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I did a search and didn't find anything but I am a relative newbie here.... has a flyable Halberstadt CL.II ever been available as an add-on to OFF? I wanted to fly a career as a gunner in a two seater for the novelty of that experience so of course I selected Gottfried Ehmann the top German gunner/observer ace of the war. He flew with SS-15 but unfortunately his most productive time was when SS-15 was flying the Halberstadt CL.II and that time is not availble in a career since the aircraft is not available. So that is my question.... can I make it available via an add on? If not... anyone know if there is plan for more 2 seaters in OFF2? Maybe I just have to be really really patient and wait until then? Thanks

Olham: Thanks for the heads up! I did notice an increase in my opponents ability in a dog fight.... took some damage and took me more firing passes to down my opponent because they seemed more evasive. Like you - I enjoy flying the Albatros machines but using a DII right now flying as Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen in Jasta 2. I plan to shift him to Jasta 11 soon in Early 1917(found I could edit the career and shift Jastas) to pick up his career flying the DIII and then of course the DV. Since you are in Germany - I occasionally make it to the Stuttgart or Koln area for work - are there any good Great War museums in those areas that you are aware of?

I did purchase HiTR over the weekend - and an now happily playing HiTR with all my careers still active. Thanks for the advice to all!

Yes - I should realize that I am pretty late to this game and probably all these things have been discussed and debated before my time. It will be great to see what they come up with in OFF2 but assuming it is still based on CFS3 it will of course still have some of the same limitations is my expectation.

Is it possible in CFS3 to assign the WWI 2 seaters to more of a fighter bomber roll than a bomber roll? I never got into CFS3 so not sure how well they represented the FB role but that would be a little closer match to WWI 2 seaters than using them as pure bombers maybe?

Speaking of 2 seaters and the AI.... I find that BE2c and Sopwith Strutters just fly straight and don't fight back until they go down in flames making them VERY easy targets..... is that the experience of others? You would think they would at least try to dive for the deck and evade or can't that be a part of the AI?

I will send you a PM Prost! Enjoy your virtual Warsteiner! Drink up!

Wow - I was away from my computer for a long weekend and was surprised by the length of this tread when I got back to it just now. First of all... Thank you all for the discussion and now that I know my careers will survive I will for sure be purchasing HiTR. I was thinking based on what I had read at the website that the most important aspect was adding the American squadrons and aircraft but it seems from this thread that it really is much more than that and I will get more out of OFF if I upgrade. So I will! I would like to add, that I did a lot of research on what sim to get started in when I decided that I wanted to undertake a WWI simulation. (as you know there are choices). Because I treat these sims as an extension of learning history I highly value sims that are as historically accurate as possible. Before starting to play I read some books about WWI aviation and researched many of the key figures. I have a plan that I have built that will take me through the progression of the war flying in the careers of the pilots that were most interesting to me (hense why I didn't want careers interupted by installing HiTR). So I selected OFF from the other options out there and have only been flying OFF (BH&H) for about 2+ months now (still pretty much a novice.) I am NOT at all disappointed with my choice. The experience has proven to be all that I wanted and through this forum and my own trial and error I have gotten down my play in BH&H and will now add HiTR. I think this is a great sim and a good value for the money and highly recommend it. I will play this until OFF2 is available and look forward to the exciting changes that promises! Thank you everyone for helping me to get started.

I currently have several careers going in BHaH. I would like to add some of the features and upgrades of HiTR but don't want to start over on the careers. If I upgrade to HiTR do I loose my existing career pilots? I may wait on HiTR - will HiTR be in P4? I would rather buy P4 actually.... is the plan that it upgrades over BHaH and you keep your pilots? And about P4.... if I could add to the wish list a button that acts like the mallet you use to unjam guns I would like that! Reloads on Lewis guns would be nice to have as well! Cheers!

That is awesome! I can share your excitement. My girlfriend bought me a ride in an AT-6 WWII advanced trainer for an hour for my birthday. It was awesome - I did loops, rolls, split S all by myself flying front seat while the instructor pilot flew back seat. He did the take off and landing but other than that I flew the rest of the flight. That girlfriend is now my wife of 12 years and we have two kids so watch out for where you are headed..... maybe it's a diamond for her birthday!!! I would love to fly in a bi-plane open cockpit!

For anyone interested... I edited a pilot career and successfully moved my pilot from one unit to another. This was important to me because many aces flew for more than one unit in the war and I found that to fly the planes they flew you need to move your pilot too. I like to role play as an actual pilot in the war and have also loaded the actual pilots photo for my dossier picture. So Max Immelman starts the war in FA62 flying Fokker E.III but if you don't move him to Jasta 10 then he ends up flying a Roland C.II in Spring of 1916. For what it worth to anyone else... it can be done.

I just kicked off a career flying an RAF BE2c as Major Hugh Dowding (of RAF Battle of Britain Fighter Command fame)in RFC 16 Squadron. (BTW was able to put a actual picture of him from WWI era as the dossier picture). In this role he only flys recon, bombing, artillery spotting etc so I am wondering is it possible to get any rewards in BH&H if you don't shoot down other planes? Thanks for any advice/experience other have had flying 2 seater bombers in the game.

Might be worth an experiment to find out if it can be done! Thanks

33LIMA: "I hand-edited this to 'Fighter' with Wordpad and saved the dossier (I have done this before, to ressurect dead pilots so I know that pilot dossiers can be edited in this fashion)" Question: Can I change the unit (i.e. transfer to a new unit)by editing of the dossier of an active pilot?

Got it thanks! Do you happen to know the resolution needed? Is it a .jpg?