homepage Forums Air Combat & Civil Aviation Wings: Over Flanders Fields A few questions-

I've flown about 10 missions in a squadron now. Every mission I see that my squad mates are getting several kills in the post-mission briefing.

However, when I go to the duty room the only one with kills is me, everyone else has zero. And in the "claims' section every other squad mate entry says 'n/a' except for some reason the last entry has a zero. Many of these same squad mates have shown multiple kills over that past 10 missions.

I also have kill reporting on the middle difficulty. Does that affect squad members getting records of their kills?


Also, I wanted to transfer to a different fighter squadron that were using newer Spads. I found one and it showed its active planes as just Spads. I finally got my transfer request approved, and when I arrived they somehow had 1 very early recce plane and they assigned it to me. Every other plane in the squadron is a Spad, but the single recce plane is assigned to me. And the missions I get are just me alone doing recon while the rest of the squadron does fighter sweeps. My previous squadron was a fighter squadron and I specified wanting to be in a fighter squadron when I initially created my pilot.

Is there something I am missing when doing transfers? How can I tell if a squadron has a single recce plane so I can avoid going there and getting stuck with it?

Hey, FlyinJ!

I think that historical aces show n/a for their claims. If you are in an elite squadron, it's possible that all the other pilots are historical aces. There's a setting in the workshop on pg 2 where you can select Top Aces Only under Aces and Historical Pilots. Maybe try that?

As for flying the recce craft, click on the Inventory/Workshops oval on the main campaign screen and then click on the plane assigned to you. It should cycle through to the SPAD. Note: you have to click on the plane, not your name. 'Course that means some other schlep will be stuck with the Breguet, but that's war, wot?

Hope that helps!

*edit: to some of your original questions; your claims settings shouldn't affect that and their claims can be denied, as well. Also, I think that there are so many aces that not all the kill databases are complete, that might account for the 0.

Some squadrons are mixed recce/scout and planes are assigned by rank, I believe, so that may be catching you. It could also be a bug!

Another-

Is there an updated keychart that has all the actual keyboard commands? The only one I've found is the PDF keychart that OBD offers but it is missing an extensive amount of the keys in the game.

One option is to look in the 'Workshop' under 'remap keys' and all the key assignments are shown there.

That is what I would suggest also, there are so many commands available a key chart is just confusing. You can also assign the functions to any key you like for your own convenience.

FlyinJ;

You could also take screen captures and print those out.

Hmm yeah I guess I'll just screen capture the options screen if there is no updated key chart.

Another few=

Is there any way to expedite/shorten all the screens between missions? Especially waiting for a load just to have it tell me that all missions are cancelled when I have the "auto cancel missions when weather is bad" checked in options. Why doesn't it just automatically skip to a day when weather is better? I feel like I'm waiting for loading and clicking through screens more than I'm actually playing.

Is there damage persistence in the campaign? If I fly over a facility I attacked a few missions before will it be damaged when I return to it in a later mission?

No and no

Maybe in Workshops, turn off historical weather, and switch to AI Weather generation, then you will get lovely weather more often. The historical weather was appalling for most of the war (possibly due to constant large explosions) - or choose a pilot date in Summer - or time advance through to Spring/Summer for more good weather - or in Workshops go to "more" and set 'Bad Weather Cancels Flights' to 'optional' and fly some occasionally.

I personally like that it doesn't skip ahead because I would miss the war updates (newspaper), and also it gives a sense of time passing as it actually did. But I'm a bit odd that way and I can totally see the case for your 'jump to the action' desire as well!

Isn't there now a button that you can click to look at previous war updates you may have missed? I thought that was added a while ago.