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Militant_Danny
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Ah... I finally make it to the front (P3 Arrives). Our Halberstadt's all lined up, motors turning. Two Albatros D.II's are in the mix, aces of which names have escaped me. It is definitely something taking off as a flight, together. I begin climbing before I realize that my machine is at a much greater rate of climb than my flight leader, I should probably lower the nose and stick close to him; after all, I am the new guy. So I nose it over and put the throttle in, closing the gap. Unfortunately I closed it too fast and close, resulting in the tip of my wing clipping his left wing.
CRUNCH! "Right wing lightly damaged"..... Hmmmm…. This is a problem. If lightly damaged equals a huge hole in both wings (with similar damage to his left wings), then I'd hate to see severe.
My machine pitches to the right heavily as I apply full left aileron in an attempt to keep it level. Only slightly, with full power, does the machine begin to bank back. Immediately I begin the slow turn back to the aerodrome, as the flight leader does the same in the opposite direction. Keeping full power in I am able to make a power-on landing, carefully settling it on the landing gear. Landing complete and alive in one piece, I quickly try and assemble an excuse as the Jasta XO makes his way towards my crate with a less than enthusiastic look on his face. The flight leader survives, last I see is him forcing into an open field approximately 2km from the field. Awesome start to my air-combat career.
2nd mission - Balloon Defense
Success! I was able to take off AND fly with my flight leader without incident! Now onto the task at hand. We arrive in the vicinity of the balloon in need of defending, somewheres about 5km south of Douai and 3km northwest of Cambrai, and begin our slow overwatch pattern. All the time I'm scanning the area of the front in the distance. On a whim I happen to look to the east and notice a faint speck above the horizon. Upon closer inspection, I see a total of two specks, gradually getting larger... DH2's closing in on our balloon. I try signaling the flight, no one's looking. It appears I've become the step-child no one wants of the Jasta. So be it, its redemption time. As I line my machine up on the closing English their guns begin chattering towards the balloon. They are doing their own mission! Awesome! Even cooler, and more to my delight, the infantry units and anti-aircraft guns below begin to train in on them. In a matter of seconds, as I line up on the leader for an front-left closing shot, I perceive several ground-small arms fire hits on his wingman, causing him to veer slightly towards me, with the culmination of a flak burst completely exploding his machine into a falling collage of canvas and flames. Awesome. Just before his machine explodes, I caught a glimpse of our balloon bursting into flames. I immediately turn onto the seemingly pleased Englishman’s tail, his jubilant attitude is short lived however, as my bullets begin pounding his rotary pusher engine without mercy. Smoke begins billowing and without power he is forced down into a set of trees, just short of a potential force landing zone. With no view of my flight leader or fellow mates, I turned for home.
I’m really liking the overall more refined feel of P3. The only thing that is a little odd, is that the AI in terms of dog fighting doesn’t seem to want to engage as much as I was expecting. They do however perform more violent maneuvers, but in terms of getting on and sticking to my tail I have yet to have trouble with any of them. Realism is at 80, with realistic flight controls. Perhaps I've only come across rookies, alas my pilot only lasted 4 missions before I burned him in trying to land too close to the hangers.....missed the hangers.... hit the trees. DOH!!!
Wonderful job so far, this is going to really compete with my online school time hahaha Thanks for a great product!!
I dunno if it helps but I seem to get a higher number next to claims by writing a paragraph detailing who, what, where, when and how including ammunition expenditures into each craft, causes of the enemy craft's demise (engine failure, stalling, control surfaces lost), and location of his wreckage .... granted my guy didn’t live long enough to get the confirmations, but there was a higher number next to the claims with better information, as opposed to those with less info, in my logbooks. Maybe that will help some of you all?
CRUNCH! "Right wing lightly damaged"..... Hmmmm…. This is a problem. If lightly damaged equals a huge hole in both wings (with similar damage to his left wings), then I'd hate to see severe.
My machine pitches to the right heavily as I apply full left aileron in an attempt to keep it level. Only slightly, with full power, does the machine begin to bank back. Immediately I begin the slow turn back to the aerodrome, as the flight leader does the same in the opposite direction. Keeping full power in I am able to make a power-on landing, carefully settling it on the landing gear. Landing complete and alive in one piece, I quickly try and assemble an excuse as the Jasta XO makes his way towards my crate with a less than enthusiastic look on his face. The flight leader survives, last I see is him forcing into an open field approximately 2km from the field. Awesome start to my air-combat career.
2nd mission - Balloon Defense
Success! I was able to take off AND fly with my flight leader without incident! Now onto the task at hand. We arrive in the vicinity of the balloon in need of defending, somewheres about 5km south of Douai and 3km northwest of Cambrai, and begin our slow overwatch pattern. All the time I'm scanning the area of the front in the distance. On a whim I happen to look to the east and notice a faint speck above the horizon. Upon closer inspection, I see a total of two specks, gradually getting larger... DH2's closing in on our balloon. I try signaling the flight, no one's looking. It appears I've become the step-child no one wants of the Jasta. So be it, its redemption time. As I line my machine up on the closing English their guns begin chattering towards the balloon. They are doing their own mission! Awesome! Even cooler, and more to my delight, the infantry units and anti-aircraft guns below begin to train in on them. In a matter of seconds, as I line up on the leader for an front-left closing shot, I perceive several ground-small arms fire hits on his wingman, causing him to veer slightly towards me, with the culmination of a flak burst completely exploding his machine into a falling collage of canvas and flames. Awesome. Just before his machine explodes, I caught a glimpse of our balloon bursting into flames. I immediately turn onto the seemingly pleased Englishman’s tail, his jubilant attitude is short lived however, as my bullets begin pounding his rotary pusher engine without mercy. Smoke begins billowing and without power he is forced down into a set of trees, just short of a potential force landing zone. With no view of my flight leader or fellow mates, I turned for home.
I’m really liking the overall more refined feel of P3. The only thing that is a little odd, is that the AI in terms of dog fighting doesn’t seem to want to engage as much as I was expecting. They do however perform more violent maneuvers, but in terms of getting on and sticking to my tail I have yet to have trouble with any of them. Realism is at 80, with realistic flight controls. Perhaps I've only come across rookies, alas my pilot only lasted 4 missions before I burned him in trying to land too close to the hangers.....missed the hangers.... hit the trees. DOH!!!
Wonderful job so far, this is going to really compete with my online school time hahaha Thanks for a great product!!
I dunno if it helps but I seem to get a higher number next to claims by writing a paragraph detailing who, what, where, when and how including ammunition expenditures into each craft, causes of the enemy craft's demise (engine failure, stalling, control surfaces lost), and location of his wreckage .... granted my guy didn’t live long enough to get the confirmations, but there was a higher number next to the claims with better information, as opposed to those with less info, in my logbooks. Maybe that will help some of you all?
