Perhaps. Perhaps there's a limit to how terrified a man can be. I imagine any situation where you're holed up in a fortress, any place really, while it is being blasted to dust all around you, be it by shells or by bombs, would drive any man to his limit.

Not that I would know; I've been lucky to live in a country where armed conflict is a thing of the past. The not so distant past, and for now at least.

The only thing I could think of that would be worse than getting shelled or bombed for weeks on end would be the dreaded mustard gas attacks that happened towards the end of the Great War. The weapon was considered so horrific that it was banned from use in combat ever since.

Plenty of ways to find your end there. If a mortar didn't land in your trench or the gas attack didn't turn your lungs to mush then was always the option of having to go over the top and landing up either being buried alive by a shell, falling into a shell hole and drowning, getting hit by a bullet or even making it to the other trench and then getting skewered on a bayonet.
Makes me that more amazed that my great-grandfather survived it :up:

Not to talk about all the diseases that could put you down, and the horrible medical treatment.

We ascended to 5,000 feet over Chaulnes by noon- on April 29, 1918.

http://crickey@crickey.free.fr/screen/screenbm/BM1.jpg

We met our slow and bulky contact less than 15 minutes later near the frontlines.

http://crickey@crickey.free.fr/screen/screenbm/BM3.jpg

The Brits decided they could take us on as we passed into their lines, and so the fight began.

http://crickey@crickey.free.fr/screen/screenbm/BM4.jpg

I brought my guns to bear on one chap and shot him dead in the cockpit.

http://crickey@crickey.free.fr/screen/screenbm/BM5.jpg

Out in the distance, I noticed some Breguets moving in on our positions. The DFW having already absconded home, we decided to engage them.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...__22_13_35.jpg

The results were less than desirable, as I was sent whirling down to the ground in flames, my wings torn from my body.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...10__0_9_44.jpg

That reminds me, the Fokker E.V will be out before long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZh7-cu51as

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Happy Holidays Everone.
 

Same to all of you.:salute:

Well heres some of my latest and greatest screenshots.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6...0091939371.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/43/291220091856481.jpg
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/521...2010164529.jpg
Enjoy!

Right! Off we go, then!

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3938/gemini2.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/6425/nosetonose.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/7...nithetwins.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6245/x15a202.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4...yondthesky.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/3...sscreen386.jpg

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5605/evahello.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5...sscreen215.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8307/stacky.jpg

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2...eperation3.jpg

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1594/spiderinbound.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9763/landed03.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/3...littrow02b.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7739/skylabb05.jpg

Whoa? Is that Orbiter? :o

World turned upside down.
 

Angriff!
 

:hmmm: Just wondering, were those Space pics X-Plane? If so, it looks a whole lot better that I remember it and what Sim was that B-17 from?

The B-17 is from IL-2 1946 with the HSFX Mod Pack installed.

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2...2722375974.jpg
Last seconds of life in B 17...
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3...2722392504.jpg
External views.
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/8...2722393092.jpg
same as above.

FAA Campaign Pics, and odd error message.
 

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2...2010202635.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3...2010203100.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/857...2010204705.jpg
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7...2010205720.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9...2010211459.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/882...2010222315.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/399...2010222817.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8...2010222909.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1...2010222913.jpg
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7...2010223105.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5...2010223149.jpg
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2...2010223547.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2...2010223656.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/566/30012010223737.jpg
And the error message that I got when trying to load another campaign don't know what it is or what it means, anyone else getting this message with offline campaigns?
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1...2010224137.jpg

Ah, another victim of the Hookdump, yes, this is a dodgy one RM, and I'm afraid I've only been able to rid myself of it one way.
I had this problem trying to join the latest Gulagwaffle campaign, and I suspect that the problem lies with Tigers Sound Mod.
Two questions:
1) Do you use HSFX 4.1?
2) Do you use Tigers Sound Mod v2?

If your answer to the above is both in the affirmative then there is one further question:

1) Did you install the soundmod as directed in the Readme (aka, dumping it all manually into the IL2 folder as opposed to through JSGME)

If the answer to this is also in the affirmative then you'll have to reinstall IL2 and HSFX I'm afraid and rather than install it into the Il2 main directory you'll have to create a JSGME folder and plonk it in there, delete all the random H102JKRY2 named files in it and just let it transfer to the standard sound folder in IL2 like you would a standard sound mod. Unfortunately this means that you lose the flyby sounds but it should...should and don't quote me on this completely because we've only tried one Gulagwaffle mission, but it should rid you of that error.

Private Message ;)

Bah, that's just being sensible... :damn: