Thanks man. I want to get back to content at some point but the ww1 sim world is quiet these days

​@@21wagstaffthere's still a small dedicated community of us though!

Hey, take a look at my beginner’s guide and setting up a snap view. It’s the main way of getting stable crosshairs. Mssg back if you have issues getting it working

Thank! This is quite an old vid. I really need to do some newer ones on Flying Circus. I’m also a lot better at this now than back in the day thanks to the MP community

Thanks man! It’s really not… I’m finally getting pretty good with her and it only took 10 years

@@21wagstaff Well... that's encouraging.

@@21wagstaff I've been practicing all day, I had no idea the wings can come off so easily. But the two pieces of your advice are proving to be valuable, roll instead of using the aileron and use the ace level for the opponent. It is an entirely different than one uses ina Camel TF .

@@kepler186f4 it’s really, really hard to master but trying to learn in an online server is a waste of time. I treat it almost like practicing shooting in basketball: just doing that one skill over and over again. Once you do get it though, boy oh boy is it hard to counter. The wings thing never sat right with me. You can pull full deflection at breakup speed - IRL you’d have air resistance and stiffening. Again you learn where the breaking point is by snapping the wings time and time again

It should work. Mine works fine. Have you check the forums on il2 or Team Fusion?

It all went a little dark at one stage lol. Am now doing the PPL training so actual lessons. Nothing like the open cockpit feeling though!

@@21wagstaff Oh bro bless lol..... it can be a little different to the body eh? :) You would have the best of both worlds then, the sim experience and knowing what it does to you etc....Ive only just got back into RoF lol, yep still love :) Take care be safe o7]

I’m fairly sure it does but you’re going to struggle. I use a $40 thrustmaster joystick and split throttle which has an axis in the left hand for the rudder. You can also look around using the little point of view stick on top of it

@@21wagstaff I tried using my mouse but when I turned my cursor flew off the game screen and onto my other monitor, which made me have to keep clicking back onto the game window which still didn't work because i couldn't make the turn without having my cursor completely out of the game window

Nope?

@@21wagstaff Not a single Immelman.

You might be confusing the historical turn used by Max and the Eindekker pilots which is illustrated here and the modern turn which used a half roll and split S. The Wikipedia article explains this well with contemporary training manuals

Remember that the EIII used wing warping rather than ailerons so a 180 roll would have not been as efficient as a pitch up and rudder turn en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immelmann_turn

@@21wagstaff I stand corrected. Thank you ✌️

I've never flown a ww2 warbird with a large engine, only ww2 trainers and modern light monoplanes. My personal preference is the FMs in CloD. The planes in CloD feel like they have weight, whereas almost everything in BoX feels twitchy and smooth. I also prefer the damage model in CloD. Cannons do plenty of damage IF you hit, which feels more of a challenge than in BoX where cannons vapourise things pretty easy and AP rounds are fairly crappy. CloD gives you the shotgun effect as described by allied pilots when they used AP + DeWilde rounds with close range convergence. To my knowledge BoX doesnt let you pick the belt rounds. I'd say CloD is somewhere between DCS and BoX, and VR is on the way. I've not messed much with missions builder. You can set fuze timers on the BoX bombs. Hope that helps

Bristol Beaufighter.

The SE5a FM is borked in both RoF and FC. It can’t turn with planes it historically could, retains energy very poorly, and loses its wings with a sneeze. Still, if used right she can still be a tough opponent

Awesome! I made the vids to try and help other players so always good to hear it was useful. Quick slashing attacks are hard for the gunner to track

@@21wagstaff It achieved it's objectives!

Thanks! 100%. If you read Winged Victory by Yeates, he talks about his Camels being BnZed by DVIIs; all they could do was dodge with the rudder. Camel pilots back then most likely would not have risked a prophang due to the stall - in game pilots will though. If I want to kill them I usually take the DXII and drag them up above 1.5km where the altitude throttle gives a big advantage. The wings on the Camel are still trash in Flying Circus so enough wing hits and they will likely rip if they then pull any Gs

@@21wagstaff I love that book! (I've only just been in a position where I could afford a modern pc to run rof, so i'm still having adjust from Red Barron II, where the rear gunners were much less of a threat and you could sit behind an Re8 and just chew it up in safety! Steep learning curve...) But yeah, that scene is great, reminds me of JE Johnsons' account of a similar experience in a Spit 5 vs FW190, Quote: " All I could do was stand the spit on a wingtip, pull hard and wait till they ran out of ammo". Turning ability pre all aspect heatseekers is vastly over-rated. UNLESS the other guy is stupid enough to turn with you. In which case natural selection comes into play....

@@FelixstoweFoamForge Good comparison with the Spit V. Have you started playing Il2 Flying Circus yet? It’s where all the multiplayer action is now plus it supports VR

@@21wagstaff I'm having to wait for a better internet connection, otherwise I'm looking at a 30 hour download........But its on the list!

Thanks! Hope it was helpful

Did you find it helpful? I’m no expert but get ok results

@@21wagstaff make more CLOD Blitz vids mate!

Hey, the control setup in RoF should let you invert the axis. You should be able to do that for all the mapped axis devices

@@21wagstaff Thank you found it..... it was in responses / Engine Control throttle ..... I has looking for specific drivers for the throttle. Thank you again have a great night

@@kevinblack2384 enjoy the game!! Make sure you also check out the new Flying Circus add on to Il2 Battle of Stalingrad. That has ww1 planes and VR support…

Hey, defo need a joystick. I’m sure mouse is possible but it’ll be very tough given the realistic modelling. A $40 Thrustmaster will do the job fine

@@21wagstaff hey! Thanks for replying. I was about to buy the game out of impulse, but I decided to wait for a discount. (I missed the summer sale, I'm an idiot). I'll save up for a basic Thrustmaster, too.

That’s a tricky one. I uninstalled RoF ages ago so not flown it for ages. IIRC the DH2 has very poor performance which is miles off the historical reality vs the Eiii or even the Dii down at sea level where it was known to have an edge. Try using BnZ tactics and always start above the Eiii. If you find yourself on the level I would try scissoring to get yourself snap shots

I think it was ‘balanced’ for multiplayer reasons in the early planeset

@@21wagstaff Sorry to hear you dumped ROF. You are really great at the videos. I've seen them all. Some 3x...lol. They have been the reason I made it the first install on my new machine. Thanks for the ones you made!

@@21wagstaff agreed. Nothing I have ever read said it was that much of a slug...lol I've moved on to the Nieuport 11 and going into the camel this weekend. Its great fun. In a couple of weeks I'm going to try flying circus. Then I'll prolly get into IL2 series over the summer. Might skip Il2 for DCS.... dunno yet.

@@SimJunky-jn2cw I appreciate the kind words and I'm really glad it's helped you get into RoF. I started making the vids to try and tell all new pilots everything I wish the tutorials/manual in-game had done! It's really not beginner friendly, which makes no sense from a commercial point of view. What good is your amazing sim if it's totally inaccessible to the average gamer? 1C (new owner of the game) has given up on it, so we will never get a chance to fly the DH2 with a sensible FM (nor a sensible FM for some of the other planes like the Dva). What's even more stupid is that 1C have straight ported all the RoF planes to FC without amending any of the older and clearly wrong FMs, like the DVa, so all the problems you have in RoF are in FC, with the exception of the Camel, where the reinstated the more powerful engine which was nerfed for MP balancing at one point. I'd recommend getting to know the Camel very well in RoF (particularly the stall and spin recover, plus how to dive it without blowing or overcooling the engine), then come to FC and see how fantastic it is in MP!

Isn’t it the most incredible feeling? I remember when I got my first online bounce. I remember spotting the lone Fokker below me and pushing the throttle full forward then firing a long (and accurate!) burst and seeing him fall and crash. My heart was thumping like crazy! Are you going to fly il2 flying circus? You just wait till you get VR and you’re sitting in that Dva cockpit

@@21wagstaff dunno about flying circus yet. But I am hooked on ww1 now so probably...lol

@@SimJunky-jn2cw if you have VR it’s a must! MP is busy too on Sunday nights.

No VR either. Im rebuilding from the last 15 years driving trucks. Only had a laptop with graphics emulation...lol The last flight sim that would play was il2 1946. Great sim but dated. Now I have a tricked out r12 and my mind is blown how far sims have come. DCS looks amazing! But I've settled on ROF to relearn stick and rudder dogfighting

@@SimJunky-jn2cw great place to start. If you do consider VR the Oculus Quest 2 with a cable is a very affordable solution

Wing Commander Gwilym Lewis. The interview is from Cavalry of the Clouds which is on RU-vid if you search for it :-)

@@21wagstaff Splendid - many thanks, sir!

I think it's because the engine for CloD was developed a decade ago and abandoned, then resurrected and patched by enthusiasts who have subsequently monetised their work. 1C most likely have a much larger development team, plus the BoX engine is newer (although I think the source code is based on an earlier engine). Team Fusion have talked about major updates including VR at some point.

Glad you found it helpful! The Track IR really adds to the immersion; only VR tops it which you can enjoy in il2 flying circus. I mostly fly online on Flying Circus now and the servers are busy Thursday and Sunday eves. Not sure about the RoF servers though

Hmm that’s odd. Is it a mainstream device? Have you logged a bug with the devs on the Team Fusion boards? They’re pretty responsive

No, it's not very beginner friendly but once you start to master it I found it very rewarding. I made the video to try and help new players deal with the same problems I had at first. I also fly light aircraft and have likewise taken over controls on a Moth. Something about the controls in CloD just feel like they have real weight, just as they do in real life. With BoX the controls just feel too soft and easy, more like a fly-by-wire modern affair. Stick with it though and when you're ready DEFINITELY try multiplayer, just make sure you climb, climb, climb. There's some seriously good players, particularly 109 dudes, but they really need their altitude to dominate a fight, and many allied pilots scrap below 15k.

Absolutely. Team Fusion did an excellent job adapting the engine a while back

Yeah the SE5 has one as does the Bristol. It's elevator trim basically

Hey, yes! All planes for the base game are included. There’s also an add on for the Africa theatre which includes a crap load more. Great value for money IMO

You wait till you fly a sim in VR. That’s super weird

@@21wagstaff I'm on xbox now but plans are to build the PC and go VR soon after lol, not sure I will be able to handle it lol

I’m not really a politics person - just enjoy sodding around with national monuments :-)

@@21wagstaff sounds like an oxymoron 🤣

@@joshhartley2038 if you ever played Red Alert 2 on PC you’ll know what I mean about the fun of silly destruction. The same appeal of Godzilla movies :-)

Thanks! I hope you’re having fun with this wonderful sim. Outside views have to be turned on in the realism options, and outside views should be mapped to the F keys (if you go into the key mappings it will tell you what f2 does etc)

Sorry to hear that! Have you flown any flight sims before?

I did warn in the video that it’s about as beginner friendly as chainsaw juggling!

Юрий Номоконов what specifically did you want to know about on the dvii?

tommyzDad strange. It might be the hand management option. If I remember correctly there’s a control meant to simulate hand movements in the cockpit. I remember having a similar issue early on but found a solution on the game forums

Fmart Mart sorry dude. I’m pretty low tech in terms of studio. Let me know if you want me to go through anything you couldn’t hear