Off topic.. be damned

[rekirts]

I have had some pretty good laughs reading off-topic threads. We all need a good laugh from time to time. <p>"I am an admirer of the ancients,but not like some people so as to despise the talent of our own times." Pliny the Younger</p><i></i>

[Gaius Decius Aquilius]

Antonius,<br>
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Quote<br>
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First of all I'd like to state that I have anything to do with that Mycaenian maiden.<br>
I'm sure the Trojans have something to do with that..<br>
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Sorry about that... I thought that was a personally directed remark about my ex-girlfriend who dumped me for a Pathologist two weeks after getting a job with the Medical Investigators office... So in an irrational rage I lashed back. She still owes me $73 and has my copy of Beethoven's 4th.<br>
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Apologies<br>
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Gaius Decius Aqulilius<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gaiusdeciusaquilius@romanarmytalk>Gaius Decius Aquilius</A> at: 3/28/04 6:29 pm<br></i>

[Anonymous]

Gaius,<br>
No need for apologies, I'm with you. I got dumped once, a long time ago, by a girlfriend who worked at the morgue in Geneva. Serious.<br>
However, she didn't owe me anything and I took off with a John Mayall and a Led Zeppelin albums.<br>
But I was young and fast then. I guess nowadays I wouldn't be able to make it off with an ashtray..<br>
But I reckon stealing a person's Ludwig Van is a very serious offence. <p></p><i></i>

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

i agree, OT must stay. It gives some meaning to my otherwise pointless live... (emotiocon of emotional distress) <p>Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the ark<br>
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[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Antoninus,<br>
<br>
morgue? Obvious she dumped you: she loved real rigid things... (emoticon of no offense, esteem and just unpersonal automatic joke sample, typical of we Rome citizens...)<br>
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Vale,<br>
Titus<br>
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BTW combat flight, are you CFS3er or Il-2_forgotten battler? <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Ah yes, combat flight, those good moments when you get your Me-262 right into the box of B-17s....<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aitoririarte>Aitor Iriarte</A> at: 3/29/04 9:16 am<br></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Yeeesss... My preferred mission! Very relaxing. A storm of .50 bullets against you, but if you able to throw them correctly the round of 24 R4ms just after the roller coaster you have about 70% of possibilities to stay alive! While a lot of never in game P-51s shot to the air! Never tried it by Oleg's FB? Try it it's miles ahead, more reality... and check six... <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

CFS3. Call sign Anthony.<br>
But my computer isn't powerful enough. As someone told me once in CFC, "The specs given on the box will allow you to install the game, not run it..."<br>
My next buy will be a better video card and maybe a Pentium 4. But I'll need to stick up a bank for that...<br>
Haven't try FB but I understand FB vs CFS3 --and CFS2-- is THE big debate nowadays. Looks like CFS3 has more room for improved skins, sceneries and missions, but FB is better as far as dogfights go. True, since CFS3 is tweaked towards ground attacks.<br>
Bought the thing at Xmas, so I am still a beginner. I fly a Hawker Typhoon with bombs (I can't hit the broad side of a barn with rockets) and I blow up things on the ground, or at sea.<br>
And sometimes, when I am really, really inspired, almost mystic, I fly the Holy Spitfire...<br>
...And I never, never, forget my six.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/29/04 12:29 pm<br></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Guys, I'm still in the Prehistory of Combat Flight Simulators!<br>
Moreover, I've got little or no time left for them now (sigh!)<br>
But I still remember those 'Aces Over Europe' in my old 486 and how I shot down relentlessly those swarms of P-51s with my Dora-Nine at full throttle...(enormous sigh!)<br>
BTW, and how could be chat on such matters if OT would be supressed, eh?<br>
Aitor <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aitoririarte>Aitor Iriarte</A> at: 3/29/04 1:01 pm<br></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Hawker Typhoon? Dirty duty bad animal..., Holy Spit? Yeah something of divine was in the designer's mind when he did it... Personally, I fly Me 109s and 262s, plus Fw 190s (short and long), but when I'm inspired my beloved FIAT G 55, eating loads of Spitfires...<br>
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Before you buy new PC components (or a new PC at all), you can see for suggestions at these great forums (I put an FB one too, b'cause I'm sure you'll buy FB as soon as you'll get a more powerful PC ):<br>
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Maybe you already know them, but if you're a rookie, they can help to find the right components, saving precious money:<br>
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www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi (CFS)<br>
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www.sim-outhouse.com/inde...ter#FORUMS (CFS)<br>
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www.netwings.org/cgi-bin/...cboard.cgi<br>
(both, CFS and FB)<br>
<br>
cfsfrance.altajeux.com/<br>
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Vale,<br>
Titus<br>
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[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Wow Aitor! A 486! That was a hard hunting with that frame rate!<br>
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Are you in touch yet with newest combat simulators?<br>
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While working I use sometimes to do some very quick combats (about 5-10 minuts) to clean my mind. I do complete a mission just at the end of my work<br>
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Vale,<br>
Titus <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth<br>
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;<br>
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth<br>
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things<br>
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung<br>
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,<br>
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung<br>
My eager craft through footless halls of air.<br>
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue<br>
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace<br>
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -<br>
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod<br>
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,<br>
Put out my hand and touched the face of God."<br>
<br>
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.<br>
A Spitfire pilot. He wrote this poem which became the pilot's mantra after a flight in a high altitude version of the "Dancer in the sky".<br>
Holy indeed.. And the good news is that the number of Spitfires in flying condition is actually increasing..<br>
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I hang around there from time to time.<br>
[url=http://www.combatfs.com/" target="top]www.combatfs.com/[/url] <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/29/04 3:40 pm<br></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Oh no, Titus, Now I'm using an Athlon 1000, which is not the latest model but it can cope with most games (not AOE, a pity<br>
)<br>
The problem is time. I still got inside their boxes The Microsoft Combat Flight Simulators 2 (Europe and the Pacific) sinc two years ago, alongside with a (then) new joystick, and I have not be able even to test them!<br>
Work, children, re-enactment and Roman Army Talk keep me flying behind a desk!<br>
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Antoninus, try the FW 190 D-9, it has little to envy to a Spitfire!<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Aitor,<br>
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it's normal, but soon your children will open them: my doughter shoot down at least 4/5 B17s per CFS2 mission with her Do 335!<br>
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Antoninus,<br>
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Aitor is right! Download a JV 44 one of course ("papagei" protection staffel of the Gallands' Me 262s) at:<br>
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www.jv44redwulf.de/index.htm<br>
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try it and tell me...<br>
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[Anonymous]

Depends on the mark of Spitfire..<br>
Let's see, in 1944 we had the:<br>
Spitfire Mk XIV: max speed 448 MPH.<br>
Initial climb 4580 Ft/min.<br>
And the:<br>
FW 190 D9: max speed 440 MPH<br>
Initial climb 3300 Ft/min.<br>
Actually, the older Spitfire Mk IX climbed quicker than that, round 4000 Ft/min.<br>
It seems that poor climb characteristics were a Focke Wulf specialty since the "short noses" didn't climb much either, something around 2950 Ft/min.<br>
However they outclassed the Spitfire Mk V, which prompted the appearance of the Mk IX.<br>
As a comparison, a Me 109/G climbed at 4100 Ft/min.<br>
I've tried the 190/A8 on CFS3. It's a very nice aircraft to fly, quite maneuverable and with impressive firepower. It's not half as difficult to take off --and land-- than with a Spitfire which has a tremendous swing and a very narrow landing gear.<br>
However I also heard that the flight characteristics of the FW 190 in CFS3 are not really up to par with the real thing.<br>
The German planes were boom and zoom type of aircraft: high wing loading, high speed, massive firepower.<br>
The Spitfire was more of the boom and stay type..<br>
They were all the best combat aircraft of the day, along with the P-51 and the P-47 and so on.. But even among the best, you need the best of the best.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/29/04 4:50 pm<br></i>