Red Front for ToT

[Sarsstock]

I can't count the hours I must have spent hunting Zepplin's and Gotha's in the original Red Baron. I loved it first and foremost because there are so few great First World War flight simulators out there today and even fewer back then.

I learned so many flight and arial combat principals from that classic. My favorite lesson was that you could only fire your machine guns in short and controlled bursts, otherwise they would jam every single time.

[typhoon]

Being sort of a cheat, I checked 'Unlimited Ammo' and held down the space bar from the moment I took off, sending out an endless stream of bullets in every direction I turned. Of course, I stopped doing this once the insane number of friendly fire incidents nearly cost my career...

Anybody here play 'Air Duel' before?

[curtsibling]

I once ended my German Air career in Nov 1918, with 255+
victories, earning that high-level 'oak-leaf' Pour Le Merite.

I was in in Goerings Jasta 1 at the end, flying a DVII.

I loved that game so much - They just don't make them like that any more!

[curtsibling]

Fairline is really going to kick our asses for dragging this thread into the 1990 game nostalgia zone!

[Broken_Erika]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Fairline is really going to kick our asses for dragging this thread into the 1990 game nostalgia zone!

viva la spam!

[fairline]

I was hoping to see a whole page of off-topic nonsense before intervening. Consider yourselves metaphorically ass-kicked

Oh well, might as well spam my own thread.....I was a big fan of Red Baron - great game. Like typhoon I was a dirty rotten cheat when it came to unlimited ammo What's Air Duel Typhoon?

Anyone played Sturmovik? I recently bought the Pacific sequal, which is a great game, but every now and then my damned computer reboots while playing Anyone else have that problem?

Oops, back on topic. I have a more or less complete set of graphics files for Red Front now. I'm tempted to post them now as an add-on to Catfish's ToT conversion, and leave the scenario rehash for a later date. What are people's views on this? Should I wait until the whole thing is finished?

[techumseh]

I'm still prepared to host it on Tecumseh's Village. http://www.tecumseh.150m.com/

[fairline]

Thanks for the offer Tech - I'll certainly take you up on this

[techumseh]

If you want to email me the zipped files, I'll put it up. And make a pretty page to host it, too.

[curtsibling]

Fairline, that is excellent news -

I would go for the the graphic update, to round off this epic quest;
And I am sure the tweak brigade will enjoy making changes to the game mechanics.

I think we all will like the ToT version of RF 1.4 that Catfish made anyhoo!

PS
An update to tech's site is great too.

[Broken_Erika]

basicly the original plan was to port it to ToT, give it brand new graphics and make it take advantage of ToT's better events system?

[curtsibling]

The original plan was to upgrade the looks of the scenario, once ported to ToT...

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[Arthedain]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I think we all will like the ToT version of RF 1.4 that Catfish made anyhoo!

Where can I find this one?

[curtsibling]

Catfish converted the RF files and posted a link somewhere at the start of this thread...

[Jimmywax]

I say release the graphics as an add on and leave the headache of tweaking the game play itself to someone else.