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Battle of Britain
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:53 am
by JudgeDredd
Just dusted off my copy of Talonsofts Battle of Britain in anticipation! [:D]
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:12 pm
by anarchyintheuk
Same here. Just finished (or should I say had it finished for me) a 1941 campaign. For some reason the 8as score that I had didn't equate to the 8as minimum I needed to continue playing. Except for the necessary recon fu, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this game. Well, until the forced ending that is.
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:17 pm
by Hard Sarge
you two should a short AAR on how your battle goes, and then maybe I can follow suit with how the new game works
(if my programmer ever lets me post screenshots)
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:10 pm
by JudgeDredd
HS
I am NOT skilled enough in the mechanics of this game to post an AAR....seriously.
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:15 pm
by Hard Sarge
oh, wasn't saying for you to show off, just to show your plotting and thinking and how it turns out, then we could compare the two

RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:17 pm
by JudgeDredd
Well....I won't promise anything, 'cos I've got shed loads of real life to deal with at the moment...
I'll think on...maybe I'll check in.
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:27 pm
by Hard Sarge
ahh, try it, you will enjoy it

my trouble right now is, I can't take the time to really get into a AAR with style, while I am watching and testing for things
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:33 pm
by Crocky
Just manage to procur a replacement BoB copy here in NZ hopefully looking to fire it up tonight ..... first thing will be patches for it I suppose any suggestions where to get them from or if someone has them can they fire em thru to
crocky@inet.net.nz ..... Cheers in advance
Hopfully this will whet my appetite [:)]
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:08 am
by Crocky
Started a campaign damned thing has crasghed about 5 times so far in the first day .....[:(]
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:24 pm
by Hard Sarge
make sure you set the game to think it is playing on Windows 95 or 98
go to the short cut, and click on property, then go the last tab
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:25 pm
by Hard Sarge
easier to show then to explain

RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:34 pm
by Crocky
Thanks mate working well now [:)]
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:53 am
by Scott_USN
I lost my BoB disc.
Have not played it in a few years but it was interesting. Although it always felt abstract or I don't know how to put it but didn't feel like I was in control and no personal satisfaction.
I tried to get Bombing the Reich but never got around to it.
Hopefully the new games will have more of a personal feel to them.
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:51 am
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Crocky
Thanks mate working well now [:)]
good glad to hear, I would still say to save often though, just in case, the times I was playing it later on, I didn't have any trouble with it crashing, but you never know
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:57 am
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Scott_USN
I lost my BoB disc.
Have not played it in a few years but it was interesting. Although it always felt abstract or I don't know how to put it but didn't feel like I was in control and no personal satisfaction.
I tried to get Bombing the Reich but never got around to it.
Hopefully the new games will have more of a personal feel to them.
Hmm, I am not sure how to say if we got a personal feel to it or not, I think that gets down to more the player then the game, I know when I play, I get very attached to my pilots and units, but I don't think everyone plays games like I do
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:45 pm
by Scott_USN
Yes I can see that. It was overwhelming to get started but all the details were serious fun in a hardcore way.

Not sure if personal was the right word but very interesting game and none like it that I know of. I will get BTR this round though.
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:33 pm
by Hard Sarge

well, just to be sure, you get both of them, if you get it

(which the best part of that, is it is on the same engine for both games now, so what ever one game does, the other game does also)
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:23 pm
by Hard Sarge
Getting some weird ideas
but it was there
should I add the Ju 87R ?
it is a longer ranged Stuka, it carried 2 300 liter drop tanks instead of outer bombs
the Berta had a range of 550 km
the Richard had a range of 1255 (along with a extra 150 liters in the inner wing panels)
they were around and in use at the time
I could set it up as a weapon switch
or is that just being mean ?
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:45 pm
by Mad Onion
Ju 87R was carrying two 150-liter drop tanks and 240-liter tank in each wing.
Other sources ar saying it had two 300 liter droptanks[&:]
RE: Battle of Britain
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:28 pm
by Hard Sarge
I got a lot of Pics of them, those look like 300s, they are big !
my books are saying besides the drop tanks, they were able to add inner wing tanks which added 150 liters of fuel
the Rs were more used in the Med, but were around during BoB