After the inconclusive battle that was Operation Sealion, Germany has turned its attentions to the East, initiating Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia.
In the West, just 226 German fighters, primarily those of JG2 and JG26, are left to defend against the constant threat of RAF bomber and fighter attacks. The RAF Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Sholto Douglas, initiates Operation Circus - large scale bomber raids deep into France and Holland, with the intent of drawing the Luftwaffe into combat and reducing their ability to defend against RAF bomber command's planned incursions into Germany.
The Circuses and Rhubarbs mission pack
Chapter one available for download now as self installing file:
3 missions:
Flight of the Intruder Operation Circus mission 1 A Knight Falls
15 painstakingly populated airfields: Wissant, Peuplinge, Audembert, Marquise West, Caffiers, Hermelingen, Campagne Les Guines, Coquelles, Calais Marck, St Omer Wizernes, St Omer Arques, St Omer Claimarais / RAF Lympne, RAF North Weald
3 newly populated locations: Calais and Dunkirk Ports, Cassel
Ground targets include the above airfields, road traffic, port infrastructure. As usual, the mission can be fought from the point of view of every flyable unit, by using the CUSTOM button to choose your flight. Both grounds starts and air starts catered for.
This chapter comprises around 20 flyable sorties.
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mxmadman Well I'm about 8 or 9 missions into the Luftwaffe campaign and its fantastic! Honestly more fun than the one that comes with the game. Very well done and it is much appreciated.
Pitti Pitti Really really awesome! I have just finished 11 Luftwaffe missions and I can't get enough.
All my CoD missions (more than 50) are available at www.bobgamehub.blogspot.com
The Operation Sealion mission pack missions are minutely based on the notes from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst wargame conducted in 1974 to simulate a September 1940 invasion by Germany. In this exercise, each side (played by British and German officers respectively) was based in a command room, and the actual moves plotted on a scale model of SE England constructed at the School of Infantry. The panel of umpires included Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland, Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, Rear Admiral Edward Gueritz, General Heinz Trettner and Major General Glyn Gilbert. The main problems the Germans face are that a) the Luftwaffe has not yet won air supremacy; b) the possible invasion dates are constrained by the weather and tides (for a high water attack) and c) it has taken until late September to assemble the necessary shipping.
Each mission in the BoB Game Hub Sealion mission pack is designed with multiple flyable aircraft available to players flying either RAF or Luftwaffe. Wherever practical, mission design includes both ground starts and airstarts. Mission design takes an 'open battlefield' approach - the player will be given an objective, but once airborne, you have full freedom of operation to either prosecute the assigned target, or attack other targets of opportunity.
As an example, in mission 1, flyables include Blenheim IV and Hurricane for RAF, Bf109E4 and Bf110C for Luftwaffe, while RAF targets include German ships and barges at sea, German harbour facilities, and Luftwaffe standing patrols, while Luftwaffe targets include attacking RAF bombers and fighters. Later in the conflict, targets will include land forces, encampments, fuel and supply depots, bridges, armour and convoys.
Designed with a self install program to run from within the CoD Single Missions menu, each mission can therefore be played from several perspectives, with the player fully able to customise the missions (piloted aircraft, number of allies, number of enemies etc) to suit themselves.
The mission pack is designed to be flown from 2 points of view: either RAF or Luftwaffe, you choose!
I have aimed for nothing less than 'epic' with these missions. Enjoy!
Heiny
Actual in-game mission track
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Sealion minus 1, September 21: In accordance with Goering’s historical directive of Sept 16, the Luftwaffe has once again intensified attacks on RAF airfields and aircraft industry targets. In the morning, the Brooklands Hawker factory was hit by Ju88s. More hit and run raids are expected throughout the day. From France come coded reports from French agents that German transport ships are beginning to move out of Calais, Le Havre and Dunkerque. If correct, these reports could either indicate an invasion fleet is beginning preparations to sail, or equally that the fleet is being disbanded. Better intelligence is urgently needed.
Further update on the Operation Sealion mission set…
Unlike most single missions where the player is directed ‘in this aircraft, go there, and do this’, each mission file in the Sealion set comprises several independently created sorties with different flyable aircraft and objectives, within the one mission file.
As an example of what you can expect, the ‘Day 1: Sept 21 a.m.’ mission file features flyable sorties by both RAF and LW aircraft – with a variety of airstart and ground starts, and includes the following sorties:
- Recon escort with RAF 111 Squadron Hurricanes - Recon flight with RAF 212 PR (Photo Recon) Squadron Blenheim - Defensive Combat air patrol with 64 Squadron Spitfires - Offensive Combat air patrol with 64 Squadron Spitfires - Defensive Combat air patrols with LW LG2 Bf109s or ZG76 Bf110s - Offensive strike mission with ErPro 210 Bf109E4Bs
To the extent possible within CoD these mission files are intended to give the player the feeling of participating in a wider conflict, with targets and goals for each sortie very much dependent on each other and tied to the storyline of the Sealion invasion.
All of these individual missions are fully customisable – the player can choose the sortie they will fly in, the aircraft type, and number of aircraft in each unit. The missions have been designed with fewer aircraft/objects in each flight/squadron to allow several unique sorties in each mission file without overloading CPU/GPUs; but aircraft numbers can easily be scaled up or down by the player as they wish. For example you can zero some of the units in the sortie you are not flying, if you want to reduce the CPU/GPU load, or make the sortie easier. Conversely, you can increase the number of opponents to make it harder (PC specs allowing!).
As usual with BoB Game Hub missions, the files are delivered with a self installer/uninstaller for easy installation. Missions draw heavily on historical events, coupled with the report of the 1974 Sandhurst military academy Sealion wargame. The first download will include 2 mission files:
Day, September 21, morning: briefing as above. Video shows just a selection of possible sorties.
Day 1, September 21 evening: Briefing - Night-time bombing raids on London are expected to continue, with heavy raids detected building over France at 7 pm. Luftflotte 2 has been specially tasked with providing air cover for shipping movements along the French coast between Le Havre and Calais. The RAF has been ordered to increase its efforts to attack German ships and materiel in France, Belgium and Norway which could be used to support a potential invasion. A special warning has been issued regarding Kriegsmarine AAA defences at French ports after the loss of recon flights earlier in the day to heavy AAA fire.
Sorry for the time it is taking to build these, but with each mission comprising several possible sorties with multiple but integrated briefings, objectives and flyables, I need to fine tune each sortie individually… I hope your patience is rewarded!
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For info - the 1974 Sandhurst wargame concluded with the invasion failing due to the inability of Germany to resupply. This result may have reflected an over-representation of naval commanders on the wargame adjudication panel, which decided British naval power was the decisive element in thwarting the simulated invasion. An alternate scenario with greater recognition of Luftwaffe air transport capabilities, could build on the fact that the German forces in that wargame captured two airfields (Lympne, Hawkinge) which should have allowed an airbridge to France to be created using Ju52s and DFS230s, via which men, fuel and light armour could have been ferried to reinforce German divisions.
The reason I mention it is that this mission pack will have two 'end-games', one in which the invasion is thwarted due to naval intervention, and one in which air resupply enables the invasion force to be resupplied via Lympne, Hawkinge and finally Manston, ie one in which the invasion fails, and one in which it doesn't.
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I would have to agree with the naval assessment, we saw how well the airlift worked in Stalingrad! The RN so outgunned the Kreigsmarine, it would have been a slaughter, even with the LW support.
- Sealion minus One, afternoon - Sealion minus One, evening
Flyable aircraft in both missions: Spitfire 1a, Bf109E4, Bf109E4b, Blenheim, Hurricane, Bf110C4. Individually crafted sorties with separate targets and mission objectives have been designed for every flyable aircraft.
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Nice stuff Heinkel , without your missions ..( is anyone else making any ? ) there would not be a lot going on offline Awesome stuff man.
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My character somehow got all twisted up. I was playing the mission where you have to infiltrate the Golden Glow Estate and do multiple things. When I was out burning beehives and fighting I just eventually ran away to view my success from a distance. I first noticed it when I squated down on a tree trunk.Coot..the squatter../simHQ/2011
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HeinKill, looking forward to the mission this weekend!
@ Ajay, Spitgirl (I laugh everytime... ) is looking kinda pasty and creepy in the screenshot on your CoD page. Is that what I have to look forward to???
The RN so outgunned the Kreigsmarine, it would have been a slaughter, even with the LW support.
) is looking kinda pasty and creepy in the screenshot on your CoD page. Is that what I have to look forward to??? 
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