Welcome to the Wings Over Flanders Fields Lafayette Escadrille 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 France as an American in the Lafayette Escadrille!
In order to participate in this challenge you must: 1. Declare your interest and intent in this thread on or before Saturday, May 28, 2016. 2. Create a pilot using the manual squad creation option with a start date of May 15, 1917, flying for France in the Escadrille Lafayette (scroll all the way down) as a Caporal. 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. 6. Having a slightly snobby New Englandish name is always a plus!
Please enter your pilot at this link: ( Pilot Survey ) 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 Man’s 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, June 26. That gives us four weeks and a day. You can have a maximum of 30 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)
*After each mission, please advance forward 2 days. (so you would fly on the third day) This will allow for moving forward in time a little bit further and spread out our collective awesomeness to a more believable level. These missed days will represent non-contact patrols, milk runs to pick up new planes, washouts, etc. Follow all other time advancements as above.
At the end of the challenge, I will tabulate the winning pilot overall and declare him king of all things WOFF! I have a prize idea, I just have to see if I can make it work. Remember though, your first job is to stay alive! You can’t win if you are dead! I have, in fact, died in most of my own callenges!
Louvert has, as he is wont to do, created a terrific medal for the participants of this challenge!
We are starting with the Nieuport 17 and then the N23 (they use the same skin, just a re-name) and several of us should survive to get Spad 7, so please paint your scout early and often! I know we are all looking forward to some inspired schemes! (I’m not going to lie… those first 10 missions or so are going to be brutal when we have Nupes and everyone else has SPADS, so BE CAREFUL and patient and good things will (eventually) come!)
"Ziss iss ridiculous! Tyranny?!? Vee do not vant der Tyranny eizher! Ant who iss der Hitler anyway?!?"
So, we are the Badies again, eyh? The Huns... Oh well, we are used to playing that role, I guess, and one must admit: we play it with style!
Well, your video is quite tongue-in-cheek also about Americans and Canadians - had to laugh! Well made funny little campaign video, Rick!
I'll read the rules, but it looks like I'd have to fight in a "French flying welding mask"? Guess I'm spoiled with the vision I have in an Albatros. I'll think about it, and check out the Nupe - have never flown the N17 for above reason.
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
Sorry, Olham, I hope it came across as silly not offensive! I do have some ideas to get the Germans back in the driver's seat, although you may not be too thrilled about the mount of choice... Anyway, would always love to have you on board!
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
Well, as a Canadian, I'm a little upset about that video, so I guess I'm in just to show you Yanks how this sort of thing is done, ehh. yeah like give me a two four, put me in a plane and then point me in the right direction ehh. So, we going to fight in Quebec then? Whats the Hun doing in Quebec dude?
Well, as a Canadian, I'm a little upset about that video, so I guess I'm in just to show you Yanks how this sort of thing is done, ehh. yeah like give me a two four, put me in a plane and then point me in the right direction ehh. So, we going to fight in Quebec then? Whats the Hun doing in Quebec dude?
I know, I had to get the McKenzie Brothers in there! We can put on our flying tuques and meet in front of the Frontenac at dawn. (I had no idea that a tuque was a beanie until I saw the animated 12 days a few years ago. I had been singing it for 30 years having no idea what that lyric meant!)
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
...give me a two four, put me in a plane and then point me in the right direction ehh. So, we going to fight in Quebec then? Whats the Hun doing in Quebec dude?
Mmuahahahahaaa!!!
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
I bet, if asked, 99% of my (American) high school students would say that they don't know which state the city of Armenia is in. (no kidding, I once asked them to name a country that starts with a "d", and among the answers was "Delaware" and "Denver.")
Count me in ! Thanks for linking the skinning tutorial, I still cant seem to get the painting done so it looks well done and not by a 3 yr old.
Oh, come on, you had a lovely looking DVII going there with an almost dazzle paint look to it! Don't sell yourself short sir! And welcome aboard, it's always a pleasure to have you!
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
Rick.......count me in pls! I've got a double challenge to work as my install CTW's every third game or so w/out credit for kills or the flight....something about admin rights I can't seem to resolve despite the devs kind efforts. Reinstalled, no mods.....bad luck. Anyhow, back to paint school when I'm home in a week. Thx for kicking another of these off.....good show!
Ha! I was wondering where you were, gaw1, I figured off on assignment in some exotic locale! I am sorry to hear about the crashes, I have gotten that kind of thing very rarely, but could never find any consistent reason, best of luck and welcome aboard!
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...