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For the Entente side, I quote the OOB shown in the 2nd half of Blood April... Black September, by Norman Franks, Russell Guest, and Frank Bailey, which IMHO is about the definitive work on the subject in terms of what happened. This book, however, doesn't list a German OOB, mostly because nearly every Jasta and Ket was involved at some point during the St. Mehiel / Meuse-Argonne, which all kinda blended into one big battle. Anyway, the Entente OOB, the largest concentration of airpower to day and under US command, looked like this: 1st US Army Air Service HQ American Air Service Units 1st Pursuit Group (Rembercourt) 27th Pursuit 94th Pursuit 95th Pursuit 147th Pursuit "C' Flight 648 Squadron 1st Pursuit Wing (Toul) 13th Pursuit 22nd Pursuit 49th Pursuit 139th Pursuit 3rd Pursuit Group (Vaucouleurs #1) 28th Pursuit 93rd Pursuit 103rd Pursuit 213th Pursuit Groupe de Combat 16 (Vaucouleurs #2) Spa.78 Spa.112 Spa.150 Spa.151 1st Day Bombardment Group (Amanty) 11th Bombardment 20th Bombardment 96th Bombardment 1st Corps Observation Group (Toul) 1st Observation 12th Observation 50th Observation "B" Flight, 648 Squadron Br.208 Br.214 4th Corps Observation Group (Ourches) 8th Observation 90th Observation 135th Observation 5th Corps Observation Group (Benoite-Vaux) 88th Observation 99th Observation 104th Observation Spa.42 Army Observation Group (Gondreville) 24th Observation 91st Observation "B" Flight 255 Squadron Army Artillery Observation Group (Ligny-en-Barrois) Br.206 Br.219 Br.225 Br.234 <P dir=ltr>French Night Bombardment Group (Epiez) CAP.115 CAP.130 Italian Gruppo di Bombardement 18 (Capitano De Riso) Squadriglia 3 Squadriglia 14 Squadriglia 15 9th Night Bombardment French 1st Division Aerienne Groupe de Combat 15 (Ochey) Spa.27 Spa.81 Spa.93 Spa.97 Groupe de Combat 18 (Ochey) Spa.48 Spa.94 Spa.153 Spa.155 Groupe de Combat 19 (Ochey) Spa.73 Spa.85 Spa.95 Spa.96 Group de Bombardement 5 (Martigney) Br.117 Br.120 Br.127 Groupe de Bombardement 6 (Tantonville) Br.11 Br.66 Br.108 Groupe de Bombardement 9 (Neufchateau) Br.29 Br.123 Br.129 Groupe de Combat 13 (Brabant-le-Roi) Spa.15 Spa.69 Spa.84 Spa.88 Groupe de Combat 17 (Pargny) Spa.77 Spa.89 Spa.91 Spa.100 Groupe de Combat 20 (Pargny) Spa.69 Spa.99 Spa.159 Spa.162 Groupe de Bombardement 3 (Combles) Br.107 Br.126 Br.1328 Groupe de Bombardment 4 (St. Dizier) Br.131 Br.132 Br.134 C.46 <P dir=ltr>French 2nd Colonial Corps (Rumont) Sal.28 C.47 Br.236 Sal.277 183rd Aero (Mobile Park No. 1) <P dir=ltr>British Independent Air Force (Azelot) Day Bombardment 55 Squadron 99 Squadron 104 Squadron 110 Squadron Night Bombardment 97 Squadron 100 Squadron 115 Squadron 215 Squadron 216 Squadron

I'm sure they already have such a gizmo that's fancier than mine. But us skinners are tightwads still smarting from buying the graphics editor, which we had to justify by finding other uses for. So, since I bought a gizmo, I'm making it available to other skinners. Go find me some Munsell specs for historical paints :).

Color specifications. Suppose you're a skinner and you want to make an accurate skin for any game--airplanes, tanks, ships, whatever. You want the colors on your skin to be as close as possible to the paint on the real object. For this, you need the specifications of the colors in whatever format your graphics program uses: RGB, L*a*b*, or CMYK, etc. To get this, you have several options: search the internet and steal somebody else's computer-friendly color specification, hoping they did their research; or experiment with different colors in your graphics program until you get something you like, but always know it's just a guess, or try to convert the real-world color specification into the appropriate computer-friendly format. What I'm offering to do for you is the 3rd option. Munsell is a real-world paint color description system (although these days it's also finding its way into webpage design). Many historical paints of interest to skinners have Munsell specifications, which are fairly easy to find online but which are useless in their natural state to skinners because no graphics program uses Munsell values to make color. So, what you do is, find the Munsell specification for the color(s) you're interested in and give them to me. I will use my program to translate these Munsell values into other color specification systems, at least one of which will be useable by your graphics program. My program translates back and forth between Munsell, CIE XYZ, L*a*b, RGB, and CMYK. It can start with any one and give all the others. But I figure its primary use to skinners is translating Munsell into RGB.

Howdy All- In case you all don't look at the "Photoshop and Paintshop Pro Help for Skinning and 3D Modeling" forum very often, some days ago I posted up a thread there saying I have the power to convert to and from Munsell, RGB, CMYK, L*a*b*, and CIE XYZ values. For reasons not worth repeating here, until the end of this year I'm making myself available to do such conversion work for the benefit of any OFF community member who needs it, the results to be shared by all at the end of the year. I haven't had but 1 taker so far which isn't enough, so read my thread there and PM me if you need such work. Don't reply to this thread as it's OT for this forum. Replies in the modding forum are OK, however. Don't reply to this thread. It's a

I like the late-model Aviatik D.I. You should also make an early-model version with no forward visibility and a gun shooting up at an angle ;).

I dunno. I think more and bloodier wars have been fought between kinsmen than foreigners. From an ethnocentric POV, foreigners can be forgiven for not knowing the local customs, so wars with them can often be dismissed or at least forgiven as based in part on ignorance. But between cultural brothers, any slight is seen as a deliberate insult, and trying to introduce different ideologies is seen as biological warfare. Hence civil wars are the worst, and you also have blood feuds lasting for centuries. This goes back to the roots of modern civilization. The Mesopotamians, the Classical Greeks, the pre-Roman (and current) Celtic peoples, the Warring Kingdoms of China, the Central and South American Indian cultures, the Pueblo Indians, the various Muslim and Christian denominations, you name it. All of them were constantly at each others' throats for centuries, even millennia, until one of them finally won or (more often) some external invader came along and imposed peace on them at the point of the sword or bayonet. This is about the only case I can think of that makes "cultural diversity" seem like a good idea. But it's a strong one. Amen to that.

I drink to their shades.

To all Jarheads wherever ye may be, happy 235th Birthday! Hope you all are as drunk as I am (can't take those Dress Blues off any other way, right?) :drinks: So, here's to us, to those before, to those behind, to friends not present, and also to our various enemies no longer present, without whom we wouldn't have a job outside of a prison license plate shop! Semper homicide!

In my own experience with making forced landings in cow pastures, all you can hear is the wind and all the cows hear is the gases bubbling in their several stomachs. It's alwatys been a complete surprise to them that I've landed in their midst, and to me that they didn't hear my approach. I guess that's why the cow got brained by the Tigermoth wing in that vid a while back.

They actually flew? You mean that wasn't some figment of my wishful thinking in OFF? DH2 and DH5 had the same wing, motor, and approximately the same weight, so you'd expect similar performance. Your vid seemed to show that. What I thought most interesting was how, when seen in silouhette, the back-stagger of the DH5 could confuse you so easily as to which way it was really going.

Mine is a scene from the night action at the Battle of Jutland, as portrayed in my game. This is HMS Black Prince illuminated and being pounded after stumbling into the main line of the High Seas Fleet

Don't you fly that already? It came out in the HITR expansion. Quite an interesting ride. The views and performance of an uber-DH2 with the durability of a nickel-iron meteorite :). The terrain and clouds impress me most, a big improvement over what I see now. I also look forward to "fliegen gegen England" again :) Oh yeah, and as an old cannoncocker, I love the "Néry Gun" which I have actually touched myself in the IWM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(N%C3%A9ry)_Battery_Royal_Horse_Artillery

You have far more patience than I do for that. sort of work. I'm of the "let's get 1 area lined up between side and top, then put a solid band around the fuselage elsewhere" school ;). Salute!

In GE, you'll see a folder called Verdun. Expand that and you'll see a bunch of things with check boxes, once of which is the map. Right-click on that and select Properties. Then you can wiggle the opacity slider back and forth however you want. Yup, you can upload photos to various sites like Panaramio which GE is linked to. You put a lat/lon tag on your photo and GE will show it as a little blue square at that point in the world. Thus, in GE you can often get ground-level views of your place of interest as well as the satellite view.

Thanks for the link! Much excellent stuff there.

Not all the files on that page have overlays. I think I'm the only contributor who has done much of that, and not all of mine have them. I've refined my technique over time ;). IIRC, from the top of the list of GE files, there are overlays for Przemysl, Paris, Verdun, Antwerp, Copenhagen, US Coast Defense, Port Arthur, and Verona. The overlays aren't photos, they're maps. Many of them are actual period military maps or even the plans of specific forts, although a few are modern schematics.

But it's easier in Google Earth. Get that if you don't have it already. Then download some of my KMZ files from here: http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/rese.htm Most of these have images pasted over the terrain. You can adjust their opacity in Google Earth. Once you've got it how you want, just take a screenshot.

That's pretty cool. The roads are the same but everything else is different. I like to play with Google Earth like this (except I mostly look for 19th Century forts). GE has a nice feature where you can paste images over the earth's surface and then make them somewhat transparent to see the current terrain. Ever do that?

Good thing. Tiger Moths seem to have been dying like flies lately :(

Never, never, never get tangled up in a melee. That's what you have cannonfodder wingmen for :). Stay on the periphery blindsiding fixated enemies :). Just don't collide with them. That's what gets me more than anything else, with a close second being landing accidents when I'm too drunk :D

I beg to differ. We demolished the culture of Nazism, and what sane and decent human being misses them in the least bit? Do we not celebrate our achievement there every year, to the point where historical wargames can't even have swastikas on Nazi units? I'm an easy-going guy, really. I'm courteous to all until they step on my toes, then I retaliate but only in kind. I don't escalate, because the inevitable conclusion of escalation is blood. I'm all about deterrence, but I if it's war you want, then you've got it. I follow the Golden Rule; I do unto others as I would have them do unto me, and also its flip-side. I do unto others as they do unto me. Islam doens't play by my gentlemanly rules. Islam says that its followers must either kill or convert (but still enslave) everybody else in the world. Period. And they're not much for the conversion thing, at least as regards today's population groups. Islam denies the legitimacy of ALL other religions, creeds, cultures, etc., etc., etc. other than its own, and uses that as justification for genocide. It's a totally barbaric. As I said before, the only Muslims fit to co-exist in civilization are the apostates who are willing to live and let live with us "infidels". But they are the distinct minority over the whole Muslim world, and are ruthlessly persecuted by their own co-religionists. So, Islam having declared a fight to the death on me and mine, with no negotiation, I have no problem at all with exterminating every one of its followers. That's what they want to do to the rest of the world, and I do unto others as they do to me. They started it, not me, but I'll damn sure finish it. If you can't deal with this, then prepare yourself for life as a eunich in some sheik's harem. It's attitudes like that which let Hitler get going.

Anybody who regards Islam as a peaceful religion, and who thinks that the bastards behind the 9/11 attacks were "extremists", have obviously never read the Koran, have never been to their parts of the world, and are highly skilled in the arts of self-delusion. There is a vast difference between actual religious intolerance and shooting a rabid dog, although todays moral relativists would try to convince you otherwise. Islam, as it is practiced on its home turf, is a rabid dog and needs to be shot. The only Muslims fit to be part of the civilized world are Westernized apostates, who are no more Muslims than I am Christian. 9/11 was forgotten a couple days after it happened, when the political correctness goons erased the above from public consciousness. And even today, they're promoting building a friggin' MOSQUE around the corner from Ground Zero, and stopping guys from burning Korans in protest. All I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/'11. We died, they rejoiced. End of friggin story. Or course, I knew that already, having been fighting them since the 1980s. But surely everybody else in the world should have seen it by then, if not at the Munich Olympics, Locherby, and all the other atrocities committed in the name of Islam. I"m just glad I killed several hundred of those bastards when I had the chance. I wished I'd killed more of them.

Very interesting. Thanks.

Congratulations! Drinks all around And thanks for the cigar

I fly scouts (the Fee IS a scout, dammit!) almost exclusively because I'm a fighterpilot, not a mud-mover. I do the occasional non-scout career but usually don't find them very enjoyable due to the way mission type is picked randomly and how most mission types boil down to the same thing: follow the waypoints. I only fly in the northern part of of the front (the Brit areas) because that's the only sector that's really "finished". The dearth of French and lack of US 2-seaters gives those parts of the front a very unfinished feel. I also only fly in 1917 and 1918. First off, 1915-1916 is even less-finished than 1918 over the Argonne. But that doesn't bother me much because I really don't enjoy flying the early birds anyway. I much prefer planes with at least early 1917 performance. I enjoy being the underdog so I usually fly only in early 1917 and late 1918, for King and Kaiser, respectively.