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Steven1918 and I are making all new stuff - aircraft, figures, ground objects, etc - for the Spanish Civil War. Because Steve works in FE1, everything we make will work in FE1 though I would like to make a high performance FE2 equivalent. Shot below is FE1.

I second that - really impressive. Got a question. In the course of developing aircraft ingame, I noticed a lot of frame rate variation. Naturally some variation is normal, but I saw more variation than would seem justified so I set up a test with 16 Gladiators. Framerates varied from 13 to 41, even though there was no real variation in objects within the FOV. Has anyone elese gotten that much variation?

Thanks. More test shots below.

More Chirris.

Got lots of other airplanes to do before we get around to a new BR20.

Eventually, I'll release a second version for early WW2. More than 200 CR32s were still in service when Italy declared war on Britain in mid-1940. Most of them were employed as ground attack aircraft, with two small bomb racks under the fuselage plus an additional radiator when deployed to North Africa.

While I can't help with specifics, I can contribute some generalizations. I helped write the battle damage repair manuals for two different aircraft programs. That gave me an opportunity to research a lot of background stuff, plus talk to test engineers. As I was an aircraft history buff, I bounced what I learned against what I read about WW2 aircraft. Baff is pretty close to approximating what happened in the BoB by giving bomber pilots extra protection. Towards the end of the BoB, the Luftwaffe had installed field mods that improved protection for pilots and systems, making them hard to shoot down with .303cal bullets. Unlike a 12.7mm/.50cal round, a .303cal round just did not store enough energy to fatally damage primary aircraft structure. Obviously .303cal bullets could degrade primary structure to the point of failure, but it required A LOT of them concentrated in one location. Put another way, it only took a few 12.7/.50cal bullets to inflict the same damage caused by a dozen .303cal bullets. Plus, most pilot armor could resist all rifle caliber bullets and nearly all cannon shells. The RAF had already figured that out by 1940, which is why it was combat testing small numbers of cannon armed fighters during the BoB.

Both whiteknight06604 and KJakker have been very helpful with the testing and file bashing. KJakker figured out why the damn thing would always explode on the ground - now it works fine.

Gterl and I have started a Spanish Civil War mod. We have barely begun, and it will take a loooooong time to complete. Shots below are the first batch of new, dedicated ground objects being made for the mod - Republican vehicles.

Shot of inwork ground objects.