WW1 well ok, i would have prefered..

[Brooke]

I was talking to Roscoroo at dinner, and he felt that the forward-up view in WWI planes in Dawn of Aces was OK.

So, my thoughts about what it would be like based on Air Warrior's WWI arena might be off base.

[mechanic]

[snip]....

I think that WWII aircraft are the optimum for dogfighting enjoyment.

Amen!

[zack1234]

Why don't we ask Aces High not to bother!!!!! N

[zack1234]

Korea? I know Britain was involved in Korea but it is rarley talk about here.

Did Britain have jets in Korea?
Heliocopters?

[oboe]

...I think that WWII aircraft are the optimum for dogfighting enjoyment.

Have to agree.   Plus, all the other types of air combat that matured during WWII - paratroop attacks, strategic bombardment, effective air to ground support and naval aviation make a WWII environment more interesting and enjoyable sim for me.   Some of these maybe have been first employed in WWI, but really became effective in WWII with the types of planes, armaments, and communication advances introduced.   

Will the WWI arena support radio communication?



 

[zack1234]

No we will be using flags to communicate

[Anaxogoras]

Pretty sure his point is that radios were too large and heavy to equip ww1 fighter aircraft.  Pilots communicated with hand signals and aircraft movement.

[allaire]

Look at it this way instead of whining about it.  It might draw people from other WWI games that suck when it comes to their multiplayer aspect... that would go for the single player from what I have heard.  On the plus side it could bring in some new blood and living things up.

[zack1234]

This is a game and we will still be using vox
I will be wearing goggle's and a flying hat and shouting contact when I fly a bi plane

The Few is the best squad in the game because it is a European squad!

[JunkyII]

Looks like I need to go back to the Korean War musuem to make sure I wasnt drunk when I saw about 50 different aircraft that all were apart of the war...Dogfights from the korean war were supposedly pretty brutal over mig alley and by comparing the 262 to the aircraft in the korean war is just wrong. Both the Mig and Sabre didnt have huge engines on their wings to cause drag and made it harder to turn. The fights in the war were probably pretty similar...well they got to be since they still fight the same way today in modern fighter jets. Heres a F15 and F16 merge then go into rolling scissors...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=466_1240521772

  Yenny for the good video of this

[Westy]

"Korea? I know Britain was involved in Korea but it is rarley talk about here."

True but the "UN" contribution in the air war was a fraction of the US and
USSR action.    Backtracking to the link in my last post go to:

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/cat_index_20.shtml

On that web page there are 4 pages totalling US victories, 2 pages of Soviet
and 1 each ore the Chinese and the rest of the UN combined.  Here's the link
to the UN aircombat kills:

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_306.shtml


heheheheh Zack. For more immersion get a big fan, put it on high and have it
blow in your face too


 

[zack1234]

Hurrah and Tally ho!

What a good idea

[Have]

+1 for Korea 

[saantana]

AFIK, guided missiles were first used in combat during the Indo/Pakistani war, late 50s...
Sidewinders used by the Packi's, were captured by India, given to the Soviets, who reverse engineered the ATOLL.
Unless somebody has heard of useage before that...

Just a little trivia...

RC

Provide a link?
Not a pro soviet or anti american myself, but I believe this common belief that everything they had was reverse engineered from the Americans is somewhat stupid. Did they put Gagarin into space first by doing that also? It would be crazy to think that they had intercontinental ballistic missiles before the US, and yet had to reverse engineer a A2A missile?

[Anaxogoras]

Provide a link?
Not a pro soviet or anti american myself, but I believe this common belief that everything they had was reverse engineered from the Americans is somewhat stupid. Did they put Gagarin into space first by doing that also? It would be crazy to think that they had intercontinental ballistic missiles before the US, and yet had to reverse engineer a A2A missile?

Well, there's no doubt that they mimicked American bomber aircraft design, which helps to spread the belief that imitation was universal for all of their engineering.

FYI, the Soviets were also the first (and only?) nation to land unmanned spacecraft on Venus.