Gennadich, Knights of the sky

[Sir_Zerg]

I just sore some pic from this at airwarfare.com and did a quick google about it. it seems promesing any thoughts or info?
http://wing-fell-off.blogspot.com/2006/01/russian-ww1-s...1knights-of-sky.html (http://wing-fell-off.blogspot.com/2006/01/russian-ww1-sim-ww1knights-of-sky.html)

http://www.gennadich.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1500

http://www.gennadich.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=37

[VW-IceFire]

I know...awesome eh!

[Troll2k]

It will be just another debacle like what happened when a 3rd party started Pacific Fighters and dropped the ball.

[Bearcat99]

Your worse nightmare... a Troll with a crystal ball..... http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/compsmash.gif

[Gibbage1]

Originally posted by Troll2k:
It will be just another debacle like what happened when a 3rd party started Pacific Fighters and dropped the ball.

I dont think so.

It seems that they have some great art direction and some outstanding modelers and texture artist's. The PF crew was at best a motley crew. And yes, I was one of those motley crews.

A product is only as good as its leadership. PF had no leadership.

Thos product has promis, be sure!

[VW-IceFire]

Originally posted by Troll2k:
It will be just another debacle like what happened when a 3rd party started Pacific Fighters and dropped the ball.
These guys seem more like a professional development team with a very serious direction. They are reworking some of the game engine components (terrain, etc.) so I suspect they have a little more talent going for them.

That and they don't have to specifically build ontop of the IL-2 legacy persay. They are doing a different era and a different war.

[TX-Gunslinger]

It's Gennadich and the Flying Barons. Not only will they pull it off, it'll be outstanding...

Like them. Finest group of folks in this community, IMHO. Undisputably, the best air-to-air combat flying group in IL2. Looking at what they've done so far with models and skins, I'll predict this will be the sim of 06.

By the way, did I say "Server Commander" rules? Well it does, for me. Incredible piece of software.

S~ Gennadich and FB.

Good luck, although I'm sure you don't need it.

Gunny

[Akronnick]

I hope they get it done, for someone who cut his teeth on the orignal Red Baron back in 1993, a state of the art WWI sim would be a dream come true. Now if George Lucas would just authorize someone to make a nex gen X-Wing...

[Professor_06]

Well, we wont be begging for the "Slot". just put some trenches in any map and you have WW1. This sim will be a keeper. I cant wait for it to come out.

[JG53Frankyboy]

sometimes im smiling thinking aboutthat my car can drive much faster (the "joy" of german Autobahn http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif ) than these WW1 planes can fly http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

and yes, im also looking forward to this game - hopefully they dont forgett the "game" !
the graphics so far looks outstanding.

[p-11.cAce]

Yeah I cannot wait either - I've been burning up my dvd player watching "The Blue Max" and slumming in OFF getting ready for it. I think the online action will be fantastic - especially if you could man AA in a co-op or intercept Zepp's over the channel. Oh man how cool would that be - flying through the searchlight beams over london, struggling to keep your alrady unstable aircraft upright in the thin air... http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/inlove.gif

[Capt_Haddock]

Looks like they know what they are doing, although I'd like to see some landscape shots. Environments are harder to do than vehicles but they always get overlooked.

http://www.haddock.f2s.com/sig/F19bannerh3.jpg

[SaQSoN]

It's Gennadich and the Flying Barons
They are called Flying Barans, actually. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Baran = Male sheep in Russian http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif (is there a word for it in English?).

[TX-Zen]

Originally posted by SaQSoN:
Baran = Male sheep in Russian http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif (is there a word for it in English?).

Yes, the word is crazyivan1970
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/10.gif

[LEXX_Luthor]

SaQsoN::
They are called Flying Barans, actually. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Baran = Male sheep in Russian http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif (is there a word for it in English?).
<span class="ev_code_yellow">Ram</span>

Soviet "Taran" ramming tactic = "Baran" ??



TXZen::
Yes, the word is crazyivan1970 Yes! That matches Mark Twain's The Story of the Old Ram. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/784.gif

here ~~> http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/twainram.html (http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Edrbr/twainram.html)


-- ooops, sorry, I left "Smile" in the Quote instead of http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Gibbage1]

Originally posted by Capt_Haddock:
Looks like they know what they are doing, although I'd like to see some landscape shots. Environments are harder to do than vehicles but they always get overlooked.



I agree 100%!

[TX-Gunslinger]

Sorry, my English is not so good http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Of course my Russian is worse..

[SaQSoN]

Ram
Soviet "Taran" ramming tactic = "Baran" ??

Well, "Taran" is Russian (actually, it's root is, probably, Turkish or Mongolian) word for the antient seige weapon known in English as "Ram" (didn't know, it is the same as male sheep, but resemblence is obvious http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif).
While the word "Baran", or "male sheep" oftenly being used by Russians to mark a stubborn, arrogant, agressive and stupid human male person. So, when said to a human, it is a kind of a "bad word". http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif And, I guess, they used that word for their squad name in that particular meaning. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Akronnick]

Originally posted by SaQSoN:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Ram
Soviet "Taran" ramming tactic = "Baran" ??

Well, "Taran" is Russian (actually, it's root is, probably, Turkish or Mongolian) word for the antient seige weapon known in English as "Ram" (didn't know, it is the same as male sheep, but resemblence is obvious http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif).
While the word "Baran", or "male sheep" oftenly being used by Russians to mark a stubborn, arrogant, agressive and stupid human male person. So, when said to a human, it is a kind of a "bad word". http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif And, I guess, they used that word for their squad name in that particular meaning. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

So the english equivalent would be *******.

[LEXX_Luthor]

No, long ago Ram was used as insult or "bad word" like SaQsoN says, I think.

You old ram!!

[JV-44]

I heard the Oef*** Albatros's Schwarzlose 8mm and 185 h.p. Austro-Daimler engine are under-modeled and that the Snipe and SE-5a are uberplanes and that the 1.02A patch is going to be late http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/10.gif. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

[darkhorizon11]

I guess they smartened up and decided to cover the Western front. Originally it was supposed to be an Eastern Front sim only in the spirit of IL2. The Eastern front in WWI however wasn't like its descendant conflict in WWII. In the first world war it was more of just a side show in comparison to the trench fighting of the west. A WWI sim in the east wouldn't have nearly as much to go on historically...

To be honest I was actually hoping they started fron the initial onset of the war with Taubes and those squirrly bi-planes the French used, of course then again they'd have to model bricks into it and we need a control assignment to wave at the enemy pilot since this was common earlier in the war. On the bright side British aircraft wouldn't need an assignment for parachutes and only the German aircraft built after 1917 would.

I'm sure I'll end up buying it, it should wet my appetite until the covers come off BoB!

[SaQSoN]

I guess they smartened up and decided to cover the Western front. Originally it was supposed to be an Eastern Front sim only in the spirit of IL2.

You are mixing two different games.

The Gennadich's game "Knights of the sky" was designed to be at the Western front from the very beginning.
And there was another WWI FS game developed in Russia, with working title "Sikorsky", which had to be focused on the Eastern front and Russian civil war.

Those two games are developed by two different teams and have absolutely different engines. The "Knights of the Sky" is based on the IL-2 engine, the "Sikorsky" has it's own engine. There is also a rumor, that "Sikorsky" is cancelled, though, I don't know, how true it is...

[Stafroty]

are they doing this seriously? what happens, if WW2 tactics are used in WW1? http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif mucho cheaters id say http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Good Call from team to make that sim, i take it as a good hittin "joke"

[SnailRunner]

Im getting this one, and if its as good as it looks, BOB will have a hard time getting on my puter...LOOOOOVE!!!! Those ww1 planes

[SaQSoN]

are they doing this seriously? what happens, if WW2 tactics are used in WW1? mucho cheaters id say

Huh? What are you talking about? What WW2 tactics has to do with WW1? And in the end, how this is connected to cheating?
I always thought, that tactics mostly is based on weapon and equipment one has at his disposal. So, if you have WWI equipment, and your enemy has WWI equipment, that will FORCE both of you to use WWI tactics, won't it?


Good Call from team to make that sim, i take it as a good hittin "joke"
???
I take it, as there are a lots of crazy people at the Net... http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[JG52Uther]

I hope this all works out! A WW1 sim based on the IL-2 engine sounds fantastic.

[Doug_Thompson]

Another big WWI fan here. The first Red Baron, which came out in 1990, was my first real computer game. I absolutely loved it.

If flight is modelled correctly, though, it's not going to appeal to a lot of players. Those old planes were seriously underpowered and quite dangerous.

Suits me fine.

[FA_Retro-Burn]

Bump.. muhahaha...

[Airmail109]

Originally posted by JG52Uther:
I hope this all works out! A WW1 sim based on the IL-2 engine sounds fantastic.

They were going to use the Il2 engine but then they dropped it in favour of a more modern in house developed engine.

[hsj41]

I just want a great real ww1 flying plane sim with great graphics. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/clap.gif