MK2

Just a bump for those interested. Thread updated tonight with new pics. enjoy!

another update including the Balloons that were made for this weekend's balloon hunting missions! check out thread above.

Here are pics form last night's game. The 94th Aero was escorting a Bristol Fighter over an enemy aerodrome. The Bristol was tasked with a recon mission. The Germans attacked fiercly and scored a mind bending 3 engine hits on one pass by an older Albatross! The Bristol started smoking yet ultitmatley completed the misison and forced a Fokker DVII down to boot! I also include pictures on the Balloon hunting misisons that will take place in a few days and how I created the balloons by going to a craft store this afternoon. Enjoy! Martin Von Scrub draws first blood! Captain Luis scores a Fokker in his Bristol. Balloon Prep Balloons under attack just 30 minutes later!

Very, very cool! wow! Thanks fates!

Ok update to the game. 8 Players showed up and we had quite a furball. One Albatros was shot down (pilot hit) and all others planes went home with plenty of holes (and one lightly wounded newly minted Ace). Enjoy the pictures

The ace dies only on the day he really died, so enjoy shooting him down again and again LOL! Pretend he crashed landed and if behind enemy lines he escaped!

I think the claims rejected in real life are being a bit overstated in some post I have read. Eddie Rickenbacker with 26 victories had 2 claims rejected. On the other end Lufberry with 17 kills had about 20 rejected. Lufberry was an extreme case because of his lone wolf tactics deep over enemy territory. Rickenbacker would get in a motor vehicle, drive out to the front and get signed affidavits from witnesses at the front! I think the claim system is really good just the way it is. I would have probably acted more like Eddie....

If I fly for the yanks I like to use "James Cunningham" which was my all time most succesful pilot in the TSR roleplaying game Dawn Patrol.

1. Yes 2. There are wind gust and incredible weather effects including rain whipping down on you. 3. If you want all the eye candy you need a strong system but it has 5 different graphic settings that should adjust to whatever your PC can do. The offline campaign engine is the best I have ever seen in any sim (I have been combat flight simming since the mid 1980s ). You can start any year for any squadron, fly with and against over 1000 historical aces (that's a thousand in game!). Your kills are kept track of, your squadron mates kills are kept track off. You see daily news for the day you are experiencing in the campaign, you have promotions , awards and you even have to fill out a combat report of your misison and attempt to get the kill confirmed. The OFF campaign manager is a masater piece worthy loooking into.

Erroneous claim just means you are claiming two when you should only have claimed one...it has nothing to do with what you wrote. A mahcine gun on the gournd or a wingman could have taken the kill away by being the last to put a bulllet into the plane before it crashed.

That is unbelievable ...

Yes Time warp exsist...this is the best combat flight sim I have ever played.

do you fly with labels?

BTW I know we all know this game is incredible but I find new stuff almost on every flight. The action for Jasta 11 in the summer of 1918 is insane. I have been involved in multiple furballs including 7 enemy planes and friendly flight and another flight of Albatross DVs from Jasta 21 and then another flight of enemy Spads attacking a wandering Hannover near the main furball...INSANE FUN! Planes everywhere...avoiding collisions as much as fighting.

How about the massive offline campaign system?

Combatace will be holding a contest and giving away a 22 inch flat screen monitor for best skin for OFF uploaded to the site . Stay tuned for the details , so keep working on them!

Catfish, have you tried a different plane and era? Try 1918. Like it has been mentioend before. write: Type of plane (color?) description of combat altitude the fight took place at machine g gun rounds used location (look on map and note nearby airfields etc.) list wingmen as witnesses no matter where they were. You will get many more confirmed. As far as the game bing too hard, the next time you get in a dogfight hit F3 and F5 and take away the cockpit and just use the targeting reticle and this will go a long way in training you how to properly fight. I tried 30 times as you did and never got anybody and one day it all came together and now I am a regular ace before I take my dirt naps.

Rabu I was a bit confused because I saw some up to date post in the last pages but the ones you linked to where almost a year old. The last page seemed positive, hard to figure that thread out.

Just in case.....you do realize there is a setting in workshop where you can turn the claim report off and have all the kills auto confirmed right?

Bullethead, I have seen many real combat reports and unlike the way I right mine yours is truly authentic, great job, if I was at HQ I would have given you a pending:105!

Here are 5 of my favorites The way of the Eagle ( John Biddle , an amazing almost day by day week by week account of a fighter pilot in the thick of it, it would be hard to top for what you are looking as far as what it was like to be a pilot because it was taken from his own writing on the days the stuff happened) I flew for the Lafayette Escadrille (Edwin C. Parsons, a grand adventure and a book that really brings home the sacrifices that fighter pilots must make in order to do what they feel is right, a literal blow by blow account on how the Lafayette heroes fell one by one, very funny at times as well as very sad...the book had it all) Ace of the Iron Cross (Ernst Udet, a dark and fascinating book that is a Harbringer of things to come for Udet, and almost rivals the Rickenbacker book for flat out adventures outside of WW1) Ace of Aces (the story of who could be maybe the best ace ever....Rene Fonck...when you start taking into account that 73 of his 75 kills were individual kills and not shared...also confirmed by army as well as flight mates due to the french system of awarding victories...that he was not liked and that it actually worked against him , that he never got even one enemy bullet hit his plane...well..you marvel at his exploits and his final score.) Rickenbacker (Eddie Rickenbacker , very fascinating with great WW1 stuff...Indiana Jones had nothing on this guy, famous race car driver, famous WW1 ace, famous WW2 secret envoy lost at sea in a raft for a month as well as inside a bunker at the front lines when the battle of Kursk started on the eastern front , famous CEO and founder of eastern air lines ..., you could not make this crazy stuff up , fact really is stranger than fiction with him). The best book though is The Stand http://www.indysquadron.com/thestandfrankluke/ an amazing piece of historical work.

See you over the front Olham! Creaghorn, This is my first pending 100 ever and it just happned so this would be my highest. The highest before that was a 96 and a 92. I have high hopes for this double kill.

Yes LOL!

final trench board picture

I am going over to have a talk with the gunner...and I assure you he will be dead by morning if he does not give me the right answer.....