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Just fought down a typical winter low by putting this graphic together - the aerodromes at Bertangles, according to the booklet "In the Footsteps of the Red Baron". This is the aerodrome Major Lanoe Hawker started from, when he flew his last mission and met the German ace Manfred von Richthofen. And this was the aerodrome von Richthofen's aircraft was brought to, when he was shot down. Enjoy!

Damn! I have been waiting for something that will never be released! Okay- from now on I'll wait for OFF2. Seriously now: sounds like great news, Winder!

Just went to the Chateau at Cappy, where MvR resided during his last days of life (via Google StreetView). I couldn't resist and made a kind of (almost full) panorama. The meadow at the right is supposed to have been the airfield of Jasta 5 (according to the booklet "In the Footsteps of the Red Baron"). I am still thinking of making a bicycle trip of 14 days around Flanders and the Picardie, to visit some of the sites of historical aerodromes, like Cappy, Bertangles, Vert Galland, Roucourt, Boistrancourt etc. .

Haha, yeah - now who's the person sitting next to you?! It's among the list. If you see the Emoticons at the right, click on "Show all" at the bottom and see them through.

PS: how thrilling historical research can often be, can be read under "Produktbeschreibung" here - it is the introduction by Michael Schmeelke to his book about Jasta 12, and it tells, how Schmeelke found Viktor Schobinger with immense luck! http://www.amazon.de/Deutsche-Luftkriegsgeschichte-1914-Kriegstagebuch-Jagdstaffel/dp/3925480951/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Just type "Jasta 15" in the search frame; you'll see it among the first results. Tornuss seems to have collected everything he could find about the Jastas after WW1. Dr. Georg Bock seems to have taken that collection over. But I don't know, if it still exists. Perhaps JFM can tell more. At the BUNDESARCHIV they have some documents for MvR and Ernst Udet. Didn't search any further there for others. As for Jasta and FA(A) diaries, I recommend these DIN A 4 booklets: - Deutsche Luftkriegsgeschichte 1914-1918 "Das Kriegstagebuch der Jasta 12" by Michael Schmeelke (assisted by Jasta 12 ace Viktor Schobinger) - Deutsche Luftkriegsgeschichte 1914-1918 "Aus der Chronik der Jagdstaffel 32" by Jörg Mückler - Deutsche Luftkriegsgeschichte 1914-1918 "KagOHL 4 Staffel 23 1916-1917: Die Kampfstaffel 23 (Kasta) des Kampfgeschwaders 4 der Obersten Heeresleitung (KagOHL)" by Michael Schmeelke All three books are still available (see AMAZON). They contain lots of photographs. .

Of course you can also go to Google Maps, and see if the area was already photographed for "StreetView". If so, you can grip and move that yellow mannikin from the left corner into a street, if it is blue highlighted, and you will "be there". Like I did with La Gorgue here. This is the river Lys, where Arthur and his comrades went bathing. The meadow at the right might habe been the former airfield. In the distance La Gorgue.

Thank you, BBeard. Well, when it comes to idioms, it gets difficult. I only know a few. Like "there's a fly in the ointment" - in German we say (translated): "There is a hook attached to that thing". Tricky! Thank you guys, but as for skinning, Gous and several others have done so much more over at the skinning site, where I never am. I make skins for the community, but those guys really wrote tutorials. .

Yes, a kind of Jasta diary - not daily written, but whenever there was an event. I don't have the time to translate it all, but I'm sure you can get the meaning of some of the stuff.

Well, it is of course essential to know the correct writing, Duke. I have tried here the airfield, where Arthur Gould Lee was based with the Sopwith Pups - La Gorgue. That field was named after a little town by the river Lys. Here it is: http://www.map-franc...a%20Gorgue.html What I like about this site, is that there are most often photos for the place. .

I think I have read some time ago, that they would make more hit-boxes for P4 planes? Or was it that the hit boxes would be made smaller? Something like that, which should result in more variety.

How do you mean?

Just found this document from Jasta 15, Habsheim, at the "Bundesarchiv": This document from December 1916 shown here is the declaration of consent of the officer corps of the Jasta 15 in Habsheim regarding the election of the Vizefeldwebel and officer candidate, Ernst Udet, for a Reserveoffizier (reserve officer?). On 21 December 1916, Udet declared in written form, that he agrees on this election, and to remain in service three more years after the nomination. At the Aerodrome website, someone posted this typed chronicle from Jasta 15. Another poster wrote some info about the source of these two pages: "The manuscript was written by Dr. Gustav Bock, based on the material of Erich Tornuß. ... The collection of Dr. Bock is the most complete collection on German World War I documents, based on original German sources. ... The collection of around 120 folders of Jasta diarys and official reports still exist in Germany. A good number of material published today is based on his fundametal work, unfortunately often not credited to him." I always feel a kind of thrill through the spine; I'm really touched, seeing such documents. .

Well, I think someone wrote a tutorial for that in the skinning section, Carrick - you should have a look there. http://combatace.com/forum/212-off-photoshop-and-paint-shop-help-for-skinning-and-3d-modeling/ To get to the skins and for browsing through them, I recommend IRFANVIEW, a free download program. You can go through all the ace skins as well as the default basic squadron skins. If you found one you like to use, save it to Desktop as a bmp file. Now you can open this with any graphic program. When you have finished your work, you need to save it as a .dds file. For that, I use the free program "DXTBmp". Install that, and then open your skin BMP file, and save as DDS-format DXT1. Now you can throw it back into the big pot here: CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins Good luck!

You want to know, where your current airfield is in France? Or want to see some photographs of the town or village? You can find it all here: http://www.map-france.com/ Type the name into the search frame and see what you get. .

Could you PLEEEEEZE avoid posting such titles- this might give the devs the feeling, they could carry on developing P4 until next Christmas!!!

That's the point - you could always wait for them to get cheaper, but then again they won't be the actual top notch card. Or: you buy a card from a year ago. That's the same thing like waitng for it to get cheaper - but you have one immediately. This card did cost 235,- € a year ago, and if you get it for 180,- € now, you saved 55,- €. And if you buy the next card in 2 years time, which is now 300,- €; you may get it for 180,- € again. That's 360,- spent, instead of 750,- €; and I can assure you, you will have superb gaming results that way, and save a lot of money. But if you don't know what else to do with it...

CW3SF, shouting with 4 exclamation marks - after just 1 hour wait? A bit unpatient, eyh? Or was that combined with a touch of humour, which was unaudiable for us? Without trying to interfere with the devs advice, I can say that I had occasional errors in OFF, and they have mostly been solved by performing one, or even both steps of this: 1. "Reset OFF Manager" in "Workshops" and if that didn't help 2. "Reset CFS3" in "Workshops" These steps helped me, so I didn't have to make a de- and re-install. But you must know: you will lose your campaign pilots that way - it's back to square 1. .

Well, he isn't old yet? But definitely a romantic through and through!

Creaghorn, spending 750 € on a top notch graphic card is - sorry, Sir - sheer madness, when you mostly fly OFF. OFF is not so demanding on that sector. A fast CPU (which you have) and good memory (which you also have) are important. And even if you play other games, you can have excellent results for less than 200,- Euro. Here is a comparing site by the gamer magazine PC-GAMES, section "PC-Harware" - perhaps you look through that. I also have a link to the GTX 560, which seems to be a very good card, which you can get for ca. 180,- Euro. Anything more would be sheer overkill IMHO. http://www.pcgamesha...afikkarte/Test/ http://www.pcgamesha...afikkarte/Test/ Hier ist das Fazit des Tests der GTX 560 TI (wenn Du nicht alles durchlesen willst) - Stand Anfang 2011: Geforce GTX 560 Ti im Test: FazitFür einen von Nvidia vorgesehenen Verkaufspreis von 239 Euro macht die Geforce GTX 560 Ti nichts wirklich falsch, aber dafür viel richtig: Die Leistungsaufnahme bewegt sich im Leerlauf auf einem sehr geringem Niveau, das Übertaktungspotenzial ist hoch und die Lautheit unter Last ist mit nur 1,1 Sone aus 50 Zentimetern exzellent für eine derart flotte Karte - kein anderer Pixelbeschleuniger dieser Klasse erreicht im Referenzdesign eine solche Laufruhe. In unseren Benchmarks sortiert sich die Geforce GTX 560 Ti im Mittel zwischen der Radeon HD 6870 und der Radeon HD 6950 mit 2 GiByte ein (selbst wenn Tessellation im Spiel ist und auch mit Q-Filterung seit dem Catalyst 11.1a). Erst GTX-560-OC-Versionen der Nvidia-Partner werden zur HD 6950 aufschließen können - die ersten 900-MHz-Karten von Palit und Gainward sind bereits im PCGH-Testlabor eingetroffen. Folgerichtig sieht AMD die bald startende Radeon HD 6950 mit 1 GiByte für rund 230 Euro UVP sowie stark übertaktete Karten des Typs HD 6870 als Gegner vor. Das Referenzdesign der Radeon HD 6950/2G allerdings ist unter Last klar lauter (2,6 Sone), auch hinkt sie hinsichtlich des ausgereiften Feature-Sets (u.a. GPU-Physx vs. Bullet, 3D-Vision vs. HD3D) und der Bildqualität (u.a. HQ-AF, SSAA in allen APIs) der Geforce GTX 560 Ti hinterher. Die Fermi-Karte kann allerdings maximal zwei Bildschirme parallel ansteuern (Radeon: drei oder mehr), beherrscht SGSSAA nur inoffiziell und ohne automatische Textur-LOD-Anpassung. Die Radeon-Riege bietet Supersampling-AA offiziell (nur unter DX9) im Treiber an, justiert das LOD auf einen perfekten Wert und garniert dieses Schmankerl mit einer hohen Ausführungsgeschwindigkeit - mit aktivem SGSSAA ist selbst die HD 6870 meist schneller als Nvidias GTX 560 Ti. Eyefinity außen vor, bietet jedoch die Geforce GTX 560 Ti das derzeit beste Komplettpaket am Markt. Der im Text erwähnte Preis von 235,- Euro ist inzwischen heruntergegangen - einfach mal AMAZON durchsuchen.

Tch! Rotaries are phase-out models. In WW2 you'll find that the inlines are the most successful engines. A mix of the Albatros' beauty and the Pfalz D.IIIa's sturdyness would be my perfect fighter.

Sorry, Mighty - I can't remember everything that was exchanged. You're right, you want a decent chance - at least as close as possible to the real pilot's sight.

Yes, indeed, Widowmaker!