BoB questions

[Jorm]

HI all

1. I have just reinstalled BoB, but it keeps locking up. Does any one know how to get it to work with XP ?

2. Is there a way to edit the aircraft data or perhaps add new a/c to BoB ?

Im very interested to see the effect of
- increased range for the Bf109, ie if they had developed droptanks
- from the dim dark recesses of my fading memory, wasnt there a compeditor aircraft to the Bf109, some heinkel fighter that was not proceeded with due to the 109 winning the contract ?
- what if the Bf110 "destroyer" concept was not followed what affect would that have had
- what if the germans had proceeded wih development of a viable 4-engined bomber in 1939 etc.

very interested in getting BoB working again while i await the matrix version.

cheers
Paul

[Hard Sarge]

try this

go to the shortcut icon and right click on it and set the screen to look like this

[Hard Sarge]

and then it should work much better
 
for editing, out of of Hexing, which I know almost nothing about, not sure of any way to work with the old data in the game
 
for what if's, you may want to try the 41 campaign, you get the 109E-7s with drop tanks and while the 190s are a bit early they also come with tanks
 
You may be thinking of the He 112, and later on about 12 planes called the He 113 were built, lots of photos and action shots were taken to confuse people, only about 10 were really made into a unit (think to fly around He plants on guard duty) this plane was also later called a He 100D
 
the "destroyer" concept, is interesting, as almost every nation tried it and even after the 110 failed, they still were trying it, but not sure what you would replace it with, other then more 109s
 
4 Engines would be a interesting idea, but in the long run (with out opening a large can of worms) it was the fighter lack of range that hurt the GE during the BoB more then the bomb load of the bombers, and really any early GE 4 engine bombers would not of been B-17's, so they still would been at the mercy of the GB fighters
 
but that has always been a interesting what if, what if the LW General hadn't of died in 36 (I believe it was) who was pushing and supporting the 4 engine plan, which he was out of the picture, Udet and his short range, divebomber and army support plan, gained ground
 
 

[petgod1]

Have you installed the patch for BoB?
 
I too recently reinstalled it and it kept CTDing.  Installed patch and job done!

[Hard Sarge]

mine was still crashing even after the patch, but it worked much better by telling the game it wasn't being run on XP
 
it is a old game after all

[petgod1]

Ah i didn't need to con my PC i just threatened to replace it with an electric type writer and it behaved.

[Jorm]

ahh no i have not installed the patch and the bugger still locks up even telling it to run in 95 as well as 98/Se mode

sorry to be a pain, but is there a link to the patch out there in the ether

many thanks
Paul

[Hard Sarge]

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