy, fruit and cheeses, and a healthy portion of ale. Following that, we sat down to our own meal and to our surprise, Major Todd showed up with all the officers, who proceeded to change into white aprons and served table for us. They did it all in great good humour and we made quite an afternoon of it. I understand that the officers enjoyed a wonderful meal later that evening. Certainly, few of them looked enthusiastic about flying the next morning. In the last week of the year the snow came and stayed on the ground. Our muddy field froze solid until it nearly shook one’s back teeth out to take off or land. White wisps curled over the stubble and sleet frosted the tree limbs and rooftops. Flying became an ordeal. Cold penetrated any gap in one’s clothing, and the pain of thawing feet and hands occupied an hour after every patrol. More often now we were rigged with small bombs to drop on the Hun lines. It seems like a foolish thing to me. There is such a small chance of harming a well-entrenched enemy and the Archie that greets us there is most accurate. New Year’s Eve was rather quiet. Ned and I left the mess and walked back to the Blandurel house around ten o’clock with a bottle of brandy as a gift. It was well appreciated, and we spent a pleasant hour around the kitchen table while Madame served little sausage rolls she had made and Monsieur smoked a wonderful old pipe shaped like a Turk’s head. We talked about – well, none of us really understood enough to know what we talked about, but I’m certain we all wondered what 1916 will bring.

Hi All, Currently, we are working on an excellent FREE update for "Wings Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven & Hell II" (V1.21) that will include new 2-seater reconnaissance features. Release date TBC. Please see the News section on our website for more.

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Picture by Bundesluftwaffe/Bundeswehr

This is in reaction to @Polovski's latest news post (HERE). https://www.overflandersfields.com/news.html All I can say is, if you look at what's being offered, this is game-changing. This is like being given an entirely new game altogether without having to pay a single cent extra. In the past, I've approached reconnaissance missions as "those fun scenery rides before you get serious in 1917 and become an ace fighter pilot." When V1.21 comes out, we're going to have a lot more options to be actively engaged in reconnaissance flights. I almost want my ace DiD pilot to snap his Nieuport's wings off in combat* (ok, maybe not) so I can get the full BE2c experience now - and that's not something I ever thought I'd be saying. Microsoft has conditioned me to generally despise updates. This is one I'm actually excited for.

Why two seaters never fly alone?Realism? Very deadly attack them when you get into crossfire.

thats why we posted the steps. easier to type it out than hunt it down might wanna sticky it up top though. its becoming a common question

Don't pull my leg. Everything can be. I have my own "Knowledge Base", consisting of text files under names recognizable to me, and usually the authors of the saved quotes are not indicated there. Sometimes these files come in handy as answers to "frequently asked questions" Anyway, all credit to you, of course. I don’t need other people’s laurels, because my own laurels will last me for the rest of my life. So you took offense anyway?

Well said Sir! I’ll second that.

Exciting news indeed. WoFF is that rare software that I actually upgrade regularly, and even have an older version (or two) archived for museum goodness. Other things usually have a "best version" beyond which I don't upgrade unless I want to break things or slow down the computer. Looking forward to future updates OBD. Carry on gents', Von S

Raine! Finally the two-seater campaign could become interesting. Actually you must do something when take photos. AlbertTross Agreed with you that single seater is top number one yet! Ps.Beatrice's shoes are comfortable at least!

Paroni - Welcome to Bastian, fresh from the Wurttembergers. A welcome also to that spy. Not sure her shoes are quite appropriate in a canvas covered aircraft but hey, I could live with that. Raine - Hawkwood seems to have it ok finding a billet even if he has to share a bed. The two SM's sharing is classical, who needs an alarm call with to SM's in the same room. Tinker, great name, he must have been ribbed to death in training. As for the update, yes it sounds very good.....but I'm still looking at getting into single seaters asap. Albrecht - It's a cracker of a skin, definitely..... striking.

Albecht! Really good looking Nieuport! Green is new colour with this type!

I like the Aggressor ones myself. Then again most of them look good.

Love VA-81 Crusaders, 1961, USS Forrestal, A-4B!

Crawford is most of the way there, so instead of posting the link on the topic, i'll tell the rest of the story fire your game up for the first time generating the mod folder adjust the settings in the options ini (theyll be towards the bottom) [Mods] ModsEnabled=TRUE Directory=(whatever folder you want):\Users\Kevin\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 test Editors=StrikeFighters2 [ScreenShots] Directory=(whatever folder you want):\Users\Kevin\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 test\ScreenShots Format=JPG then save the options.ini and version.ini within the mod folder. cut the folders, make a new mod folder wherever youre putting them, and paste them in. run the game, take a screenshot. when done, you should have the sceenshot in the drive you wanted it in. that will tell you if you did it right

Getting ready to patrol the border.

Hi Chugster, have now double-checked the Options.ini file that resides in the main user directory for SF2 and there are two entries, at the bottom - that are maybe worth tinkering with so that they point to another drive. Default values there are: [Mods] ModsEnabled=TRUE Directory=C:\Users\Yourusername\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Editors=StrikeFighters2 [ScreenShots] Directory=C:\Users\Yourusername\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2\ScreenShots Format=JPG Might be worth setting the directory for those two entries from "C:\" to "D:\," or really any drive that you commonly use. Then save the Options.ini file - and have the user directory "StrikeFighters2" folder in the correct directory/path. Load up SF2 to test, and if all of your mods./aircraft are visible in the in-sim. menu, this indicates that the new drive path works.

Albrecht - Well done to Jean-Fidele, 11 confirmed victories before 1916 is fine work indeed. More fine work is his paint scheme, the Germans will run a mile.

I agree. I agree.as long as people understand It might take a bit I can give it a try.

"Wait your turn"

My friend you'are a dangerous guy...

WIP Fishbed... project of the Coyote Aerospace team !

Keeping the Vietnam theme going.....

Take off ....

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Even though they were trying to wax me over Iraq, this was a fantastic scene...

F-31. Shadow games.

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