Capitaine Vengeur

Hello modders. Does a .tga file exist somewhere for the three-coloured new design of red star used by the Russian Air Force since 2010? Following the Syrian events, I have resumed work in progress on a Modern Russian Medals Pack. I plan to complete and release it soon with two new Nations in the Nations List, Russian Air Force 1992-2010 and Russian Air Force post-2010, and this Insignia at the right size would be very useful to me. Could someone help?

Black Sea Crisis is still playing the Cold War, Soviet revisionists vs the Free World. That's why I plan Russia as a new Nation beginning in 1992, rather than inactivating the Union in 1991: the Soviet Union may survive in many hypothetical campaigns. But Putin's Russia is still another kind of attractive monster to be played (Eltsin's, much less, IMHO). Er, yet after check, you're damn right about Black Sea Crisis: new Nations file, and the famous three-coloured stars available for the Federation as soon as 1992. I should draw more inspiration from this fine work... It works fine, thank you! Be blessed now, and credited later...

War is hell. Even for the neurones when contemplated from outside...

Beau!! While I'm yearning for the remotorized version SPAD 16, careful work always beats hurried work. Please take as time as needed to polish these magnificent birds. Bravo again!

The crazy thing about this, is that comparatively, I'm learning here much more things about the mentalities and habits of the Transatlantic weird species than about my neighbours at Albion. So happy once more I feel to be a Western European! One could add about England: "Always wins rugby contests, when not facing Taffies, Aussies, or anything with more than one leg."

I'm out for 3 weeks by now, and afterwards shall keep on working on other medals packs (by testing, I realized that some conditions I was using for awarding do not work the way they should). When everything fixed, I plan to work on Fascist Italian medals for WW2; I shall add a panel dedicated to the SCW. When delivered, let me know for the Spanish awards, both sides.

+1 for the virgins if you raise to 77, there are some cases when I like double numbers. Selecting brainless idiots through polls in The Arena forum is some idea?

There were such German flying aircraft carriers in Herbert G. Wells' "The War in the air" (1908). Actually, if I remember well, it was because the German planes were too archaic, heavy and underpowered to take off, and had to be dropped from an airship to gain initial speed. I don't remember there were such beasts at Jules Verne, and yet he was an imaginative guy regarding balloons.

In September, I'm touring South Africa. There in the savanna, I expect to be in the eye of the cyclone for a financial crisis. I'm just hoping that: 1- When I be there, the rates for my organs of well-fed Westerner won't go through the roof, 2- When I'm coming back, it won't cost me four additional years of salary just to fill up the plane with kerozene, 3- When I'm back, my Euro notes will still be worth more than bog paper...

Spencer Stone shall be awarded the USAF Airman's Medal, for most heroic conduct out of battle - will look nice alongside the plain red ribbon of the French Légion d'Honneur he has just been awarded yesterday. I hope that he and the other heroes shall also receive signs of praise from the other nations that had nationals aboard this train...

Tragic, true. With such a high-speed shock and fireball, I prefer not to imagine what the remains look like... Always makes the mourning more painful.

Is there something planned already for the Battle of Britain Day, 15 September?

For more scary stories about war debts, you can go back to the 2nd and 3rd Punic Wars. After its victory at Zama in 202 BC, Rome put Carthage in oppressing debt for no less than 50 years. As soon as all of the debts were finally paid, Rome found some pretext to attack and erase Carthage from the face of the World - done by 146 BC. A hen that cannot give eggs any more is just to be cooked. May some people in debts remember this.

Full-scale test over Hiroshima: one giant leap for science, one small step backward for mankind...

What? Yankee infidel Satans, Frankish crusader Satans, Arab heretic Satans, but no Zionist imperialist Satans? Is this still the Islamist Republic? Otherwise, it seems that Comical Ali has found a second wind as screenwriter at Teheran...

I doubt that they get their 72 virgins if they vomit on Allah's doormat !

Hello gterl and Geezer. If you plan an all-inclusive mod, with campaigns and additional decorum, I may help you for the medals sets (for Spanish Republican, Spanish Nationalist, German, Italian and Soviet pilots). I have designed and uploaded already a medals set for the Legion Condor, for the all-inclusive add-on about the Spanish Civil War the Dev A-Team had developed for SF1. And I have some other medals in works in progress that could seem fit. Just let me know if you are interested in. Gterl, your map looks fantastic. Once more.

It may have stayed unnoticed to me, but do the two-seaters SPAD 11 and SPAD 16 exist somewhere? In FE stock campaigns, several squadrons should fly such machines, but they are replaced with the Salmson. If not available, it could be a fine addition.

70 years ago: the fourth Independence Day of a Nation at war, with millions of fathers, sons, brothers and husbands still abroad under the uniform. A sickening battle at Okinawa had just ended, with the terrible and absurd prospect of a fifth and maybe a sixth Independence Day spent fighting a losing Empire that did not admit its defeat. So enjoy living in 2015, whatever the current prospects. Happy Independence Day!

Respectfully, hat down.

Just give it a frightening Batplane skin, and that should get very cool. Her British Majesty's camo just looks... what's the word? sissy?

I had heard of the joke already, but involving Egyptians vs 1-2 Israelis - which means it is at least 40- or 50-year-old. Yet it still works fine: that's the way one recognizes a good joke...

Quite an ugly bird IMHO, but it has been an US Navy trademark for so long... Yet as long as I love everything F/A-18-looking, I won't complain for the change. Adios Prowler, good luck Growler!

- What happened to "Bring me your tired, your poor, your wretched masses yearning to be free"? - Now it reads "No vacancies" ! (Lethal Weapon 4)

King Louis was not that a decent chap: paranoiac, hypocondriac (a VD patient), abusive husband (his unwilling wife Hortense, daughter of Empress Joséphine, cheated on him several times - like mother, like daughter)... King Louis was father of Napoléon III; and his grandson "Loulou" could have become Queen Victoria's son-in-law, had he not been killed by Zulu warriors while wearing the British uniform. Strange fate, this family had. Another interesting anecdote about this strange family: an other of Napoléon's brothers, Jérome, clearly not a man of war, performed poorly as a divisional commander at Waterloo, stuck into futile attacks against the fortified Farm of Hougomont. But his grandson Charles J. Bonaparte met more success as an US Attorney General under the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt: he is considered as the founder of FBI ! About the Dutch at Waterloo, the largest part by large fought of course under command of William Prince of Orange, within the Allied Army. As usual, Wellington put the blame on them, and on the Belgians serving in their ranks, for the fits of panic that occasionally struck his army. All of the Dutch and Belgian generals had served in the Grande Armée, most of them had been awarded and knighted as Baron d'Empire by Napoléon. But there was a handful of Dutch old followers on the opposite side. A battalion of the Old Guard, the one that covered Napoléon's flight and vainly tried to rally the routed, was commanded by a Lt-Col Duuring, a Dutchman who had served in the French Army for 19 years without ever seeing the need to apply for the French citizenship. One of the very last signs by Emperor Napoléon before his Second Abdication, was to grant this citizenship to Duuring, mostly to protect him from prosecutions by his compatriots.