Jediteo

He hasn't been on the website since April, but happy birthday wherever you are.

it goes into Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\parts\core

I fixed it, it is in the vault under the Cliffs of Dover area. http://dangerdogz.com/forums/files/file/535-maddoxdll/

Oh, just the computer stuff then. From the title I thought this thread would be far more interesting...

You lucky, lucky man. Sound like JP got his crowning moment of awesome there.

No, no. I believe Jedipedia has fouled up on this one. Ask him again about Japan invading China/Manchuria. 1937? Hmmmmm................... Typo, fixed. But the Sino-Japanese war started in 1937, while 1931 they invaded Manchuria (geographically China)

WWII can be said to have started in 1931 with the Japanese invading and Manchuria or China in 1937. The sheer scale of the conflict is equal to or greater than the '39-40 European conflict. While WWII is generally stated to have started with the German invasion of Poland, numerous smaller conflict slightly blur the lines. The assumption is that the declaration of war between Britain commonwealth & France towards Germany, and numerous smaller states constitutes the start of a world war. Meanwhile Finland had fought a war that would later be continued against the soviets, Japan had already been at war for several years, none of these wars particularly smaller than the early '39-40 Western front. Several larger states had yet to enter the war, which makes the case for a slightly more tiered or escalating approach. The historiographical issues concerning the start of the war is the subject of some quite extensive debate. ' However, it remains a historiographical and definitional issue rather statements concerning epistemology. The conventional historiographical view of a period of war and peace is a post-Westphalian peace phenomenon; while conflicts can be far more complicated than the formal declaration of war commonly expressed from a sovereign European state. Long story short, WWII didn't really start September 1 1939, rather a series of escalating conflicts converging and merging into a multiple theatres of war across the globe involving and affecting, most if not all, nation-states. WWII as a historiographical entity is better explained as a collection of distinct conflict rather than a homogeneous period of warfare spanning very specific dates.

No.9, U120 wasn't sunk because of a toilet malfunction, in fact she was not sunk at all. Here is an excerpt from Uboat.net, coincidentally, this was a discussion years ago on the SHIII forums. "In many sources it is stated the U-120 was "sunk by a toilet" (probably a very bad way to go! . However this story should be attributed, with changes, to the U-1206 which was one of the late war boats fitted with the new deep water high-pressure toilets (enabling the boat to use its toilet at greater depth than before). On 14 April 1945, only 8-10 miles off the British coast line, the boat was safely cruising at 200 feet when the commander, Schlitt, decided to use the toilet without the help of a trained specialist (the system was complicated). Something went wrong and when the specialist arrived he misunderstood something and opened the wrong valve with the end results that large amount of seawater got into the boat. The seawater reached the batteries directly under the toilet causing chlorine gas to form and the boat had to be surfaced immediately right under the enemy. When the boat reached the surface they managed to blow clean air into the boat but at the same time an aircraft bombed the boat causing extensive damages leaving the boat unable to dive. Seeing the hopeless situation Schlitt had no choice but to destroy his secret material and abandon ship to safe his crew. (Brennecke, J. (2001). Jager and Gejagte)" The notion that tracers have a different trajectory is a quite common assumption, however the trajectory of tracer is very similar if not the same as a normal FMJ round. If tracers had a different trajectory, that would essentially negate their usefulness. Concerning the effective range of a aerial MG and the range in which the tracer is visible, and the marginal change in flight characteristics; the very slight differences in trajectory is wholly negligible. One would think that a Colonel of the USMC would have a grasp of basic ballistics.

I just saw it, and it was a fairly middling war movie. Fraught with war film clichés, with verything from the brawling enlisted man who repents and attempts becomes a better man, the self-sacrificing officer, and the screaming sergeant (quite possibly the only character in the film with any form of character), and a sadistic SS guy. They even did the "it has been a privilege" line. A few sub-plots run throughout the film, such as the Norwegian-american officer, most of which remain largely unexplored. Sean Bean plays essentially a 1940's Sharpe (albeit with a better haircut), and the main protagonist is lacking in depth and complexity. A few action scenes strung loosely together with a few character moments does not really give the audience much to engage with. The film was apparently on a very small budget, and it shows in a number of places, with poor cinematography and special effects that belong in a 60's film. At the least it is not a another Michael Bay or Bruckheimer film. To summise, an attempt at making a modern Where Eagles Dare simply yields a film with spotty acting and poor pacing.

Got it, uploading to the Teamspeak filebrowser, just log onto teamspeak and right click the main lobby channel. There should be an option for "open file browser". Just click the file you want to download and it should download it for you.

I'l try to upload it to the vault trib, should be up in an hour or so. EDIT, didn't seem to work, can't seem to be able to upload it.

Works for me, seems they just fixed it.

Here here! Nothing like a nice dram of scotch after a long day. You must be missing decent booze quite a bit over there Trib. By the way, I've been watching this guy for quite some time. Very good and concise (and to quite an extent funny) reviews on whisky (not only scotch).

I prefer this one, Very talented musicians, this is from back when they were "draftees" (De facto[/i ]Voluntary draft) Quite a decent bit of drumming here (That is the king they are playing for btw.)

Turn it up to eleven!

The vertical component of a projectile motion is more of less constant (9.8ms^2), but the horizontal velocity will decrease slightly when the canister opens. In other word, they will drop slightly shorter than you think. The only way of getting it right is to practice, cluster munitions without CCIP sights are quite diffcult to use.

Goth, Jabo is referring me being Jedipedia (don't know where that comes from) German cluster munitions (prefix AB-) are fairly useful against tanks, but more so against parked aircraft and vehicles. They are slightly difficult to use in Il2, with it being slightly difficult to calculate the impact point. With a unitary warhead, as we know, it is rather straight-forward. You release the bomb and it follows a projectile motion, which with a bit of practice can be applied with a fair degree of success. However, the problem with the cluster munitions is that they burst about a second after dropping from the rail (assuming no bomb delay set in the arming screen) and thereby produce a swarm of tiny bomblets that will shower the target. While this in theory sounds easy enough, in practice it proves slightly more challenging. The most common approach seen in flying il2 when dropping bombs is a form of glide bombing, but with a relatively low dive-angle (about 20-30 degrees) and the low altitude of the approach. This is fine when dropping HE or general purpose bombs (it really isn't but this is where the 2-seconds fuse whining comes from, unless you are packing Mk82 snake-eyes or something), however cluster munitions need altitude and time to deploy properly. The capsule (container) opens after about a second and distributes the bomblets, this requires at least 3-4 seconds of flight for the bomb to establish a decent deployment pattern. The longer the canister has been opened, the larger the pattern. Too short a flight and you get a very concentrated burst, too long a flight and all you get as a few 1kg bomblets spread over a large area, which will not yield very good results. My suggestion is to dive in at about 700-1000 meters AGL (2500-3000ft) and dive in at about 60-70 degrees. Keep the target area in your gun-sight and when it passed below the reticule, drop the bomb (this will be at about 3-400 meters AGL). The bomb being its projectile motion and deploy its contents within a few seconds, thereby giving it ample time to get a decent area of effect. Practice against a variety of targets and after a while you should develop a feel for how the bomblets spread and at what altitude to drop the bombs for various types and layouts of targets. A single AB250 or AB500 can be rather weak, so do not expect them to be nearly as effective as a modern (post 1960s) cluster bomb. They can be very good weapons with a bit of practice, however Il2 does not model smaller amounts of explosives very well. Most targets are better prosecuted with SC250 or 500 with HE unitary warheads. They can be quite a bit of fun though, and with practice and experience can be effectively deployed against soft-skinned vehicles and parked aircraft with a high degree of success.

X-wing Alliance is one of the best games of all time. I just friggin' love the X-wing series.

Take care Ovy,

He was the main test pilot for the Gripen development. He crashed the bird twice, both times due to problems with the flight control system. As this was the first domestic completely fly-by-wire aircraft, which is unstable in more than one axis, there were some problems with the development, not very unusual. Pretty cool aircraft, I've been 10 meters away from it when it starts, quite loud really.

Happy birthday, be sure to fly with us, we want to sing .

RC2 stands for Release Candidate 2, essentially a 110 mb bugfix.

Here is the link for the FREE download, get it while its hot! http://riseofflight.com/tryrof/en

Except for a few minor bugs (which are getting fixed this week) and assuming you have the game set up properly (tweak the RAM or enable texture compression) it works fine.