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I might have missed it reading the thread but I asked the question anyway at the end. What kind of campaign? DGEN? DCG? Just missions strung along one after the other? IL2 1946 , with EnjoyR's massive add on is the final word on WW2 combat flight sim but for the WW1 stuff to get up to par they would have to make it part of DGEN or else it's just canned missions. I don't see Starshoy around anymore on the SIMHQ boards so I am not even sure anyone is adding anything to DGEN these days....even then the OFF campaign manager is ridicoulous(in a GREAT way)....I am all for more stuff like this and applaud the work that looks very good but let's figure out the way we are going to play it etc.

Thank you for all the comments! Do you think if I posted a picture of the letter I have signed by Hans Joachim Marseille of WW2 Luftwaffe Ace fame, it can be translated? I never got around to having it translated and would appreciate it knowing what it is about.

Fonck Guynemer Lufbery 4th page of hand written letter by Nungesser Here is a hand drawn sketch by William Lambert 18 Victory ace / Captain 24 SQD

UPDATED NEW PICS ON PAGE #2 UPDATED NEW PICS ON PAGE #3 (including Frank Luke) UPDATED NEW PICS ON PAGE #4 I thought you might enjoy a look at some of the WW1 ace autograph pieces I have in my Ace collection (all wars): Front Immelmann Richthofen (authenticated by Der Rittmeister Milatary http://www.derrittmeister.com/) Lothar Von Richthofen hand written envelope (signed) Udet Von Schleich Friedrich Theodore Noltenius 21 Victories J27/J6/J11 Heinrich Bongartz 33 victories Jasta 36 Fritz Bernert 27 victories J4/J2

I have flown in the Lafayette but plan on starting a career with the Storks soon. I have an Ace autograph and memorabilia collection (all wars) and I have a 4 page hand written letter by Nungesser (Talking about funding for his crross atlantic flight of all things...) as one of my faovrite pieces . I love the French Aces!

Very nice! Make sure you upload those beauties for the contest!

The Prize: 23" Dell S2309W - 1920 x 1080 (5ms) Widescreen Flat Panel Full HD 1920 x 1080 Resolution Dell’s first 23-inch Widescreen Full HD monitor delivers stunning high-definition performance for viewing movies and photos, playing games, or even editing video on your personal computer. 1920 x 1080 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio combine to create lifelike detail, saturated colors and simply gorgeous results. Now you can watch HD movies and get the full cinematic experience from your PC. The 5 millisecond response time (typical) creates seamless, fluid, fast-action video. A high contrast ratio of 1000:1 (typical) delivers vibrant blacks and rich, saturated colors. A Complete Multi-media Experience The S2309W will impress videophones, audiophiles and casual users alike. DVI-D with HDCP lets you view protected high-definition multimedia content from Blu-ray DiscTM drives on desk tops and notebooks. 300cd/m2 brightness helps maintain high picture quality in bright rooms. Dell Peace of Mind The S2309W is backed by a Dell 3 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with 3 Years Advance Exchange (AE) Service2. And should you need technical support, you can contact Dell for the duration of the warranty. So help is never far away. The contest: Your task is to create your own skin for the OFF Phase 3 plane of your choice and upload it here at www.combatace.com in the OFF Aircraft skins section located here : http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...amp;showcat=351 by Sunday, May 3rd at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The best skin will be chosen by the Combat ace administrators and Winder and Povloski. Please make sure you include a preview image with your upload. You may upload as many skins as you want. They will all be available for download by others once uploaded to the site. You can also visit the skin section in the OFF forums for tips and tutorials here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showforum=212 Good luck and happy skinning!

The Prize: 23" Dell S2309W - 1920 x 1080 (5ms) Widescreen Flat Panel Full HD 1920 x 1080 Resolution Dell’s first 23-inch Widescreen Full HD monitor delivers stunning high-definition performance for viewing movies and photos, playing games, or even editing video on your personal computer. 1920 x 1080 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio combine to create lifelike detail, saturated colors and simply gorgeous results. Now you can watch HD movies and get the full cinematic experience from your PC. The 5 millisecond response time (typical) creates seamless, fluid, fast-action video. A high contrast ratio of 1000:1 (typical) delivers vibrant blacks and rich, saturated colors. A Complete Multi-media Experience The S2309W will impress videophones, audiophiles and casual users alike. DVI-D with HDCP lets you view protected high-definition multimedia content from Blu-ray DiscTM drives on desk tops and notebooks. 300cd/m2 brightness helps maintain high picture quality in bright rooms. Dell Peace of Mind The S2309W is backed by a Dell 3 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with 3 Years Advance Exchange (AE) Service2. And should you need technical support, you can contact Dell for the duration of the warranty. So help is never far away. The contest: Your task is to create your own skin for the OFF Phase 3 plane of your choice and upload it here at www.combatace.com in the OFF Aircraft skins section located here : http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...amp;showcat=351 by Sunday, May 3rd at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The best skin will be chosen by the Combat ace administrators and Winder and Povloski. Please make sure you include a preview image with your upload. You may upload as many skins as you want. They will all be available for download by others once uploaded to the site. You can also visit the skin section in the OFF forums for tips and tutorials here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showforum=212 Good luck and happy skinning!

Action on August 5th 1918 : 2 German Fokker Dr1s and one Albatros DVa vs . 2 French SPAD 13s and 1 Spad 7 The battle lasted 8 turns and saw all planes receive damage (two extensively barely able to make it back home). Leutnant Oswald Wittowski of Jasta 11 (a 0/0 pilot on his first mission)flying a bright blue Albatros was hit first and received and engine critical on the first turn of the game. He was able to shake this off and 5 turns later shot down a Spad 13 flown by a 6/2 veteran French pilot named Didier Pissotte (he went down in flames). Oswald then came very close to shooting down a second SPAD13 the very next turn (flown by noted Ace Jean Raymer) . He needed to roll just two 1s out of 5 dice but just came up short. Raymer disengaged 2 turns later and left for home with a badly shot up engine. The player who controlled the allied side admitted to making a tactical mistake that led to the Frenchman's demise (Didier's) by not knocking Oswald's blue albatros out of the sky when he had a chance (He chose to attack a fresh Dr1 instead). Both sides broke off after 8 turns with the advantage going to the Germans. It was a blast. I also think the game saw a record amount of criticals, struts, engines, wings, all were hit and made for an extremely lively game, I don't believe we rolled a 6 while shooting not even one time. Everyone collected lots of led.

Luftwaffee is a great game and they actually made an updated new version of it ...here it is at Decision games:http://www.decisiongames.com/html/luftwaffe.html Here is the finished product on balloons

Dawn Patrol is a classic, I just finished seeing my DVD a few weeks ago. Rickity I actually never saw the Captain Eddie movie because I heard it had only about 2 mintues of aerial combat! Is that true?

Here are some of the balloons we are working on and a Zep...

Thank you for the repsonses! I understood from the very beginning, completely, that there are thousands of skins. I did not know that individual aces , while in flight in campaign, sported their own skins. I was obviously miss informed. It could be that I mostly (until recently) played late war yanks....etc...and I never saw any of the skins assigned to them and the aces that I flew against all had regular unit skins. It's really awesome to know that and I will surely be on the look out! Thanks! so does anyone know out of the 2900 or so individual ace skins how many have in game assignments?

now that is a good question....

When I first started playing OFF a few months back I remember an exchange in a post where I asked if the Aces that were in the game had their own personal individual skins added on to them and if they would be visible during campaign flights (if they flew with you or you ran into them) . I heard that no it was not possible. Today I am flying my "dedicated for Siggi's killboard DiD/TLW" campaign in my Fokker Dr1 against SE5as and a wandering group of Bristol fighters. As I down my first englishman I remember seeing a Fokker Dr1 flash past me in beautiful colors (somewhat like my Jastas' colors but with splashes of red along the fusealge...a sign or a red line), I then noticed another unit had joined the fray but they had their own unique color and it did not match the previously seen Fokker. As I dodged in an out of the battle I kept seeing flashes of this DR1...even though I had labels on , I could not take the time to study who I was seeing and in no way was in any posotion to take a screenshot. I am positive I ran into an individual Ace with his own personal plane. Now my questions.... Am I seeing things? Is it possible to assign an individual skin to an individual ace? Has it been done in some cases?

good stuff!

That is waaaaaaay beyond cool! Very nice!

The caption was hilarious...pretty cool, i'll be on the look out for it...

well do you only fly OFF? I find the Saitek X-52 hard to beat over all for all sims etc.

Great game tonight with plenty of highlights. Scenario: Lamb to the slaughter 2 british Se5As with 0/0 pilots on their first mission have been seperated from their squadron (one is very badly damaged). German Jasta 11 lurks a few thousand feet above them ready to pounce. 2 brave British Camel Pilots climb desperately to try and save them. it was a spirited fight that saw the SE5as turn agressive and deliver some blows. In the end one Se5a pilot surivived and the one flying the damaged plane perished. Congratulations to Martin Von Scrub in his rickity crate Albatros for getting his first kill (him and Von Rolshoven had to cut a deck of cards to see who got the kill as they both scored and equal amount of killing hits on the SE's last turn). Other squadron news that was taken care of: Adolph Bulow has joined the squadron with a few missions under his belt and a Shiny new Pfalz XII has been issued to Jasta 11. James Cunnigham , leader of the 94th aero squadron, has been promoted to Major Rene Jeannot has recieved the Croix de Guerre medal for his outstanding achievements in combat. and of course Martin Von Scrub has a confirmed kill.

Nice video, thank you for posting. Probably the most beautiful plane ever created.

Olham be careful of over confidence in the plane (now I know what Voss went through), I had devleoped an ACE with 7 kills at 100 realism DiD/WTL in a Dr1 and got over confident. On the Aces' last day on earth, I single handidly attacked 7 SPADS and while I put up a spirited fight I ended taking a dirt nap. Are you agressively adjusting trim? it eases some of the nerovousness the plane sometimes has.

Amazing!

I just played today ...great, great game. You can play it with dosbox 7.2 and download it for free. Worth the effort ...even on an uber modern rig it rocks.

Just follow silver bolt's instructions and let's get some stuff uploaded!