Friar

My finger is twitching over the buy button for a Quest2. I will use it with a link cable. My spec is below. You do not have to log into Facebook to use it but do have to have a Facebook account in your real name. I too have been watching YouTube for stuff and if you have not seen him already I would recommend this guy. He give honest, no nonsense reviews and does not speak at 500 words a minute like most hyped up reviewers. If he thinks it is crap he will say so. Karl Gosling: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSnP7yd5lIbrLW_nTqAc9xA He uses a 2080 with no issues, which is what I have. Cheers Friar. PC: i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (4 x 8GB) Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics. Windows 10 1920x1080 Samsung curved screen. TrackIR5. Logitec X52 Pro with Rudder Pedals

Nice work Sid. Will help when we are ducking and diving around the forest, but as you say we will have our little arrow on the map to help.

That is true FT - thankyou for pointing that out. I have not added the free tank at the moment. I gave people until the 20th to come forward to say if they wanted to play but did not have (are being mean and not buying) Tank Crew and will add the free tank into the missions. I did not want to put them in if they are not going to be used.

With thanks to @delta7 we tested this last night and found that a non-Tank Crew owning person can indeed join a muli-crew tank. So if you wanted to give it a go you can hop in a tank of a fellow player. There are 3 roles available. 1. Driver - for this you power the tank by use of your throttle and steer by the rudder pedals. There are a couple of views that need to be assigned but other than that straight forward. Or even your keyboard if you wanted. 2. Gunner - Turret can be controlled and fired by your mouse (others use joystick if you have a twist feature). You need a button to select ammo type and select range. 3. Commander - Just give orders! You will need a button for binoculars, a couple of special views but that is about it. The event is planned to start on the 24th April so if you do wish to take part you need to sign up quickly and get to grips with the key bindings. I am sorry but we will not be able to accommodate you if you turn up on the 24th wishing to take part and do not know what to do. So GET SIGNED UP NOW if you want to join us - it is going to be a lot of fun - I am biased as I built the missions, but just ask the other "Tankies" about previous events...

i did think about that and my answer is dont know. we need someone who does not have it to do a quick test with us

Salute I am now getting to the final stages of building the missions. If you do not have Tank Crew but wanted to take part, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible so I can include one of the free tanks for you. I will close the missions for this amendment on the 20th April. If you are interested you should buy TANK CREW anyway, its 50% off at the moment!

Myself and FT are going to crew and Perf has agreed to start out as out Commander (we will see how long it takes for him to run screaming to the hills saying "never again with those two"!)

Muti-Crew for this event. If you are wanting to take part in this event as part of a multi-crew please could you let me know your crew please, or put yourself forward as a willing crew member and we can then make some crews up. There are up to 3 positions available for each tank, driver, gunner and commander. If you want to fight on your own, no problem.

Salute, Save the Date! After much work and excellent contributions from @Perfesser and @Sweper I am pleased to announce that I will be running the first mission in my "Battle Of The Bulge" series on Saturday 24th April. It would be great if we could get as many of the regular "Tankies" on parade as possible. Now, start time?. Usually I would have said that I would have started the mission around 20:15 to 20:30 uk time but as we have just put our clocks forward I appreciate that this may be causing folks who do not live in the centre of the universe (also known as the UK) some issues? Could you please give me some indication below as to what start time would suit you, I will then do my best to find the best solution. Battle Of The Bulge Operation Wacht am Rhein You are part of a section within "Panzer Lehr". This was formed from several elite training and demonstration units. The training and demonstration units were some of the most experienced and highly trained troops in the Panzerwaffe, with almost all having seen combat in the East, North Africa, Scilly or Italy. Panzer Lehr is made up of Panzer IV and Panther tank units. Wacht am Rhein opened on 16 December 1944, and Panzer Lehr moved out from the start positions in the centre of the German line. It's objectives were to push West as far as it could capturing the towns of Viaden, Dasberg, Wiltz and the lynch pin in the operation, the transport hub of Bastogne, thus contributing to the main objective of pushing right through to the bridges over the River Meuse and on to the port of Antwerp, thus severing the Allied supply lines. The attack has been planned with the utmost secrecy, with the details of the advance only released to the units on the front line at the very last minute. Mission 1 Your unit will arrive at the front line under cover of darkness on the night of the 15th December, having been transported via road trailers to what you believe to be a front line reinforcement camp. Mission 2 Takes place during the next day in camp, on the 15th, it is here that you are briefed that you are not here as reinforcements but as a spearhead to take the fight back to the Allied forces. You are to familiarize yourself with the layout of the camp and to locate the starting position in readiness for the advance in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Because of the secrecy about the mission only limited information on routes through the difficult terrain is available and you may find yourself picking a route through dense forest and traversing steep incline and descents. Supplies of ammunition, fuel and food will be important the further West you advance. Mission 3 The Attack begins. In the early hours of Saturday 16th December your unit will assemble waiting for the signal to advance. What events and missions come next, only time will tell...

I would assume so as it seems to be from an American manual. Someone posted a conversion (see below) Not sure on the ammo loadouts.

Just seen the below in the IL2 forums. Explains the pips in the Sherman gunsight. Just raise the barrel until your required piper is on the target

So all being well this Saturday, I propose to have a final run of the Agility Test (I have replaced the lorries with Panzer III L and have also off set the bridges so that you can not use the opposite one as a guide. After that I will re-run the "Town Siege" mission where we all start in open ground and make our way towards the town. I will also add some targets in the town as well this time. Anyone that wants to multi-crew can. We can also look at how to set up TeamSpeak with each tank in its own channel with just the Commanders talking to each other.

Thanks for the update Sid, adds to the knowledge base. Would be interesting to have a 3 man crew in a battlefield scenario, then no swapping required and see how that goes...

Was thinking about this last night and my original idea of a whisper channel for commanders will not work as the channel will be empty and you can not whisper to an empty channel. So for this to work we will have to think of another comms set up. We could all stay in the same channel but mute everyone except your own crew perhaps? Still need to think of a solution for tank to tank comms. For it to work at the moment, we would have crews in their own room and then the commanders will need to set up a whisper that broadcasts to all other tanks, which may be not too complicated to set up.

Salute, Following on from the "success" of the event we did on Saturday, how do you guys feel about taking it a stage further and actually setting up crews for the tanks, perhaps even split off each tank into their own room on TeamSpeak with Commanders having a central whisper channel to communicate tactics and stuff? The more I think about the idea, the more I would like to try it. I certainly think it would add to the experience. There could be swapping of positions at spawn points (if crews wanted to of course) Your thoughts..........

I know where I can source one and can supply for £475

@Toad ok I will have a look. It actually might be easier if I do that and then circulate the recording and then take questions, that way people can do it when it suits them, its an option. Also happy to do "live" sessions. The UK clocks go forward this weekend by the way.

Salute Last week or so a few guys mentioned that they would be interested in an introduction to the Mission Builder so that they could look at mission files and perhaps make some adjustments etc. I am happy to run a few sessions where I will take you through the basics. What I need to do now is find out who is interested and what would be a suitable time for all parties. If you are interested in finding out what goes on under the bonnet ("hood" for our colonial friends, and not 18th century ladies head wear) please post below and what sort of time slot. As a bench mark, if I said 16:00 on a Saturday, what time would that be for you? I could do a non GBS night during the week, lets say 20:00 how would that work for you?

Oh and @DD_Sheriff 1987 is not acceptable

Bumpty Bump Also how about adding your time difference from GMT. Lets use a line in the sand, So if it is 20:00 on Saturday evening in the uk, what time is it where YOU live (UK Dogz exempt from this bit, but if you have not added to the map, then please do)

If the PC did not come with windows and you need a fresh copy, have a look a sites like https://softwaregurus.co.uk/ you just buy the licence from them cost £17.99 for Home £19.99 for professional (all legit, I have used them a couple of times now with no issues). You then create a windows media device (i.e a usb stick with the msi files on (very simple to do) and install from that. A lot cheaper than buying a "boxed" version which I believe can be around the £100 mark.

@DD_Arthur - Welcome to my world...

err, this post was from 2013 but thanks anyway

The German forces are building, will YOU be amongst them?