The Forgotten Battles

[Tex -USMC- 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings.  I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost <span id='postcolor'>

Russia's steppes are almost as featureless as west Texas. But they're greener. And have less mesquite. Apparently we both have tumbleweeds, though.

[Tovarish 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings.  I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost <span id='postcolor'>

One of my most intense missions in the Chaika was when both my rudder and elevator controls were hit by ground fire - so I only had ailerons. I managed to regain control of the plane with just those, and tried to fly back towards my base but got lost. (Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy").

Anyways, keeping the plane up in the air with only aileron controls AND trying to find my place on the map by looking at roads, rivers and cities was a challenge but also a blast. I eventually thought I knew where I was and guided to myself to a friendly airbase - and was very relieved to see it was just where I expected it to be by looking at the map . Any of you tried to land with only ailerons and throttle to control your descent? I missed the runway, the landing gear were torn off as soon as I hit the ground, and I almost bounced and skidded into a parked transport plane

[Badgerboy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ April 17 2003,20:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings.  I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost <span id='postcolor'>

One of my most intense missions in the Chaika was when both my rudder and elevator controls were hit by ground fire - so I only had ailerons. I managed to regain control of the plane with just those, and tried to fly back towards my base but got lost. (Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy").

Anyways, keeping the plane up in the air with only aileron controls AND trying to find my place on the map by looking at roads, rivers and cities was a challenge but also a blast. I eventually thought I knew where I was and guided to myself to a friendly airbase - and was very relieved to see it was just where I expected it to be by looking at the map . Any of you tried to land with only ailerons and throttle to control your descent?  I missed the runway, the landing gear were torn off as soon as I hit the ground, and I almost bounced and skidded into a parked transport plane <span id='postcolor'>

Many, many times in my 109!

If I'm lucky, I still have my rudder, which will allow you to sideslip and change your attitude. (Crude elevator really), sometimes your don't have that luxery and have to use throttle. In any realistic scenario, you would at leasst try to get it to friendly lines and bail out, but as this is a sim, its fun to get a wounded bird home.

Although it usually ends up with smashed gear, fire + death, or in my case, a snapped fuselage.... It was great, the rest of the A/C was in one peice, resting on its gear, while the tail was completey missing up to the cockpits armour plate!

[Jinef 2]

I love the damage models, it's so easy to survive by just ditching. I do actually wish OFP could have damage models like that.

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ April 17 2003,22:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy".<span id='postcolor'>

Get your eys off the gunsight view (shift-F1) and look down again.

[Tovarish 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R. Gerschwarzenge @ April 19 2003,08:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ April 17 2003,22:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy".<span id='postcolor'>

Get your eys off the gunsight view (shift-F1) and look down again. <span id='postcolor'>

*smacks himself* Damn, that's like a whole different cockpit!! I thought that was odd, considering the I-153 came after the I-16

[Jinef 2]

Is multiplayer slow or is it just my system?

AMD XP 2400

512 MB RAM

Geforce 4 Ti4200

SB 2 Audigy

512kbs Cable modem with Ntl.

[//relic// 0]

I got around to playing this game again today, and I'm woeful at it

The only thing I'm good for is level bombing using fighter-bombers when there's little AAA and no enemy fighter presence.

*goes back to a real man's sim, falcon 4 sp3*

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (//relic// @ April 20 2003,10:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">*goes back to a real man's sim, falcon 4 sp3* <span id='postcolor'>

Yes, go back to your weapons control sim and leave the flying for the real men.

Ahhh... I can't wait for the WWI planes for FB.

I guess I still have to play Red Baron for a few months before my dreams come true.

[Badgerboy 0]

It's official, 262's rock!

I've finally worked my way to the end of the German campaign, and the defense of Berlin. First trip in the 262 was hair raising, as P51's bounced the airfield as we were taking off. We managed to get all 6, and then aborted the mission (2 guys on 1 engine each).

The mission I just completed... 19 kills, no losses! La's, IL2's and Yaks. Kaboom!

[Col. Kurtz 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R. Gerschwarzenge @ April 20 2003,17:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ahhh... I can't wait for the WWI planes for FB.

I guess I still have to play Red Baron for a few months before my dreams come true. <span id='postcolor'>

I remember playing Red Baron 3d, classic game

It was such a great moment shooting down Hermann Goring and thinking about how the world could have been diffrent if he had been killed in WW1. Maybe the Luftwaffe would have had a compatent leader.

It shall indeed be fun flying around in planes made out of fabric and wood, held together by glue. I hope they release some custom maps to go with it including trench lines to add to the realism.

[dayglow 2]

Damn, just got my X-45 and I have to learn to fly all over again. My old stick had a twist rudder and now I have the rocker switch. I never realized how much I used the rudder until now. It was second nature and now feels weird Guess after a while it will be the same. I really should invest in some peddles.

COLINMAN

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

I use the second rotary switch as the rudder with my X45. It gives much better control than the rocker switch.

[dayglow 2]

you should see some of the mods people are doing on the SimHQ Saitek forum. They have hacked in rudder peddles into the throttle so that the stick sees them as the rocker! They've even used a headphone jack so that you can remove the rudders and everything is back to normal. Very impressive.

COLINMAN

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

I've seen those rudder pedal modifications. I don't think I have the guts to start fiddling with my joystick though. But I've been planning to build myself a gameport compatible rudder system.

[Tovarish 0]

Wow! I've just had a hell of a first encounter withthe Fw-190! It's 1943 now but I've flown relatively few missions because I've been wounded twice - the first time while bailing out from a burning Yak-1 and the second time by flak in a Hurricane which I managed to bring back home. When I came back to active service we were re-equiped with La-5's. Much better flight performance than the Hurricane but boy I sure miss those Hispanos. During my second mission in the La-5, we got pounced by some Fw-190's and we were all shot down before I even knew what was happening. Our commander called out "Attention! Fighters behind us!" and almost as soon everyone in our flight started yelling that they were hit. Before I could react properly, my engine was smoking and my elevator control cable was cut. I bailed out thinking to myself that those damn Germans had gotten the Me-262 early somehow, and then saw through external view that they were 190s. I was the only one of our flight of 4 to survive.

*edit* spelling

[Tovarish 0]

Anyone wishing to participate in a virtual online war Check out the Forgotten Wars Website, Register for the forums, join either the Axis or Allied group, and register for the killboard to have a pilot personna generated for you. The war began May 3rd, you can check the forums there for mission times. I will see you in the unfriendly skies as Aleksandr Bobrov of the 3rd IAP

*edit* damn this is seriously cool, the secure Allied board has such things as screenshots and coordinates of potential targets taken by recon flights during previous missions. This is very well organized

[ralphwiggum 6]

time to get your old highschool filght sim brothers, Tovarish

[Tovarish 0]

Indeed so it is .

I feel a bit ripped off right now though....I just found out that there is a "Special Edition" of the game available in Russia...check out all these goodies

Big pic with cool stuff

All for $29 US

*makes a point of ordering the next Maddox game straight from the source*

[MLF 0]

erm 404

[Tovarish 0]

Extreemely interesting development for an upcoming patch

Maybe something for those future projects Oleg and team are working on that they're being so secretive about?

[Jamesia 0]

I got IL-2 Sturmovik yesterday and I have to say that it is BRILLIANT.

Its fantastically historically accurate.

However, it doesnt work that well on my computer.

Anyone got any tips for that? Should I run it in APPAULING graphics or wot?

[Tex -USMC- 0]

I got IL-2 Sturmovik yesterday and I have to say that it is BRILLIANT.

Its fantastically historically accurate.

However, it doesnt work that well on my computer.

Anyone got any tips for that? Should I run it in APPAULING graphics or wot?

specs, please.

[Jamesia 0]

well, my computer is big.......

its got a large monitor. Nice sound system.....

it plays computer games like operation flashpoint. and it has a microphone.

[Jamesia 0]

as far as I can work out from browsing my computer...........

GenuineIntel

Pentium III processor

256MB RAM

Running Windows 98 second adition

Graphics card: GeForce3 Ti200