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Rami Campaigns

Thank you CrisGer,

Your Greek is still holding well--congratulations for using the mother tongue.
Ezra Pound, the great American poet, once wrote in one of his Cantos:

"I am no Greek, hath not the advantage"....

It is true that speakers and writers of Greek have an advantage. My own work till retirement was professor of Greek and English literature. For pleasure I still read and write in Ancient Greek, so that I may not forget my skills. And Greek and Latin have helped me learn more languages: French, Italian, Russian, among them. I speak and write French like Frenchman having lived in Paris For 4 years, and my wife is Russian---so that helped. Everyone excuse my languages bit...

Tgl: thanks for new search weapons you suggest--they may have a better proximity fuse and kill more birds....


Here are two more birds I cannot find:

RAFSkin for the PBY by Sopwith Cameleon
Filename.Scvnpby
Location:http://sopwithc.wetpaint.com/page/Downloads+Page+4

PBY RadarAntenna by GavinC
Filename: PBY_Radar_Antennae

I often think, as this search is proving too slow, to open that campaign in the MISSION BUILDER and replace the planes with the ones I have already. That would wipe out the problem at once and free me from this pain of endless search and you from spending time trying to help me (for which I am grateful of course)... Our time. I am certain, can be used in better things, like flying or doing things we personally need.... I could for example be making repaints or 2D cockpits (WHICH HAVE STOPPED BECAUSE OF THIS SEARCH, temporarily) and you could do your own stuff....

One more thing: Why do not campaign--makers keep their campaigns simple? 2-5 planes at the most would do. Is the ruling idea that the more the planes the better the campaign? That is not true--you can make a campaign ten times better with 4 planes than with one with 30 or so a/c.


I found this at simviation: and downloaded it...

"Typhoons in the Channel" Mission for CFS2!
Zip file preview
0.33Mb (1416 downloads)
"Typhoons in the Channel" Mission for CFS2! Takes place in mid '42 when the Spitfire Mk.Vb was outclassed by the FW-190a. The Hawker Typhoons, with its low alititude superiority in speed and manouevreability, were called in to stop the "Hit and Run" raiders. You will fly a Typhoon against FW-190s. Includes CAP and rendevous with patrolling destroyer. All aircraft needed are included. By Eric J. Gion. 3.8MB "

Now the mission above can be easily turned into a mini-campaign without extra a/c, through the mission builder.

:jump:There many such simple missions at simviation. And someone who can use the MISSION BUILDER can transfer them to any theater or even change the a/c to Dakotas and use them in Burma along with a couple of more a/c types.... Coyote's Tutorial is the bible here. Thropugh it one can learn to do all of that and more....

Nick
 
Thank you Nick, I have had few chances to use my Greek since i left Oxford.

And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and
We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,
Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward
Bore us out onward with bellying canvas.
Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end.
Sun to slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean.

my ship sailed from such climes...but i do recall:
good luck with your search for things, many of us have done the same..but often it is worth it.

I am no Greek, hath not th’advantage.
And of course, no Roman:
he can take no risk that matters,
the risk of beauty least of all.

you may enjoy these.... fond memories...i followed PAUSANIAS' guide to Greece with another artist who was cousin to Constantine II, and the daughter of a classics scholar colleague of my father, drawing and painting the ancient sites http://www.christophergerlach.com/greece_paintings.htm
good luck with your search for things, many of us have done the same..but often it is worth it.
 
Thank you Nick, I have had few chances to use my Greek since i left Oxford.

And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and
We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,
Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward
Bore us out onward with bellying canvas.
Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end.
Sun to slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean.

my ship sailed from such climes...but i do recall:

I am no Greek, hath not th’advantage.
And of course, no Roman:
he can take no risk that matters,
the risk of beauty least of all.

you may enjoy these.... fond memories...i followed PAUSANIAS' guide to Greece with another artist who was cousin to Constantine II, and the daughter of a classics scholar colleague of my father, drawing and painting the ancient sites http://www.christophergerlach.com/greece_paintings.htm
good luck with your search for things, many of us have done the same..but often it is worth it.
 
Its all Greek to Me...

Actually My wife's Grandfather was a Doctor of Theology. He could read and write ancient Greek and Hebrew. He tried to teach me. We never seemed to have the time to really get into it. I did manage to learn a little. Though it was mostly the Hebrew.


Nick,

Do you have Sopwith's site. The older link does not work. So try this one.

http://sopwithc.wikifoundry.com/

Till Later,
John
 
Reply...

jinx said:
Thank you CrisGer,

"Typhoons in the Channel" Mission for CFS2!
Zip file preview
0.33Mb (1416 downloads)
"Typhoons in the Channel" Mission for CFS2! Takes place in mid '42 when the Spitfire Mk.Vb was outclassed by the FW-190a. The Hawker Typhoons, with its low alititude superiority in speed and manouevreability, were called in to stop the "Hit and Run" raiders. You will fly a Typhoon against FW-190s. Includes CAP and rendevous with patrolling destroyer. All aircraft needed are included. By Eric J. Gion. 3.8MB "

Now the mission above can be easily turned into a mini-campaign without extra a/c, through the mission builder.

:jump:There many such simple missions at simviation. And someone who can use the MISSION BUILDER can transfer them to any theater or even change the a/c to Dakotas and use them in Burma along with a couple of more a/c types.... Coyote's Tutorial is the bible here. Thropugh it one can learn to do all of that and more....

Nick
Click to expand...

Nick,

This is "Mission 1" of the Royal Canadian Air Force campaign. I used this mission as part of the campaign, because it was so easy to incorporate.
 
Nick,
A word of warning: Most of my missions are hand-edited. If you open them with Mission Builder, these changes are lost, and the missions won't work as intended any more.
There is a tool available that can be used to easily swap out planes and ships in missions without using MB. Unfortunately I don't remember the details by heart, and I won't be at home forba few more days, so I can't look it up. Maybe some other member can help.

I know that a lot of downloads are required for my campaigns. However, I like to make them as accurate as I can, and that means using the airplanes that were actually used and, when available, the skins to make them look like they did back then.
All the skins and various enhancements for the aircraft, like propdiscs or custom sounds are not required for the missions to work, so you can theoretically skip downloading and installing them. The planes alone will do the job. If you are content with flying the Catalina in American colors in Malaya, or a Hurricane in BoB colors, please do so.

I make missions first and foremost for my own fun and enjoyment and therefore make them the way I like them. They may not be to everybody's liking, but I can't help that.

If you still want to try my campaigns, I suggest that you post a list with the items you cannot find. When I'm home again and have the time, I can go over it and help you find them. Most probably, someone else can step in and point you in the right direction in the meantime.

Cheers,
Wolfgang
 
Blood Hawk John,

Thanks for the SC site info. I will visit it soon enough.

Rami:

Many thanks for your feedback. I thought it may be easy to convert but you acted on the idea before me. Well-done.

Now for those who speak no Greek, what follows may be a bore.

:wavey:CrisGer:

So you know Canto I and other cantos.
Canto I is of course a translation of Homer's Book of the Dead in the Odyssey.

What I learned many years ago--40 years ago-- was this (the poet Kenneth O. Hanson taught me --he lived in Athens and even died here):

:engel016:

And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and
We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,
Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward
Bore us out onward with bellying canvas.
Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end.
Sun to his slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean.


Pound has his own meter here, Sun to his slumber:
>>>One stressed syllable, two unstressed, one stressed and one unstressed.

The meter is this: \ - - \ - and it also known as the Poundian foot. Gary Snyder uses it a lot, and Kenneth Rexorth also did. Poound had said it reflected American speech/

Now where the stresses happen, there is often alliteration, like the 2 s letters here. These are in bold here. Some think Pound got this idea from Anglo-Saxon Alliterative verse.

The meter is prevalent throughout Canto I in almost all of the Cantos, and in his translations of Guido Cavalcanti from the Provencal: "Donna me Prega" is a line from Guido I can remember off hand.

Check it all out thru rereading the Cantos. It is fun. One develops an ear for this music and begins to recognize it after a few pages.... I always taught Canto I to my students and explained the meter in this way-they loved it. The exercise they liked was when I asked to find the feet in the rest of the poem. They found them all as I said "Trust your ears when searching!". The ear always hears the stresses. As Ken Hanson had said once, "nothing is more obliging than music".

Apologies for the poetry meter lecture.

Nick
 
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Skylane,

Thanks for the explanations-- I will keep what you say in mind.



Thanks again,

Nick
 
Hi Nick,yes i enjoyed your post on metre...

as Reginald Gibbons says:

Pound’s idea of free verse at this point seems to be that the poet needs to “break the back of the pentameter,” as he put it, simply by breaking lines in metrically iambic rhythm (with some emphatic substitutions) into irregular lengths, and even breaking a metrical passage in the middle of a foot.
Click to expand...

http://writing-arts-blog.northwestern.edu/tag/ezra-pound/

i like your explanation for your students..very nice.

I learnt about all of this while still pretty young myself, my father Lee F. Gerlach is a poet, now 93 yrs old, one of Yvor Winter's protigees and students at Stanford and he loves Pound and has himself kept a more formal cadence but it is all good and interesting matter. Glad you are getting the help that can be offered re planes and content here.

very nice to have you here with us.
 
Nick,

Thats Kool. I liked that.

Though I must say, I feel like I'm coming in in the middle. I kind of get it. I just feel as if I'm missing something.

Still, very kool.
 
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