Anyone know if this amount of AA around balloons looks about right, too much or too little?

I'm not sure about how historically accurate, but it would definitely deter me from volunteering for busting missions.

All I know, is everytime I've read about a real balloon busting mission the writer has mentioned how thick the Archie was, so your mod looks about right to me. I wish flaming onions were modeled in WOFF.

Edit: I know that quite a few of my WWI books mention that balloon busting was suicidal and right now in WOFF it is anything but that. Is this mod going to make balloon busting more dangerous?

I think it looks awesome. It would certainly strike enough fear in me not to want to make more than a single pass at the balloon.

I remember back in the olden days of Red Baron 1, balloon busting missions usually end in being wounded as the very best result. There was always anti-aircraft and if you were lucky enough to avoid that, fighters had time to find you.

Beard

we need this

OldHat, you continue to amaze me. Does this mod include increased small arms fire aswell? Balloon busting was always too easy where it should be extremely dangerous... Looking forward to try this out! Great work, Sir!

Eagerly awaiting to download it. Well done, sir.

This maybe stupit but is the intensieve flak not also depending on the period of war?

And another (maybe) dumb question.
Does that effect all static balloons in-game all the time or just the ones designated as the target in a Balloon Busting mission?
Unsure of how this is working (have not d/l'ed yet) with the Campaign Engine.

I can't wait to try the Mod! Attacking balloons is too easy otherwise.

it sure helps finding EA at a good distance

Salute again...I must be eating up so much space by now.

Anyway....dont' fly straight tooo long as my last mission was almost my last! And yes I almost got blown to bits...made me jump at least twice. Such a nice MOD.

I second Lederhosen's remarks, this mod is really good. Way to go OldHat, you are the mod man.

I think, the 1915-1916 Time isn't too problematic, anyway. When you tweak the Workshop-Settings for AA and Ground-Fire to Judgement Day, shooting a Balloon with the Planes of that Time gets quite dangerous...
Just downloaded your Mod - looks pretty cool :-)

Hi This looks great how do I download it. I cant see it on Sandbaggers mod page, but you know I do miss things??


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OOPs Just found it sorry! I'm the same with a Albatros D.III - dont see it until its too late!

OK....count me stupid...been thru everything...skins thru applets. Where is it? Link?

Two stupids here. Don't see anything. Can anyone leave some breadcrumbs?

I found this. Hope it's what you are looking for.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7eugovrw6mkvbvm/Balloon%20Archie%201915%20to%201918.zip?dl=0

Here is where I got the link from:
http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4243191/Balloon_Archie_MOD

Many thanks Jammer. Didn't even know there was a SimHQ downloads page.

This mod will not work for WOFF UE, it is configured for WOFF 3.

This mod must be reconfigured for WOFF UE for it to work.

Thanks for the clarification PR.

Hi Folks;

I believe I have a corrected version for WOFF UE. I'm just testing it now and will post a link when I have confirmed it works.

Hang in there!

Folks;

I have a working version of the mod in JSGME installable format. I have just packaged it up and sent it off to Sandbagger for hosting on his mods Page. Watch for a note about it's availability posted in the Mods thread

Aha!...................thx, look forward to trying it on!!!

Thank you, I'd been using the mod and wondered why it wasnt as I hoped in WOFF UE,

looking forward to trying it again. I love how friendly this forum is!

See you in the mess for beers later (God Willing Hun allowing)

Mod now tested in WOFFue in WineSkin on a Mac and it works wonderfully gents' - thanks for these many mods and continued updates. Have now updated the supported mods list for WOFFue on a Mac, in the relevant thread under the stickies section, for those running the sim on Macs. Some representative pics below of increased archie during balloon attacks, with some coming dangerously close to my Tripe. Also enjoying BuckeyeBob's latest clouds pack (ver. 2.9.x) - great stuff, particularly the low-lying fog.

Von S