Aarik is all healed up and back in action today tasked with leading two Halbs in his EIII. Six men in A Flight assisted, all in Halbs. Aarik had the only EIII in the air. He stuck close to A Flight. No contact, no enemy sited. Everyone lived

Great screen shots, MudWasp!

You German pilots sure were courageous to fly the EIII...not much better than an FE2b except you don't have to ask your front gun to please shoot

Well, in those months of 1915 and 1916 that the Eindecker was in service the air war was very different from 1917 and especially 1918. There were very few aces on either side and air combat didn't occur very often, and when it did, it was often indecisive and involved only a few aircraft. In WOFF, we have the tactics and bigger formations of 1917-1918 already in place in 1916, which means that the Eindecker is in much more trouble than it historically was.

In my opinion, WOFF is at its best in 1917 and 1918, and closer to history then.

I'm enjoying this DID flying a lot already in 1916, but things will only get better as we progress!

Salut

move to Trier finished, and what nice place the area is. Lots to see and explore.
The local news paper has a thing with the 100yr start of WW1. They present online the news paper from Trier (day for day??) that was printed back then...and of course the Russians are to blame.
I didn't know before just how important Trier was for the Hun side during the war. Will have to dig deaper into this.

Good to be back. Sorry to of read that yet another pilot has gone west, but glad to see that others have been doing well.

Led (Mark)

MudWasp, we are flying in the same unit now, and I made the same experience.
I can only hope they build those Halberstadts a lot faster and give us one too.

Welcome back, Lederhosen!

The continuing career of Albert "Mushroom" Ward"



21 Aug 1916 Transferred to C Sqn 1 Wing RNAS-3, St. Pol-Sur-Mer

I arrived at the base at 05h00 and was directed to the C.O.’s office for assignment instructions. I was greeted with a salute and returned it smartly. “I have heard good things about you Ward, and I expect much of you! The adjutant will show you to your quarters. Go freshen up and then take a look around the field. Get familiar with your new aircraft. You will find it quite different from what you are used to and you won’t have an observer behind you to tap you on the shoulder when the Hun sneaks up on your six! Keep that in mind. Take a few flights with it and come back and see me when you have settled your affairs. That is all.” I left the office and went to check things out. There is much to keep me busy for the day.

YouTube Video (Albert Tests Pup):


21 Aug 1916 Close Air support over Ghistelles aerodrome

I was not expecting a flight today but the C.O. intercepted me just as I came back from a test flight with my Pup. He asked me to lead the flight with Grange, Travers, and Ada accompanying. Ada had a Nieuport 11 so it slowed us down a tad. We had scattered cumulous from 7000 to 8500 ft. The flight to Ghistelles was quiet but as we approached the aerodrome the Huns had 4 EIII’s in air to greet us. We engaged them and drove them down. Travers being the only one without a claim to put in. I unloaded my rockets on the aerodrome having just shot down an EIII right on top of it. I missed with my rockets. I will have to practice with my Pup more. It is faster than my Strutter and my judgement is off a bit, but otherwise a pleasantly nimble kite to fly.

YouTube Video:

Busy times in MFFA 2!

Yesterday we were to sent to recon some enemy positions around Ypres. There were three Aviatiks and supposedly some Eindecker escorts from SK Feiglinge... sorry, I meant SK Sachsenberg. This time we actually found the Eindeckers and proceeded with them to the front. After photographing the enemy positions for a while we came under attack by two British Nupes. I'm not sure if they were Nupe 11s or 16s, but they were angry!

It was another furious firefight in the sky with me leading my formation towards the nearest friendly airbase while the observers tried to drive the Nupes off. Both Nupes got hit and I could see how one of them turned over and crashed into the German trenches after getting badly hit by my observer (see screenshot).

Finally the remaining Nupe decided he had had enough and turned back to his own lines. Unfortunately one of our Aviatiks got hit so badly that it crashed soon after behind friendly lines. Its pilot and observer were both killed.

I landed safely on Halluin field with the other remaining Aviatik. Both machines were damaged, but my pilot and observer were unharmed. The other guys were not so lucky - they were both wounded by enemy bullets.

But something positive came out of this bloody day - my kill was confirmed and the WOFF manager awarded my pilot the EK II (which I already had as a DID award)!

MFFA 2 will be able to continue operations tomorrow when new pilots and observers arrive to fill in the holes in our ranks.



A few seconds later the Nupe was a burning wreck in the trenches.



More bling-bling! Yay!



Still alive...

And as usual, the Eindeckers did nothing to help us. I'm now even more convinced that SK Sachsenberg IS the most useless scout formation in the German air force!

Hasse, congrats on the 2nd medal. You have some long flights! That is an average of around 1.5 hours per flight. My flights in the Roland were usually short.

Enjoy that Pup, Robert

Olham, how do you like the new squad and flying the EIII ? I've found the HAs in KEK Nord to be way better than the guys I was with down in Alsace.

The Aviatik is so damn slow that it takes forever just to reach the front from Nieuwmunster. And often the missions take us quite deep behind enemy lines. That explains the long hours.

Ace Snodgrass
2LT, Rfc
70 Sqn

21 Aug 16.

Mission: Bombardment of Longavesnes AF
WX: Good bombing weather 6/10th cloud cover at 5000ft lots of places to hide.


Remarks: I acted as Flight Commander for a 3 a/c section from B flight. Top cover was 3 a/c from A flt. One a/c caught fire and burned sometime after take off. The other 2 a/c stayed behind at about 1 NM till the bomb run then closed to 1000 yrds. After turning at the IP, I took the flight down to 7000ft for the bomb run. Mine hit in the center of the field and the other bombs hit by or behind the tents. A spanking good time, no enemy fighters except some we spotted far to the east when crossing the lines.

Only flown one mission with them so far, or better: I tried to catch up with them Halbies
in my Eindecker. So I cannot judge them yet. But I'll try to fly more on the weekend.

Cough, sneeze.....

Olham, pls, be adviced of the stall caracteristics of the EIII . Dont get into a flat spin left. Hope You survive!

Oh, I can fly the little beasty. I once shot down a Nieuport 11 in one.

21 August 1916
Sgt Achille Coppens
5 Esc "Comete" Squad (RNAS-1), Belgium
Nieuport 11 "Bebe"

06:19 Escort of BE2c Recon Flight at Rumbeke Airfield

After two uneventful sorites yesterday on the 20th we took off this morning on an escort mission of two BE2c aircraft for a recon of an airfield deeper into enemy territory than I had ever flown before. The mission was quite long and after a while I got to sight seeing when I should have been on my guard over the enemy airfield. My wingmates started a turn that looked no different than any other so I took no notice and continued my sight seeing when suddenly a Fokker appeared directly in front of me. He had come up from underneath me and just hung at the top of his maneuver directly in front of me at about 100 yards. Almost no time to react...fire a 2 or 3 second burst then dodge to keep from colliding with him. I could see I had hit him with my volley but then lost sight of him as I went past.

Then after gaining my senses I saw a Fokker below me so I dove on him assuming it was the same plane. After a few minutes I gained the advantage and sent him out of control with a wingmate following him down to make sure of the kill. When we returned to our airfield my wingmates told me I had also shot down the first Fokker as he plummeted into the earth after my first volley. So I made a claim for two victories. I'll call one lucky, but feel like I earned the second!

Hey guys...how do you record film in WOFF? I just checked my keyboard mapping document and can't find the key. Can I start recording at any point in the flight, or do I have to commit to the entire sortie before I take off?

Thanks!

Good Morning,

There is no ingame recording like ROF or IL2. You got to use an extra program like frans.

There is a Little collection : http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3988012/Video_capture_Software#Post3988012

Welcome to new DID'er OldHat. Note that you can select that ID on the web capture form now. BUT "Jim Watson" is not a valid name. The first name must start with an "A" until he dies. Then your second pilot's name must start with a "B". See the rules in post number 1.

OldHat and Bucksnort, please read the rules again.

As Robert said, the first pilot's first name must begin with an "A" (next with a "B" and so on).
So please make sure you read everything, and start a correctly named pilot, OldHat.

Bucksnort, you can only claim 2 victories in one sortie, if you had more than 3 in it.
Here is the excerpt of the rules - please read them through, okay?

VICTORY VALUATION

Since we saw, that victories would sometimes be 5 or more in a single sortie in WOFF.
Not the flyers' fault, and therefor they can hardly do much about it, when such fights happen.
To come to more realistic-looking victory tallies, the counting of victories will be like this:

1 - 3 victories per sortie = 1
4 - 6 Victories per sortie = 2
more than 6 vic per sortie = 3

Each pilot will count his victories accordingly, and report the result then.

Ok, Olham, I thought I was supposed to say what really happened here, but only claim 1 in the DiD survey per the rules. But I should not even mention the other victory here...is that correct? My two claims haven't been confirmed in WOFF yet so I haven't added the 1 victory to the DiD survey yet.

Is that also the case for medals...only medals mentioned are those awarded by Lou?

Thanks!