Stalins Organ
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Bump - a site worth bookmarking if you are a WW2 aircraft grog.
It's no longer called the Spitfire Performance Page, as it has so much more on it now...but it's the same URL as it was almost 5 years ago!
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According to the Wiki page on the a/c of the BoB, using 100 octane fuel and 12 lb boost on Merlins built for lower grades reduced their life to 10-20 hours from 100, and improved German fuel (higher aromatic content) could be used in improved DB601N engines, but valve wear limited them to about 40 hours.
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Bump from the long distant past - it seems no-one bothered to answer Tornado's question!!
Wiki says that the first use of drop tanks was in the Spanish Civil War, first use by the LW was on the Ju-87R in early 1940 and the Me-109E-7 in August 1940, and the first allied use was on Spitfires being ferried to Malta in 1942.
The Ju-87R was used in the Norway campaign, but I have no info on it or the 109E7 in the BoB - given the historical comments all over the place about the short range of the 109 I don't think many, if any, were used, and they had no effect if they were.
Oh and I think the campaign got updated to put Edinburgh at the right range!!
Edit: found this page discussing 109 numbers and variants in use in the BoB....
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How about the capitalist-free-trade-anti-worker state - are we protected from that by freedom of speech too??
Personally I have 3 younger sisters, so I _AM_ big brother!
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Replying to myself...a sure sign of madness!
But I see this thread has had 21 views as of today...so someone is reading it:cool:I've had a blast reading this forum over the last 2 days - all the way back to day 1 - there's some fascinating history back then - quite a few of hhte links I have provided to a/c info no longer work so I will look at bumping a few old threads with updates where I can do so - I used to post on here as "Stalins Organ" and then "Mike" way back when one could have multiple logins due to various forum crashes....
I find it strange to think that this game is 5 years old - my memories are still quite clear & sharp......despite a couple of years of playing my kids' MMORPG (as all good parents should!
), lots of figure gaming, and starting cmopetition ballroom dancing in between. 
I've had a couple of replies from BFC about how I can get my licence number back again (thanks guys) so will go down that path if I can't find my CD's
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ME when I used to work on C-47's (briefly in the 70's at the start of my working life) they had a 600 hour overhal life - these were military aircraft at eth time, not civilian ones - I don't know what the life of their engines is currently.
But the "front line life" is not the same as overhaul life - "front line" means you are often boosting it to max and flining it around hte sky in life-threatening manouvres.
So it ends when you get a cylinder shot off.....or a piston rod breaks at maximum boost - well befoer overhaul life!
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France 1940, Syria & Madagascar campaigns for the French, dunno what the Italians might get on their own - Greece?
MS 406's, Derwotine 520, MB 151/152, Curtiss Hawks, Bregeut 693, Potez 631, Farman and Amiot "Flying baskets"
The trouble with some of those early types is their stats are getting so low as to make it difficult to differentiate between them!! but think of the pretty aeroplane paint schemes!
I see Dan has made some changes in the latest versions of hte card game - some I recognise as transpalants from the PC game (bursts & damage)....but perhaps if there's a will some of hte others might be transpalanted back into an imporved PC game - Flak, campaign structure?
Sigh......
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Yes you have and yes he is.
Basically an infantryman was an infantryman - if you chose to have 75% of your troops in "rear ranks" wher they couldn't shoot then you only had as much firespower to teh front as 25% of your number deployed so they cold all shoot.
however you also had reserves and the other guy didn't, so if you could feed the reserves forward you would still win the firefight.
"Famous" examples of the British trouncing French columns invariably have the British not so seriously outnumbered (if at all) and having a much wider frontage that allowed them to "lap around" the flanks to some extent - so getting many more men shooting. Such lapping around would also prevent the French deploying to line as was their doctrine.
The battle of Bussaco is a good example - 1 Brigade of II Corps advanced 1 company wide and 8 battalions deep - teo be met by 3 battaions in line side-by side - the French tried to deploy "as if on an exercise" but could not due to the heavier musketry.
Another division met a simlar fate further north. A 3rd attack found a Portuguese militia unit that wasn't quite so effective and routed it, but was counter attacked and thrown back before it could deploy properly.
Ney's division attacked into 2 British battalions that were lying down - they literally stood up at point blank range, fired and charged - the French fled!
There are also numerous examples of "even" firefights where the Brits and French when toe-to-toe with no appreciable advantage to eitehr side.
The 2 deep line apparently came about because it preserved teh frontage of the unit, and officers trained to manouvre and command units of given frontages - most British battalions were around 60-70% strength at most in the Nappy wars (excepting a few such as the Guards) and so being 2 deep meant an understrength battalion would deploy across the "correct" frontage.
the French did adopt it for a while, but found 3 deep better.
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This site for the R2800 states that they would have a
life in front-line service was unlikely to exceed 50 hours' flying time over a period of only a month or twoI know the early German jets barely made 20 - allied test pilots after teh war were apparently extremely wary of them as they had no way of knowing how long the engines would run for - the later ones were worse as high temperature alloys were in even more short supply in Germanywhen they were buyilt, and the German pilots even worse trained in not overheating them!
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REcently I've been looking at getting back into this game & spoken to a couple of other "old timers".
We all agree it was a great game - immersive, addictive, challenging - all the good things.
But, as we all know, it tanked
I wonder if there's a better way to charge for it to bring it back to life?
The basic option is give the game away as a free download and then charge for somethign that is ongoing - eg per game or aircraft - IMO per game would be better - per aircraft and you eventually run out of aircraft to charge for!
anyway - getting up & running again is a bit of a hassle - it no longer works on my HD due to reinstalling XP at least once and changing HD's at least twice since it last ran, plus you can't jsut get the licence # from BFC & redownload it as you can from at least 1 other games site (
), and I can't find the CD.....I have some more time this weekend & I'll sort it out then!
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IIRC wartime HE production was for the USSR - who specifically asked for it - and for British armoured cars - the ones without LJ adaptors would have HE "up the spout" as there was little point in them using AP by then - the LJ ones would ahve AP..
New Zealanders (Valentines) and Australians (Matildas) used "home made" HE in the Pacific combining Bofors 40mm projectiles with 2 pdr cases.
the Aussie AT unit in Singapore also had HE - there is mention of them using it vs Japanese tanks in a history of their action I read many eyars ago. They had it because they were not expected to see any tanks, so they would need HE to fulfil the expected infantry support role!
However the AP was not removed, and they initially used that - but it had no apparent effect - or at least didn't set the Japanese tanks on fire, whereas the HE did.
Also IIRC a thread in one or other CM forums that noted that early war 2 pdr guns had a set of storage clips that were a different size for HE?
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The big advantage teh allies had in the air was high octane petrol.
Given 100/150 octane fuel various aircraft displayed a variety of increased performances, mostly due to bein able to take greater intake pressure boosts - eg the RAF was normally limited to 18lb/sq in, but with 150 could go to 25lb/sq in - which for a Spitfire XIV resulted in
An increase of about 950 ft/min in rate of climb and about 30 mph in all-out level speed....Not insignificant!
At the start of the war most countries were using 87 octane - the RAF started using 100 Octane in May 1940 (just under teh Engine Power Graph)- giving them anything up to a 34mph boost over their earlier performance in France by allowing boost to 12lb/sq in from 6.5 or 9 lb previously (depending on engine mark).
The use of 100 Octane had been approved as early as 1938, but it took until 1940 to get it in sufficient quantities.
the Soviets loved the extra performance a/c got because of high quality fuel - somewhere (!) I have seen figures that the Sov's were only producing 87 octane befoe the war, and the WAllies supplied about 50% of the USSR's 100 octane fuel - and all the machinery necessary to enable them to refine the othe 50%!
Japanese a/c tested by the allies with 140 octane fuel after the war were up to 60mph faster than they were in their original owners hands....who were only able to provide them with 87 octane.
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Bump - i'm trying to reload it all after a 3 year hiatus (judging by the last time I posted here!)
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....has anythign happened in the last year or so??
Thought I'd try to reconnect later tonight - there's still a few people posting, so I guess it's still running - I hope so....
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Thanks Hoola - that's the sort of comment I was after.
thanks for the other replies too - I appreciate the comments
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I will always maintain that the American secession was an error. How many WW's do think there would have been if the Commonwealth had included all of North America? I just cannot see any country wishing to take on a global commonwealth which has more resources, gdp, and effective manpower. Pax Britannica indeed.
Yeah but then think of all those bears that wouldn't have the right to be harmed.....or something like that.....
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I think he would prefer something that might actually succeed......
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I'm looking at EoS as one of many WW2 strategy games but there doesn't seem to be much out there telling me how it works - can some kind soul provide some kind of summary how EoS compares with other high level WW2 strategy games?
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I think a few things have changed since then......
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Where is it you think the BT's are?
Given the lack of destruction and a solitary waving female figure I thought they were somewhere in Russia and heading off to the front - not somewhere in Germany/Austria/Czechoslovakia having done the damage.
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At Uni in 1983 there was a club called KAOS - Killing As Organised Sport - limimted to campus, eventually self-banned from lectures and labs during actual class time, and from faculty office areas.
It's been going at my alma mater since 1981 & has spread to at least 3 other NZ uni's & 1 in the US.
I believe it was inspired from something similar seen elsewhere even before then.
I never actually took part in the "killing rounds" - I was jsut a "party member" - my flat was centrally located & a regular location for the weekly booze ups
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Costard that's not something new since 1783 - although the shooting bit was a recent innovation then.
Oppress people too much and they will kick back - all cultures, all times, all parts of the world. Heck even Roman slaves would "take" so much and no more - Spartacus's revolt came after a couple of large ones on Sicily in the 2nd C BC (known as the 1st and 2nd Servile Wars!).
But with about 30 years between each (135-132BC, then 104-102BC, then 73-71 for Spartacus) you'd have to think that a generation was about long enough for owners to forget that even slaves can get pissed off enough to risk everythng!
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True, the Afghans don't care about that. But we apparently do.
Yep - there's a fundamental disconnect between what "we" are trying to achieve, and what the natives actually want. It's all going to end in tears unless that is fixed.
As for the Afghans, from what I have read when they are asked whether they would rather live under Karzai or the Taliban most of them say "C: none of the above". Unfortunately for them they probably aren't going to get that choice.Yep..and nope...respectively.... or something like that.
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But that's probably unimportant to Afghani's - what is important is how well it scores on the bring-peace-and-prosperity-and-not-be-corrupt-ometer.
Opression will succeed if people fear it more than they want the alternative.
What does Karzai offer Afghani's that will motivate them to fight against the Taliban themselves? 'cos if it is not enough then he's lost already and we're just going through the process of informing everyone about it!
At the moment opinion seems to be that Karzai isn't offering something to Afghani's that they are willing to fight to defend.
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I think they are protected whenever the rest of us are.