Rick Rawlings

Rother Nought RNAS 3rd Sqn Mid Sept, 1916 Nice to use the new Sopwith, although those Fokkers were pretty tough and took all the gunfire I could give them!

Rother Nought RNAS 3rd Sqn Sept, 1916 Finally, the instruction manuals came for the Sopwith Pups that had been sitting in crates for all these weeks and we were able to unbox them! I can see why we had to wait as there are so many dials compared to the Nupes! Anyway, we went up to the front to clear the area for our Strutters and I was able to bag a lone German, that was of course before the C.IIs showed up! I got a few rounds into one before my fuel line was holed and I had to glide back to safety! If the Germans ever manage to put a few squadrons of those birds up together, this war will be over very shortly and we will all be eating strudel! Which I guess wouldn't be all that bad. *as a side note: was that tracer attached to the artillery shell or was it just a coincidental machine gun round that just happened to pass in the exact same path as the shell burst a half second later? I don't know!

Rother Nought RNAS 3rd Sqn Aug 31, 1916 Scramble Mission. ROLANDS!!! I'd say we got the worst of it! That guy was shooting at me upside down!

Actually, but for the DiD thread, it's not super busy over there, either...

Yeah, I wouldn't play it now, but it you look at the way it is set up: playing the war all the way through from both sides, medals, promotions and kill tracking, types of missions, no "story" but what you make as your own pilot, even the nested menu structure; it's a pretty good line through to the (W)OFF series (probably mostly through RBII). That does seem to be the case.

Simply amazing! Mine are contributing to world pollution in some trash yard right now!

Man, that guy was not checking his six!

Hmm. It's a very specific maneuver that will rarely get you out of trouble. In the early war planes it's hard to do cleanly, you are very vulnerable at the top and the enemy will rarely cooperate by being where you want them to be when you are done. I also try pretty hard to be following the enemy rather than the other way round whenever possible, so if they are not doing one, I am not doing one. It just seems that Immelmans, wing-overs, yoyos, split-ses and Chandelles will get you most of what you would be trying to do with a loop, without doing a loop!

2nd Lt. John Rockitt 94th Aero Sqn. April, 1918 Went up on a behind-our-own lines patrol today as there are a few of us new pilots that need to get used to the area. It was supposed to be a safe flight, but we were attacked by Pfalz scouts which were a few thousand feet above us. We had to climb and the fight took on a strange dynamic as a few came down to us at a time: I put many rounds into one, but he was awarded to the other guy that collided with him. Since they both fell to their deaths, I didn't feel too bad about this. But then our guy recovered and I began to think that maybe I should get some credit? I mean, I managed to not collide with the enemy! Shouldn't that count more? Anyway, the other new pilot, Little, was also killed. He did not get better...

...and they have been kind of hard to come by lately. I have pretty much committed to getting one eventually, just have to give up on the whole fly with the left hand, click cockpit buttons with the mouse in the right hand good thing I have going... (Falcon BMS clicking buttons, not WOFF, of course!)(I also acknowledge that many of those clickable buttons could be sent to the throttle quadrant thus ameliorating the problem to a large degree...)

Nicely done! Was that observer still shooting at you as his plane spiralled down with no wing? What a beast! Here we are back to Rother Nought, RNAS No. 3, August 1916: After having been given one of the N11s replace his old 10, Rother makes ace against a pack of Einies! Oddly enough, Amazon delivered a nice shiny package of Sopwith Pups to the front door of the squadron the other day, but no one seems interested in using them yet...some assembly required, I suppose!

It has a short throw (travel distance). Works great for what you are looking for, I did struggle a bit with really fine-tuning my speed in Falcon BMS for refueling, but works fine for everything else. My buddy has the throttle quadrant and I have no problem rolling with him. I used it for all twelve of my challenge missions in the SE5a and never felt like I needed something more. It handled subtle changes fine. I will probably get the throttle quadrant eventually, but as a lefty, I have been slow to adopt... Overall, I found the spring tension to be much better than the old AV8R Saitek stick I had before. Don't forget to disable the rudder twist in WOFFkeys though or you may be in for an unpleasant surprise!

Yikes! I thought the DVII was supposed to be tough! Good job on the latest 2-fer, btw!

Nice work, CastelEtzwane! Especially finishing off your man with those tracers going right by your head! Other than a couple of quick missions, I haven't really flown the DVII, looks like fun!

Here is Lewis talking about the...well...Lewis gun (no relation) towards the end of the video...

jerhear: very nice! I started an American career and made it about 3 missions before a two-seater murdered me in about 4 seconds... CastelEtzwane: That was a great video, very exciting! Not so great for that SPAD, though! *edit, jamming guns is still a thing, though!

Well...this thread took off! Back in the game now that the rudder pedals are fixed: So back into it with a little Karl Spieler: Being alone and low over the lines, I decided not to give pursuit. If you watch at high resolution in the 4:00-4:00 area, you can see the puffs of exhaust as he blips on the way down, very cool!

As an aside to kill time until I get my rudder pedals back up, back in the day, this was the bomb!I Fly the full war from both sides. Paint your plane one of four exciting colors! We didn't need no HOTAS setup, we had the arrow keys! How do you know with those graphics how close to the ground you are? Well, if you see black dots everywhere, you are pretty close! Flying the Camel almost upside-down in a left-handed turn? That's just what you had to do when using the keyboard for a rudder! And Zeppelins! Zeppelins!!! Truly amazing and really nothing could fully replace it until WOFF came along!

what?...WHAT?!?

Good point, but I feel like I was hearing them earlier in the patch history?

Good question. I have also noticed, while we are noticing things, that I sometimes seem to get shot at by my own troops and Archie, or at least I seem to be leaning way on my side of the lines when being shot at. Sometimes...

...yes, although I keep forgetting about it...

Heh, yeah! I'm on hiatus as I wait for a part to fix the toe break on my rudder pedals, so they are all pulled apart. I was hoping someone would jump on my campaigns/missions thread but...not...yet...