Rick Rawlings

Briefly back to the minors...

Nice pics! That RE8 seems an observer short of a recon team, though!

Number two with a bullet...

Yeah, I was disappointed that so few went with the full career route of the Red Barons and now WOFF. It really is the spiritual successor...

Good times! I remember it well! Well, maybe not too well, did they wheel down the balloons in RB 2 when you attacked? I do remember the scandalous roll out however, before the 3D patch and all that Vodoo! Oh, if only someone could push back that horizon fog!!! It was, however, a massive update over the original, which I played the heck out of on a keyboard!

Number one with a bullet!

Take care, Pol! We will wait patiently for Butch and Sundance to reunite this Wild Bunch!

They wanted you to get the full 1917 effect!

I would say that is the best idea. I would recommend using the toolkit tool and then restarting after you clear everything out. Hope it works for you! I haven't seen any of that behavior so far. Good luck!

Three is a magic number!

Hey busdriver! I've been autopiloting to the front area and I haven't seen any problems, but I've only done a dozen missions or so. When you made your pilot, did you set your autopilot skill level to novice, by any chance? (Not that it should matter to that degree though...) I also haven't seen any missions quit early, but then again, I have been dividing my time between a bunch of games and haven't played tons. Did you update your game with the add-on or do a clean install?

RFC Sqn. 1 #2: The continuing stooooooooooory of a pilot who went to the front

Here we go! RFC #1 featuring OTT!

Here's a peek!

The 27th flight with Jasta 27!

Love the distant horizon!

He certainly gets around a lot!

Release the Kraken!!!

10 hours ago, CaptSopwith said:

I love this idea, Rick!

I remember loving Crimson Skies but I also don't remember being able to enjoy it for very long before we moved to Windows XP and the game just stopped functioning. Into the bin it went at some point...

The closest we have to the real thing is a project over on the SAS boards, who work on all things IL-2 1946. Check it out! https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=62309.0

Cheers!

PS: Loving the flight videos you upload! Great stuff!

Thanks, Capt! Also, I have 1946...I'll have to check this out...not that I wouldn't love a new version (hint, hint, imminently arriving AI overlords...)

I wish someone would remake Crimson Skies in the WOFF/Falcon BMS style where you play as a pilot in some fanciful-but-realistically-based alternate history planes where you fight in the sky over control of various areas of the globe, having a career with plausible missions randomly generated and interspersed with some "plot" missions...kind of like UBOAT, I guess. You would be able to create and modify planes based on some modular plane system that would track how effective they would be. Pretty unlikely that will happen, although I guess there is a chance that there will be an AI program that I can explain that to and it will make the game for me, possibly even before a development team could do it...

Now to just stay alive that long...

Here comes 26!

#25. Seems like just last week we were only 23-24...

#23 and, for reasons that will become clear, #24

I said "Just a bit off the top." They listened!

...or the universe in general...#22