You welcome, and excuse me for more than a typo.
You welcome, and excuse me for more than a typo.
It's SOOO neat to see the new planes - and I'm so pleased you decided to do one of the flying boats as Austro-Hungarian! These all look lovely, and I'm sure I will need to get them all. Bravo!
Always the best,
Matt Materne
I think that the US Navy one operating against Pola (belonging to NAS Porto Corsini) could also interest several people here:
More pictures of that unit here:
http://www.mauroantonellini.com/joom...coli&Itemid=66
Your apology is not warranted. I would rather have your thoughts and writings with typo's than not to have them. This is not school or college it's people from around the world exchanging ideas about their passion of a game you designed. I for one, is very thankful for you making such a delightful and thought provoking game.
Regarding the Strutter, and maneuver deck... it should be able to do reversals (Immelmans, Split-S)
Book: The Bloody April
Major Sholto Douglas, 43 Squadron, RFC Sopwith 1 1/2 StrutterI took up one of our aircraft to demonstrate to my pilots just what could be done with it. In the back seat I had as a passenger Tom Purdey, my Adjutant, and thinking that thirteen might be the right number, psychologically, for such a display, I performed thirteen consecutive loops. Everything about my demonstration went off very well until I landed, and then I found that I had not warned Purdey about what I was going to do, and than he had not been strapped in. Throughout the whole of the thirteen loops he had been hanging on to the fixtures in the interior of the cockpit, and grim death had been staring him in the face. He could all too easily have fallen out, and I was very angry with myself for such thoughtlessness on my part, although Purdey, after his first fright, took it all in good spirit. My pilots, I need hardly say, were delighted with what they thought was an enormous joke.
Something to remember for series 9
Zoe,
There was a discussion when I posted the cards, and I went back and adjusted them from whatever I put on them the first time. I would like to think I used the stats spreadsheet, as I usually start there for new cards. I can't find that discussion.
I have no problem putting the V on the cards. But, is that for empty planes, or fully-loaded planes? Would it make a difference?
PS: The original discussion was here: Can I use different maneuvre decks.
I did initially use the V deck.
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Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
Yes it would - those loaded with bombs would be able to do a Split-S but nothing else. They should count as if engine damaged - having to do one stall every turn - , as should all bombers with full loads. But the rules as written say otherwise. Parenthetically, the DHC9 was "fully aerobatic" without bombload too.
A question to the Nieuport 28.
As far as I can see we'll get 3 versions with US markers.
Will we get different armed versions, too? (one MG & two MGs)
What about a special version without MGs?
I think Keith or Tom told me in Dayton, that the first US pilots received their Neiuport 28s without MGs and flew patrol missions with it.
Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!
It's a pity that I've found no evidence of crated N28s earmarked for Russia ever actually getting there. All the mentions of "N28s" in http://www.avalanchepress.com/red_star_white_eagle.php turned out on cross-checking with other sources to be N24s.
The Bolsheviks never had strong presence in the air. They had about a dozen aircraft in the Arctic, comprising Caudron GIIIAs and a single Nieuport 28The WPAF and the bulk of its air forces here, with aircraft including Nieuport 28s, Spads, Pfalz D.IIIs, and Fokker Triplanes and DVIIs.Tkatchoff leading a squadron of six DH9s on July 6 near Melitopol, was met in combat by his equivalent, the area commander of the Red air force Peter Mesheraup, leading a pair of Nieuport 28s.Most disappointing.Equipment comprised just three aircraft, a Nieuport 28 and two Sopwith 1˝ Strutters, which were active against the Bermondist faction (an alliance of German Friekorps and White Russians) during the summer and fall of 1919.
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just a thought regarding the Nieuport Ni-28: with the highly maneuverable F Deck and shooting with A damage deck from its twin-machine-guns, it will probably be one of the best scouts in the game... funny for a plane that was rejected by the country that produced it and only flew by the Americans until the SPAD was available in large numbers...
It only seems odd using the official dive rules. The Nieuport Ni-28 had weak V wing struts (like the Nieuport 17 and Alb DV) and so the wing tended to come off in extended steep dives. The Spad had exceptionally strong wing bracing and could dive safely for faster and longer than any other plane (except possibly the SE5a). It's for this reason and others, I use my own house rules for diving.
PS added: I'm really look forward to getting the plane as it makes for an interesting combination of strengths and weaknesses.
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I just don't let aircraft with V struts overdive.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I use HR a little bit more complicated:
in my club we created a new 3 cards maneuver called "over-climb"
It goes like this:
Straight - Climb (earn 1 climb counter) - Stall (earn 1 climb counter)
An Over-Dive followed by a Over-Climb is a boom&zoom maneuver.
We don't let V strut and other 'weak' planes to over-climb after an over-dive, nor let them over-dive if they have lost 1/2 + 1 of their survival points
The Austrian scheme for the flying boat is really great - may look to get that instead of a CLII as my central powers' 'big plane'
Hanriot Hd.1 was not used by France either... but it was great anyway. Wee appreciated it a lot.
Pcitures of the new aircraft form the german games fair SPIEL 20014 in Essen:
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Goodness. They are pretty.
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
Wow, some great looking planes coming our way.
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It's the Nieuport 28 on which Ralph O'Neill earns 4 of his 5 victories on July 1918. Details here:
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/oneill.php
Not quite, they fixed that problem.
But there *was* a problem with the fastening of the canvas to the leading edge of the top wing. There was no structural failure, but the canvas would come off in a dive losing most of the lift. The effects were similar. New glues and additional reinforcement (another layer of canvas and stitching on the leading edge IIRC) fixed it.
A very nice bunch of wallet openers there in no mistake.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Yes - you're right the Nieuport 28 unlike all the other previous Nieuports had lower wing issues and not the V strut issues. They avoided the V strut issue by using conventional 2 struts.
On another but related note - doesn't the Nieuport 28 look great? Ares had outdone themselves in both the model and the painting.
They look wonderful indeed
But I still wont get a seaplane - sorry
The floatplanes are very interesting indeed. The overall impression would be far better however if they publish two adversaries: CP/E to allow players them parallel operations. Ares choices are strange as usual.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
An all-white seaplane won't get lost on the gaming table. I like that.
Is it just me or do the wings of the N28 look like they have flat slab edges like the reprint of series one and not proper rounded or tapered edges?
I'll have to live with the Fokker as I want one – the real thing had quite a thick wing although you could argue this makes it even worse. I really don't get this patchy quality thing going on. Planes like the original Camel, DRI and the Fokker DVII are superb little models… Hmmmm
Okay, so I’m pretty much ignorant on the whole Italian and A-H side of the war. With the Macchi M.5 coming out, how do we use them in scenarios? In fact, why was there such a focus on seaplanes on that front… A-H was completely land locked and my light research suggests that most of the fighting on this front took place in the mountains.
Which minis do we already have or are coming out in Series 8 or 9 that could plausibly be flown against the Macchi M.5?
A-H Navy of the Great War era was a real force I do not have any info on their seaplanes however...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
And, this is an aside, but here's another oddball from the aftermath of WWI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Fiume
The US M.5s fought their first mission against Phoenix D.I over Pola - a land fighter, and in the next series.
Anyway we provided an Austrian seaplane if anybody wants to depict a duel between those - a captured M.5.
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