90 Years ago the war to end all wars ended - P3 coming soon....

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90 Years ago the war to end all wars ended - P3 coming soon....

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns fell silent. Cities had been razed, Empires swept away, and almost an entire generation of young men lost in the blood and the quagmire of the trenches and the skies of Europe. After four long and terrible years, the ‘War to End All Wars’ was finally over. Now , ninety years later, Over Flanders Fields – Between Heaven and Hell, will recreate the war in the air fought so long ago.

What is Over Flanders Fields? In order to answer that, one needs to step back in time about100 years, to a time of Empires, a new age of industrialism, scientific discovery, and the Dawn of Flight. In 1914, the 'War to End all Wars' was about to begin, new machines of destruction were being invented and perfected on a weekly basis, and the world as men knew it was about to change forever. New democracies and ideologies would soon sweep away the crowned heads of Europe; new scientific advances and inventions were rapidly changing the old way of life. OFF brings you to that time. A time when man was new to this machine called an 'Aeroplane'. He took to the air with a sense of wonder and excitement – to explore the world as it had never been seen. That view of the earth was soon filled with the smoke and destruction of war, and soon those early pilots were locked in combat high above the clouds. It was a time of industrialised warfare, but also a time of chivalry, a time when skill and daring and luck might see you survive. OFF is a flight simulation dedicated to the Dawn of Air Combat. It is a simulation that will bring you face-to-face with the reality of what many young pilots felt in their machines high above the trenches of Eastern France. OFF allows you to not only test your pilot and gunnery skills in close-range Air Combat, but it will allow you to witness the actual war below you. All fronts move, with historical accuracy. Fly alongside historic pilots, in one of 39 aircraft, under the colours of Germany, France, the USA , or the British Empire, and compete in the skies with dozens of authentic squads in real time and up to 226 aircraft in the air at any given time - real flights from real airfields on real missions. Enlist in one of hundreds of Jastas, Escadrilles, and Squadrons spread the entire length of the Western Front. OFF will immerse you in a world long gone: the sights, sounds and memories of the skies over France and Flanders, soaring over the gentle landscapes scarred by the trenches, craters and mud of the Great War. To sum up, what is Over Flanders Fields ? It is a WWI Flight Simulation, designed to immerse you in the world of the Great War. OFF will take you from your chair at home and seat you in your cockpit at The Front. Whether you fly for the Entente, or the Central Powers, OFF will put you in the heart of the action, Between Heaven and Hell...Over Flanders Fields!


And so on to an update:

P3 external beta test has started - team beta testing is effectively drawing to a close now and then onto the details of getting OFF out there on DVD.

For more detailed info if you are new to OFF check out our website:

http://www.overflandersfields.com/

OFF is the most comprehensive WW1 air combat sim to hit our desktops.


WM
 
Can we call this a most profound dissertation?

Certainly it would appear to be close to that.

I applaud your literary skill, and believe that OFF though will exceed your prose.

With high regards,

British_eh
 
british_eh said:
Certainly it would appear to be close to that.

I applaud your literary skill, and believe that OFF though will exceed your prose.

With high regards,

British_eh
Click to expand...


Ahh well that was a team effort - not my skill at all....and OFF will blow even the most jaded simmer away.

We felt we should announce something on a day that meant so much to millions of people.

WM
 
Hi All ,It can't be too much longer now till we can all experience for ourselves what we have been hearing about on this forum and seeing on the preview movies. I have playing around with flight sims for over 20years,in fact a lot of my working life as an aircraft engineer has been involved with the real thing.I cannot remember a time when I have looked foreward to a new flightsim more.
 
Can't wait! How much longer do you think? Will we really see P3 by Christmas?
 
Hats off to you, Winder for a splendid piece. It really is a mouthwatering prospect and some super articles and stories over the past months have only enhanced the sense of anticipation.......
 
ok now to guess the day of release....I'll go with december12th a nice christmas present for us all only 32 days to go!
 
Yes, the 12th. December sounds as likely a date as any. The trouble is that for those of us languishing near the bottom of the pre-order list it might as well be sometime in the new year..... still if it's going to be worth waiting for.
 
After the New Year?!? Good Grief! After all the lead up/lead on?!?

Hopefully, they have figured all the details about how to distribute the game via DVD, though Winder's post seems to indicate otherwise, which cause even further delays!:banghead:
 
December 7, a date which most people remember, for other reasons :kilroy:
 
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns fell silent. Europe, awakening as from a dream, was at peace. But it was no dream; it was a nightmare of mud, explosions and bullets that had carried away a generation of her youth. You can still find that peace, that quiet, when you step aside from the noise and rush of modern life, and pass through a gate onto the lovely green lawn of one of the lonely cemeteries dotted along what was the Front. Walk between the rows, listen to the songs of the birds who are now their companions, and though you will not see them, you may feel their presence.

shredward
 
Here are some thoughts from a Canadian soldier now in Afghanistan, written on Remembrance Day three years ago...
(Russell Storring is a sergeant in the Canadian Army, currently serving in Afghanistan on his third tour, having served there previously in 2005 and 2003. He also served with the UN in Rwanda in 1994.)
For the first time in years, I will not be attending the Tamworth Remembrance Day ceremonies back in Ontario, but will stand on parade here in Afghanistan, a place where we lost seven of our countrymen. I know that next year when I attend ceremonies in Tamworth, there will be fewer veterans standing in ranks, just as in every other town across Canada.
Many people, including veterans and their families, wonder why some soldiers make it home while others do not. No matter the logic of battle, time has a way of balancing everything out.
Before Sgt. Ernest (Smokey) Smith passed away, how many Canadians knew his name? How many knew the places he fought or why he won the Victoria Cross. Did anyone notice when Cpl. Frederick Topham passed away or remember the feats that he accomplished 60 years ago in a field in France to win his Victoria Cross?
What about those who didn’t win high honours or medals of bravery, and whose names are not mentioned in books, who don’t have streets named after them? They, too, saw and experienced the horrors of war, died or returned to Canada no less heroes than those who won national recognition.
Since the turn of the last century, 112,000 men and women have died serving Canada and are buried around the globe; places like Vimy Ridge, the Somme, Passchendaele, Ortona, Juno Beach and Caen are no longer household names. Canadians died by the hundreds and thousands in these foreign places, earning the respect of both allies and enemies as “shock troops,” soldiers who could get the job done and could be relied upon under any circumstances.
These were soldiers who would hold the line despite the numbers massed against them, even during the horrors of gas attacks. These were Canadians who stood fast while nations on their flanks fell back in disarray.
These men didn’t join for medals or titles. Rather, they joined for their families and the families of those around the world who couldn’t defend themselves against tyrant dictatorships. They joined to make a difference and to allow us to live in a world of values and respect.
None of them joined thinking they themselves would die, but they all realized too well the realities of war, and as they looked to their left and right, they accepted the fact that many of the men beside them would not return.
In their last dying moments, as they lay covered in blood and dirt from a foreign land, they knew they would not return. Undoubtedly their last thoughts were of their wives, children, mothers and fathers, and I am certain they would have wondered if it was all worth it.
Years later, we stand on parade each Nov. 11 trying to remember the sacrifices those soldiers made, both during the war and the years after. Of Canada’s soldiers who were fortunate enough to return home, how many have passed on without ceremony, flags or gun salutes? These men risked all for Canada, and we shamefully let them pass, not even knowing their names.
For those veterans who stand on Remembrance Day, 70-plus years old, how many of them are thanked for what they have done?
I think for a large majority of Canadians, the passing of Smokey Smith, our last living Victoria Cross winner, opened our eyes to the ignorance of our ways, even more so because he passed in the Year of the Veteran. Although I feel it came years too late, the Year of the Veteran is a fantastic idea, and has put more veterans and Canadian history into the spotlight, showing everyday Canadians the faces of those who served and died for them.
Soon, all of our First and Second World War and Korea veterans will pass on, and all we will have will be their names. We should take every opportunity to thank veterans whenever we see them, whether Remembrance Day or not.
One day a year is hardly enough to remember those who gave their lives, or those who returned and have endured the pain and horrors of war since.
 
When I return from Afghanistan, I will be visiting the new Canadian War Museum for the first, but not last, time. My boys are already asking me when we can go together. They might not yet understand everything about what our veterans risked and gave for Canada and for them, but they have an idea and, more importantly, they have interest.
Some time in the future, when I know they’re ready, we’ll go one step further, and as a family we will walk the battlefields of Europe, where so many of our Canadians are buried.
We will walk beside the ghosts of our past, through the fields that should mean so much to all of us. We will see and read their names, written on their grave markers in places like Vimy Ridge, Oosterbeek, Dieppe and the Juno Memorial. We can no longer let any of our veterans pass unnoticed, unnamed or unremembered.
They risked, and so many of them gave, their all, so that we could live as we do. We Canadians will know, and remember.

LEST WE FORGET


Russell Storring is a sergeant in the Canadian Army, currently serving in Afghanistan on his third tour.

shredward
 
From south of the border, a salute and thank-you to all of our Canadian brothers on Rememberance Day! WWI, WWII, Korea, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Afghanistan--during all of these conflicts American, Canadian, and other Commonwealth troops have all fought (and died) side by side. Let us never forget their sacrifice, every day, but especially on this very day, when 90 years ago the guns finally fell silent to end the "War to end all wars." If only it were so.
 
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