Olham

Can only agree, Griphos Thanks for that nice report - so it IS worth going back as far as 1915. Carry on, Wels (you know, that Wels/Catfish is a FISH, not a CAT, do you, CATF... arhm - Wels?)

I came to OFF in October, but seem to be a rookie, still. FM, CoG - call me out-of-date or old fashioned, but I don't understand the shorts quite often. Perhaps easier for the English? I'd be happier, if you would write them out.

Don't choose "fast reply" but "reply". Then, below your text window, you find "manage current attachments". Max. single upload size: 3 MB. Cheers, Rooster. Olham

Hi, all ! Knowing very well, that some Albatros versions wouldn't be my first choice, if I would have to fight a real air combat, I'm still in love with this bird. But I would really like to know, how you others experience her (all versions). When you're flying her: what are your most successful manoeuvers against which opponent plane? Who's your worst opponent? What do you avoid? Against which planes would you take up fighting even if it's 1 against 2 ? When you fight her: Which is your plane, and what are your most successful manoeuvers? Does it take much ammo to damage or down her? Which manoeuvers can she do better than you - what do you avoid? Would you take up fighting her, when it's 1 against 2 ?

Hi, Baywing Yes, I had that twice - I stalled and fell down a bit, and they stopped shooting at me. Why should Winder take that out? Human pilots WOULD possibly get cheated? Thank you, Bullet; and have fun in Phoenix (Lol!) I'll see what I can use - I wonder, if the AI would get confused, if I PRETEND something ?

If you devels should consider this poll at all: please remember, that the "Allied voters" are at least 75% against German voters of 25%. So, votes for the D VIII should be multiplied by 3, to be fair (and then she wins, WomenFly2 !)

Hey, that sounds good, Griphos Maybe I'm still missing a lot by flying fighters only. But then there are still all the Allied fighters yet to be flown. Ah - it's incredible - maybe stuff for years!!!

Heeeyy! Nice you get on so well - now the only thing missing is the bar, were you could get drunk together (Lol!) But what about the rest of us? The stuff about "energy and angles fighters" just became interesting! You mentioned figures from the book. Do you think, you could show them here, without bringing up Mr. Shaw against you too much? I'd be really keen on learning, how to counter the obviously superiour Camel?

These I made some weeks ago, when I had no TrackIR yet. If you hadn't seen them on the old forum; enjoy. Ride of the Valkyries End of a Hunter Day of the Albatros Unfortunately, after patching and with TrackIR on, I don't get reasonable framerates anymore, so I can't make movies right now. But I'm upgrading, and in a couple of weeks, I'll produce more.

My goodness - youth and uniforms... I used to have kind of a self-tailored American blue north states uniform - a blue jeans with yellow stripes on the side, a blue shirt with golden knobs and golden sergeant's angles, a yellow neckerchief and a black hat with a golden band around it and golden crossed sabres on the front. Seeing your son now, I see me, many years ago. (Don't bother - he'll come off the "colonial time dreams" himself, when he grows up. Quicker than you even like...)

Hahaha! Great report, Creaghorn. Perhaps zee Dshermanns invented zee psycholodgik warfare?! Vee paint zee planes most colorful ant bright, and zee enemy ssinks, vee vere not at all affraid of zem! Cheers. Olham

Have you played online already, Widowmaker? (If so: what did you fly? How did it go for you?) I consider myself as still being just too bad for it. I must learn this all again, as the plane's behaviour was changed a lot; I even had those close-to-ground stalls again in the Albatros, which I thought I had overcome.

For a beginner's flight training, you can pick "free flight" in "Quick flight", and take all the time you need to learn to know your plane and exercise manoeuvers. For first combat experiences: You could enter service as "flieger" (I don't know the Allied equivalent - lowest rank). Then follow your leader and the pilots, who's wingman you now are. Fly defensive, but help your comrades out, if you can, without putting yourself to risk too much. Run away, when you feel, it's the best you can do.

To collect an ace's impressive kill tally here, you got to - remember and follow all the golden rules - run more often than you kill As I said elsewere before: Udet's kill tally was collected by having 1 kill every 15 flights. (Or you fly like me: I have a hundred and plus lifes and names. I'm the devil's soap box opera actor. I'm the reincarnation of the rookie fool. I have to go through this again and again, until my karma may change. And I'm getting killed every 5 flights; or even more often...)

I ditto, what Parky and others said. It shouldn't appear "easy" - I mean, sometimes in campaign, you also have rookies, like those 2 Nupe 17 yesterday, who made the mistake to approach our 3 Albatros D Va, with only a little advantage in height, and I killed both within 3 minutes. But on the other hand, you should see flights, that split up, some attacking, the others going up, to come down on you with more advantage. And aces often do special manoeuvers; more tricky. But off course: as soon as you can hit a craft severely, it will often not be able anymore to perform agile manoeuvers. You can let it fly on and pick the next, when there's a furball. As long as you manage, not to get hit yourself, it can go "almost easy" - but so often have I thought just that for a sec - and "sprazzle" - was I hit from some unexpected angle. My advice: - Pick a "non-top plane", like the Albatros D V or D Va, or an S.E.5a, or a Nieuport 17. - Fly a campaign in late 1917, or in 1918. "Radar" and target cone off; all most realistic/hard. - pick a Jasta/Squad, that's offensive and in the tough combat areas. - survive 17 flight hours If that should still feel "easy" all the time, there is either something still wrong with your install, or you can put yourself in front of a mirror and look at an ace (Lol!) But try first...

Flown all Albatros, all other fighters a little bit; no two-seaters yet. But I'll start a Roland C II campaign, and then report here again. Should be some relaxing, to switch over to rear gunner, after one or two fighter sorties - those are really exhausting or tiring for me.

Thanks for sharing, tttiger. Perhaps I can even find a German version. Does it also contain WW1, and specified advice for certain plane types?

Ditto - addicted may be the right word, sworn in fits it military wise. And, Rick - with an Alby, I don't need SEVERAL good bursts on a Nieuport. I give them ONE, and then go on to the next. The plane hit WILL crash. That way, ammo lasts longer (although: I have already 1.000 rounds). I let my wings cover my back, and finish one Nupe after the other off. (No, was just teasing. I have to learn completely new - still make SO many mistakes. Without TIR, I'd be lost now...)

Now I realise, I'm not the only Albatros pilot round here. THAT'S GOOD ! And that you others have some much more refined tactics than I had ever thought of. (that's bad...) But I will copy the most usefull lines and bits, and compile me a tactical advisory. Thank you all so far - really good stuff!

Geeze, Widowmaker - I had that album! Gave to a friend at his birthday, who desperately wanted it. How small the world is , again. (Or: how far you Brits spread your popular music... Lol!)

Hi, DOWLEY welcome here. To the other posters here, I repeat it once again (does anyone READ the posts of the others?): On that thread WASN'T only bashing. The bashing was rather some pages back. The newer pages contained rather FRIENDLY views. And if this talk about bashing goes on here, I'll get me some spray cans and spray it all over the screen! (No - on second thoughts... Lol!)

Hey, Gim... ahh! - UncleAl ! Perhaps you should do that sticky with basic commands, tipps and tricks here again, as you had done in the olde forum. There seem to be many newbies around. PS: target cone is "I" or "shift+I" - whatever you want to use or change: press "escape" ingame, then in the menue appearing on the right, choose "controls", and there they all are. You shouldn't try to change them (that won't work), better choose "add assignment", and then press the button you want to use. After that, you can delete the old assignment (but must not - you can have keyboard keys and joystick buttons with the same assignment). OOOPS! You have it already up there! Sorry, UncleAl - maybe I need glasses like yours soon, too...

Junior Member Group: Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: 8-March 09 From: Berlin Member No.: 46,143 Warn: (java script:PopUp(%) This was posted in another thread, so you may have seen it before. But I think, it's worth an own topic. This simulation is so realistic now, I really have to struggle hard. And I get my nose punched many times! But I say to myself: when you think of the many flight hours of Ernst Udet (one of the few aces, that survived 3 years of this hell), then his kill tally doesn't say, that he had a kill on each sortie. He had collected kills from March 1916 until September 1918 (I think). So lets say: within some 900 days. Now, even if we take off 300 days for furlough and bad weather (which is far more than he really had a rest, I'm sure), we have roundly 600 flying days. They often made 2 or 3 flights a day, so let's only add 300 again, and we have 900 sorties. That would make (round) 60 victories in 900 flights. And that makes 1 air combat victory in 15 sorties. What I'm trying to say, is, that we got a very realistic simulation here, and when we want to survive longer, and collect more kills, we may have to be far more careful. More defensive thinking. Leave situations, that develop too risky. We must decide, if we play for the "hunting/killing fun factor" (as I mostly do so far) - or for a longer lasting, kill collecting pilot, who might even survive the war, with a good looking total kill tally. No easy choice, eyh?

Hey, Rickitycrate Barbequeing is not allowed on board any military planes, by all means! (Thought, you knew that? - Lol!) And: it happened to me several times. too. Midair collisions. Sideward stalls near ground. Crash landings, cause I couldn't give up a fight, after being damaged already, and so collected more rounds. Getting shot up by the twins guns of the observer of a Strutter, although I had sworn, never to attack those again. And, and, and...

RABU, I'm afraid you "landed" at the wrong end of the post. While at SOH, the newer posts were always on page 1, there it is the last page. I just wrote a post in there, and it was on page 14. Here's the link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread...381#post1064381