#4482804 - 07/14/19 06:52 PM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
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That's some nasty C.O. who has sent them up in that state. "I don't care if they've got temperatures of 100+, faces like beetroots and have been bed ridden for two weeks....get them in those #%&*$# planes!"
So, we take off in ten minutes, we're in the air for twenty minutes, which means we should be dead by twenty five to ten.
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#4482808 - 07/14/19 07:17 PM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
[Re: mvp7]
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No 20 lost one more B.E.2 with the crew from A flight while running away from the Netheravon to France. Now the squadron has done couple combat missions without losses in the blessed safety of Flanders. I hope the modern day Parachute club that seems to operate from the (same?) air strip in Netheravon has better luck there than my squadron
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#4483337 - 07/19/19 08:54 AM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
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I'm just wondering if ther is a way of tweeking some file to increase engine failure, bad landings etc. Yes, it is. But globally per AC type.
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#4483351 - 07/19/19 11:24 AM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
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It's well known that there were far more deaths from training and flight accidents than combat, and it wasn't just newbies either. Boelcke, McCudden, Mulzer, Gontermann, Lowenhardt..... Madon, Lothar von Richthofen and Josef Veltjens (the last 3 in accidents after the war)....all died in accidents....and they're just the ones off the top of my head. oh.....and Bruno Stachel and von Klugermann of course.....AND Croft!!! So it's completely realistic for any squadron in WOFF to lose people that way.
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So, we take off in ten minutes, we're in the air for twenty minutes, which means we should be dead by twenty five to ten.
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#4483364 - 07/19/19 02:33 PM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
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Possibly due to a random engine / other systems failures, AI get them too.
Actually we do have individual engine reliability (it's already in aircraft in WOFF) via aircraft XDP - the default is it uses the global one. Are there any mechanics that could explain the dead observer and F.E.2 that moved couple meters at take-off before stopping and was then listed as destroyed with the crew dead?
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#4483862 - 07/23/19 07:03 PM
Re: Random deaths in the squadron
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It turn out 20 RFC was my personal lucky squadron after all. After a month long campaign of 26 missions and 37 flight hours, mostly in F.E.2b, I had scored 8 confirmed kills out of 13 claimed (12 Aviatic C.1s and one Fokker Eindecker). I had earned a promotion from 2nd Lt to full Lieutenant, Military Cross and Distinguished Service Order medal just a day before my transfer to 11 RFC on 15 Feb 1916. My first mission in 11th squadron was patrol in Bristol Scout. It was snowing and the lighting and visibility in general were pretty bad and no enemies were spotted on the patrol. I was unfamiliar with my new field an approached for landing from what seemed like a sensible direction but hit a treetop that I didn't see from the Bristol's cockpit (forward visibility was one of the things I really missed from the Fee) and died in the crash. Retrospectively, it played out like in episode of Air Crash Investigations/Mayday Not bad run for my first "full" campaign in the WOFF (my actual first campaign in FFA32/MFJ1 is still on-going on another machine). Realistic but very anti-climactic death even by the anti-climactic standards of historical aces . I think I'll try the French next.
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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