Friday 2010-02-19 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[AndyJWest]

a player manable 'plotting table'

If you want 100% authenticity, it should probably be 'womanable'. This would certainly add a lot to the experience. One for third-party software, if not in the initial sim.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

If you want 100% authenticity, it should probably be 'womanable'. This would certainly add a lot to the experience. One for third-party software, if not in the initial sim.

100% correct, now where can a bloke buy a WAF uniform......

Did I just think that or type it??????? Hmmmmm! donuts!

cheers!

Edit! - Could be a great way to get our spouses involved in the sim!!!

[FS~Lewis]

On reading of Battle of Britain engagements I find that a lot of spitfire/hurricane pilots complained of having to disengage because of oil and debris from the luftwaffe aircraft when they were chasing from directly behind. Some found it so bad they were forced to land simply because they couldn't see well enough to carry the fight....

Will this be replicated in the new game?

[AndyJWest]

now where can a bloke buy a WAF uniform......

Um, WAAF to be exact. I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged - and no, this isn't feminist revisionism. On the contrary, I suspect that the presence of female voices on R/T may have had a significant effect on morale, not least because whoever was responsible for WAAF uniform understood the workings of the minds of young adults of both sexes, and how dressing women up in 'male' attire made them more sexually alluring...

Sorry, I'm letting my anthropological studies get in the way here. What I meant to say is: Oleg make it authentic, give us WAAFs.

[Skarphol]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged..

Are you indicating that the WAAFs will be undermodelled in SOW:BOB?
That would be a shame...

Skarphol

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Um, WAAF to be exact. I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged - and no, this isn't feminist revisionism. On the contrary, I suspect that the presence of female voices on R/T may have had a significant effect on morale, not least because whoever was responsible for WAAF uniform understood the workings of the minds of young adults of both sexes, and how dressing women up in 'male' attire made them more sexually alluring...

Sorry, I'm letting my anthropological studies get in the way here. What I meant to say is: Oleg make it authentic, give us WAAFs.

Seriously. Will we really have to wear those WAAF uniforms?
...And what about the female pilots that were employed transporting aircraft from one place to another, will we have to use those uniforms too? I really am unsure if I can afford the sim if that will be the case.
My budget will stretch to the silk scarf, but not the stockings, and to be honest I'm unsure if I can even get away with heels at my age.
Please development team, remember that some of us are on limited incomes.

By the way, what colour underwear did Badar wear?

[AndyJWest]

...what about the female pilots that were employed transporting aircraft from one place to another

That would be the Air Transport Auxiliary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transport_Auxiliary

Diana Barnato Walker:


Arguably some of the best pilots of WWII. No ammunition, no radio, and if you were lucky you got to read the pilots notes for a plane before you flew it. They weren't all female, but a lot of the best ones were.

All SoW:BoB will need is an option to disable RT, and ATA missions will be simple to create. Just for entertainment you could add in a stray Bf 109 or two...

[Sokol1]

WAAF Margaret Horton http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a2742275.shtml



Sokol1

[Tbag]

"The mechanics were given the order, ‘Tails’. Having got to the runway, the aircraft would pause for the mechanic to drop off. This time the pilot did not pause. Whether he was unaware that the order to ‘tail’ had been given, nobody knows. He just carried on with Margaret Horton hanging on for grim death, and him unaware that he had a ‘passenger’ on the tail. ‘I thought the aircraft was tail-heavy’, he said later."

Haha, that's brilliant!