Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: DavidRosner

sorry if some of these have been asked...

1) Is there still a need for "real life" pilot names? I may have found a new source...
(it's linked from an article on Wikipedia, and if it hasn't been data mined already...)please post link, or send me a PM with the link, I can always look and see what I can find :)

2) Why do many of the real-life airfields for the Allies not exist, or are connected to the wrong
groups?

which ones are missing ? I am always on the look out for Airfields, i have found a lot of them from unit histories that were missing in the old game and have added them where I could (sometimes it is just a name with out a Loc to work from)

Group or assigned Group is more tricky, alot of fields had alot of Groups or units using them, but in the game world, that don't work, so got to pick a command to assign them to, and of course, the reasons, I may feel, may not be what others think or understand why I felt that way

3) What was the name of the bug that was triggered by flying Night Bombing Missions at 400-500 feet, and
the German Nightfighters would just crash en masse....?? Has that bug been fixed?

oh oh, I didn't know about that one ? I know of others that were causing NFs to crash, most have been corrected, or at least improved


4) My real-life Uncle, was a "Yank in the RAF", he was KIA 7/8 July 1943, while returning from his 23rd
mission (Bombing Cologne) with 106 Squadron as a lead pilot of a Lancaster III (he was shot down by
an ME-110 nightfighter, and was 1 of only 6 Lancasters that was lost that night)... My question is,
if we knew he was flying a Lanc III, 1 month before the scope of the game... why are there no Lanc
III's (and why are they so rare?) at the beginning of the 1943 campaign...??

if and where I know that a Unit was flying the Lanc III, I have given them the Lanc III, as long as I have data in front of me, showing me what plane type they were flying, I will try to give it the correct plane (Germen NF units are tricky, they may carry 3 or 4 different plane types, so when with the one that best suited the unit)

5) In one campaign, the 100th BG is reporting to have 0 available, and 48 repairing aircraft...
FOR MONTHS AT A TIME... how do I wake them up???

not sure, I remember slow repairing units, either a new unit or a newly upgraded unit, at times, you had to fly a mission with them, of course, with 0 planes, it is kind of HARD to fly a mission, I have not seen this in a very long time, so think we nailed it

6) In Fall of 1944, all the 9th AF fields on the continent are reporting as British owned...
and not allowing me to mix 9th AF Bombers with 9 AF Fighters... (why is this?)

why ? because that is how Gary set it up to work (I know this one, I talked to Gary on the phone and we worked out a different way of doing it)

Basicly, when a "new" airfield showed up on the continent, it was set to one command or another, if that command did not move units to that field, it would revert back to another command, early verisons of the game, the AI took care of moving units to the new fields, later in a patch, they took that away, but the fields didn't know that, and still would change over, we reworked how the fields descide what Command they should belong to

hassle, IXth FC and IXth BC are two different commands, so the game does not let them join on the same base, you will need a FC base for fighters and a BC base for bombers, but overall, shouldn't be a major issue, I tried to make sure there were always some FC bases around the BC bases

7) How is an Allied unit determined to be a Day or Night Unit?? Is it based on the plane type?
Or is it based on the Unit type? (I.E. unit based - can I make Bomber Command fly in the Daytime
later in the war? or plane type based... can I make B-17's fly at night?) I suspect it's unit based
because B-24's can fly both day and night, because they only fly day time with USAAF, and when
I converted all the 205 to B-24D's, they had no problem flying at night...)

it is set up by command, so yes, a "day" bomber could fly at night, if given to one of the Groups in BC, and a "Night" bomber could fly during the day if giving to one of the Day groups

(believe me, I speak from doing so, Stirlings do not do well in the Med during the day time)
Thanks in Advance...

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ORIGINAL: harley

3) named for it's discoverer "Andrei Raids", and yes it has. Unless someone has found a new and exciting way to trigger it.
well, the true Andrei was set up flying at very High alt with daybombers, just as night was falling (I named it :)(and Andrei has never forgiven me for it) and yes that one has been fixed, I thought maybe he had found another way to make it happen

7) It's based on the HQ. (The exception being the NI's of the 9thAF, 12th AF and Med AF, they fly at night because they are night models only)

yeap, sorry forgot about those, also add in FC, any Night fighters assigned to one of the 3 groups of FC will also only fly at night

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ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

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ORIGINAL: DavidRosner

4) My real-life Uncle, was a "Yank in the RAF", he was KIA 7/8 July 1943, while returning from his 23rd
mission (Bombing Cologne) with 106 Squadron as a lead pilot of a Lancaster III (he was shot down by
an ME-110 nightfighter, and was 1 of only 6 Lancasters that was lost that night)... My question is,
if we knew he was flying a Lanc III, 1 month before the scope of the game... why are there no Lanc
III's (and why are they so rare?) at the beginning of the 1943 campaign...??

if and where I know that a Unit was flying the Lanc III, I have given them the Lanc III, as long as I have data in front of me, showing me what plane type they were flying, I will try to give it the correct plane


Some corrections:

It was the night of 8/9 July 1943, not 7/8 that my uncle was KIA. He was in fact, flying a Lancaster III model, as determined in the pre-press copy of "Coalmine to Cambrai" which is a book detailing the story of the only survivor (Radio Operator) of the (8 of 9 men were KIA) bombing mission in which my Uncle was KIA. My Uncle was the pilot of "R-Robert", a Lancaster III belonging to 106 Squadron that was shot down by an ME-110 while returning home from Cologne.

1st Lieutenant/Flying Officer (he held both ranks at the time of his death, age 23) Eugene Rosner
(born April 1920) was initially trained as a pilot in the USAAF in 1940, but was released from the Air Force after training due to a combination of a "Restricted Airspace violation" and a lack of need for pilots at the time, owing to the U.S. not yet being in the war.

Eugene Rosner, still wishing to fly, enlisted in the RCAF, and was selected for and trained to fly
Medium Bombers. By 1942, his Canadian unit was absorbed into the RAF, and he found himself in conversion training to fly Lancasters with 106 Squadron. By early 1943, he was ready for combat missions, and after 20 night missions, he received a letter from the USAAF instructing him to report to a B-17 Squadron, however, the RAF would not release him until he completed his tour of 30 missions. For his 21st and beyond missions, he wore both USAAF & RAF insignia. On his 23rd mission (July 8/9), after dropping bombs on Cologne, and turning for home, his ship fell under attack by an ME-110 nightfighter, and was 1 of only 6 Lancasters lost that night. His ship crashed in Cambrai, Belgium, with 8 of 9 crew KIA. They were also carrying a "Second Dickey" (a term describing a new pilot as an observer on his 1st 3 missions, before they get their own ship). The only survivor was the wireless operator, and the book "Coalmines to Cambrai" details his life from working in the Coalmines of Northern England, to his training with my uncle, and the crash in Cambrai, to his evasion and eventual capture (6 months later) by the Germans, his odyssey thru several POW camps, to his eventual life back home after the war... the book was written by his Nephew. Eugene Rosner was subsequently re-interred at the Normandy US Military cemetery.

(in reply to Hard Sarge)