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Hi all, although my screen is in 16/9, and that I ticked the relevant case (16/10) in the Workshops, when entering the 3D, I don't get any 16/9 screen ...any hint ? thanks in advance .

Thank you for your help , tweaking the resolution too did the trick !

The France National Geographic Institute has released for public access on its website some of its map library, free to download and use . If we could get before on other sites actual and today's maps or sat views of the regions for which we have an interest , they released the "cartes de l 'état-major", a set of maps, 1:40000, covering the whole french territory purposely done for the Military . This huge work was done during the 2nd half of the 19th century and give the reader a very nice view of the land, towns, roads , railways that I find totally compatible with our OFF terrain. During WW1, these maps were no longer up to date for military use and other more recent maps were used with different scales by the different services of the protagonists. The Air Services maps were around 1:30000 IIRC generally. The IGN did something great in thet they merged all the maps to make a whole France , superposable with sat views or road map. The site is not very user-friendly (for a French, what about a non-French speaking) and lacks intuitivity and explanantions on how to have the best benefit of its huge features and I am of the lazy kind ,so I 'm stuck at watching the maps and zooming in and out, so I will try to use them on a mobile phone or a pad (don't have one...yet) while "flying " my OFF missions. For instance, the link to the map of the Arras region, but from it you can scroll the whole territory http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/donnee/56/carte-de-l-etat-major-en-couleur?c=2.7594067997943945,50.29197441499255&z=0.00033503704418998587&l=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.ETATMAJOR40$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS(1)&permalink=yes Hope that can give you some more realism and comfort too in the OFF experience. If I can be of any help , don't hesitate to ask. Cheers.

No doubt about it ! with my Michelin or IGN maps, along the virtual maps we discussed above and with those I still have from Rowan's "Flying Corps" (and I do not speak of those included in Red Baron , the 1st) , for those who remember this great game/sim, I am very a happy virtual flyer over the Arras front locating some places in the footsteps of Victor Yeates in WInged Victory...the ingame map is interesting by its numerous airfields that make navigation easier, although I've found some inacuracies in some of their locations.

Thanks for your dedicated and generous work lothar . Hoping the woff map will give us the mean to do some "real" navigation with liable landmarks , otherwise , we can still stuck at our today's different maps after all (easy, for a few bucks, pounds, euros to buy actual road maps, as a poster wrote , they are still quite useful )

Hi,thanks for the useful link Olham. I must be somehow nut, but I still do not understand why we cannot have the actual OFF terrain as a map, I mean, as readable and printable files.

LOL , thank you !

Ouch ! wishing you a quick recovery !

like Capitaine Vengeur wrote : Braygay without accentuatipn on the "Y", the "T" being mute.

"Letters from Iwo Jima " was absolutely brilliant, not only in the depiction of the average japanese soldier and in what meant for him being part of these "banzai assaults" or forced suicides, but also in depicting the way the Japanese could have seen the US troops opposing them, in contrast with "Flags of our Fathers" : well entranched men, inhumane , a kind of deadly, robotised war machine (you see only their camouflaged helmets, rarely their faces) with huge firepower.

Of course, much of these movies are amongst my favourites, with a preference to early post WW2 movies, specially US for the great role playings, 12 o'clock high or objective Burma ...French can do good war movies too, although rare : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYHarxB13E&feature=related [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFj4YUnp40&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLA417346

BOB 2 wings of victory...consider it with the same respect than OFF.

yes, they are very friendly people and I was impressed how he (Wolfram) is proud and passionated by his theater. cheers.

yes...here in France it is still the armistice day , but as the last WW1 veteran died three years ago, it will become a rememberance day to those who died in armed conflicts. PS: my neighbours here in France (their Ferienhaus) are the owners of the Cinecitta/ Metropolis theaters .

Not that it makes a difference, of course, but aren't the soldiers throwing their helmets in the air on the first picture doughboys ?

Hi, weird, Creaghorn, as my family -in -law , Oberbayern, was absolutely not aware of what kind of day , November the 11 th could be in France ...

i've read so far Goshawk squadron and Piece of cake...found the latter much better ...but I must confess that i am absolutely haunted by Winged Victory: this could only have been written by a man who was actually there...a must read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fascinating stuff coming from every post...and the videos and pictures from the British paratroops in Arnhem are great . Thanks for everybody !

Hi, Mine is born in 1919 and still alive and active today ... he is Algerian born and enlisted (more or less drafted ) in the French army in the spring 43' after the Allied landing in French North Africa of november 42'. He went into combat in may 1944 in Italy when the French Expedionary Corps blew the German key position and opened the road to Rome ( yes ! yes , they did it: My link ) during the battle of Monte Cassino. he was Corporal in the 7th Algerian Light infantry/riflemen (tirailleurs) regiment , 3rd Algerian infantry division, and marched in Rome, the first occupied Axis capital town. Fought till mid july with the seizure of Sienna (" but that was a real pleasure walk, very little resistance") . They were then sent south for replenishment for some weeks. Then he boarded on ships in Tarento and landed on the 16th august in Southern France near Saint-Tropez. He was WIA on the 22th , by handgrenade splinters in the head coming from the right while manning the squad LMG, in the suburbs of Marseilles. Croix de guerre one palm one star, médaille militaire and légion d 'honneur some years later. I am quite proud of him .

@Olham: I 've never heard this explanation about the link between "Boche" and "Bosch", the origin is unclear though...tête de boche / de bois meant wooden head...

Thanks Louvert, althought I only shall be able to download your zip file later, I give you an honor french citizenship with a Légion d'Honneur.

Hi...my latest version of the free antivirus softaware AntiVir Guard has for the 1st time,detected a Trojan horse TR/Dropper.Gen in my OFFMAnager.exe while launching the game. ( ver 1.32f, installed since it came out)..is it a problem already discussed ...I think O need some help with that now....thanks in advance...

Thanks Check Six...i'm gonna post something there...

Hi, I have this hopefully "false positive" from AVIRA concerning the OFF exe, since today...without having updated anything on OFF...I 'll wait till Avira modify their viri definition or their software sensibility...just have to deactivate it while playing OFF..and not being online meanwhile...