Question about playing more than one pilot in a campaign

[Lupus]

IF you want to fly the entire war AND still have dead is dead pilots, could you create a Co-Op campaign and fly one pilot till they were killed, then add another pilot to fly and continue the campaign?  Is my thinking right here?  I think that should work based on your tutorial videos, but I wanted to check and make sure.  Thanks for the PWCG, it makes this already great game, so much better.

[Varibraun]

1 hour ago, Lupus said:

F you want to fly the entire war AND still have dead is dead pilots, could you create a Co-Op campaign and fly one pilot till they were killed, then add another pilot to fly and continue the campaign?  Is my thinking right here?  I think that should work based on your tutorial videos, but I wanted to check and make sure.  Thanks for the PWCG, it makes this already great game, so much better.

 

Hi Lupus - The short answer is yes and the same is true for SP.  Completely agree with you about what Pat has brought us that gives so many options.  Here is a link to an old thread I put up with how I and others play:

 

 

[Lupus]

25 minutes ago, Varibraun said:

 

Hi Lupus - The short answer is yes and the same is true for SP.  Completely agree with you about what Pat has brought us that gives so many options.  Here is a link to an old thread I put up with how I and others play:

 

 

You can add new pilots in Single Player mode?  I didn't know that.

[Varibraun]

21 minutes ago, Lupus said:

You can add new pilots in Single Player mode?  I didn't know that.

 

Yep...and multiple active single player pilots in different squadrons and sides if you want them.  All while the war/campaign just keeps moving along to May 1945.  Keeps things really interesting for me to keep it all happening in the same campaign with the same dynamic NPCs in the squadrons.

[Lupus]

19 minutes ago, Varibraun said:

 

Yep...and multiple active single player pilots in different squadrons and sides if you want them.  All while the war/campaign just keeps moving along to May 1945.  Keeps things really interesting for me to keep it all happening in the same campaign with the same dynamic NPCs in the squadrons.

I thought you could only do that in Co-Op mode?  Can you show me a screen shot of where I can find the button to add new pilots in single player mode?

Edited May 31, 2022 by Lupus

[Varibraun]

Sure:

 

From main screen: Personnel=>Administer Pilots=>Add Pilot

 

[PatrickAWlson]

You can have as many pilots in an SP campaign as you want.  They can be different sides as well.  I have not tested this, but the pilots can probably be on different fronts as well (only works from Sept 1944 on because that is all of the western front that we have).  The one thing to be aware of is that you can only fly one pilot per day and time advances for all of them.  The ones that you don't fly get a break that day, but the clock still moves forward.  Think of the career as really just a date.  You choose what you want to do on that day.

 

I usually have a primary pilot (pretty much always fighter) in a campaign.  I will also create a bomber pilot, a Stuka pilot, a transport pilot, and some enemy pilots. When I want to do something different I hop in as one of those pilots for a little while.  Having the other pilots lets me do something different without creating a whole career for a guy that I want to fly as a change of pace.

 

If you flew a pilot in a PWCG career from October 1 1941 in Moscow to May of 1945 you would probably fly upwards of 1000 missions.  Since PWCG missions generate far more contact than real life ones that is more action than any historical pilot ever saw.  Having the other pilots is great for flying while your primary is wounded or otherwise taking a break.  Instead of taking leave to advance time you can just fly other pilots.  Besides, pilots had breaks.  Nobody flew every day for four years even if they were healthy.  

 

For career control, PWCG also offers the ability to set a maximum wound status.  By default, PWCG is not ironman.  Seriously wounded" is the maximum wound status.  This means if you are killed or captured PWCG will record you as seriously wounded and you will be out of action for some time (generally over a month).  You can select no wounds, lightly wounded, seriously wounded, or dead is dead (what 1C calls iron man).  I p[lay on "seriously wounded" because losing weeks of flying time is enough of a penalty to stop me from doing stupid stuff.  I don't do dead is dead because I would never get past Moscow.  

 

Per your original question: can you continue a dead is dead career with another pilot - yes.  A PWCG career is never really dead until the war ends (or you delete it  ).  

[Lupus]

@PatrickAWlson Thanks.  I really appreciate it.