EAW WW1 Theatre

[rotton50]

Are you referring to WW1 or WW 2?

I ask because there's a ton of Italian and Russian models for WW 2 in the aircraft inventory. I'm not sure about the scenarios though as that wasn't something I was too involved with.


Couple of other things:

1 - I'm building a Siemens-Schukert D I and D IV to add to the mix. Pretty easy since the D I was a copy of the Nieuport 17 and the D IV has a remarkable resemblance to the Russian I-5, which is in the WW 2 inventory.

The D I wasn't anything special, basically the same as the Nieuport 17, but the D IV had some truly impressive performance figures.

2 - I also got around to evaluating AngelOff's WW 1 engine sounds and found some very good ones, so I'm incorporating them into the new setup.

[EdLaz]

It would be more from the First World War,
Yes the Siemens-Schukert D-I was like a rapid response to counterattack the French in aerial combat.

[rotton50]

A WW 1 Italian or Russian front scenario would require A LOT of work. We still don't have a fully functional Western Front so I doubt we'll see either of those.

[Moggy]

Apart from new planes, could we, in the future, do other fronts like the Italian front or the Russian front?
It's an idea

I already have a map which includes Italy, the Balkans, and the Ukranian part of the Russian front. We've been working on the planes for some time.



See https://mogggy.org/TheGen2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6198

[rotton50]

Suppose the same map could be used for a WW 1 scenario.

It's a start but man, there would be a lot of work to do to get a compete setup.

[EdLaz]

Rotton is right, there's a lot of work to be done, and another thing, the map shown is quite inaccurate.

This would be the Italian-Austro-Hungarian front during the Great War:

[Moggy]

The map as shown isn't a WW1 map, its for 2WW use. I put it up to show the area covered by the geophysical tiling map underlying. The geography is much the same for 1WW or 2WW use. All else is down to target layouts, frontline files, and map screen artwork.

Accordingly most of the front line you show on the map displayed could be set up on the landscape map we already have.

[EdLaz]

Yes I understand, I just wanted a more specific map but if you could try, the Italian planes were almost all exported from the Allied side, France and Great Britain, a small example.

[Moggy]

What did the Austrians and Russians use?

Whilst we're about it, we also have a perfectly good Middle East geophysical map, but was there much air combat between Allied and Ottoman forces?

[EdLaz]

For the Austria-Hungary something like this

Hansa-Brandenburg D.I




For the Russia

Moska MB bis




And for the Ottomans,For the Ottomans, there weren't any air battles as such; the planes were for reconnaissance, planning, and little else. There weren't many air battles during the Gallipoli campaign, but look here so you can see a little of the air force they had.

[Moggy]

Wiki suggests here that there were some aerial contests with British and Commonwealth aircraft, and that some German pilots did fly for the Ottomans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_A ... orld_War_I

By 1916, the growing air force had 81 pilots and observers and about 90 airplanes. Eventually, Germany would transfer 460 airplanes to the Ottoman Empire; some 260 went to the Ottoman units and the rest remained in German units. Some 400 German aviation personnel served in Ottoman forces.

These men were parceled out to Ottoman detachments to fill out shortages in trained Ottoman personnel. Other German air personnel were later supplied. The augmentation became so extreme that one of the seven detachments formed by the end of 1915 was wholly German, although they wore Ottoman uniforms

Ottoman airplanes from Gelibolu (Gallipoli) also attacked Allied and Greek naval targets and bases throughout Northern Aegean.

The Ottoman aviation squadrons deployed to fronts of Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Western Thrace, Istanbul area and Caucasus in late 1915.[16]

The fleet size reached its apex in December 1916, when the Ottoman aviation squadrons had 90 airplanes

In the summer of 1918, the Palestine Brigade of the Royal Air Force and the Australian Flying Corps pressured the Ottoman and German reconnaissance and combat aircraft detachments in Palestine.