The twelfth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #3: Where are the Little Friends? In this mission we use the gun stations of our B-17 to defend against a vicious attack by enemy fighters including Bf 109s, FW 190s and the jet propelled Me 262s. However, this time there are no "little friends" to help us out.

There are some very impressive fighter explosions in this video.

Again, sorry for the delay in getting this video published. I have been having further issues with dropped frames and audio out of sync in my recordings. I have concluded that it is time to do some upgrades to my 6 year old PC. I'll be doing this in stages starting with a new GTX 1070 video card. I'm switching from AMD to Nvidia in the hope that I'll be able to get reliable recordings at 1440p60 with the Nvidia GPU hardware encoding.

I'm part way through my Let's Play for the game Dragon's Lair 3D : Return to the Lair that was released in 2002. The game has some control and camera issues but looks great in HD and is still a lot of fun to play.

This Let's Play will not only reveal ALL secret areas and collect ALL treasures, but will also be the best looking (highest resolution) Let's Play series for the game on YouTube to date.

The playlist can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6qAKzfD-ic0T294Z9a6h0J4B0HYiw6J, and I will announce each new video in this thread as they become available.

Enjoy :)

@uninspiredcup: Yes, you do need to own the game to post videos - I tried that way back when I did the first video. Thanks for raising the issue with me again as it does make a lot of sense to pick up the game on Steam (in the Christmas sale) so I can post the videos on the videos page.

I'm posting the vids in a whole load of flight sim forums as well and have been getting decent traffic and subscribers from those posts. Lots of very positive feedback as well which is nice.

@uninspiredcup: Unfortunately, I own the game on GOG but not Steam, so Steam doesn't allow me to embed videos on the B-17 page there. I have instead been putting them on the forum. Perhaps I should just buy the game on Steam and then I can put embed the videos on the game's videos page. Is that what you meant?

@uninspiredcup: Yeah - I didn't really expect many, if any, views from here but wanted to advertise my videos as far and wide as possible to at least try and get my channel established. I have also been putting up links to these vids on the Steam B-17 forum.

A written guide is something that I may do in the future but I want to focus on finishing the Getting Started series first and then I'm going to do a Squadron Commander campaign Let's Play series. A guide would be great though, I have gathered so much written information together from loads of different sources, having it all in one document would be great.

The eleventh video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #2: Attack of the Axis. In this mission we use the gun stations of our B-17 to defend against a vicious attack by enemy fighters including Bf 109s, FW 190s and the jet propelled Me 262s.

Sorry for the delay in getting this video published. My recording software took a flakey and I was left with a video that had lots of dropped frames and audio out of sync. Took me a while to edit it into something presentable.

The tenth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #1: Limping Home. This is a challenging mission to land a badly mauled B-17. I introduce the use of trimming the plane which makes the mission so much easier.

The ninth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #6: Gunnery. This is actually a relatively useless training mission. My main recommendation is to instead practice your gunnery by playing Quickstart Missions #2, #3 and/or one of the historical missions in the game.

The eighth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #5: Bombing (Poor Conditions). I focus on the procedure I use for the bombing run, correcting for drift and rate error to achieve synchronisation as early in the bomb run as possible.

The seventh video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #4: Bombing (Good Conditions). I give five different examples of bombing, illustrating the effect of the intervalometer setting as well as the salvo switch, with some surprising results!!!