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    Lou! I am very happy indeed to see your name pop back up on these boards - though I'll admit I'm a tad late in sending you a Merry Christmas. I hope you're doing well and enjoying life - we miss seeing you around the boards!
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    Hi Mark! The EAW boards in general have been pretty quiet after the buzz of the GoG/Steam release. I still head over to your site for materials when I'm building out a specific version / install of EAW. And with Tally Ho closing shop, your site is one of the last bastions of institutional memory for this great game. Speaking of which, I've noticed I haven't seen much from Mr. Jelly lately - hope he's doing okay! I know everyone is getting older. Anyway, my thanks for all of the work on the site - it continues to live in my bookmarks. Cheers!
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    Genuinely the passing of an era. I spent so many nights in high school and college coming through the amazing add-ons for EAW and I remember amassing a sizable collection of aircraft skins for, I think it was EAWStab? Those were fun days. Thanks to Mike and the entire community for making games like EAW truly special. Here's hoping it can migrate some if its content over to Combat Ace - thanks for reaching out Erik.
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    Good to see you still flying, Rick! I appreciate you continuing to share your aviation adventures with us! It's a very welcome diversion in these times. Hope you are well mate!
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    A few new photos from today's sorties on opposite ends of the war (both adversarial and chronological). New crates look fantastic!
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    Had the pleasure to take up the new Siemens-Schuckert D.III. A fascinating aircraft. Super nimble, great climb rate. The cockpit feels a bit... cramped and the gun housing is mounted pretty high up - or perhaps my pilot just happens to be shorter in stature lol. Jumped into the free roam view to capture some additional images and found our airfield under attack. It was actually traumatic to snap photos of little virtual ground crew working on their machines one minute, and then seeing them killed in by aerial bombing the next. The addition of these guys really makes the airfield feel like a living entity and not just your first waypoint on a flight map. I think I took too many photos - after snapping the "K" key one time too many the sim kicked me back to the manager but it did successfully end the mission. I'll be more mindful of my itchy (camera) trigger finger next time!
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    It's fantastic, Rick! I think you'll love it!
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    Gents... we've got a gem on our hands! TLH feels so polished and refined. It's a thousand small touches that add up to a massive upgrade. The map is so much more readable! It's actually enjoyable to review it now for your waypoints - something I haven't said since the old map in Red Baron 3D. The menu colors are lovely. The load times are absolutely improved, even though I already had the sim on an SSD. The FPS feel smoother as well, less popping in the frame rate - I suspect a credit to the new way the sim is loading in aircraft skins. And speaking of which... I know we haven't gotten the true goodies yet from OvS and company, but what is there is stunning. Such a beautiful looking sim. Here are some sights from tonight's flight at the beginning of Bloody April. Cheers guys - it's such a pleasure to be here to see what this sim has grown into.
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    From Pol over on SimHq: Hi all, we are pleased to announce that WOFF 'THE LAST HURRAH' EXPANSION 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE Please see the WOFF website for details, and to purchase! Please note this requires BOTH WOFF BH&H II, and OTT Expansion.
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    44 missions is quite an accomplishment! Much further than I've gotten in the later stages of the war! Cheers!
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    Your comment makes me feel a bit better, Rick! After all, you are getting in way more flight hours than most of us and if you struggle, it helps me feel a bit better. I think, at this point, the odds of getting a long term pilot through from 1915 to the end, with the possibilities of mechanical failure, being hit by flak, going down behind enemy lines, crashing on landing, falling prey to an enemy scout if you are playing as the observer and not the pilot in a two-seater... the odds would have to be pretty staggering. And it makes you marvel at the ones who made it. Cheers mate! Still enjoying your videos!
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    An unnerving thought, my friend! As a teacher, I already see a pervasive number of essays and responses that have been generated and not written. It would be cool to see if an AI could find some more juice in the CFS3 engine or even help the team port the sim to another engine altogether... but for now, I'll take the handmade option over the Terminator lol
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    To finally survive a full DiD campaign in Red Baron 3D! Wounded? Yes! Captured? Temporarily? But Lt. John Parks survived a full tour of duty with the 94th Aero squadron from March to November 1918. It was so much fun to revisit "the old gal" and play through, this time with a stock install running in D3D mode, like I did in 1998 when I first got the game - what a treat! Now if he can just avoid catching the flu on the ship home, he'll be in good shape! And at this rate, I might get a pilot through WOFF by the time I'm 70!
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    @Rick Rawlings - your experiences with enemy two-seaters looks awfully familiar! I too have been maimed by sniper-esque rear gunners, especially in machines like the Roland or Hannover... I find that if I switch the rear gunner accuracy in the workshop settings to less accurate, it feels a little more like the historical accounts I've read. At any rate - I always enjoy dropping by to catch the latest edition! Cheers mate!
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    Giving this a bump - hard to believe a year has gone by - can't tell you how much I've enjoyed the stories in this thread! May it continue! Cheers!
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