Battleground Europe (WWIIOL) worth it?

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I have RO and didnt like it that much.

Its fun, but it takes a bit to get into, I played it for awhile, kinda fell out of it though and cancled my sub.

I remember one time, I was on this paradrop mission and we had some sort of issue, maybe we got shot down, so we landed, everybody was ok... So we just walked to the target! :rotfl:

[Dowly]

Having now played it for 4-6 sorties in a BF110, I must say it farcking rocks! The flightmodel is of course more arcadish than that you see on pure flightsims, but it isnt hard to get the planes to spin/stall. The amount of players is one thing that amazes me, I dont even notice the average graphics, the fighting is too intense to start looking at anything else than the enemy. Other thing I like very much is the constantly updating 'News paper' on the front page telling you pretty much anything you'd think should be told. Hero stories (real events, that the game automatically notes and puts to the paper), general situation reports, production reports etc. etc.

I'm sold, that's all I can say.

[Captain Vlad]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Having now played it for 4-6 sorties in a BF110, I must say it farcking rocks!

I hate BF110's. They're always flitting around, looking for a nice, fat patrol boat to shoot up, and their 20mms are very effective against a wooden motor launch so you might as well write off your naval career if one gets a good run on you.

On the other hand, most of my Fairmille B kills were BF 110s. One of them I got with the 2lber gun on the front. You know, the one you're supposed to shoot other boats with.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Captain Vlad

I hate BF110's. They're always flitting around, looking for a nice, fat patrol boat to shoot up, and their 20mms are very effective against a wooden motor launch so you might as well write off your naval career if one gets a good run on you.

On the other hand, most of my Fairmille B kills were BF 110s. One of them I got with the 2lber gun on the front. You know, the one you're supposed to shoot other boats with.

I hate the me110 in WWIIOL too. Unfair, the germans have the 110 as their starting fighter for low ranking players, the RAF has 2 Hurricanes! Needless to say, I jumped sides and am now flying for the RAF until the 3rd promotion when I get my hands on to the 109.

Oh, had my first paratrooper mission today. Damn, that was cool! Was night, tracers flying past our C47 and them twut germans shooting at us with everything they had as we were floating slooowly down after the jump. Great game!

[Captain Vlad]

Suggestion on ranking up in the 110 is to...well, look for boats to kill. They're extremely vulnerable to 20mm fire if you know where to aim. Now that crewmembers on boats don't die (something I wish I was able to enjoy), your best bet is to aim for the center of the boat, just under the stack. If you set the engine ablaze, the boat will sink eventually....no damage control, alas.

Also, early war, the 110 makes a passable tank buster. Won't do jack to a Matilda or a Char B1, but A13s, and any of the light tanks, the 20's can easily punch through top armor.

Might wanna try the French Air Force, too. A lot of people hate the Hawk 75, but I found it pleasant to fly in offline mode (all my computer at the time could handle).

[L.T]

I like the game alot, but "lost" my gunner to RL and never had the same feel with any of the "replacements"

I dig tanks and the multicrew did it for me. One day when i find a new gunner i will re sub, but not before that....

L.T

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by stabiz

It was nice, but it lacked alot if you ask me. It had some realistic views on it, like the ability to lean your gun to a trunk of tree to aim more steadily. What I would've wanted to see from the beginning of RO, is more vehicles. We have tanks and halftracks. Some of the maps are huge and would've been great for anti-tank guns or even aircraft. And this is the area where WWIIOL makes it more enjoyable. Everything expect artillery (well you have those small one man mortars) is there. And the realism is slightly better, for example, you can set your sights for different distances in some weapons.

Anyways, I came to post an AAR from my best mission so far; Paradrop to the coastal city of Kamperland with the Fallschrimjäger 1.2:

July 10th

On the afternoon of July 10th, our FJ company was tasked of making a daring attack to the coastal city of Kamperland. Intelligence reports told that most of the allied brigades were moved to the center and south of the frontlines. An perfect opportunity to hit them hard and capture one of their naval bases.

At 14:51, the 15 FJ's assigned to the mission boarded the Ju-52 transport plane at Gilze airfield. Our CO split us in 2 groups and gave us our targets, we were to jump to the east & west parts of the town, capture the depots there and move in to the center from both sides.

Somewhere around 2/3 to the target, the radio began giving reports of enemy transport planes in the vicinity of Haamstede, city that was just across the channel from our target, Kamperland. Seems like the allies had the same though as us of making a surprise jump. The CO ordered the pilot to alter course for drop into Haamstede.

Haamstede is a small town, with not much strategic importance in it's self, but it would compromise the other towns in east if the enemy would get it's hand on it.

When we arrived to the new target, the enemy paratroopers had already jumped and captured one depot on the east side of Haamstede. Where the hell was Wehrmacht? Roughly 30 seconds before the jump, a french Dewoitine fighter jumped on us, scoring some hits to our left wing. The green light flashed and we jumped, just in time; the JU52 lost it's left wing few seconds after.

Fortunately, there was no fire coming from the ground, but the Dewoitine gave some of us hard time as it strafed the chutes. Luckily, no one was hit and everyone landed safely.

The enemy presence in the town was minimal, we killed 3 french paratroopers and captured the town back. Few of our FJs were lost in the battle, but the rest of us were ok and hand plenty of ammo left, so we decided to dig in to wait for the next attack.

I took the position of guarding the east depot, the rest of the FJs were scattered all over the town, we even saw few soldiers from the Wehrmacht join us.

20 minutes or so later, we started to hear engine noise from south and I hardly even noticed it, but I was already emptying my MP40 towards the sky where 4-5 allied paratroopers were slowly floating towards the city. I think I hit one, but cant be sure, the other FJs were shooting the same targets aswell. The attack was over soon, with no noticable gain for the allies. However, they did got few of our FJs. We were down to me and 3 other FJs plus 3 Wehrmacht guys.

We couldnt relax for long, again, engine noise from the south. This time 6 allied paras jumped right on top of the central depot, killing the FJ who was defending it. One para tried to sneak into the east depot, but a short burst from my MP40 stopped him. I heard alot of shooting from the central depot, the Wehrmacht was cleaning the rest of the paras, succeeding eventually, but with high cost. Me and one Wehrmacht soldier were the only ones left in Haamstede.

Again, the distinctive noise of the allied transport plane, only few minutes after the last attack. This time they were serious, a quick counting, 8-9 paratroopers jumped over the center & east side of the town. Seems the center depot was their target as I started hearing grenade explosions and machinegun fire there. Under a minute later, I was the only german soldier in the town. I decided to abandon the east depot and go clean up the center in hopes to getting it back and waiting for reinforcements.

I got to the bunker, and charged in on adrenaline rush, just to come face to face with a Bren, short burst and I was KIA.

Farcking love the game!