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It is written in a funny style, with quite some humorous self-criticism. You realise, how much simpler people thought about many things, how comradery and friendship were held high; how they enjoyed just to get some better food than the average soldiers or the people back home, suffering under the war circumstances. He describes, how there were no fighter training schools in the early days; how they had to just find out themselves. What he does quite well, is to describe conflicting emotions. For example, when he gets his first Albatros D II and encounters a single, unescorted Farman. How he first gets into the hunting fever, doing everything wrong and under dangerous circumstances, how he finally gets the craft down, but with no witness. He lands at his previous recon Staffel field and really gets them to fly to the crash site to make a photograph to proof his first victory. And then, when he flies back to base alone, he feels like s**t, cause he has killed two boys, who also had families, mothers, girlfriends - and today is the 24th of December...

Yes, that was already cleared some posts before. I changed it now.

:clapping: :clapping: Now comes the hardest part, Matt - topping your previous music. To me, this is right now looking like something impossible, but you may have some time left for finding good ideas, hopefully! I wish you all the luck and success!

My godness - so I was lucky to find it intact, when I visited Paris in the 70s and 80s. By the way - I read, that Carl Holler from Jasta 6 was excluded from the Staffel, after celebrating with a French pilot they had shot down. Humour and cool lifestyle are still pretty rare in Germany, I'm afraid.

I will out myself as one with no historical knowledge about WW1 here now: what exactly happened in the "Dardanelles Campaign"?

Hey, this sounds to me like the beginning of a wonderful friendship, Matt! Play it again, Sam!

Let me listen - does it speak? I can't hear, if it goes up to Northern Italy???

Yeah, she can be both: cute and hot!

Absolutely understandable, hairyspin. What areas are covered by MAW?

Man, this is so touching! I understand, that this mod can be used free? Would that mean, that it could indeed be "united" with CFS3 and OFF in a way, that we could also fly in the other theaters?

Gaw, I can't give you advice for women, asn it never helps anyone anyway. They seem to be logic-proof. For OFF, I give you a simple advice I learnt from Creaghorn and Hasse Wind: Don't make your kill your success, but your return alive to your field. Don't be proud of the kill tally, but of the number of wingmen, you did NOT lose. Then you may last longer - and still collect a kill tally similar to most WW1 pilots.

Thanks for the history lessons, Hasse Wind and Wels. Next time I'll read about the things I believe to know, before I post them.

Bruno Stachel could be played by Thomas Kretschmann, the "Kaptän Engelhorn" from "King Kong". And the Hauptmann: yes, Clooney would be good, or German actor Ulrich Tukur.

Thanks for sharing, Rabu - never seen this site before.

Heeeeeyyyyyhhhh! Lou, you know that now there will be some twenty posts to welcome you back - even if it's only for a short stop. What you discovered, means nothing less than that we could add the Mediterranean front with Austrians and Italians, and god knows what more! Shredward, get your facts out! There is so much to do until P5! (I should finally start to learn modelling!)

To let myself drift back in time and really be there, I have made many personal Pilot photos for the OFF Logs, using my own photographs from days, when I was young enough to fly an Albatros fighter, if I had lived back in 1917. Now I have made me my own Sanke-Card. These cards were made by Sanke Studios Berlin for all the German aces. They can be seen on this wonderful website about German WW1 aviation: http://www.flieger-album.de/

Thank you guys! Haha! Back to schooldays, Jarhead! I bet in America you had baseball aces cards. We had Europe's best Fussball players (not football, but socker). Of course, there were always sports cars or jet planes. I wonder how the Winder card would look - I'm tempted to do the deal.

It would indeed be very great and desireable, that a film team working with computer generated graphic scenes would ask for the advice of people, who know some more about those craft. I recently saw the pilot film of Spielbergs "Taken" (or better: the first ten minutes - wasn't my cuppa). The German fighters attacking the B 17 bombers were really well made; everything looked pretty impressive. But here and there, some of the tempo was just wrong - the Messerschmidt's roll rate was more like a modern jet's. Anyway - you could see, how well they could do it meanwhile, and the real stuff like pilot's bonnets and oxygen masks, and the whole interiour - all looked very great.

Hihihi! I see, you all know, what I mean! Sorry, eric, we often get carried away a bit from a topic in just 13 posts.

How comes, the ladies always seem to get something out of a man's spending on the things he earned by his hard labour?

Update 05/15/10 01:36 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) eric3045, Pennsylvania, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Welcome to the OFF community, Eric! It's like Christmas for children - the tension is growing, and you're afraid, Father Christmas may not find your house. But he always did, and so will the postman. You could read all the tips and tricks in the stickies, the FAQs in the website www.overflandersfields.com or get a second job to be able to buy TrackIR - the experience next to really flying these crates and a must-have IMHO. I will add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps, which you find in the stickies above.

If new music was necessary, I hope they'd ask you again. But it may well be, that your score was so good, Matt, that it will be used again. It hasn't "worn off on me" yet.

I'm with Creaghorn here. A series about the aces and their best or most outstanding fights, their tactical measures and their social behaviour, their courage and their nightmares. All this following the documented events and their own hand records. No nurses falling in love with the ace, no Ursula Undress stuff. (Sorry, Catch, but there are so many other movies, where that fits so much better - old James Bond films for example.) They should search for actors not yet so well known, and who fit the looks of the aces. Director: Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) & Peter Jackson Music: Matt Milne and Hans Zimmer

Bang goes another lie - and I had been wondering about a touch of respect in that man.