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Olham; You my friend, have no limit!

Here is my updated photo for Albert Ward ( Did you know they had colour photography in WW1 )

I can respect your decision on that and thanks for your clarification.

Flight Lt Alex Ackworth - RNAS 4 - Coudekerque - 4 August 1916 (Mission 30)

Week end is over, back to work !

Afternoon mission(14:00), I lead a two airplanes flight and we are going to bomb the Loos Junction railyard again. We have assistance of flight A with 4 other Strutters. Weather beautiful with a few clouds.

As we don't have any escort, I circle before crossing the front to let flight A catch up with us. We fly to the target, drop our bombs from 9600 ft ( miss for me - hit for all others ) and fly home.

No enemy plane in sight as in the last previous missions. Looks like either we've downed all of the Einies, or the pilots are all on holiday. Anyway nothing to complain about!

I admit I never tried Bletchley's mods, as there was so much stuff to read with them.
But I think he knew what he did, and put a lot of historical knowledge in it.

I'd like to hear some oppinions here - how much could it add;
would it be complex and complicated to install;
would the mod work/did you try it with WOFF;
would you be for or against a change in this direction?

I always fly with Bletchley's missions in my private campaigns in WOFF, as I used them in OFF already (plus his AA mod)

It's easy to install, you can always activate/deactivate only with a click in the workshop.

For the DID campaign, it could be up to each flyer to use them or not, they only bring more diversity, more historical context and a little work sometimes (like when you need to carry a telegraph device for artillery spotting, it asks you to lower your ammo to compensate for the extra weight.)

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Bletchley's mission mods are outstanding and I am all for using them in this campaign if our fearless leader gives the OK to them. So ah, what is your favorite beverage as of late Olham, and how many complementary rounds will it take to sway your opinion? Just asking, no particular reason really, curiosity more than anything.

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Lou;

I'm not sure your offer will waylay the fear of a bad install that may result in Olham having to re-install WOFF.
Better you should alleviate that fear. Maybe some very clear instructions. JSGME install would be the easiest I would assume but if people aren't using it then it becomes more complex does it not?

The continuing career of Albert "Mushroom" Ward:




5 Aug 1916 @ 05h47 Railyard attack of Loos Junction North of Lens

Hill lead the flight with Myself, Booker, Hervey, Parsons, and Huskisson accompanying.
“A” flight sent two Strutters piloted by Soar and Chadwick following. The flight was uneventful until we approached Haubourdin aerodrome. Hill spotted two enemy craft approaching and gave signal to attack. I stayed high and observed the action keeping an eye open for more Huns. I took the opportunity to attack Loos Junction but my bombs fell short. Circling around I noticed 4 more huns in the distance and so decided to turn for home but not before downing a Hun sausage north of the Junction. As I approached the Lys River south of La Gorgue I was surprised to see an enemy machine had followed me all the way back. I circled our Observation balloon and waited for him to catch up to me. When he did we danced a bit and I finally shot him down. I then turned for home and landed safely. Hill, Booker, Parsons and Huskisson each had light damage to their strutter with 2 days repair required. Hervey and Parsons each got an EIII.. Soar who was with “A” flight got one EIII but was lightly wounded and his observer killed.
Hill and Chadwick (with “A” flight) damaged the Loos Junction nicely.


YouTube Video:


5 Aug 1916 @ 13h34 Railyard attack of Loos Junction North of Lens

Escort of 2 Nieuport 11’s from RNAS-1 out of Furnes airfield.

Hill lead the flight with myself accompanying. “A” flight sent one Strutter to follow.
We had a fairly clear sky with scattered cirrus clouds. The flight to the target area was uneventful until the approach for the bomb run. Hill spotted two EIII’s and gave chase. I tangled with one and put some rounds into him and broke away to make a run at the Junction. Both Hill and I hit the Junction causing some damage. I bagged another Balloon at the same location as the morning mission. I suspect they won’t be too quick to put up another one. We all returned to base safely.

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Should I try this? I am a bit worried as my pilot Anthony Agrayne though only 'C' has managed to stay alive for 27 hours, half in hotspot area. Now on my third aircraft, FE2b, DH2 and now Sopwith 1½ Strutter. I think I'll give it a try. It has to be set 'on' in the workshops I think. What the hell, you only live once!

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Just another relatively quiet morning mission for Captain Burroughs and 24 Squadron.




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[quote=corsaire31

Flight Lt Alex Ackworth - RNAS 4 - Coudekerque - 4 August 1916 (Mission 30)

Week end is over, back to work !

Afternoon mission(14:00), I lead a two airplanes flight and we are going to bomb the Loos Junction railyard again. We have assistance of flight A with 4 other Strutters. Weather beautiful with a few clouds.

As we don't have any escort, I circle before crossing the front to let flight A catch up with us. We fly to the target, drop our bombs from 9600 ft ( miss for me - hit for all others ) and fly home.

No enemy plane in sight as in the last previous missions. Looks like either we've downed all of the Einies, or the pilots are all on holiday. Anyway nothing to complain about! [/quote]

Corsaire;

Smart move sir, waiting for "A" flight to catch up!

Lou;

Ingenious use of the map in your graphic report Sir. Very nice indeed! It says so much more about the mission than just a screenshot.

Ace Snodgrass
LT. Rfc
70 Sgn

5 Aug 16.

Morning Parade: Promoted to 2nd Lt.

Mission AF Patrol T/O at 1305 hrs. 5 A/c + 2 Top Cover

Location: South of Buary AF

E/A: Engaged 2 Fokker E-III or E-IV

Ammo Report: Vickers 31 Rds fire No Hits. Tail Gunner: 7 rds fired.

Remarks: B Flt knock down 2 E/A Spotted both Crashes as I flew High Tail End Charlie. Top Cover was not seen during the fight or after. Too Far behind ?

Sgn Status: 12 a/c flyable with 2 in Res. Pilots 14 of 15 .

Hi,

just enlisted Charles Chouteau Johnson to service with the aeronautique de militaire, and the Esc Lafayette. As we all know there is no twoseater campaign by now, earliest starts in December 1916 (ESC123). So I put him to training, and from there on it is not possible to advance the time, to the given date.

Johnson entered service in July 1916, and just had his first solo flight, under vigilant eyes of his Luietnant.





I hope this procedure is ok by everyone

Lou, your course tells me, why you have so many hours - it is quite far, it seems.
Do you click "optional flight" to get specificly long routes?
I think I should try that out - mine are usually 45 minuters max.

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Olham, I will sometimes choose an optional flight if I have either more or less time available to fly. However, most of the flights I am assigned right at the start are over an hour in duration.

Robert, thanks. The idea came to me this AM and I may well use it more often when I post reports as I like how it gives a fuller sense of the actual mission. Of course you Sir are providing the fullest sense of the missions with your fine videos.

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Regarding the Bletchley mission files, there was some talk on the forum that they might not work properly after that WOFF patch that fixed the low incidence of two-seaters, or that the Bletchley files would 'break' the patch or something. I can't remember the specifics. Does anybody know if that turned out to be the case or was it found to not be a problem?

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I have not loaded Bletchley's mission files since several updates back so I couldn't say. Hopefully someone else here has that answer for you Scout.

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I run Bletchley's missions. I haven't noticed anything funny two weeks into the career.

Lou, thanks for the acknowledgement but I must admit I am thinking of using some artistic license to add your map and route overlay into my vids if it doesn't take too much time or become too complex. I think my vids fail to convey the full intent of the mission and I would like to address that. You Sir, gave me a great idea!