Welcome to the Wings Over Flanders Fields Albatros Dos Challenge!

The assistance and camaraderie that you get from something like this or Olham's DiD Campaign or the Centenary Challenge if you are new to WOFF will help increase your enjoyment of the sim and make you a better pilot as well.

For this challenge, you will be flying for Germany as a lowly flieger in Jasta 12 smack in the middle of the war!

In order to participate in this challenge you must:
1. Declare your interest and intent in this thread on or before Saturday, September 5, 2015.
2. Create a pilot using the manual squad creation option with a start date of May1, 1917, flying for Germany in Jasta 12 with the rank of Flieger.
3. Commit to flying 3-7 missions per week with this pilot, but no more than one per campaign day.
4. Report at least every weekend in this topic thread with his current successes or failures.
5. Faithfully communicate to your brethren the falling of your avatar when such event actually transpires.


Please enter your pilot at this link:
( Survey Link )
Please update this survey after every few missions, or at least once a week!

This is kind of a "Who's Line Is It Anyway" sort of affair where we try to have fun with good people.
Reporting can be by any of the following methods:
-Text is good
-Pictures are better
-Videos are what this sim is made for!

There were some great reports and pictures and vids in the previous challenges, so look over them if you want some ideas!

This is single elimination, so one death and you are out. Keep in mind that even if you are not playing "dead is dead" in the workshop, at the end of each mission it will still tell you that "Sadly, your pilot has died" if his injuries were fatal so you don't need to switch your settings for this. If you land behind enemy lines with less than DID workshop settings, use these guidelines: in or on the edge of No Mans Land, you escape. Within 5 miles of the front, 50-50 (flip a coin). More than 5 miles behind the lines, you are captured, war over!

When you set up your pilot, click on "Manual Squad Deployment" in the lower right hand corner of the enlistment page. Set up the following screen so it looks like this:



Scoring:

Missions: +2 point each
Time survived: +2 points each week
Confirmed kill: +3 points each
Becoming an ace: +5 points (only once)
Promotion: +5 points each promotion
Medals: +3 points each
Survive to end of Challenge: +10 points
Wounding: -8 points each occurrence


This challenge will have a have a hard end date of Sunday, September 27. That gives us three weeks and a day. You can have a maximum of 23 missions total. Then we can tally the points and declare a winner. You are certainly free to continue to fly your pilot after that if still alive, but for point determination, we need a cut-off date.

The Fine Print: (Rules)
You may use whatever aids you are used to using. Wind should be set to “On”. Please set your weather to “Historical Weather.” Flight model should be realistic and you should have weapons jams and limited ammo and all that jazz...
One other point: I think we can all agree that balloons are too easy to take down as it stands, so on your Gentleman’s Honour, you may only claim a balloon if you are on a balloon busting mission and only the one that is the mission target.
Feel free to lead your flights if you want!

The point is to have fun and we had outstanding support and sportsmanship from all fliers last time and we would love to see some new faces!

As far as time advancement, please follow these guidelines:

Allow time to advance as normal except fly no more than one mission per campaign day (time advance manually as necessary)
For every month of campaign time, you can advance two days on the calendar. (48hr pass to visit mum)
For every promotion, advance five campaign days.
For every five kills, advance 3 campaign days.
For becoming an ace, advance 3 campaign days (cumulative with 5 kills above)

At the end of the challenge, I will tabulate the winning pilot overall and declare him king of all things Albatros (you can duke it out with Olham…)
I haven’t come up with a prize yet, but we will have something. If anyone wants to sponsor the prize, please let me know! ***Update! No less a gentleman than our own Robert Wiggins has just offered up a new copy of "Ace of the Black Cross" The memoirs of Ernst Udet for a prize! Thank you, Robert!!!*** Louvert has also offered to design a custom plane paint job for the winner!!!

Remember though, your first job is to stay alive! You can’t win if you are dead! If I survive, it will be the first one I have finished!

We are starting with the Albatros DII and several of us should survive to get the DIII, so please paint your scout early and often! I know we are all looking forward to some inspired schemes!


Official challenge start time is Saturday, September 5 whenever that starts local to you, grab some QC time in your bird and we’ll be (W)OFF!


I will update this area with pilots and scores as the challenge progresses, so you can always check here for the latest info…


List of Pilots:
carrick58
Rick Rawlings
MudWasp
MFair
Banjoman
CatKnight
Smosh
gaw1
corsaire31
loftyc
RAF_Louvert
Fullofit
Nietzsche
Robert Wiggins
HarryH
Maeran
lederhosen
Olham
LowDrag

Strikethrough indicates a pilot's demise, d.n.p. = did not participate, number to the right of the pilot is the final score

Great Idea Mr. Rawlings. Count me in.

You, Sir, are number 1!

Looks like a fun time! Count me in.
Jasta 12.....weren't we hooked up with them in a prior challenge?

Hey Rick, random engine failures on?

Yes, and yes!

Oh Yes! Would not miss it!

Now I remember..... the Black-Tails of Jasta 12

Count me in, I haven't died as a German in a long time.

Well, if my quick combats are any indication, we can fix that fast!

Wow Rick, I never knew that about the Albatros Flug....Fluge.....Albatros Aircraft Company!

Life's been a bit of a mess lately, but I think I can make time to die for Der Vaterland.

Reporting for duty

I will be Elk hunting with my son and grandson near Steamboat Springs Colorado from 12 Sept. to 20 Sept.
With the setting up camp before, taking camp out after the hunt, and packing out the Elk as we get them,there
will be no time for flying.

BUMMER!!

Buy late Sept. all of the butchering should be done and the fall cold snap will have us moving south to AZ
for the winter come mid Oct.

By then I will be ready to have at it with the next challange.

And, many thanks to all of you who offered to help with a disk of 2.12.

This is a great bunch of folks who wander about these threads.

CatKnight, it's really a poorly studied period of German history. Hasse and Louvert could tell you all about it, I'm sure! Great to have you and Smosh aboard!

CW3SF salute the mighty fallen elk that you harvest for us, we'll catch you when we can!

Damn, an "Albatros Competition" without "Albatros-Man".
It's a shame I can't be in there, Rick, it's a great idea.
But I'm still in treatment and do not know, when I will be discharged and fully back home.

So I can only wish all pilots a really good time and good success - Jasta 12 was a good unit.

Rick.....good show....this'll stir things up....sign me up please!!! Olham.....tell 'em you need your computer for therapeutic purposes....I know I do. Heeeeere we go...........

When you mentioned DOS, I thought this would be a Red Baron 1 challenge.

I won't have time to participate, but these challenges are always fun to watch!

Haha, yeah, they might even encourage me. But I'm not fit for full duties yet.
Give me some more time, and enjoy this challenge as much as I would.

Sadly, even if I feel myself quite confident flying these beauties (specially at the time frame of the challenge), I can´t guarantee I will manage to fly 3 times a week. New job, lots of tasks to do,...sigh. Enjoy guys, and beware of the Strutters!!

Ha! Nice, Hasse, never looked at it that way! We actually did do a couple of Red Baron 1 Challenges back in the day when they released the mission builder add on...
Great video, Olham, thanks for posting!

This will drag Olham back into the world of the living!