I just looked through the log book for my pilot concentrating on victories he has gained and while looking at the details, I see WOFF identified the HA's for me. I decided out of curiosity to record them all down, research who they were, and keep track of them in future if I encounter them.

EIII pilots downed:
Alfred Osterreicher (twice)
Max Ritter von Mulzer
Gustav Leffers
Adolph Bottler
Adolph Bottler (2nd time)

Back when flying OFF, Albert Ball and I tangled on an almost daily basis. It was usually good fun. Except for when he brought his entire squad with him for an air raid on my home field.

Wow - congrats, Robert - quite a "collection"!
Only now that you mentioned this, I have also checked my victory remarks for aces,
and I saw I have three among my 5 confirmed victories.
They are:

No. 1: Roderick S 'Bregeut' Dallas - Sopwith Triplane
No. 2: George Hackwill - FE.2b
No. 4: Albert Ball - Bristol Scout

Olham, Wow a Tripe shot down by you in your Roland!
Did you down it with the forward gun?

In my DID campaign I have so far :

Gustav Leffers
Constantin Krefft ( twice...)
Alfred Österreicher

We are hunting in the same grounds !

Just like you Olham, I happened on it by accident as I only just looked at the details of the claims. Not having labels on means you don't notice them.

The one that confuses me is Adolph Bottler who not only doesn't have a custom skin but I haven't been able to locate any info on him on the net so far.

Yuppers! He had engaged another of our Rolands, and my comrades tried to creep home, hampered.
I engaged him with a good altitude advantage, and the roland is really good at booming & zooming!
Came down on him, and back up to safety.
He tried some extreme climbs with the result, that he stalled twice. In the second stall I got
close behind him and shot him up. Now he tried to run, and I could shoot him down.

Poor Albert had little chances in a Bristol Scout of course, due to the fixated gun angle.
He gave me a nice turn fight, but I hit him enough to cripple the light kite.
I guess I will see better and more dangerous of him in the future!

In my opinion, any Tripe downed by the forward gun of a Roland is a great accomplishment, let alone a Tripe piloted by an Ace. Congrats!

Well Done ! A 3 winger Ace gone Kaput by a Roland 2 seat type.

Nice lists. Wow Olham Ball AND Dallas.

I also downed Adolf Bottler for my first victory Robert. Apparently he went by another name as well. I had trouble finding info. on him over in the aerodrome in the aces section. Then I found this and it muddies the water even more. According to this thread - if I understood correctly - he was also known as Hans Bossler whose name also doesn't come up with much info.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/people/16492-vzflgmstr-hans-bossler-mfj2.html

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Just checked Captain Burroughs' pilot records and there are a few on his list that others here have knocked down as well, (list in chronological order):

Constantin Krefft
Gotthard Sachsenberg
Wilhelm Frankl
Adolf Bottler
Max Ritter von Mulzer

Tough times for Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches.

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Another Adolf Bottler kill Lou. Who are you really Adolf?

Now, with some more hours under my belt, I wonder if I would still attack them - even if I didn't
know it was Roderick Dallas - it was a Sopwith TRIPLANE after all (actually the only lone prototype
at that time in WOFF, and indeed it was flown by Dallas in RL).


"The Jasta Pilots" (Franks, Bailey, Duiven) has

Bottler, (no first name) - Vzflgmst
MFJ-I 5 June 1917 - 14 June 1917; 1 WIA;
MFJ-I 6 October 1917 - 6 November 1917;
MFJ-II 6 November 1917 - 9 March 1918; 2 WIA

Olham, can't be this Bottler, we are in summer 1916 !

There is no other "Bottler" nor a similar name in the whole "The Jasta Pilots" -
neither in any Jasta nor in any Marine-Feldjasta.

This Bottler thing is getting very interesting! WOFF has him as an HA.
If he was an ace in RL you would think we could find something about him.

Maybe the devs know something they could add to clear this up.

Bottler had 3 confirmed victories, and one claim, which was not confirmed.