I did a bit of number crunching....

I don't know if things might change a bit after the introduction of new planes and squads, but so far this is what I have.


Note that Britain has 2 squads in England in 1915.

The graph that I made.

Very interesting and informative.
Out of curiousity did you get this info from the "Start Career" screen or was there an easier way?
It would be neat to see the bulk numbers (squadrons per theater per year) like your first screen for the entire war

There might be an easier way, but I did it the hard way. It wasn't too bad for 1915 due to the low number of squads.

I'm hoping that there is someone who is knowledgeable about making rules and can use this information to help decide if and when to start a DiD in 1915.

Right now, in 1915, some French career are "stopped" due to the lack of aircraft : Nieuport 10 C1 (which will arrive) & 10 A2, (these infos are from the career enlistment panel). The shortage approximatly arrives in September 1915.

Nicely done work! OldHat.

My 2 cents of input is that fighter planes or scouts are basically non existent in the first half or so of the year 1915. Two of the German two seaters also have no guns, Aviatik BI & Aviatik BII. The EI isn't used in a scout squad until Sept 1st when MFJ1 starts, before that they are issued to high ranking members of squads flying two seaters......so we might be flying two seaters for a long time.

Good job, OldHat.
If you want to create a "DiD 1915-1918" campaign, you could use the same rules, if you want.

The pilots' records collecting is a major problem, and making a chart of them.
I have enough to do with one chart, honestly.

Are we to name our pilots alphabetically like we do in the current DiD campaign?
May be transfer to other squads if we so desire to?
Required 2 seater time?
starting rank?

more questions... what about leading our own flights?

Sounds alright to me, most of it.
Yeah, I'd suggest to use alphabetical name orders too - when the A-pilot falls, you start a B-name.

Oldhat, I'd join and I like your idea of not having the transfers automatically approved. It would force us to put more thought into which squadron we want to fly for.

Hey OldHat, I can show you how to set up a Google Form that people can report to if you just want to have a chart like I use for the latest challenge. It's pretty easy if you just do data posts once a week...

Yeah, sure. That would be great Rick. I'll PM you my email.

12 hours of time being QC added to flight training?
or 12 hours QC time?

I don't do the time compression flying.

Oh, never done flight training, approx how many hours of flight does it take to complete?

I think it sounds fun. I do have one question, after training would we be able to move to whichever squadron we want or do we then have to fly first in a two seater?

My thought is I don't need any"eFFing "training"....but if you insist, tell me how to do it and I will.

I'd rather pick my squad than have a random allocation.