A good video review

[KOM.Nausicaa]

A good video review from SIMHQ. The guy is clearly impressed.

(look on youtube in full screen.....flying from 5:50 min mark on)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2o16LDtBI

[Cobra8472]

Fixing the object cacheing and memory managment / core offloading and this game will be simply brilliant.

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Fixing the object cacheing and memory managment / core offloading and this game will be simply brilliant.

As he says: not so many FPS problems, it's more the stutters. Sound like something a good patch can fix.

The sounds are clearly way superior to IL2.

[sod16]

This video is like taking an annoying prick out of my eye. Finally, someone who speaks ENGLISH. That system is pretty standard and that graphic card is pretty damn standard too...

put it this way...

No epi filter 10 frames
stutter fix additional 2 frames
Optimisations 10 frames (runnable with busy skies)
Gcard drivers +10% of total

All this when there lead programmer stops being ill

[Royraiden]

Im convinced that the stuttering will be fixed.Excellent video.

[ElAurens]

Too bad I can't hear a word he is saying because the music is too loud.

The menus look great though.

[sod16]

Always the annoying music. There has to be some eary f***ing music. lol

[Strike]

this is a masterpiece in the making. It needs its final touch and we're all happy campers :D

[timholt]

It would be of great assistance if the (horrible irritating) game music was turned off during your explanation of game settings as it absolutely drowns out your voice.
Apart from that thanks for posting.

[KOM.Nausicaa]

The problem isn't the music, it's rather bad mixing of his voice with the rest. Look from min 6:00 on, it gets better.

[ElAurens]

The flight scenes are simply stunning, as are the aircraft models. And add the fact that he is running at max graphic settings, with the game far from optimized, and he is still getting 40fps. I am more hopeful now than ever.

Funny he does not understand why he is blowing his engines up all the time...
Running at full throttle constantly has that effect.

[Heliocon]

Ok I got to say it - the fact that the city only a few miles away under him is just a giant grey low res texture ruins the visuals (for me) completely. How can you ignore that? This is at 6:45 - it looks like something from a game in the early 2000s. The close in terrain looks ok at height, closer in the textures look low res and low detail imo. Especially at ground level where they used a very small texture that is tiled/repeated actually kinda made me feel quesy, it looks horrible.

Given that the cockpit looks outstanding, from the videos I have seen they modeled it beutifully. One thing I wish they would change a bit is the oil on the windshield texture, make it so it is applied to the area that would be getting sprayed (if the right side of the engine is leaking oil for whatever reason, would it block out the left side of the planes canopy?). They need a kind of splattering effect, like Dirt 2 has when you drive through mud. (you can see it briefly in the middle of this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgn-HHL61g). Similar looking effect is in WOP when you fly through a cloud (but with water).

[Space Communist]

Wow that is the highest quality encoding of any youtube video I have seen so far. I can't believe people are complaining about the sound, the guns on that g.50 sounded amazing!

Also the game clearly runs fine other than the stutters, which are being worked on. I cannot wait!

[ATAG_Dutch]

Finally, someone who speaks ENGLISH.

Well, not quite.

I've never heard of either a byoofighter or a blenhyme.

Does he mean a beaufighter and a blenheim?

Bloody yanks.:rolleyes:

[Multimetal]

Excellent video, thank you very much for posting. If you download the English translation of the manual it may answer some of the questions you had in the video about features, I think the oil splatters you are getting are a function of the complex engine management and if you can figure out how to turn it off you may have an easier time until you can map all of the keys. The engine and gun sounds were fantastic, hopefully they will be loud enough to drown out all of the whining! I'm sure by the time it gets officially released here many of the problems will be fixed.

[ElAurens]

Don't go blaming all of us.

I cringed when I heard him mis pronounce those two as well.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Ha Ha, mate, good to know, very good to know!!

[flyingbullseye]

Well, not quite.

I've never heard of either a byoofighter or a blenhyme.

Does he mean a beaufighter and a blenheim?

Bloody yanks.:rolleyes:

Blame it on his prissy whinny lisp in his voice.

Flyingbullseye

[He111]

The guy offers his impressions of the game and we get jealous #$%#$%#$ complaining about the way he talks !! ?? ..... WTF! are you whinners Poms by any chance ?? ... :roll:

GREAT video!

Pity about the shutter, i suspect higher spec rigs won't have that problem? i'll find out sooooooon enough ...

He111.

[Anvilfolk]

Blame it on his prissy whinny lisp in his voice.

Flyingbullseye
With that kind of reaction I don't wonder there aren't more of these.

I for one am glad he did it, and mispronounced it. Now I've learned how to say it without having to go through the embarrassment myself ;) The game is also looking great! Some weeks/months/years, and we'll have a perfect replacement for '46 :)

[GF_Mastiff]

ok looking much better so a couple of patches and were go for green. Thank you for the video, still on the fence. But kind of looking to humpty dumpty to the go side.

[Tacoma74]

Impressive I must say. Should be further optimized and running alot smoother by the time the US release is around. Can't wait!

[Space Communist]

Well, not quite.

I've never heard of either a byoofighter or a blenhyme.

Does he mean a beaufighter and a blenheim?

Bloody yanks.:rolleyes:

hah his accent is not particularly strong. I suspect that he has simply only ever read these names and never heard them pronounced. If you are unaware of French or German phonetics, the rules of English would actually give you something like Byoo and Hyme.

[zauii]

Even the outdoor sounds are sweet, this is very nice.
Good review.

[ChwyNiblet]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

[nearmiss]

The background music is too loud and distracting.

[zauii]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.


Don't worry it was an excellent video, only hint i would give for the next one would be to turn down the ingame sound if your commenting :)

[David Hayward]

As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.


They are running low on things to complain about.

[Heliocon]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

Btw irrespective of my criticism of the game - thank you very much for uploading these videos. Great to hear the commentary!

[Hunin]

hah his accent is not particularly strong. I suspect that he has simply only ever read these names and never heard them pronounced. If you are unaware of French or German phonetics, the rules of English would actually give you something like Byoo and Hyme.

In fact german phonetics do actually give you something like hyme pretty much exactly.
It seems like the "yank" instinctivly got right what generations of english speakers have misspronounced ignorantly.

Really classy guys btw.
Beeing unbelievably rude and dismissive towards someone giving you a free launch...

*rant off*

Thanks for the vid m8, much appreciated.

[Nanuk]

Yeh m8ty, Thanks for uploading the vid.

Maybe next longish one you do, you could shoot some stuff (other planes)!

And its not really ignorance not pronouncing the names correctly, just one of those things - If you havent heard someone saying it why would ya know!

If you're still not sure:

Blen - um

Bow (as in Bow & arrow) - Fighter

;)

Thanks again.

[lbuchele]

I'm glad to see finally people with a positive aproach about CoD.
By the way , I'm still not sure how to pronounce Blenheim.
Could you help me with the phonetics,because is a difficult word for non native english speakers....

[Tiger27]

The guy offers his impressions of the game and we get jealous #$%#$%#$ complaining about the way he talks !! ?? ..... WTF! are you whinners Poms by any chance ?? ... :roll:

GREAT video!

Pity about the shutter, i suspect higher spec rigs won't have that problem? i'll find out sooooooon enough ...

He111.

You complain about others comments then say "WTF! are you whinners Poms by any chance ?? ... :roll: " luckily most English aren't overly sensitive as that could be considered racist, using your values of course :rolleyes:

[ATAG_Doc]

I give the average owner a month and then they will have had it with it. They will be looking for a path that probably wont be out until the fall.

[BigC208]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

Don't worry about the comments too much. I enjoyed all your movies so far. Good show and keep it up.

[BigC208]

I give the average owner a month and then they will have had it with it. They will be looking for a path that probably wont be out until the fall.

"Average owner" is not going to buy this game after reading what state it is in right now. From what I've see so far in the best videos the game will be playable for me. Over the channel 5 vs 5 matches. Thats how I played Il2 for the first year with wonder woman view. No buying new rig for me untill it's properly playing on the latest and greatest. This is going to be the new standard once the program is streamlined a bit. The fanatics will hang in there untill it's fixed. Just playing Il2 after waching these vids is a bit of a let down.

[zauii]

"Average owner" is not going to buy this game after reading what state it is in right now. From what I've see so far in the best videos the game will be playable for me. Over the channel 5 vs 5 matches. Thats how I played Il2 for the first year with wonder woman view. No buying new rig for me untill it's properly playing on the latest and greatest. This is going to be the new standard once the program is streamlined a bit. The fanatics will hang in there untill it's fixed. Just playing Il2 after waching these vids is a bit of a let down.

Ah, if you mean the "fanatics" that will support the game and make sure it reaches a state where you find the game acceptable enough to buy then yes.. i'll consider myself one.

Buying the game a year from now doesn't really do anyone any good expect yourself, sad but true.. the launch is critical and we all know the future depends on it.
(yes it was a bad launch, lets see how much faith the majority can put in)

[*Buzzsaw*]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

Hey Chwy

Don't get too frustrated with the soggy brained egotists here and their snide comments, they probably can't get anyone to listen to them in real life, so they like to grandstand here.

I enjoyed your review tremendously, yeah it had some technical glitches, but we could hear the enthusiasm and appreciate the effort.

Enjoy the game!

Cheers

[mr71mb0]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

I really enjoyed your videos an these are the 1st ive seen with good detail and clear in game sound.

Very useful thanks for taking the time to post them ChwyNiblet, I'm just sorry that some ingrates chose to spit in your face with stupid comments.

[JG52Krupi]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

Other than the music being rather load great video almost made me buy the yuplay version than wait three days for the release, good job.

[Hecke]

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.


Jeez, I can only thank you. Don't listen to them.
Every video is appreciated.

[borchi]

Nice one...

[Masi67]

Never mind them, thanks for the video.

-m

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you for watching the video. I've been uploading more videos of just random raw footage of the game. As for the mispronouncing of the aircraft names...well I only have my ignorance to blame for that. But as for my "prissy lisp voice" well I guess I will have to talk to my voice teacher at Julliard about that. With a minor in vocal performance at Julliard I thought I would have gotten rid of that lisp..damn, guess not.

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

[machoo]

It does look good , the freezing is a bummer but that is probably a pretty easy fix.

[Mysticpuma]

The guy offers his impressions of the game and we get jealous #$%#$%#$ com

Pity about the shutter, i suspect higher spec rigs won't have that problem? i'll find out sooooooon enough ...

He111.

I have to say, his Rig was by no-means 'low-spec', when you consider he is using an i5 overclocked to 4Ghz, 4GB of Ram and an Overclocked 460, that is not 'low-spec' by any means?

I have a i7 950, 6GB Corsair Dominator Ram and am just about to get an Nvidia 560 TI Frozr. I have not overclocked the i7 so I am at stock 3.05 Ghz.

I should be fine, but his system is not by any means low-end (and I know you never said low-end, but Higher Spec is for probably 2% of the rest of the players!")

It's good to hear Luth' saying bugs are being worked on....but 3-days and counting.....crossing my fingers for 1C

Cheers, MP

[Blackdog_kt]

I had a post ready to go and then the forum temporarily became unavailable so i lost it :grin:

Repeating what i was about to say, thanks for taking the time to upload this. I agree the sound mixing could benefit from some tweaking, but i'm not going to complain when this is the first truly high resolution user-made video we've seen and with clear in-game sounds on top of that.

Off the top of my head, some observations:

It seems the effects are present despite the filter (propellers from various angles, tracers, exhaust flames, etc)...maybe it would be better to run with the filter on once it's optimized for FPS, instead of running an un-filtered version with reduced effects.



Sounds are better than IL2. In-cockpit sounds are muffled as they should, external sounds are better than in other videos but maybe there's a bit of room for improvement. Overall, in-cockpit sounds are better than external ones.


It runs well apart from stutters which the developers said they know the cause of and will be patched away soon.

Apparently we can not only fly with empty guns, but take out the guns completely.
Not a big deal now, but if we get something like a mosquito in the future this "pallet loading" type of interface for each weapon station would be useful: for anti-shipping, load the 57mm cannon in the nose and rockets on the wings, for ground attack load the 4x303 and 4x20mm in the nose and bomb racks on the wings, for photo recon load a glass nose and cameras in the bomb bay,etc.
Much more modular and it takes away the need to have multiple models of the same type for different external hardpoint configurations (so late FW190s will be possible without a bomb rack as well :grin: ), as well as making it easier to modify existing models by editing/adding hardpoints instead of making new 3d models or preset weapon loadouts. With the CoD system it's entirely possible to select asymmetric loadouts, eg, a bomb on one wing and a drop-tank on the other, since each hardpoint is treated individually.


Engines cough, sputter, backfire and emit smoke according to power settings. Very cool, visible during the Blenheim flight.


I get a suicidal urge to fly Blehneims, the bomb aimer's position is terrific and oh look, is that a wind-drift meter on the right hand console? Lots of tiny details like these all over the place that actually have a use in flying and operating the aircraft instead of being mere decorative textures ;)


Lots of other stuff i had noted down in my previous post but now forgot.


There's also noticeable building pop-up but it doesn't bother me for a very simple reason: it seems to be a by-product of a combination of user selectable options. The overall landscape and sky draw distance is much higher than the building one, it's just that setting buildings to lower detail will cause them to render at a closer range.
This is very different to what pop-up was in IL2, where it existed even when there was no option to modify draw distances (ie, it occurred even when the draw distances were the same for both landscape and 3d objects) and it's still there today regardless of having options for increased landscape draw distance.

Personally, i'd rather have a 20km visibility range to spot aircraft along with the ability to have the building render range at 10km to maintain some FPS, instead of having to fly with a common setting for both which means choosing between either overall reducing draw distance and crippling my situational awareness/landmark identification/navigation or having to use settings that my PC can't handle. In such a case of using long-range landscape rendering with short-range building rendering pop-up is inevitable, but it is still useful to have separate options for those who like to balance looks with functionality, especially when flying full switch online.


Most of all, this review gives us a good indication of relative performance and the ability to make an educated guess on how it will run on our systems.

Currently, it seems that higher clock speeds and VRAM matter the most. I hope that after a few patches and optimizations we'll be able to better spread the processing load over multiple cores, putting the OS on core1, main game engine on core2 and whatever else it can use on the remaining two. Maybe we can already and it's just a matter of editing the conf.ini to set process affinity, since there is such an option just like it was in IL2, but we'll have to wait for more feedback on this.

I do have an i7 920 at stock speed (2.7 GHz) but i don't really want to overclock it since it's the earlier C0 revision that doesn't go that high anyway. Most of all, my PC is on almost 24/7 and i don't want to up my power bills by increasing my system's idle wattage :-P

My weak spot might be my 3GB of RAM, but apparently the game doesn't use more than 2GB yet. Maybe i'll get an extra 3GB once we have a 64-bit .exe to make use of it.

What i would really like to know is how my Ati 4890 1GB stacks up against some of the current low-end to middle-range DX11 GPUs when both are running DX10.
I know for a fact that late generation DX10 GPUs were faster than early DX11 ones when they were both running DX9/10, but i don't know if and how much difference current gen DX11 cards make when running in DX10 mode.

In any case, i'm optimistic that since the uploader could maintain 30-40FPS at tree-top level with Fraps running on high settings, i might be able to maintain 30FPS overall on medium detail after the first couple of patches arrive. What do you guys think?

P.S.

We know the stutters are in for a short-term fix and it seems that a lot of the slow-downs are caused by some kind of faulty loading routine.

Many people report missions running better if they quit and refly, or pause and cycle the external cameras once, which seems to be an indication that the game is not loading/pre-caching everything it should before the mission, causing it to access the hard-drive during gameplay more often and slowing down the FPS.

I'm not an expert, but it seems possible to fix and coupled with the better looking videos we see each day even from the current version that does have its issues, i'm going to maintain my optimism.

[Rodney]

A good video review from SIMHQ. The guy is clearly impressed.

(look on youtube in full screen.....flying from 5:50 min mark on)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2o16LDtBI

Yeah but the music isn't loud enough you can still hear some guy babling in the background.

[Sternjaeger]

lol IL-2 music has always been shit, we know that they never cared too much for the looks part of their product.

I have to agree about the oil on the windscreen though, the effect is pretty lame, and the one on Dirt 2 is surely easy to replicate! Come on Maddox Games, make an extra effort!!

[carguy_]

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch. Enjoy.

The video is excellent. I mean it shows so much detail it is mindblowing. I enjoyed just watching the pilot looking around the cockpit. Pretty weather you picked for a fly-by :D

Nice landing too. After the touchdown I found myself shouting "hit the brakes, hit the d@mn BRAKES!!!" :D

[major_setback]

Guns sound fantastic, and I'll bet they will be even better directly from the game (rather than a video).
It's good to see it can run well. About the freezes every 5 seconds - they seem to me to appear on some peoples video and not on others, irrespective of settings and hardware.


Thanks for posting. Ignore the idiots here.

[svanen]

On the 109 and Spit the oil is red, it looks pretty scary, looks more like a bird strike.. ;)

[major_setback]

I'm glad to see finally people with a positive aproach about CoD.
By the way , I'm still not sure how to pronounce Blenheim.
Could you help me with the phonetics,because is a difficult word for non native english speakers....


In case you missed it Nanuk wrote:
If you're still not sure:

Blen - um

Bow (as in Bow & arrow) - Fighter

[Foo'bar]

Well, not quite.

I've never heard of either a byoofighter or a blenhyme.

Does he mean a beaufighter and a blenheim?

Bloody yanks.:rolleyes:

LOL, forgive me ;) me and most german mates of mine spell exactly this: Bjoofighter and Blenhyme :D

Bow-Fighter and Blen-um then? Ok, thanks for clarification!

Next lession is to make english to spell "Messerschmitt" right, haha :D

[csThor]

Pah ... just because you from across the Channel are unable to correctly speak Blindheim ... It was the Battle of Blindheim in 1704, not Blenheim. :-P

[Insuber]

they are running low on things to complain about.

rotfl!

[csThor]

Ehm ... that music in the vid. I guess it's what comes with the game, right? Welllllllll ... I'm wondering when the first "do-gooder" pops up to complain that 1C chose "Bomben auf Engeland" as music theme ... ;)

[ElAurens]

I just hope the music can be easily disabled, or that different music files can be added.

[choctaw111]

This is the best and most informative video I have seen so far.
It does make me feel a bit better to see what it looks like in very good detail.
The sounds are also quite good.
Whatever is causing the stutters will be worked out, either by system settings, a patch, or both.

[Triggaaar]

Well whether you want to make fun of me for trying to help the community out or not, the video is there for you to watch.Don't worry about the jokers, you can't post anything on the net without some fool giving you grief. Take this game, it's only taken a team of people 6 years to make it (largely for the community as flight sims aren't that lucrative) and everyone throws a hissy fit.

I'd like to thank you for posting the video, it looks great. What we're all worried about is the frame rate and stutters, and while it wasn't too bad in your video, there was no fighting. Could you post a video with some air combat (take on a few AI planes)? I think this could be a real problem.

You could also try setting the epilepsy filter off (if it works) in the config file, just to see if frame rates change much.

Thanks again.

[ChwyNiblet]

Hey all, I've posted some more videos of some combat and I plan on putting a video up of some ground pounding as well. I'm probably going to remake a video for the menu with louder voice. I'll let you know when they're posted. Also to note, in all the new videos I've made the filter is turned off. I haven't noticed a difference in framerate though.

[Triggaaar]

Thank you!

[JG52Krupi]

Sweet feed me vids i have three more days of waiting....

[JG4_Helofly]

Wow! I don't know why people complained about bad sound. These engine sounds are great! The MGs too.

[Porsche]

Thank you for taking the time to post this video for everyone..:)

[ATAG_Dutch]

Woah there folks!

Seems I stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest!

That was meant to be humourous, so if it caused any offence I apologise!

Of course 'beau' is a french derivation and 'Blenheim' germanic, which goes to show that ;

a) The English language is a bastardised amalgum of many languages, and;
b) The English sense of humour (well mine anyway) doesn't come across well on a forum.

Thanks to all who replied in good part; again - no offence was intended. :-)

[choctaw111]

I watched all of the Il2 movies and was wondering about the bomber formation attack.
What was going on when you were getting close to the bombers as far as your PC performance in concerned?
It seemed like there was a good 1 or 2 seconds between frames.
Do you have any idea what is causing that?

[Foo'bar]

Das bekommen die Amys noch hin, Foo'bar. Spannend wird es bei "Sturzkampfbomber" oder "Nachtjäger" :grin:

In most english videos I hear them say "Meshersmitt" ;)

[Foo'bar]

Pah ... just because you from across the Channel are unable to correctly speak Blindheim ... It was the Battle of Blindheim in 1704, not Blenheim. :-P

Haha, what a valid argument! :D

So we germans keep spelling "Bleendhyme" then. :ROFL: