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Another one I had as a kid was a book based two player game. I used to play it with siblings in the back of the car while we were going to holiday destinations. Both of my sets are WW1 aircraft and each set had two books. One for each aircraft. The idea was you could pick a meeting engagement or ambush, or other situation and the rules would give each player a starting page in their book. It showed a picture in each book of what you would see sitting in the pilot seat looking towards the enemy. There was a table of maneuvers under each pic, and you picked a maneuver and called out the page number listed for it to the other player, and they would call out theirs to you. You then looked up the number you'd been given and see a new pic showing the result of both aircraft's maneuvers from your viewpoint. Eventually if you did it right you would end up in a shooting position at either long, medium or close range. Then you could either roll a dice to determine if you hit the other aircraft or apply a fixed damage amount based on range. Each aircraft had a number of hit points and first to lose them all lost. I still have them somewhere I think but can't remember what the series were called. Pretty sure there was WW2 ones too.

Used to play this one. Took a long time to resolve a combat however due to only 2.5 secs being represented by a turn. Very complex rules as well. Air War (game) - Wikipedia

That's probably the most exciting thing I've seen for DCS for a long time. Presumably first bit of the ongoing dynamic campaign work by ED to the users' hands. Getting logistics going is a big part of the skeleton of a dynamic campaign. Plus it finally makes physical units possible rather than relying on the virtual supply system.

Considering I put together the Tu4 mod I'd probably know don't you think? Yes the edm is the same but the aircraft definition in the lua is different as are the weapons and loadout. Hence the different folder and separate aircraft rather than simply a different skin for the B29. I called the mod Tu4DOL because I wanted to attribute Dol's work. Tu-4 (updated to be v2.5.5 compatible) (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

Not strictly true. The turrets in the Tu4 are quite different as are the bomb loadouts. It's a long time back from my viewpoint and I haven't looked at DCS mods for several years now.

Not doing very much DCS or visiting this forum these days but I know someone who said they got the Tu4 going again. No promises but I asked them to stop by and advise what they had to do.

Seems like it is correct. Tried searching out in the real world and it seems from this shot that indeed the two rudders deflect inwards with no input. Thanks for your feedback Golani, learn something new all the time.

Ok thanks. No expert either but I still find it strange that I get the situation like below. Medium right pedal medium left pedal While not as effective as having both rudders deflecting wouldn't the above reduce turn performance and general rudder performance? Found it tricky to control on take off roll due to the deflected rudders but as speed increases they do center but I find then that full rudder shows very minimal deflection of the control surfaces. I mean really minimal as in barely out of center position. Slowing down and they head back to their on ground appearance

Sorry second time typing this. Lost all the text first time. As you can see below I have an issue with the F18 and how it reads the inputs from my pedals. I do not have this issue on any other DCS aircraft or game. You can see the pedals are working fine in windows properties and even within the DCS axis controls setup dialogue. Note that I see a line in the control assignment when pushing left or right pedal which I don't think I've seen before but even so it seems to be correctly reading the inputs. F18 bug? Any ideas for a work around? Thanks centered Full left Full right Assignment Centered Full left Full right Full right shows line. Centered shows nothing or a dot. Full left shows line to left. Example to show that other things don't have the problem

Very handy thanks

They should be harder to kill than a single engine fighter but that was set back before all the damage model changes. Pretty much was just a guess based on repeated empirical testing. It may no longer be a good choice of value. Found the video, very nice

Sorry was just thinking about that. Civvy DC3 was the first one done. The other two were later adaptions and have a different EDM (3d shape) so possibly that explains the green block. IE old EDM not supported anymore. So I suspect that the merged mod set is essentially allowing the civvy dc3 to use the edm from one of the others variants. Not really sure however as Markindel is the 3d modeller not me. If you could see the old civ DC3 in action and compare it to the new you may find the new one works a bit differently as it likely had different animations.

The paratroops are defined as a weapon that is chute deployed. So - at least with the definition used at the time - I doubt they are destructable or have a damage model. <edit> The C47s were destructable when released but no idea how they are these days

Use WW2 bombing like a B17 etc. The length of the bomb run controls the frequency the cargo/troop ejects from the aircraft. Shorter = faster drop rate and vice versa. It is a bit fiddly but you can get it to look very close to the real thing with a bit of mucking around

Merville-Calonne appears to be incorrect and using a 1970s Nato layout instead of: https://forgottenairfields.com/airfield-merville-calonne-1065.html pg 241 https://www.ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf