I have completed the testing of this MOD and it's very similar to Bletchley's original OFF MOD. Almost all of the missions (90%) are the same.


HOW TO PLAY THESE MISSIONS - would probably make the game a bit more challenging to survive.

PLEASE NOTE THAT GERMAN FIGHTER MISSIONS WILL FLY WITH WINGMEN AND NOT SOLO. I am still trying to work on a fix for this.

German side
All missions need to be played as lone wolf either for bomber or fighter up until late 1916.
EXCEPTION are the escort missions and some late 1916 bombing missions can be played as normal. Also, patrols are mostly be lone wolf until late 1916.

British side
Same as the german side, but wingmen will appear around early 1916.

How to get solo missions
Solo missions will appear every other assignment. If the briefing screen does not show a solo mission, then you will need to exit the briefing screen by clicking "back" then advance time by "1" click. Then go back into the briefing screen and you should get a solo mission. Therefore, in active sectors you will have 7 solo missions per week instead of 14. If you do not get a solo mission, then please let me know (British/German, month/year).

Missions
From 1916 to 1917 there are a LOT of recc missions. Solo Bombing missions and other types do appear, but are few during this time. They appear a bit more during the late war. (I'm sure this will change once we get the Gothas). So, from 1915 until early 1917 there probably won't be large furballs with 20 fighters flying every which way. Except when you get missions where you're attacking an escort with top cover. Also, late war may have large number of patrols.

With the limited modifications that I was able to do, I'm hoping that this is a semi-accurate representation of the missions that were done during these years.

It is in JSGME format and the installation instructions are below.

I have all the years from 1915 to 1918. (Thanks Bletchley!).

Yaan

Sounds interesting yaan. You don't need my permission

I am happy for you, or anyone, to modify and reuse/post any missions or mission sets that I did for OFF or WOFF.

Look forward to the result.

B.

Thanks Bletchley.

The new file will be version 1.1

Here are the JSGME install instructions.

1. Extract JSGME to your WOFF directory.




2. Extract this mod into the JSGME MOD folder




3. Run the JSGME program




4. Activate the correct month/year and verify that it installed correctly into the MissionTypes folder.

Really looking forward to these missions Yaan. What's the ETA on the d/l?

I've submitted them to the devs for review. So, I'm guessing it's still with them.

Hi Yaan. The stipulation to fly all missions as solo caught my eye. I recently read that the RFC officially adopted formation flying in January 1916 because solo planes were too vulnerable to destruction by the German Eindekkers. Based on that, I am guessing that solo British flights after 1915 would probably not be the norm? The Germans were a little slower to move to group flights, but I get the impression they were well into that mode by late 1916.

BTW-the mod is up now.

Scout,
I still have a lot to learn about this topic - that's why I just copied Bletchley's missions. In fact, the files all looked alike to me after many hours of testing, modifying, testing, modifying..... until I imagined looking at two monitors when I only have ONE!!!

So, yes you're right. In fact, I went to check the missions again. The solo flights start to taper off around early 1916 for the British while the Germans were still flying solo until late 1916. Some missions are intended to be solo like the spy drop.

I'm always open to suggestions on modifying the missions or even adding French or USA ones if I get more information about what type of missions in which year they flew.

While it may not be totally historical, and I at least, really like to fly as close to that as possible in WOFF, I do enjoy the "lone wolf" mission. Easier on the PC resources and more challenging.

v1.1 is on the User mods page (via Downloads page )

Yaan-

Just added your missions as directed through JSGME and manually checked the files to see that they are new. Which they are.

Unfortunately, flying German January 1917 Jasta 19 Alsace, I do not get any special missions..solo or otherwise.

Checked Workshop settings.."3rd Party Mission Types" are clicked, and I tried both "Historical flights" checked and unchecked and neither seems to get your missions to load.

If the DEVS posted it they must have checked it out, so I am not sure what or what I am doing wrong?

My folder mission types are spaced as like this "MissionTypes". Perhaps there needs to be a space between words?

Sorry, cptroyce. I had posted in a previous thread, but forgot to mention it here that I only could get German Bomber missions, British Fighter and Bomber missions to work as solo. Unfortunately, the German Fighter missions will only come up with wingmen.

It's totally my guffup in the description that I posted earlier...

I will re-worded the description above to reflect this so I don't mislead anyone.

There are special missions in the game for British fighters/bombers and German Bombers, but they usually appear after every 9 to 10 missions. This was the frequency in Bletchley's mod which I have not changed.

Yaan -

Great, no problem. Glad there was nothing I did wrong on the install

Just a note that after testing with the latest update (v1.21), there are problems with my mod which cannot be fixed by me.

After testing for a few hours, I have discovered that the effect of increased 2 seaters will NOT happen if you have my mod installed.

I RECOMMEND THAT YOU REMOVE MY MOD TO GET THE BENEFIT OF THE INCREASED 2 SEATER ACTIVITY.

Hello yaan, any idea why this should be?

B.